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Darkness lurks behind Wal-Mart smiley face
The Boston Herald ^ | Sunday, January 16, 2005 | Peter Chianca

Posted on 01/16/2005 1:30:24 PM PST by Willie Green

I don't know about you, but I sort of miss the days when Wal-Mart was harmless. You know, back when they were just a mammoth conglomerate putting small retailers out of business and forcing manufacturing jobs overseas, thus helping to cripple the U.S. economy. They were almost lovable then.

Now, though, they're downright scary. It's not just that every time you go into one you get this niggling feeling that you might just never come out, like a Roach Motel. It's more that Wal-Marts have become little planets unto themselves, where the citizens all laugh at our silly Earth customs, content in the knowledge that someday we'll all be subjugated and wearing little blue smocks just like them.

Just look at some of the stories to have come out of Wal-Marts in the last week alone:

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: businesskillers; chinamart; globalism; lowqualitycrap; monopoly; targetrules; thebusheconomy; walmart; walmarthell; waronsmalltowns; worldsbestretailer
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1 posted on 01/16/2005 1:30:24 PM PST by Willie Green
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To: Willie Green
Good. They still don't get it.

Keep on bashing on what Joe Sixpack loves Boston Herald. You're doing The Lord's Work.

2 posted on 01/16/2005 1:34:10 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all)
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To: Willie Green

I would bet that if you knew all the wacky things Railroad (insert favorite target here) workers did you would never ride a train again.


3 posted on 01/16/2005 1:34:45 PM PST by Mark was here (My tag line was about to be censored.)
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To: Willie Green

Over at DU they have nearly daily rants on Wal-Mart. Pathetic.


4 posted on 01/16/2005 1:35:21 PM PST by DJ MacWoW ("Don't give me any of your 6th grade Michael Moore logic" Sec'y Defense Heller on 24)
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To: Texas Eagle

The writer's world is obviously very, very, small.....


5 posted on 01/16/2005 1:36:14 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: Willie Green

Oh, Willie! The US' largest employer outside of the government (civil service, et al) isn't the antiChrist.


6 posted on 01/16/2005 1:36:14 PM PST by annyokie (If the shoe fits, put 'em both on!)
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To: Willie Green
...you get this niggling feeling that you might just never come out, like a Roach Motel.

Peter Chicana needs to up his meds.

7 posted on 01/16/2005 1:37:30 PM PST by Doohickey ("This is a hard and dirty war, but when it's over, nothing will ever be too difficult again.”)
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To: Willie Green

our walmart is a ok with me. what happen to "monkey wards"??


8 posted on 01/16/2005 1:38:03 PM PST by camas
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To: Willie Green

Last year Massachusetts was the only state to lose population. Perhaps the Boston Herald has a conspiracy theory explaining this. Alternatively, it is just too expensive to live in and around Boston.


9 posted on 01/16/2005 1:39:56 PM PST by shrinkermd
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To: anniegetyourgun
How many Wally Worlds are out there? It must be close to a thousand. And all he can come up with is 5 or 6 weird scenarios?

If Wal-Mart has such a voracious appetite that it is devouring all its competition, how is it that he has a Target store to go to?

10 posted on 01/16/2005 1:40:11 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all)
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To: Mrs Mark
I wish I understood peoples rants about WalMart. Don't they realize if there were no Sam Walton WalMarts there would certainly be something else to take their place.

These towns that are keeping them out will look up one of these days and there will be something just like WalMart building away.
11 posted on 01/16/2005 1:41:24 PM PST by Faith-Hope
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To: Willie Green

It's just a store.

Really, this Walmart obsession is so ludicrous.


12 posted on 01/16/2005 1:41:35 PM PST by cyncooper
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To: Faith-Hope

Those towns already have a K-Mart, I betcha.


13 posted on 01/16/2005 1:42:57 PM PST by Pan_Yans Wife (" It is not true that life is one damn thing after another-it's one damn thing over and over." ESV)
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To: Willie Green
You know I read the other day that Wal Mart employs over a million people.

Typical liberal view..if its work force is a million or more...time to shut it down for the good of the people.

Give me a break....This company puts food on peoples plates..
14 posted on 01/16/2005 1:43:27 PM PST by PaulaB
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To: Willie Green

In my little town the people in the community overwhelmingly didn't want a Super-Walmart (we've already got a Walmart store) but the council approved it along with the zoning changes to make it happen. We're still trying to figure out what happened. Maybe it was because all the illegal aliens wanted it.


15 posted on 01/16/2005 1:43:55 PM PST by dljordan
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To: Texas Eagle

The Wal-Mart bashers are usually pathetic but I must admit this article is pretty funny.


16 posted on 01/16/2005 1:44:47 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: Willie Green

'...So if you need me, I'll be in Target.'

Figures that the lib author would rather shop in a French owned store.


17 posted on 01/16/2005 1:44:49 PM PST by duckman (I refuse to use a tag line...I mean it.)
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To: Willie Green

Hmmm...That's why our Walmart manager has a Hitler mustache. It's all coming together now.


18 posted on 01/16/2005 1:45:19 PM PST by Free and Armed
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To: annyokie

Maybe the unions are upset about walmart being a non-union entity. I know employment at Walmart has given hope to the hopeless. Maybe we should roll back the union thugs. NSNR


19 posted on 01/16/2005 1:45:20 PM PST by No Surrender No Retreat
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