I know for a fact Barbara Streinard shop Costco
Britney Spears shop at Walmart too
WMT
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Love it.
Or Target. Or K-Mart and Best Buy, while they last.
No, it's all about “Look At ME!!”.
I remember when the faux fashionistas in my family would never shop at Filene’s Basement, until us poor folk started wearing the same brands.
I wonder if this guy got some money to write this free advertisement for Walmart?
Kevin Williamson is a damn good writer.
Arguments against WN's "obscene profits" are not based on their margin, but on the total $, which is indeed a large number.
Meanwhile, the admirable Apple has a margin above 20%.
I see Bryn Mawr and I think Ira Einhorn University.
I am not opposed to shopping at Wal-Mart as not only do they offer low prices, ability to buy bulk (if someone can fill a car up once a month- it costs less in gas than stopping by somewhere once a week), they also hire A LOT of people, many of whom have very little job skills. They have training videos and incentive programs(I’ve seen documented a few times). Some people need to demonstrate that they can show up at every shift on time and be willing to work. Twice I have read from writers who went to work for Wal-Mart and found that it wasn’t Wal-Mart that kept the workers down, but the workers own personal choices and attitudes.
Walmart hires greeters at its stores to give its customers a warm welcome. Yet today Walmart customers are being greeted by angry protestors and union thugs, ruining their shopping experiences.
When will the executives at Walmart realize that they’re not living in the 1960s anymore? The future belongs to retailers who can improve their internet shopping operations and/or move their headquarters and expand their stores outside of high-taxing, heavily unionized countries like the U.S.
As Walmart’s founder Sam Walton once said, “If some community, for whatever reason, doesn’t want us in there, we aren’t interested in going in and creating a fuss.” Yet what else does Walmart do but create a major not-in-my-backyard fuss by liberal protestors every time it tries to build a store in an American community?
I wish the media could somehow be forced to cover the actual issues, and discuss the actual facts. But in every case, they only repeat the propaganda of the left. A piece like this will never see the light of day in the media. None of the ideas discussed in this piece will ever be debated in the media. The media is a Goebbels Propaganda Machine for the Left.
P.J. ORourke has the arrogant, irresponsible leftists figured out:
“The principle feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness.
By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape — liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they
promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things. It’s a kind of natural aristocracy, and
the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don’t have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal.”
The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability.
Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology, women’s studies - to prove that nothing is anybody’s fault. No one is fond
of taking responsibility for his actions, but consider how much you’d have to hate free will to come up with a political platform that advocates
killing unborn babies but not convicted murderers. A callous pragmatist might favor abortion and capital punishment. A devout Christian would
sanction neither. But it takes years of therapy to arrive at the liberal view.
The trouble being “protesters” coupled with the media hammering the “injustice” message twenty four hours a day seven days a week total control of American public opinion is being brought under total control. To put it another way “protest” plus media works! works!
Ever wonder the source of the ‘walmart shoppers’ photos?
Notice that the viewpoint is about waist high?
Are the photos taken by midgets or little people?
Or was the camera concealed in a handbag?
Why only Walmart? Michigan Ave. downtown Chicago has just as many freaks?
I don’t shop there often but I do get my fire starters there. I’ll be picking up my wife a Shark steamer there for Christmas and get a few more boxes of starters while I’m there. God for Meguiar’s car care products too.
It’s a cover story.
I don’t for one minute believe Wal-Mart doesn’t love all the food stamps - where do you think they get spent, hmmmm?