Don't Shop at Wal-Mart

“Haha. Chuck D, that sounds suspiciously like a line from an email i just got...”

“�I shop at the Dollar Store, that way I don't have to get dressed up like I do when shopping at walmart.�
ChuckD
12:52:52 PM
5/19/09

Coldwater has a Fred's Dollar Store.

I call it the Coldwater Walmart.”

““I shop at the Dollar Store, that way I don't have to get dressed up like I do when shopping at walmart.”
ChuckD


But not Family Dollar, they are much too highfalutin with their fancy, overpriced, imported from Georgia (the state) specialty items.”

“Who here is going to be the first to volunteer to "take less for their labor"?

It should be someone who wants workers to take less for their labor.
Hello, HyWay!!

"I have no problem with someone working for as much as they can get."
HyWay

If they are union workers then forget it.
It is no matter that wages and benefits are negotiated and agreed to by both labor and management and contracts entered into.

It is peculiar when those who are flush with cash decide that those who are less well-off are making too much money.”

“yeah LUSHO the Government does a much better job of deciding the Free Market (LOL)

hey how is that "setting private compensation" thing going???”

“their return policy on electronics is better than best buy but not as good as amazon.com... amazon is amazing. they make it right!”

“Hey Candy Dan The Cocaine Man, your level of incoherency is rather high today.

Are you back on the stuff?”

“see this is all of sass fault.

try to return something and all hell breaks out here!!”

“I'm glad t*lt and drunkO have NO China Made products in their sugar mama's
homes.”

“People like Hyway don't give a #&%!$ about Americans losing their jobs.�
Tllt
10:47:33 AM

LOL, walmart it the biggest civilian employer in america”

“Personally I don't give two shyts where any of ya shop or why or why not. It's called minding my own damn business and letting you make your own choices.

Please reciprocate and don't give two shyts about me either. :)”

“Sounds like Nigal could use a little more fiber in his diet.”

“Oh I'm full of it my friend. Up to HERE!”

“
A factory in Ohio has to move to China to meet the pricepoint Walmart demands (to reach their quarterly profitability targets).... � if the manufacturer wants to continue to do business with Walmart, that is. � The town loses 250 jobs at 45.00 an hour. � Walmart opens a store there and hires 80 people making 10.00 an hour.

Now repeat that hundreds of times.


Precisely because Walmart is so large, they have the manufacturers over a barrel. �

”

“A factory in Ohio has to move to China to meet the pricepoint Walmart demands (to reach their quarterly profitability targets).... if the manufacturer wants to continue to do business with Walmart, that is. The town loses 250 jobs at 45.00 an hour. Walmart opens a store there and hires 80 people making 10.00 an hour.

Source?
last edited: 5/19/09 5:21:05 PM”

“Note: Pulling it out of your a$$, isn't a 'source'.”

““
A factory in Ohio has to move to China to meet the pricepoint Walmart demands (to reach their quarterly profitability targets).... � if the manufacturer wants to continue to do business with Walmart, that is. � The town loses 250 jobs at 45.00 an hour. � Walmart opens a store there and hires 80 people making 10.00 an hour.

Now repeat that hundreds of times.


Precisely because Walmart is so large, they have the manufacturers over a barrel. �

”
Tllt
5:30:27 PM
5/19/09

Holy #&%!$, tilt thinks everyone in America should get paid $45 an hour. Maybe if someone who just tightens a nut on a widget on a factory line made less a more reasonable salary we wouldn't have to buy stuff from china.”

“
“Who here is going to be the first to volunteer to "take less for their labor"?

It should be someone who wants workers to take less for their labor.
Hello, HyWay!!

"I have no problem with someone working for as much as they can get."
HyWay

If they are union workers then forget it.
It is no matter that wages and benefits are negotiated and agreed to by both labor and management and contracts entered into.

It is peculiar when those who are flush with cash decide that those who are less well-off are making too much money.”
MarkO
1:17:37 PM
5/19/09

you are all wet dude. get what you can get sure, but when your job goes to china then you get what you deserve. It all even out in the wash.”

“Used to be people would be all snotty and better than everyone else based on where they did shop. Now they are snotty and better that everyone else because of where they DON'T shop.”

“Frankly I'd be pissed at the sister-in-law for buying my kid a wal-mart dress.”

“because the fact that she cared enough to give a gift just isn't enough for you”

“sheesh...I'm away for awhile and ya'll end up fighting...”

“i would be more surprised to come back and find a sing-a-long happening.”

“tis true...”

“Wouldn't it be ironic if hyway's job disappeared offshore. �”

“I'd like to know where I could find one of those $45 an hour jobs. That's well over twice what I make in a field that requires a 5 year degree minimum.”

“Tilty is happy since being Mommas Boy really can't be outsourced.

Tilty we are still waiting for that reference point...or was that kinda made up like all your other stuff?”

““Wouldn't it be ironic if hyway's job disappeared offshore. �”
Tllt
3:24:57 AM
5/20/09

I wouldn't like it, but then again, I don't like my job either. It would give me a reason to find another one. I spent over 10 years working part time while I raised my kids (as did my wife) and we got by on less than what we make now. If one of us lost our job then we'd get by again. We spend everything we make, but we aren't financed up to our eyeballs. It would just mean I'd cook more (shop at walmart for groceries more) cancel my cable TV (but not my internet, damn, things aren't that bad yet) etc.

Its true that I have little pity for people whose finance payments equal more than 50% of their income. They are living on the edge of their means and any hiccup in their income will cause them to default. You reap what you sow.”

“You know, I can understand a personal preference to shop, or not shop, at a certain store.

What I can't understand is who the f**k has the time to go on a crusade for or against a friggin retailer.

Either shop there, or don't. Then STFU.”

“if the manufacturer wants to continue to do business with Walmart, that is. The town loses 250 jobs at 45.00 an hour.

holy crap, there's the problem...$45/hour for a manufacturing job??!!...but then, as stovie suggested, i think those are ass statistics”

““You know, I can understand a personal preference to crusade, or not to crusade, against a certain store.

What I can't understand is who the f**k has the time to complain about how other people spend their time.

Either join in or don't. Otherwise STFU.””

“People who don't care what the long-term effects are to the country can STFU about everything else they rant about.”

“so why are you still ranting then?”

“at $45 an hour why would anyone bother going to college? go directly to factory work! i bet those people shop at nordstom!”

“"LOL, walmart it the biggest civilian employer in america"

Keep laughin', wise guy.

>8^b

We are all subsidizing those low wages with food assistance, housing assistance and health insurance assistance.

Perhaps we are picking up the tab for public school breakfast and lunch programs.”

“�“You know, I can understand a personal preference to crusade, or not to crusade, against a certain store.

What I can't understand is who the f**k has the time to complain about how other people spend their time.

Either join in or don't. Otherwise STFU.”�
hyway
8:29:51 AM
5/20/09

STFU about S'ing TFU.

LOL”

“Oh STFU!

:P”

“no you STFU

:)~”

“I'm rubber, you're glue
whatever you STFU
bounces off me
and sticks on you”

“now this is a good fight.


put up your duck puckhead!”

“T*ltypoo never did put up a source did he? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

He lies as much as drunkO.”

“$45/hr is almost a 6-figure job and that is cash comp... after benefits it's prolly 30% more! i don't know why i bothered to get my college degree if i could pull down that kind of dough working a mfg job.”

“lol@dizzy... i didn't read your post before i posted that, honest.”

“forgiven sweetie”

“Yet another reason not to support these hosers. A buncha censors...

Green Day lashes out at Wal-Mart policy

By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY, AP Music Writer Nekesa Mumbi Moody, Ap Music Writer � Thu May 21, 7:34 am ET

NEW YORK � Green Day has the most popular CD in the country, but you won't be able to find it at your local Wal-Mart.

The band says the giant superstore chain refused to stock its latest CD, "21st Century Breakdown," because Wal-Mart wanted the album edited for language and content, and they refused.

"Wal-Mart's become the biggest retail outlet in the country, but they won't carry our record because they wanted us to censor it," frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said in a recent interview.

While Wal-Mart sells CDs from acts known for raunchy content, including Eminem's latest, they offer customers the "clean" version of those CDs, which are edited for content that may be objectionable. But in Armstrong's view, "There's nothing dirty about our record."

"They want artists to censor their records in order to be carried in there," he said. "We just said no. We've never done it before. You feel like you're in 1953 or something."

"21st Century Breakdown" contains curses and some references considered adult.

Wal-Mart said that it's the company's long-standing policy not to stock any CD with a parental advisory sticker.

"As with all music, it is up to the artist or label to decide if they want to market different variations of an album to sell, including a version that would remove a PA rating," Wal-Mart spokeswoman Melissa O'Brien said. "The label and artist in this case have decided not to do so, so we unfortunately can not offer the CD."

But guitarist Mike Dirnt said: "As the biggest record store in the America, they should probably have an obligation to sell people the correct art."

Not being sold at Wal-Mart didn't stop the band � which kicks off a U.S. tour summer tour in Seattle on July 3 � from landing at the top of the album charts this week. "21st Century Breakdown" sold about 215,000 copies since it's debut on Friday.

The album is the follow-up to their multiplatinum, Grammy-winning CD "American Idiot," and like that album, deals with weighty topics. While "American Idiot" spoke to the frustration over the presidency of George W. Bush and the Iraq War, this CD speaks to the loss of innocence and confusion in today's society.

While Armstrong, Dirnt and drummer Tre Cool are still top-sellers without Wal-Mart, Armstrong said the store's policy is disappointing, considering it has become the dominant seller of CDs with the decline of traditional music stores.

"If you think about bands that are struggling or smaller than Green Day ... to think that to get record your out in places like that, but they won't carry it because of the content and you have to censor yourself," he said. "I mean, what does that say to a young kid whose trying to speak his mind making a record for the first time? It's like a game that you have to play. You have to refuse to play it."”

“somehow, if they were young today, I don't see Janis Joplin or Jimmy Hendrix whining about walmart not selling their albums. I think they would just give them a big fat finger and then go about their lives of making music not making money.

This isn't about the music, its about making money from their music. Anyone who wants to buy a green day album can do so without shopping at walmart. the little whiny #&%!$es. They want to tell walmart how it should run its constitutionally allowed business, but yet they don't want to be told they can't express themselves the way the constitution allows.”

“While Wal-Mart sells CDs from acts known for raunchy content, including Eminem's latest, they offer customers the "clean" version of those CDs, which are edited for content that may be objectionable.

where's the censorship in offering choices?...wow, a store that offers what it's customers want...what a concept”

“so did anyone get a good discount at walmart today?”

“i was there yesterday and bought sunglass clips for $10. i remember that the first pair i ever got was $70 from my optomotrist, LOL!”

“my mom works for a grocery store chain...she's ticked cause her company specifically put a rule in their vision insurance that prohibits payments to walmart (cause they're considered a competitor) for glasses...she pays about 75% more because of this...she also can't get prescriptions filled in their pharmacy”