i don't shop at walmart

[GetYourWarOn]

you shouldn't either until they allow their workers to organize.




p.s. i don't care if they sell cheap toaster ovens. it's not worth it. ;[

[QueenAdrock]

I don't like Walmart. I mean, if they get paid $8 an hour or whatever it is to stand by the door and greet people, they can at least acknowledge me when I come in. One person was actually busy chewing on the wall when I walked in once.

...yeah, don't ask

[Documad]

Is Whole Foods still anti-union? That was only one of many complaints the independent co-ops threw at them when they moved into my neighborhood. I still haven't set foot in there. Lots of people who wouldn't go to Walmart go to Whole Foods all the time.


Ooh, and what about Cracker Barrel?


Walmart also has rusty carts and it just makes my skin crawl. (I do bring my elderly mom there about once per month because she likes the Sam Choice candy. She's elderly. She's not entirely right in the head. I have to throw her a bone now and then.)

[Documad]

P.S. TARGET ROCKS!

[QueenAdrock]

Yeah man, we got the rusty carts too. We were eating in the McDonald's inside the Walmart once last summer, and there was a HUGE storm outside. The carts were speeding across the parkinglot and slamming into cars, really loud and squeaky-like. Creepy.

[GetYourWarOn]

Is Whole Foods still anti-union? That was only one of many complaints the independent co-ops threw at them when they moved into my neighborhood. I still haven't set foot in there. Lots of people who wouldn't go to Walmart go to Whole Foods all the time.




oh god, i don't know. i get sushi from there every once ina while. :(

[GetYourWarOn]

P.S. TARGET ROCKS!


INDEED (y)

[GetYourWarOn]

One person was actually busy chewing on the wall when I walked in once.

...yeah, don't ask


you need to start a thread about this.

[Medellia]

Yeah man, we got the rusty carts too. We were eating in the McDonald's inside the Walmart once last summer, and there was a HUGE storm outside. The carts were speeding across the parkinglot and slamming into cars, really loud and squeaky-like. Creepy.
My roommate's car looks vaguely Swiss cheese-ish because of a really bad hail storm that nearly spawned a tornado. We had to take shelter in a Wal-Mart. We actually got in the door just as it started hailing. Very close call.


PS-I like Target too.

[yeahwho]

Ever notice there's usually a Fundie Church next to or adjacent to your area's Wal-Mart? Maybe this is a NW American phenomena

Fuck Wal-Mart, they ain't getting any of my money. Shitheads. Costco at least treats their employee's like citizens and also carries quality goods.

Wal-Mart, they're store is bizarre, it's like a surreal nightmare of the American Dream slipping right through your fingers. Somebody had to do something really ugly for you to get a $9.99 Toaster Oven, the place is extra creepy.

[Medellia]

Ever notice there's usually a Fundie Church next to or adjacent to your area's Wal-Mart? Maybe this is a NW American phenomena
Their building an uber church next to one of the Wal-Marts here. Oh and it's also across the street from the ORU campus. :rolleyes:

[QueenAdrock]

I think it's the employee you should be mad at, not Wal Mart.

(Maybe you should be mad at the employee's manager)

I'm not mad. I'm just not going to shop at someplace that's full of a bunch of lazy assholes who don't do their jobs.

They're always friendly at Target, though.

[GetYourWarOn]

Come on,

All an union would do is force higher prices. GM has unions, they also have very bad workers who are members. GM can't fire them for repeating very very bad work. (Bringing quality down)

Most of the Japanese car companies do not have unions. They work out fine.

I will not say that unions are never good. Years ago they were very very good, but today they do more harm than good.


you've told me nothing. back up your point with facts.

[laidback93]

I don't shop at our Walmart because its fucking nasty. The people and the store are gross. It's located by the shitty part of town so a lot of shady people shop there.

It's all about Target. Plus theres one a few blocks from me.

[yeahwho]

Come on,

All an union would do is force higher prices. GM has unions, they also have very bad workers who are members. GM can't fire them for repeating very very bad work. (Bringing quality down)

Most of the Japanese car companies do not have unions. They work out fine.

I will not say that unions are never good. Years ago they were very very good, but today they do more harm than good.

Why don't you move to Japan or China (http://www.quickegreets.com/birthday/graph/ab.jpg) then? Or better yet why don't you encourage your fellow US citizens to be more like Japanese, Chinese or some other Pan Asian country, lets all take a cut in pay and benefits so Wal-Mart can stay in business.

As an self professed officer of th law, what does the Police Guild think of your anti-union stance? Or do you not pay dues like the hundreds of thousands of other Police Officers (http://www.iupa.org/) here in the United States of America?

Are you a very bad worker? And a very bad union brother?

[QueenAdrock]

I don't shop at our Walmart because its fucking nasty. The people and the store are gross. It's located by the shitty part of town so a lot of shady people shop there.

It's all about Target. Plus theres one a few blocks from me.

What, you don't like going there with all the rest of the wonderful families on Saturday nights? Families with 8 screaming toddlers rummaging through the clearance pile for great DVD finds from the 1980's doesn't appeal to you?

Pfft, and you call yourself an American.

[zorra_chiflada]

i love how sisko is so anti-union!
"no! people don't deserve decent working conditions and a decent wage! not at all"

what a fucking piece of shit.

[cosmo105]

what's hilarious about the way conservatives defend mega-corps like wal-mart is that they're crushing every single small business in their paths. inevitable, really, when it comes to allowing greed to run rampant. sort of like the giant trusts of the industrial revlution. those were SO good for the economy and society, weren't they? seeing as how they were dismantled by the government for becoming too huge.

wait a second...capitalism? FLAWED?! :eek:

fuck wal-mart right in its giant corporate ass.

[QueenAdrock]

Price Chopper, eh? The only Price Chopper I've ever seen on the east coast was in Oneonta, NY.

Do you live around there perchance?

[Medellia]

crazy you say that! In the god is homeless thread...I was going to say that Uber Churches were being built across the street from every Walmart

I guess I am not freaking out
There's nothing like seeing the giant praying Jesus hands and the gaudy golden Cityplex Towers at Oral Roberts University across from a Wal-Mart. *shudders*

[QueenAdrock]

Hey, now that I think of it, across from the Walmart we have here is a church with a big-ass cross on its steeple that is outlined in neon-red when it's dark out.

Creepy.

[Medellia]

When they started construction on ORU Wal-Mart's uber-church the first thing they did was put up the giant cross that will top the steeple when they end construction. It's masive and made out of iron and just looks frightening. The whole thing looks vaguely like the frame of a pirate ship.

Oh yes, this Wal-Mart also has a Hilton hotel in it's parking lot. I find that very interesting.

[QueenAdrock]

Vermont

I guess it must be a north-east thing.

I have fond memories of my now-deceased aunt buying me donuts there. They were pretty good. (y)