[sweetliberty]

So much for Walmart's wholesome, family values image. I suppose this will create quite a dilemma for the business-hating lefties.

[GoBucks2002]

My first-- and only-- WalMart experience is a perfect metaphor for why they are so successful and why they will have a hard time maintaining that success.

In college, I worked for a small-chain record store. They were still called a record store, even though we were about 50-50 on casettes and CDs. My mother, in her infinte wisdom, decided that, thanks to my employee discount, she could have a cheap Christmas with me getting her a ton of tapes and CDs for everyone: Mariah Carey for her niece, Englebert Humperdinck for Aunt Eunice, you get the idea.

An associate told me that, despite the employee discount here, I could get them for even less at Wal-Mart. Since my mom already gave me the cash, I saw a chance to skim a little.

Went to Wally World and had a great deal of trouble finding about half the CDs, especially the Rock and Country ones. That part of the CD display looked like a tornado hit it. (The rest of the store was not in better shape.) Finally, there was one left I could not find. Knowing that, at my current place of employment, stock was kept under the displays, I opened up a cabinet below the display (it was not locked), opened a box of CDs with the appropriate artist, took out a CD, and put the box back.

No one-- not an employee, not loss-prevention-- came up to me. The checkout clerk did not even bat an eye when 14 of the CDs had those plastic locks on them and the 15th did not.

I *saw* a total of two employees in the store, midafternoon one week before Christmas: the greeter and the cashier. Oh, yeah, the line was a mile long, they had one register open.

Oh, total savings on 15 CDs relative to the employee discount... $9.

THe chain record store for which I used to work filed for bankruptcy a year later.

Still have not gone back to Wally World.

[Salman]

Meanwhile, the DUmmies are dubious.

Wal-Mart gets no credit for being PC.

Should we support wal-mart's quest to "support" us?

[RoadTest]

" “We are honored to have Wal-Mart's support of the NGLCC. "

Translation: "We're glad that we Sodomites have another ally. If we get enough people to approve of our sodomy, we won't, maybe, feel so guilty.

[longtermmemmory]

diversity=anybody but conservative white people.

diversity = anythiny but DO YOUR JOB.

diversity = more taxes for BS training

diversity = grants to left wing organizations. (see shakedown)