MORFORD: Can You Still Hate Wal-Mart?

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 5/24/6 | Mark Morford

[FreedomPoster]

Yes, I quit reading when I got into that paragraph.

[FreedomPoster]

Yes, that gal has a clue, unlike most of her brethren at the Comical.

[stillonaroll]

What Miss Morford does not say, regrettably, is that the East Bay city (mentioned in the article) wants to buy land that Wal-Mart owns just so WM cannot build a store there. It’s not a rich town, but the DemonRats in charge want to spend the tax $ of the working class so that the working class cannot have an affordable place to buy basic goods at WM.

[Severa]

"One of the reasons the Left hates Wal-Mart is because their success is the epitome of how the free market works."

WalMart is a BIG supporter of the military. During one of my husband's submarine deployments, he was able to call home thanks to calling cards donated by WalMart. Betcha that's ANOTHER reason the Left hates WalMart.

[RipSawyer]

Such obvious snobbery against WalMart and those who shop there. Apparently these libs feel we should shop at overpriced boutiques, paying inflated prices for designer gear created by fussy homosexual designers in urban lofts.

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It really is strange, I have known people who barely make enough to shop at Wal-Mart but insist on going to more "trendy" stores. If I try to point out that, in many cases, they are simply paying a lot more for the same thing sold at Wal-Mart they come up with every excuse in the world including "Wal=Mart only sells seconds". Yeah, sure. Most people don't realize that price at retail is mostly unrelated to cost of production, quite often the same product from the same factory is sold under several different brand names and the price can vary tremendously for the same exact product. During the Calvin Klein craze a lot of low-paid young women were paying huge prices for their "Calvins" even though better quality jeans were available at much lower prices. I refuse to pay a lot of money for the privilege of wearing someone's advertising, they should pay me to wear their advertising sign.

[dblshot]

I just wish I could get the newspaper companies in by area to stop litering my driveway with their papers which go into the trash still in their plastic wrappers. I have to have neighbors pick them up when I'm out of town so the thiefs won't know we're gone from a pile of this garbage in my driveway. And they have the gall to call WallMart a polluter?

[sockmonkey]

I also like Walmart for the one-stop shopping. Saves gas. Aren't the greenies always telling us to save gas?

Looking at my list of errands for today, I realize that if Walmart also had a lumberyard, I wouldn't have to go anywhere else..

You can get eyeglasses there, get a haircut there, bank there, buy groceries there-eat lunch there, play bingo on Tuesdays (big with the snowbirds around here), play yu-gi-oh, there on Saturdays (big with the geek teens/preteens), I mean if they'd add a lumberyard, and a post office-I wouldn't have to go anywhere else except to Church on Sundays.