Americans & Wal-Mart

Salisbury Daily Times ^ | Monday, March 3, 2003 | Jim Hopkins -- USA Today

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Walton is turning in his grave.
His motto was buy America
It now should be renamed
The great wall-mart of china

[Viva Le Dissention]

His motto was to buy the cheapest product available. He had a big USA thing in his stores, but it was because it got him business. Go back and look to see where Wal-Mart bought its products from in the 70s and 80s. Overseas.

[Dont Mention the War]

Wal-Mart won't survive the next RAT administration intact. It will be their scapegoat when they screw up the economy, and the company will end up being declared a monopoly and broken apart.

[HighRoadToChina]

Forgot to mention that all this success is being built on the backs of slave labor and almost slave labor in Communist China.

[Wolfie]

That's capitalism for ya.

[nina0113]

You think Wal-Mart's got a lot of products from China? Check out Target. You can go down whole aisles without finding ANYTHING made in the USA.

[A_perfect_lady]

Forgot to mention that all this success is being built on the backs of slave labor and almost slave labor in Communist China.

That's more reason to fight communism than anything else.

[jaysgal]

After Sept.11, I remember reading that WalMart was picking up the difference in pay when employees that were also in the Nat'l Guard and Reserves were deployed. The head honchos figured the families left behind had enough to worry about without added financial difficulties. I'm not sure if this policy is still in effect, but they got my dollar for being supportive of our military and concerned for the families left behind.

[WSGilcrest]

I remember reading the other day that Walmart employs one out of every 123 americans.

[TexasRepublic]

WHY I DESPISE WALMART (GREATWALL MART)

"Lenin, who spent most of his life in the West and not in Russia, who knew the West much better than Russia, always wrote and said that the Western capitalists would do anything to strengthen the economy of the USSR. He said: They will bring us everything themselves, without thinking about their future. And, in a difficult moment, at a party meeting in Moscow, he said: 'Comrades, don't panic, when things get very though for us, we will give the bourgeoisie a rope, and the bourgeoisie will hang itself.' Then Karl Radek, who was a very resourceful wit,said: 'Vladimir Ilyich, but where are we going to get enough rope to hang the whole bourgeoisie?' Lenin effortlessly replied, ?They will sell it to us themselves.' " -Alexander Solzhenitsyn, speech to the AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C., June 30, 1975

[Blue Collar Christian]

I boycott WalMart because of the lower wages resulting from smaller retailers closing down after new stores enter their area.

The only control of product source and quality is the consumer's choice. I see the American public shopping at WalMart as revealing themselves to be cheap children of unwed parents.

[Xenalyte]

Will NEVER buy anything at Wal-Mart . . . they allow people to return used bathing suits and panties. (My college roommate was fired for refusing to accept said returns.)

[Wolfie]

Ick...

[Protagoras]

Millions of people like WalMart. They vote with their money when they shop there. No one holds a gun to their head to force them to do so.

If you don't want to shop there, don't.

[Protagoras]

I remember reading the other day that Walmart employs one out of every 123 americans.

Only in America can a company be vilified for hiring more people. And the fire is increasingly coming from so-called conservatives.

[Protagoras]

Will NEVER buy anything at Wal-Mart . . . they allow people to return used bathing suits and panties.

Some people pay extra for used panties. :^}

[Protagoras]

I see the American public shopping at WalMart as revealing themselves to be cheap children of unwed parents.

I see anyone who doesn't shop WalMart as a criminally insane nose picker type.

[discostu]

Buy AmericaN or buy America_? There's a difference. I think the company is doing an excellent job of buying America. As for buying American that's somebody everybody has to decide for themselves, I like low prices and high quality, a combination many American companies struggle with (heck, some can't even handle one forget the combination, I'm specifically thinking of Ford right now). Of course I actually avoid WalMart, not because of what they stock but because it's always crowded and it seems half the people in the store have never driven a shopping cart before. Blood preasure also effects my buying decisions.