Wal-Mart looks to Hispanic market

FT.com ^ | March 12 2009 | Jonathan Birchall

[YellowRoseofTx]

We had two other stores here, that had been very nice stores with good clientele, but they decided to cater to the hispanics, hired mexican managers and clerks. They lasted about a year and had to close down. The aisles were a mess, clothes being just dropped in the floor with people walking on them, women sitting in the aisles eating burritos and leaving their food rappers, etc. Hispanics were waited on first even if non-hispanics were in line to check out, hispanics butted in front of you and got special treatment. You would think this would be a lesson to other stores, but NO.

[1rudeboy]

Have you ever been to Chinatown?

[Troy McGreggor]

I often wonder how people the people you describe feel about selling state secrets. I mean, its capitalism, right? No limits, ultimate freedom. You’re not being treasonous, you’re just being a good capitalist.

Destroying your country in the pursuit of money is hardly what the FF envisioned. While you have the right to pursue money, you have the obligation to do so in a way that doesn’t harm the country that provides you this freedom.

So to these same people, selling our secrets for money must be ok, just like undercutting our labor force and offshoring everything is ok. Both result in gain for you and harm for the country.

[1rudeboy]

That takes care of the slippery-slope fallacy. Thanks for sharing.

[TomasUSMC]

BOYCOTT WALMART
....since most of the stuff they sell is from China
Hell they are a major supplier of money to the Chinese Communist Armed Forces anyway.

[sonic109]

Right on the money my friend. One of my BIG problems with the GOP has been their support of illegals simply because they provide cheap labor. Good for business maybe but bad fir the nation . We;ll be a 3rd world toilet by the time Obama runs out his years anyway.

[cripplecreek]

Not to mention that China funnels weapons and money to terrorists by way of Iran who in turn kill our soldiers. Apparently loyalty to our troops isn’t cost effective for some.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Have you ever looked at where almost all the produce comes from in your Super WalMart supermarket?Yes. That is why I leave it to rot...

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Have you ever looked at where almost all the produce comes from in your Super WalMart supermarket?

Yes. That is why I leave it to rot...

[mimaw]

If they were as large a segment of the population as Hispanics are I’m sure there would be stores up and running to appeal to them as well.

[Altura Ct.]

It is amazing to me how many people will embrace the destruction of the US because it is good for business.

Is that what we are worth now? Our culture, institutions, heroes, way of life are worth whatever Wal-Mart et al says it is?

[mimaw]

You’ve got that one right I see a lot of that here.

[mimaw]

In my area we had a large Italian population and we have many fine Italian deli's to buy ingredients from as well as great imported meats and cheeses and wine. Some of the workers are older and speak with accents, does that make me unamerican? We also have immaculate Hispanic produce stores I have shopped at for years and enjoy the different varieties of fruits and vegetables.

[rbg81]

If you think about it, the reason behind this move might be to separate the two groups. Anglos go to Walmart, Hispanics go to the Spanish equivalent. Problem solved from their end.

[Altura Ct.]

Bully for you! You must be in multicultural heaven.

Stop the invasion and stop the destruction of us, our culture and institutions. Disband LaRaza, MEChA, LULAC, The hispanic caucus and ALL other raced based political and lobbying groups.

[VeniVidiVici]

Walmart-o?

[YellowRoseofTx]

If you think about it, the reason behind this move might be to separate the two groups. Anglos go to Walmart, Hispanics go to the Spanish equivalent. Problem solved from their end.

Maybe with the two new stores for them, it might work that way. Here we had one WalMart, and the "minorities" (who just about out number whites now) raised a ruckus wanting one in another part of town where most of them live. So, they got a brand new shiny store. They all still come over to this one and we tend to go to the new one (if you go) where there are fewer hispanic shoppers and a cleaner store.

[VeniVidiVici]

I was speaking to a meat counter person at the grocery Publix the other day about the meat being labeled as being from US/Canada/Mexico(all three).

He said the cow may have been born in Mexico, fattened up in the US and slaughtered in Canada.

But then he went on to say that it was a moot point as Publix had taken such flak for meat labeled like this that they were only buying US beef from now on.

Sure enough, last night all the beef in the meat section was labeled US and not the tripartite stuff.

[gussiefinknottle]

I refuse to go to wal-mart in my area after I noticed the announcements
were in Spanish. And I live in Georgia!

[DocH]

Maybe, instead of just having a "As Seen On TV" section to sell Chi-Com crap, Wal-Mart could have a "As Seen In The Barrio", and maybe even, "As Seen In The Hood" sections of the store.

Don't get me wrong, I like Wal-Mart generally, and shop there often. I just get tired of hearing them sucking up to liberal special interest groups on occasion. Like the time they actually listened and responded to fat-ass left-wing POS Michael Moore and his gun-grabbing comrades, and pulled the sell of guns and ammunition from some of their stores (if I remeber the story correctly).

Wal-Mart needs to TOTALLY IGNORE these left-wing, anti-capitalism, anti-American maggots, and carry on with business as they see fit, which had always been to ahve guns and ammunition at all of their stores.