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"Wal-Mart: Warfare on Big Business"
Atlas Shrugs ^ | 12-3-10 | Pamela Geller

Posted on 12/03/2010 4:16:41 PM PST by foundedonpurpose

AFDI/SIOA Rally for Wal-Mart "Love Wal-Mart Day" Yes to Wal-Mart, No to Ground Zero Mosque

(Excerpt) Read more at atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 911mosque; nypolitics; walmart
In New York a 911 Mosque is good? Wal-mart is bad...
1 posted on 12/03/2010 4:16:49 PM PST by foundedonpurpose
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To: foundedonpurpose

didn’t Wal-Mart back ObamaCare and higher taxes?


2 posted on 12/03/2010 4:20:02 PM PST by GeronL
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To: GeronL

didn’t Wal-Mart back ObamaCare and higher taxes?
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That’s my recall, too.

That and their declining service, cleanliness, and product choice has me about ready to drop them off my shopping choices.


3 posted on 12/03/2010 4:22:54 PM PST by Irenic
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To: Irenic

I no longer go to Walmart.... they support the liberal view way too many times.... nothing like they used to be 20 years ago..


4 posted on 12/03/2010 4:24:21 PM PST by bareford101 (For me, there is no difference in a tolerant, open mind and a cess pool. Both are open to filth.)
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To: Irenic

I stop by the Wal-Mart on my way to work & the service is not great because no one wants to be interrupted from their morning gossip to help you. At the Wal-Mart in our town I used to stop by the deli to get 2 chicken strips before I went home, but the nasty attitude towards me was just unbelievable.................I am not the same color as the deli ladies & they sure let me know they did not like my kind.......... I found other stores & go to Wal-Mart not so often............

It seems that the managers must be afraid to speak to the workers about their attitudes because no one seems the least bit scared of being rude to certain customers.........
Let me say that some of the workers are incredibly helpful & nice.

I work too hard for my money to spend it where people are rude. I try & keep it local.............


5 posted on 12/03/2010 4:39:37 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: foundedonpurpose
Support Wah-mart, 100,000 Chinese businesses depend on you.


6 posted on 12/03/2010 4:42:17 PM PST by Last Dakotan
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To: Irenic

“That and their declining service, cleanliness, and product choice has me about ready to drop them off my shopping choices.”

Did I ever tell you about one of my local Wal-Marts where a guy apparently had a huge diarrhea accident? There was a trail of poo leading from the middle of the store all the way to the bathroom and up to a toilet that was totally splattered with brown. I am not making this up.


7 posted on 12/03/2010 4:54:46 PM PST by Strk321
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To: GeronL
didn’t Wal-Mart back ObamaCare and higher taxes?

Yes they did.

Most large corporations are not very friendly to the free market system. They use their money to buy political protection to stop competition from other corporations and especially small businesses.

8 posted on 12/03/2010 5:16:12 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: Strk321

Did I ever tell you about one of my local Wal-Marts where a guy apparently had a huge diarrhea accident? There was a trail of poo leading from the middle of the store all the way to the bathroom and up to a toilet that was totally splattered with brown. I am not making this up.
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Ugh!

I noticed a strange thing at our Walmart and I’m still not certain what it was about.

This transvestite (fella didn’t do much of at job looking feminine)was in one of those motorized carts ahead of me in line.

Anyhow he had that basket pretty full, paid with food stamps, then drove directly over to the customer service and proceeded to return things.

I don’t know if he got cash for them or what... as I figured that would be similar to gift cards; they just credit the card and one doesn’t receive cash back.

That was strange enough to me but what caught my attention, was how the food was just tossed into a cart with other food stuffs—milk, meat, frozen items etc.

That explained to me why I’ve gotten home only to discover some things were rancid straight out of the package, they restock that chit after goodness knows how long.

Thanksgiving my carrots and celery were slimy and I had only purchased them the night previous.

This makes me laugh at ‘food safety bills’...it makes it obvious they’re not concerned with food safety. If so, Walmart would be in a whole heap of trouble.

I suspect many of these ‘outbreaks’ of crap is mostly the store not handling the food properly, not the farmers.


9 posted on 12/03/2010 5:29:53 PM PST by Irenic
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To: OldMissileer

“Most large corporations are not very friendly to the free market system. They use their money to buy political protection to stop competition from other corporations and especially small businesses.”

That is true. It’s really the small and medium-sized businesses that drive the economy. Large corporations are all to an extent socialistic. They usually have strong connections to the government and are likely to be bailed out by the latter should they get in financial trouble. This is because they employ a large number of people and allowing them to collapse would have an extremely detrimental effect on the economy. In addition to that, the big companies often have government contracts or otherwise produce something vital to national security or strategic purposes.

The “rescue” of GM was not really a great surprise, as most economic experts are aware it’s unofficial government policy that companies like GM, Boeing, Lockheed-Martin (which was bailed out in 1972), etc, would never be allowed to fail.

I mean, if any of the above-mentioned companies collapsed, where are you going to get your tanks or fighter jets in the event of a war? Even during WWII, the Roosevelt Administration contemplated nationalizing Ford, which was starting to crumble financially at that time.

However, if you nationalize heavy industry (what Milton Friedman dubbed “the commanding heights of the economy”) outright, then you end up with 1970s Britain, which was a mess with shoddy goods and unions striking every five minutes until Margaret Thatcher cleaned it up.


10 posted on 12/03/2010 11:39:29 PM PST by Strk321
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