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Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 4:35 am
by R00k
hate wrote:the irony with the nay-sayer's is this
sam made it affordable for lower income people to get more
bettering their standard of living and improving quality of life instantly
while the unions want to seduce wal-mart labororers into their over-priced self-serving mini-economy
ala general motors
greedy fucks from top to bottom
and we know where gm is heading...
I don't care too much for unions that negotiate themselves out of business, but that "bettering their standard of living and improving quality of life instantly" bit is complete and utter garbage.
The majority of WalMart employees aren't provided health care and can't afford it, forcing the rest of the community to pay for their hospital bills. Then there's the systemic sexism. And putting community businesses out of operation.
Aside from cheap crap, there is nothing good about WalMart. I don't buy anything from them either unless I have to.
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 4:46 am
by Dave
Can Walmart employees unionize? When I worked at shopko, a mini, upscale target-like walmart, union was a very bad word.
Being able to "get more" at a walmart does not a make a lower class family better off, it makes them better consumers helping them rise in the social ranks. In other words, it helps them be better consumer whores because everyone knows class rank has fuck all to do with the label on the shirt on your back and more to do with your attitude.
Walmart came into my town, wiped out a couple of mom and pop stores and contributes fuck all to the local economy except a few dead end jobs. Money comes in to the store and gets exported to Arkansas where it lines the pockets of the Walton family, not commuity projects. It dumbs down and homogenizes local culture. I could go on, but I have to get some shit done....
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 5:45 am
by saturn
Dave, can you go to your local walmart and get this shotgun for me? I'll pay per Paypal, thx mate
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product. ... 0%3A170086
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 5:51 am
by Dave
I wonder if it will even make it out of the country let alone Dutch customs
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 6:00 am
by saturn
mark it as gift and it'll pass without problems
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 6:04 am
by Dave
I'll register it to you before I send it
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 6:16 am
by VoxProminence
anybody know if the walmarts in Canada have these yet?
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 7:08 am
by Nightshade
When Sam Walton was alive, you'd always see signs showing info about how many American jobs a certain product created and where in the US the product was made. After he died they all disappeared.
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 7:23 am
by +JuggerNaut+
VoxProminence wrote:anybody know if the walmarts in Canada have these yet?
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 10:39 am
by hate
wal-mart employees would be collecting unemployment if not for good ol' sam
wal-mart employees are the sacrificial lambs for the rest of the working poor they serve
no biggie
i pre-ordered q4 from them...still haven't received it goddam it
prolly still in china
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 10:42 am
by MKJ
good thing they took GTA off the shelves