What's up with WalMart?

Self | 5/6/06 | DH

[DH]

What's up with Walmart. I just came back from getting groceries there and when I got to up to the checkout area there was a large rack of caps on display and each one had a symbol of Mexico...flag, insignia, emblems etc... I was also entertained by a blaring PA system playing Tejano too, just like every Saturday morning that I go there to get groceries.

I guess that Walmart wanted to sell out Americans to make money on Cinco De Mayo celebrations...the one that Mexicans celebrate here in America with more gusto than the 4th of July.

I have come to the conclusion that we are way past a tipping point and that the Mexican invasion has been successful. Now all that they have to do is complete the victory by breeding themselves into absolute majority by having free babies using our tax dollars.

[elli1]

When I was back in Memphis, before leaving for Slovakia (Jan 05). I went by a Walmart out in the suburbs late at night. Half of the customers were Mexican. Ten years ago, I never saw a Mexican in Memphis.

Do you ever wonder how the Slovaks feel?

[mnehring]

What I've learned doing a lot of consulting for small businesses is that the real problem isn't Wal Mart, it is their own unwillingness to change and modify how they do business when they face new competition. They all want to keep business as usual like they have since the 1950s. Wal Mart doesn't put them out of business, they put themselves out of business. If it wasn't Wal Mart, it would have been something else..

[SeeRushToldU_So]

They are in business to make money, not to make political statements.

I see you are in the state that will soon become part of Mexico, that could be part of the answer. Your state has done a lousy job of keeping illegals out of Texas.

[macamadamia]

..and as a side note to this, the victory at Cinco de Mayo helped prevent Napoleon III from supplying the Confederate army, and thus, helped us in the Civil War.



You've brought together in one post, WalMart, the Civil War, Immigration...and France. That's like Freeper jujitsu!!

[SamAdams76]

I was in a restaurant the other day and they had Mexican coffee as a dessert item. Apparently coffee with Kahlua mixed in. Just another nail in the coffin of the U.S.A. I'm never eating there again. Fortunately there are many other Mexican restaurants in my area that I can take my business too.

[Uddercha0s]

You mean us Slovaks in America? /sarc

[bonfire]

You are kidding???

[seastay]

studies have shown that immigrants from Latin Ameraica learn English after the first generation. Also data suggests that more than 2/3s who immigrate to the US in the past 10 years from Latin America did it illegally. Therefore putting 2 and 2 together, anyone speaking spanish as a primary language has a higher probability of being a new arrival, and if they are a new arrival there is a high probability they are are illegal.

[kstewskis]

I wonder if all that Mexican regalia was made in China?

[mnehring]

Not immigration (yet) but I'm sure we'll get there.. lol...

[AlexW]

"Speaking Spanish doesn't mean they were Mexican."

You are splitting hairs. In this situation it was very obvious that they were recent immigrants from south of the boarder. I can not say if they were illegal.
This was not just a couple, but 20 or more very tan men and women.
Memphis has never been noted as a settling area for immigrants of any nationality, but there are small groups of Brazilians, and other nationalities that have adapted to American culture, not Mexican.

[Porterville]

Cinco De Mayo is a fun and legitimate celebration of the routing of french troops by Mexican soldiers in the city of Puebla in 1862.

Any time the french are beaten is a reason to celebrate.

Guacamole anyone?

[bonfire]

yum! (had it last night!)

[Gabz]

If it wasn't Wal Mart, it would have been something else..

BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ We have a winner!!!!!!

I could not agree with you more.

I've only lived here 3 years, but have found more small businesses I was unaware of because of referrals from folks who work in the local WalMart, including a couple of department managers. And the reverse is true as well. Owners of local businesses have sent me or my husband to WalMart on more than one occassion to get something we were looking for instead of waiting for them to get an order for it. They know they are not going to lose our business.

It's called good customer relations, on both the part of the small business folks and the WalMart folks.

[mnehring]

I was actually disappointed. I went to a Mexican Restaurant last night and they didn't have anything special going on... No quarter pitchers or fifty-cent longnecks or better yet, nickle tequila shots.. The Mexicans have stopped celebrating it and that means higher priced beer for me... damnit.

[headsonpikes]

Just another nail in the coffin of the U.S.A.

LOL! I'll drink to that - dos cervesas, por favor!

[L98Fiero]

"I have been boycotting Wal-Mart for years now. This will hopefully motivate more Americans to do the same and keep more of the 10 BILLION Dollars worth of Chinese imports on the shelves and warehouses. Grrrrrrr I hate that company!"

Actually, it's about 8 billion. I guess you hate that $150 billion is spent with American suppliers. Perhaps you hate that Wal-Mart helps working families dollar go further. Prehaps you hate that it saves time and gas to only have to visit one "supercenter" instead of burning gas and time going all over town to get different items.

For what it's worth, Wal-Mart seems to be withstanding your "boycott" pretty well.

[Porterville]

So has the Free Republic come to be a place where on group is hated based on current news, and then as that news cycle settles another group is hated and so on?

Do the Spanish and especially Mexican peoples scare that many of the FR? It is ridiculous that people are offended by Wal Mart merchandise. Utterly retarded.

[no dems]

You must live in New Mexico.

[bonfire]

We went to a white bread Country Club restaurant and they had a few Mexican entrees and lots of specials on Mexican drinks and beer! We don't have any outstanding Mexican places in Northern Ohio :(

I miss Texas and the Mexican Restaurants! waaaa!