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What's with the Walmart bashing? I can't think of any store that has the items I need for a reasonable price! Add in the fact that they allow RVer's parking space for the night is a noble gesture for it's shoppers. You got my patronage Walmart, and because you serve your customers well, I acually bought stock in the company. Thanks alot!

Exactly. The horror of working and middle-class families having the opportunity to buy stuff for their families at low prices!

The whiners should go the Third World. Or better yet, take a Third Worlder to a Wal-Mart, and ask them whether they'd like to have something like that in their country. Wal-Mart is a quintessentially American store. It doesn't have all the lovely old world charm of a mom and pop, but then that's not what most Americans are looking for anyway.

If you hold a bake sale or craft sale at Walmart's for an organization, they will double your sale amount up to a certain figure. Don't hear of any other stores doing that. I love Walmart's. I buy almost everything there. Can't beat their grocery prices either. Ames went out of business here so now it's Walmart for almost everything I need. It's been a zoo lately in some of them. Hard to even get a cart because it's so crowded.

People bash Wal-Mart for the same reason they bash Microsoft, AOL and the New York Yankees. They bash them because they are number one in what they do. It's also why the rest of the world hates the USA. We're the number one economic and military powerhouse in the world and most other nations can't deal with that. So they are always trying to "bring us down to size."

BTW, I hate AOL but only because they consist of a bunch of anti-American commie sympathizers (i.e. Ted Turner, CNN), not because they are the number one Internet provider.

Also, notice that since FoxNews topped CNN as the number one news network, they are coming under increased scrutiny. Even people here are starting to trash them. It's natural to be hated when you are the top dog.

How's this for irony for you? Had Apple played their cards right and become the dominant OS and it was Microsoft that was the perpetual underdog, we would have endless Apple-bashing threads here and calls for the government to break it up and give smaller companies like Microsoft a chance.