Posted on 12/04/2005 3:43:27 AM PST by beaversmom
Let's assume that everything you've said there is true. Are you going to make the case that none of Wal-Mart's competitors engage in these kinds of practices?
The leftest cannibals on these boards that pose as "real conservatives" will be in an uproar.
Robert Greenwald does NOT pay my bills. He does not provide this household with:
Toilet paper
Paper towels
Ziplock bags
Coca Cola
Bread
cookies
Paperback books (for cold days I cannot go outside long)
Anti Freeze for my vehicles
Oil/filters for same
Soaps of all kinds:Dish, laundry,face,body,& Downey
Coffee Groc store: $9.99 W/M: $4.98 that's 1/2 price!!
Scotch tape
I get all of the above and lots more from Wal-Mart for a serious amount less than many other stores.
Since I am far from the only one on a fixed income, I have to spend my money wisely.
I do not know Mr Greenwald's income, but I'll bet a McDonald's cheeseburger combo that it is more than the $892/month I get after working since I was 16 years old.
He can pound sand.
When he and his ilk get over a million workers out on the unemployment lines, what will be his litany then????
The sales taxes will dry up. The property will decline and property taxes will do so also. The economy will take a serious hit, as I cannot double my income to spend in the expensive stores. I can only spend what I take in. Therefore, I will live at a lower level of comfort, as will others.
What right does Robert Greenwald to hold power over my level of comfort????
The unions have their undies in a bunch over the fact that they cannot "organize" Wal-Mart workers.
I cannot for a minute believe that NO UNION WORKERS EVER SHOP at Wal Mart. I'm sure that they do.
I cannot control the cost of power or propane to run my house. I cannot control the cost of gasoline. I dropped my driving to less than a third with the cost of gas. and made big lists to do all my shopping on one trip at a time. Wal-Mart gives me a level of purchasing I need to have a decent level of retirement.
He can pound sand. Leave Wal-Mart alone.
shopped at Walton's 5 & 10 on the square in Bentonville years ago and have no reason to change stores now because some Elitist says they are BAD-BAD-bad. ""
With this kind of history, one could argue that Wal-Mart is exactly a MOM & POP store----They just got real big..
Maybe that is the real problem with the lefties. They cannot stand someone who is very successful.
Horse feces and you know it
The only problem that I have with Wal-Mart is that they do not provide ecough handicap spaces.""
Most communities use a percentage of total spaces to designate handicapped parking. The store I go to uses 2 full aisles, and I think that is about 20+ spaces. Now you have my curiosity up- I will count them this week.
If your store has a higher than average handicapped customers, talk to your W/M manager. They might address your concerns more easily than you think.
If you are trying to support a family of three on $8.23 an hour, then you are responsible for one or more of the following, IMO:
You didn't get enough education, which is shameful in a country which offers you a free ride thru high school, and lots of scholarships for college classes.
You had more children than you could afford.
You made poor choices of a marriage partner and are now a single parent.
You lack the ambition to at least get some classes to improve your education and your worthiness in a capitalistic society.
Many of the freepers posting here have done all of that and more.
You have made poor choices in other areas of life, including health issues and criminal issues.
If you make $8.23 an hour in 20054, that is all your skills are worth in 2005.
If you are trying to support a family of three on $8.23 an hour, then you are responsible for one or more of the following, IMO:
You didn't get enough education, which is shameful in a country which offers you a free ride thru high school, and lots of scholarships for college classes.
You had more children than you could afford.
You made poor choices of a marriage partner and are now a single parent.
You lack the ambition to at least get some classes to improve your education and your worthiness in a capitalistic society.
Many of the freepers posting here have done all of that and more.
You have made poor choices in other areas of life, including health issues and criminal issues.
If you make $8.23 an hour in 2005, that is all your skills are worth in 2005.
I can't count the number of times I've simply left my full shopping cart at the WalMart cashier line because I refuse to stand there 45 minutes just to buy cheap toilet paper.""
Unless your shopping cart was full of JUST toiler paper, you cheated yourself, IMO.
You had spent the gas and time to go to Wal-Mart in the first place.
You spent the time to park, walk the aisles and find your choices of goods.
You got to the check-out line and then wanted instant service? OK, Paris Hilton, whatever.
But you still needed toilet paper and then went thru the same drill all over again at another store with more gas.
Don't tell me that you don't wait in the checkout line at the grocery store, because we all know that is not true.
My Dad would say you are exhibiting more money than brains.
Our Wal-Mart did that twice. They went outside the city limits to build first a regular store and then a Super Center. It was either that are get our city council to use eminent domain to find enough land inside the city to build. Our city, then simply expanded the city limits to incorporate them. When Wal-Mart moved out of town again for the new Super Center, the city just sucked them in again. I think that's how grown ups do business.
(they bank their profits for 1 night, then transfer them to Bentonville -- that doesn't help the local economy one bit).""
If you think that doesn't happen with funds from other stores, you are sorely mistaken.
Besides, general checking funds cannot be touched for loans out by the bank, I think. Only the savings and CD accounts can be used for loans out.
Thanks!!!!!!
NO!!
When Sam Walton was alive, the "Made in USA" was solid.
When he passed, the suits changed to the best prices they could get wherever.
I stand corrected.. Thank You..
We have enough "revisionist" history already, no need for me to contribute to the confusion.. ;o)
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