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Wal-Mart: a progressive's dream company, really
New Hampshire Union Leader ^ | November 29, 2005 | Sebastian Mallaby

Posted on 11/29/2005 6:04:01 PM PST by Past Your Eyes

THERE'S A COMIC side to the anti-Wal-Mart campaign brewing across the country. Only by summoning up the most naive view of corporate behavior can the critics be shocked — shocked! — by the giant retailer's machinations.

Wal-Mart is plotting to contain health costs! But isn't that what every company does in the face of medical inflation? Wal-Mart has a war room to defend its image! Well, yeah, it's up against a hostile campaign featuring billboards, newspaper ads and a critical documentary movie. Wal-Mart aims to enrich shareholders and put rivals out of business! Hello? What business doesn't do that?

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: chinamart; corporateamerica; hechoencino; retail; walmart
Hehhehheh!
1 posted on 11/29/2005 6:04:04 PM PST by Past Your Eyes
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To: Past Your Eyes

Walmart is the devil.


2 posted on 11/29/2005 6:05:56 PM PST by Tulsa Ramjet ("So far, so good. But this is only phase one."-- Captain America)
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To: Past Your Eyes

Pinging All Walmart Whiners.

PING PING PING PING PING PING


3 posted on 11/29/2005 6:06:13 PM PST by RTINSC (What, Me Worry?..My company offers French benefits...)
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To: Past Your Eyes

Good post!


4 posted on 11/29/2005 6:09:19 PM PST by Pessimist
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To: Tulsa Ramjet

Beat me to it. Darn. :)


5 posted on 11/29/2005 6:10:22 PM PST by writer33 (Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
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To: Past Your Eyes
Walmart is a socialist's dream with one little problem - it was built by private citizens, not by the government.

How very much liberals would love to claim credit for an efficient means of distributing necessities (and small luxuries) at fair prices.

But they can't... and that is why Walmart must be demonized.

6 posted on 11/29/2005 6:12:17 PM PST by SteveMcKing ("No empire collapses because of technical reasons. They collapse because they are unnatural.")
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To: RTINSC

You turned my Hehhehheh into a ROFLMAO! Now I can go to bed.


7 posted on 11/29/2005 6:25:26 PM PST by Past Your Eyes (Some people are too stupid to be ashamed.)
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To: Past Your Eyes

And let's not forget where practically everything in the store is made!


8 posted on 11/29/2005 6:36:17 PM PST by PCBMan (Downsized seven times in the last nine years, damn right I'm grumpy)
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To: writer33

When Sam died, the soul of walmart died, and "Made in America" was sold for plastic dogsh*t made in a communist nation.

There. that'll rile up the free-traders.


9 posted on 11/29/2005 7:26:29 PM PST by Tulsa Ramjet ("So far, so good. But this is only phase one."-- Captain America)
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To: Past Your Eyes

I had no idea this article was here. Good stuff.


10 posted on 01/14/2006 8:26:16 AM PST by Houmatt (Screw Mexico! Seal the borders TODAY!)
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To: Houmatt

I'd plum fergot about it myself.


11 posted on 01/14/2006 8:43:16 AM PST by Past Your Eyes (Honk if you voted for algore...so I can point at you and laugh.)
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To: Gabz

Didn't want you to miss this one. :)


12 posted on 01/14/2006 8:46:12 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

This has been a rich weekend for Walmart threads........and it's not even noon on Saturday yet :)


13 posted on 01/14/2006 8:54:05 AM PST by Gabz
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