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To: quidnunc

I never shop at Wal Mart. Patriots should organize a boycott of the store, which epitomizes corporate America at its worst.


5 posted on 02/11/2005 2:03:38 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
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To: Clintonfatigued

You've got to be kidding. I try to buy everything at Wal-Mart. I only buy other places what I can't get at Wal-Mart or Sams.


7 posted on 02/11/2005 2:05:36 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real politcal victory, take your issue to court.)
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To: Clintonfatigued
Where should we shop instead of Wal-Mart to prove our patriotism?
8 posted on 02/11/2005 2:06:04 PM PST by mlc9852
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To: Clintonfatigued

I don't suppose you'd care to explain yourself.


9 posted on 02/11/2005 2:07:01 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: Clintonfatigued

Nah, Walmart is okay in my book. Employee 300k people and you get some clout in my book.

Unions have destroyed every industry they've 'organized' and driven them overseas. Unions had their use when they first started, but they've long gone from champions of the worker to socialist/communist/criminal entities.


10 posted on 02/11/2005 2:08:34 PM PST by wvobiwan (Touchdown! Suckers walk...)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Good. Let Wally-World close up everywhere, I refuse to buy their sweat-shop junk anyway.


12 posted on 02/11/2005 2:11:17 PM PST by Boondock_Saint
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To: Clintonfatigued
Not at all. Employees have the right to unionize. Wal-Mart has the right to close stores and not work with unions, "Right To Work" laws or not. I applaud Wal-Mart's move here. No, wait, I stand up and applaud Wal-Mart on this one. I may even whistle and hoot a bit. Heck, I might even grab the pom-pons, don a skirt and do a few "Goooooo WAL-MART" cheers. And you can be certain I'll be stopping there on the way home to pick up some sort of item.
14 posted on 02/11/2005 2:12:53 PM PST by Jokelahoma (Animal testing is a bad idea. They get all nervous and give wrong answers.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

These days almost all stores sell goods made in China. Even little mom and pop gift shops.

Walmart gets a bad rap because they donate to the Republican party, so they are they ones you always hear the mainstream press complaining about.

I wonder why?


15 posted on 02/11/2005 2:15:40 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Clintonfatigued

You must like paying higher prices then.


29 posted on 02/11/2005 2:34:25 PM PST by TWRepublican
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To: Clintonfatigued

I never read posts by Clintonfatigued. Patriots should organize a boycott of the Poster who epitomizes socialist America at its worst.


31 posted on 02/11/2005 2:38:22 PM PST by Diego1618
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To: Clintonfatigued

I call BS on you.


36 posted on 02/11/2005 2:49:56 PM PST by SeeRushToldU_So (UGA won! The SEC kicks the nation's butt in football.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

When I was in college I worked for a retail giant on a part-time basis. There was a union drive at my store that was prompted by some very legitimate concerns on the part of the work force, and it was quite a learning experience for me both ways (from the union's perspective and the store management's perspective).


48 posted on 02/11/2005 3:35:51 PM PST by Alberta's Child (I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert.)
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To: Clintonfatigued
I never shop at Wal Mart. Patriots should organize a boycott of the store, which epitomizes corporate America at its worst.

I thought that was Haliburton. :)

52 posted on 02/11/2005 4:01:06 PM PST by nosofar
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To: Clintonfatigued

The only time i go to wal mart is when i want to watch a fat lady beat her children!!!


54 posted on 02/11/2005 4:05:30 PM PST by cajun-jack
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To: Clintonfatigued
I never shop at Wal Mart.

I rarely do. But it's a fine, low-end store with good merchandize, and a surprizing number of non-China brand names. I hate the checkout lines. Those are a nightmare, and the Wal-marts should consider opening a few more registers in the departments and allowing people to checkout there.

It's a disappointing corporate entity, no doubt. They apparently bent over backward to avoid saying - MERRY CHRISTMAS - when it was Christmas. Shame on them. There's another like that, whose management tend to be even Dem supporters. That's Costco. But I don't know where I'd be without the quality and discount of Costco. So I can't say I appreciate either management, or either corporation. But they still have very good stores, despite themselves. Maybe they'll manage all that away at some time, too. But not yet.

As for the union, I can't see that a reasonable union would be so offensive to Wal-mart, or any. But an intrusive union that sees Wal-mart as a money tree, and is plain in that cyncism, that sees Wal-mart as a sort of junior partner even, is one that might just make a Wal-mart close the store and say - fie upon it! Which is apparently what they did. If the unions would just stick to a few work rules, as they call them, a very few, to pure emergency leave, to perhaps a 'union wage', but not so much that it becomes unreasonable to the business model, and so on, I think Wal-mart and others would consider it. But unions aren't like that, now. Because they have labor or Dem support, they think they're practically an arm of government, and can command economies and businesses and bend them to their will by force of legislation. I'm glad some lousy managements are saying, despite their own incompetence, heck with you. Maybe if more business had the will, and the will to enact pro-business legislation with regard to unions, the unions might repair, gain genuine public support, and find their way back to productive legislation on behalf of the worker, rather than trying to run economies into the ground so that the workers, don't get any work.

55 posted on 02/11/2005 4:13:39 PM PST by sevry
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