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Walmart’s C.E.O. Joins Group to Rebuke Trump Over Charlottesville
New York Times ^ | 8/15/2017 | Rachel Abrams and Michael Corkery

Posted on 08/15/2017 12:02:46 PM PDT by Alter Kaker

Walmart’s chief executive issued a strong rebuke of President Trump’s response to the protests that turned violent in Charlottesville, Va., saying the president “missed a critical opportunity to help bring our country together.”

The criticism came in a statement that the retailer’s chief executive, Doug McMillon, emailed to employees Monday evening, which was reviewed by The New York Times. The statement was later posted on a company website.

“As we watched the events and the response from President Trump over the weekend, we too felt that he missed a critical opportunity to help bring our country together by unequivocally rejecting the appalling actions of white supremacists,” he wrote.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boycott; charlottesville; corporateamerica; dougmcmillon; manufacturing; retail; trump; trumpeconomy; walmart
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1 posted on 08/15/2017 12:02:46 PM PDT by Alter Kaker
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Shocker. Sam’s Club is run by a black female racist.


2 posted on 08/15/2017 12:04:05 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Alter Kaker

Somebody is mad his Chicom suppliers are about to get hammered.


3 posted on 08/15/2017 12:04:09 PM PDT by lodi90
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Arkansas rednecks want to set policy?


4 posted on 08/15/2017 12:04:33 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Alter Kaker

I was going to have a big shopping day at Walmart this week. Guess not, anymore....


5 posted on 08/15/2017 12:04:45 PM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012 ("Be quiet... you are #fakenews!")
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To: Alter Kaker

And I will no longer set foot into Wal-Mart


6 posted on 08/15/2017 12:05:48 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: Alter Kaker

Trump did nothing wrong. Remember Obama criticizing BLM, ever?


7 posted on 08/15/2017 12:06:27 PM PDT by Vic S
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To: Alter Kaker

I support our President!


8 posted on 08/15/2017 12:06:58 PM PDT by pangaea6
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To: Alter Kaker

Every comment by Trump has been to condemn the violence. What do they want, Trump to instead resign? Okay, I’m sure that’s what they want but hopefully the American people can see that he has spoken out. Hopefully, too, conservatives can rally and equally condemn the violence instead of those in the south, for example, wrapping themselves around the disgraced Confederate flag and hero worshipping statues. Trump doesn’t need this association or distraction that simply feeds the whole Trump is a racist meme.


9 posted on 08/15/2017 12:07:21 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
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To: Alter Kaker

McMillon, you’re an idiot. Trump has repeatedly rejected racism and called for unity. BTW, your stores are poorly run.


10 posted on 08/15/2017 12:07:54 PM PDT by Ray76 (Republicans are a Democrat party front group.)
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To: Alter Kaker
Another runner-up for the Uriah Heep "Profiles In Courage" award.


11 posted on 08/15/2017 12:08:45 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: Skywise

I wonder it it will be dangerous for a white, especially a white male with blondish hair, to enter a Walmart. I need some vitamins but for a coupla bucks savings, might as well go get them at Rite Aid.


12 posted on 08/15/2017 12:09:22 PM PDT by VietVet876
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What an idiot this CEO is. He’s aching for trouble.

Bet he never criticized Obama for not saying enough to rebuke BLM supremacists.

Time to let Walmart feel this in their pocketbooks.


13 posted on 08/15/2017 12:09:28 PM PDT by poconopundit (CNN is... Corruption News Neglected)
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Do these corporation chiefs understand what BLM and the antifasti groups are all about? Nationalization without compensation of their businesses. These chiefs and they families executed for crimes against the people (or at the very least sent to re-education camps for many years.


14 posted on 08/15/2017 12:09:34 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: GnuThere

One would think Walmart could look at the stupid and costly practices of JC Penny and Target. And try not to make those kinds of mistakes.

But I guess not. Seems Walmart wants to alienate it’s base and drive away shoppers.


15 posted on 08/15/2017 12:09:36 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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With allllllll the times Obozo did not ‘try to bring the country together’ through crisis after crisis..none of these asswipes gave a whit. Bozo caused all the division that exists today but he’s just swell. Trump did nothing wrong here.


16 posted on 08/15/2017 12:09:37 PM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85)
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First they came for Trump, and then they will come for every American not of the favored pedigree or gender.


17 posted on 08/15/2017 12:10:10 PM PDT by apoliticalone (Political correctness should be defined as news media that exposes political corruption)
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To: GnuThere; SkyPilot; Roman_War_Criminal

[Sam’s Club is run by a black female racist.]

Absolutely, she is. Will never have a Sam’s Club membership again.


18 posted on 08/15/2017 12:10:39 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ....)
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To: Alter Kaker

border adjustment tax, please....


19 posted on 08/15/2017 12:10:59 PM PDT by Wayne07
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Sounds like this self-righteous nitwit might be starting Walmart down the road trail blazed by the self-righteous nitwits at Target.


20 posted on 08/15/2017 12:11:23 PM PDT by Will88
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