Attention Wallmart Shoppers:

“Um, no. When I was in retail years ago, we were specifically told to keep our hands off of shop-lifters. That exposes the company (and the employee) to way more liability than the value of the items stolen. That's just the $ side of it. From a legal standpoint, only the police have the right to detain.”

“I have heard of plenty lawyers chasing ambulances, but this is the first time I have heard of one following along begind a fleeing felon.”

“tech - I'm not talking about what you're "told" to do. I'm talking about what you would be cheering on television - Catching the bad guy and waiting for the cops as he's face down on the ground wouldn't be a bad thing and you'd be cheering it on if you saw it. People love that stuff, they want more of it. People standing together to stop ne'er-do-wells like this guy! It's good stuff.”

“May be the first thing Sarge has posted that I absolutely agree with.”

“�May be the first thing Sarge has posted that I absolutely agree with.� - chili36

Oh man! Now I wish I weren't trolling.”

“My favorite part was...

"When we got there, the man was facedown (in cardiac arrest) with handcuffs behind his back," Worrell said. "That's not indicative of someone given CPR."”

“diapers and a bb gun? i gotta think about this for a few days...”

“A baby shower gift?”

“pitts ya gotta teach em gun safety from a young age doncha know :)”

“don't believe anything the paper is writing. it was hot...i betcha it was a watergun.”

“I'm not sure I'd like to see manslaughter charges against them, but some substatial re-training is in order. Things like CPR & positional asphyxiation. Probably a settlement in lieu of the lawsuit walmart & probably the employee's themselves will bear.”

“Hey you ever notice that the carts in the super walmarts are longer? Usually you fill a cart and its like...whoa, I better stop im spending too much....I think they figured that if they made the carts a bit bigger, we wouldnt notice. Yeah, well next time I am going to bring a tape measure with me cause Im sure I'm right!”

“Spirit....if I go to one of the BIG BOX stores like SAMS....I try NOT to get a cart...too darn easy to fill up.”

“SC - just borrow a tape over in hardware instead of taking your own.”

“The carts used to have hooks on the side so you could hang the bags over the side, but the new carts don't have those. I miss looking like i'm homeless with all I own in my cart”

“Hyway, take a couple of coat hangers....bend them just so....”

“Ultralighters don't need hooks on the sides of their cart.”

“Wal-Mart is nation's most charitable corporate giver. Critics not swayed because admitting that Wal-Mart does anything positive would make their heads explode.


***********************************


Wal-Mart keeps spot as top corporate charity
Seeking to blunt criticism, firm says it gave more than $272 million in 2006

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. increased its U.S. charitable giving 10 percent last year to $272.9 million, the world’s largest retailer said Tuesday, likely defending its position as the country’s largest corporate donor of cash........
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17803920/”

“$272M from a $194B company that made a profit of $11.2B in 2006...”

“$272M sounds like a lot to me.”

“me too. What are the oil companies doing?”

“What are the oil companies doing?

Phucking us on holiday weekends...”

“If you'd like to continue with the explosion metaphor, it's like a company that makes landmines giving away prosthetic legs.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/”

“admitting that Wal-Mart does anything positive would make their heads explode


...and here comes ol' tiltypoo
[VBG]”

“I guess it would be kinda like you earning $194 grand a year, having $11,200 left after all your expenses and giving $274 to charity I guess - or did I do my sums wrong?”

“272M is 2.42% of 11.2B

272M is 0.14% of 194B

272M is 0.133% of 205.2B”

“It's 2% of their profits against a gross revenue of $316B. They made a 3.6% profit as a percentage of revenue in 2006.

Analogy time...

If someone makes a gross income of $50K and somehow makes ends meet by the years end with 3.6% left in savings that would be $1,800. If I donated 2% of this that would be $36.”

“What part of this did you guys not understand......
nation's most charitable corporate giver”

“I shop at Wal-mart and I admit it. But I do have a problem with the way figures get bandied about. Part of my concern is that while they may give very generously compared to other corporations, they also require a great deal from their environment. I rather wonder if the generosity is less guided by charity and more inclined for variances and zoning changes for a price. Am I suggesting bribery? Not at all. But when local budgets are tight money talks.”

“Walmart is good for communities.
Walmart is good for charities.
Walmart is good for organic farmers.
Walmart is good for barely educated and unskilled workers.
Walmart is good for frugal shoppers who know what they want.
Walmart is good for the financially challenged.”

“Add the corporate giving to the taxes and whatever the local governments extract for Walmart to do business in their areas and it's lots of money that benefits alot of people.”

“I have a friend who used to have to shoo the Walmart book manager out of her store which was nearby. He would note the titles she carried. They would appear discounted at Walmart. She finally closed her shop unable to compete. Once she closed those books never showed up again. How is this good for communities? I don't get it?”

“What a joke, Walmart has the worst book selection. All they have are the NYT best sellers and a few christian and self help books. The manager was probably in her store browsing just like any other customer. He didn't need to see her titles to know what to stock. If her store went out of business it was for a different reason than walmart.

I have yet to see a town dry up and go away because Walmart came. Its actually the opposite, I see where ever a walmart shows up a little town is built around it.”

“OMG, I agree with hyway. They have nothing but crap books. Romance crap, some coloring books, a couple of religious books and a whole lot of magazines.”

“LOL
Wal-Mart is no threat to a real bookstore.”

““Walmart is good for communities.
Walmart is good for charities.
Walmart is good for organic farmers.
Walmart is good for barely educated and unskilled workers.
Walmart is good for frugal shoppers who know what they want.
Walmart is good for the financially challenged.”
hyway
7:23:17 PM
3/27/07

I'm sure they are good for people, businesses and communities all across China. ;o)

It amazes me that in relative terms, the corporate behemoth slews a few scraps out of the trough, spending it to buy influence in many communities and the naive lap it up like good little corporate citizens.”

“walmart doesnt cater to the literate.”

“are you dissing on the uneducated?”

“no, im dissing the pathetic selection of books at walmart LOL”

“lol true dat. pathetic.”

“Walmart's fresh fruits and veggies aren't as good as say Kroger's. I don't care for their meats either. But I still love the place! :)”

“I don't buy fruits or meat (except packaged stuff like bacon, frozen chicken breasts, etc) at walmart, but most other stuff I do. Sometimes the pringles are more like crumbles, but not enough to stop me from buying them there.”

“Just send a check to the guys in Beijing and cut out the middleman.”

“what about the contractors that build the walmarts? the folks who work at walmart? The truck drivers that deliver to Walmart?

I bet they would prefer that I not cut out the middleman”

“Democrats Vs. Wal-Mart

By George F. Will
Thursday, September 14, 2006;


EVERGREEN PARK, Ill. -- This suburb, contiguous with Chicago's western edge, is 88 percent white. A large majority of the customers of the Wal-Mart that sits here, less than a block outside Chicago, are from the city, and more than 90 percent of the store's customers are African American.
One of whom, a woman pushing a shopping cart with a stoical 3-year-old along for the ride, has a chip on her shoulder about the size of this 141,000-square-foot Wal-Mart. She applied for a job when the store opened in January and was turned down because, she said, the person doing the hiring "had an attitude." So why is the woman shopping here anyway? She looks at the questioner as though he is dimwitted and directs his attention to the low prices of the DVDs on the rack next to her.
Sensibly, she compartmentalizes her moods and her money. Besides, she should not brood. She had lots of company in not being hired: More than 25,000 people applied for the 325 openings.
Which vexes liberals such as John Kerry. (He and his helpmeet last shopped at Wal-Mart when?) In 2004 he tested what has become one of the Democrats' 2006 themes: Wal-Mart is, he said, "disgraceful" and symbolic of "what's wrong with America." By now Democrats have succeeded, to their embarrassment (if they are susceptible to that), in making the basic numbers familiar:
The median household income of Wal-Mart shoppers is under $40,000. Wal-Mart, the most prodigious job-creator in the history of the private sector in this galaxy, has almost as many employees (1.3 million) as the U.S. military has uniformed personnel. A McKinsey company study concluded that Wal-Mart accounted for 13 percent of the nation's productivity gains in the second half of the 1990s, which probably made Wal-Mart about as important as the Federal Reserve in holding down inflation. By lowering consumer prices, Wal-Mart costs about 50 retail jobs among competitors for every 100 jobs Wal-Mart creates . Wal-Mart and its effects save shoppers more than $200 billion a year, dwarfing such government programs as food stamps ($28.6 billion) and the earned-income tax credit ($34.6 billion).
People who buy their groceries from Wal-Mart -- it has one-fifth of the nation's grocery business -- save at least 17 percent. But because unions are strong in many grocery stores trying to compete with Wal-Mart, unions are yanking on the Democratic Party's leash, demanding laws to force Wal-Mart to pay wages and benefits higher than those that already are high enough to attract 77 times as many applicants than there were jobs at this store.
The big-hearted progressives on Chicago's City Council, evidently unconcerned that the city gets zero sales tax revenue from a half-billion dollars that Chicago residents spend in the 42 suburban Wal-Marts, have passed a bill that, by dictating wages and benefits, would keep Wal-Marts from locating in the city. Richard Daley, a bread-and-butter Democrat, used his first veto in 17 years as mayor to swat it away.
Liberals think their campaign against Wal-Mart is a way of introducing the subject of class into America's political argument, and they are more correct than they understand. Their campaign is liberalism as condescension. It is a philosophic repugnance toward markets, because consumer sovereignty results in the masses making messes. Liberals, aghast, see the choices Americans make with their dollars and their ballots and announce -- yes, announce -- that Americans are sorely in need of more supervision by . . . liberals.
Before they went on their bender of indignation about Wal-Mart (customers per week: 127 million), liberals had drummed McDonald's (customers per week: 175 million) out of civilized society because it is making us fat, or something. So, what next? Which preferences of ordinary Americans will liberals, in their role as national scolds, next disapprove? Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet?
No. The current issue of the American Prospect, an impeccably progressive magazine, carries a full-page advertisement denouncing something responsible for "lies, deception, immorality, corruption, and widespread labor, human rights and environmental abuses" and for having brought "great hardship and despair to people and communities throughout the world."
What is this focus of evil in the modern world? North Korea? The Bush administration? Fox News Channel? No, it is Coca-Cola (number of servings to Americans of the company's products each week: 2.5 billion).
When liberals' presidential nominees consistently fail to carry Kansas, liberals do not rush to read a book titled "What's the Matter With Liberals' Nominees?" No, the book they turned into a bestseller is titled "What's the Matter With Kansas?" Notice a pattern here?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/13/AR2006091301573.html”

“Wow. George Will working for Communist China.

How sick is that?”

“I can live w/out Coke, Wallmart and MCDOnalds. It might even be a better world!”

“YAAAWWWN...yep successful company "NAIL EM TO THE WALL" (LOL)

man if libbies had been around in strenght in the early part of the 20th century we would be having "government funded buggy whip" reports.”

“the times they are a changin'...

these big companies move into communities and, with a big sucking sound, siphon the money out of them and blow it into the pockets of executives and shareholders living in distant places. they are basically economic vampires that put only just enough back into their victims to keep them alive and spending.”

“Some of you know I retired from the fire service and have relocated to Tennessee. And I am seeking employment. On a fluke decision I applied at Wal-Mart. Two offers from them so far with the most pathetic wages in the area. How the people working there make it, I don't know. I was offered a job in a factory yesterday. I may take it for the duration of this year while our home is being built. Heck, I might like building air conditioners!”