Don't Shop at Wal-Mart

“You all want clean air and purty forests but don't buy from the factories that regulate air quality eh? Whatever's cheapest is best for you eh? And YOU are all that matters. =)
Happy shopping!”

“....but carving your name on a trail shelter is OK? =)”

“Treebread is gonna be pi$$ed.”

“Yep gonna go do my household buying at Wal Mart this weekend...around $200 in food and what not!!!”

“That box must be bigger than it looks.”

“Are you calling markO for lying, t*lty?”

“That is a Hippo Crate..................duh!

Why don't you just send $200 to the Chinese Communist Party, XL?”

“I degree with what ever buddy sayed motesly!

Shop at PetStor!!! (and Home Peepo and RIE wher ever buddy dose not yell "GET THEM DOGS OUT OF HEER!")”

“Why don't you just send $200 to the Chinese Communist Party, XL?�
MarkO
12:50:25 PM
7/10/09

I think all the stuff Slick and PrezBO have sent them is enough.


Go get em sarabelle, LOL...I like the pet stores where pups are allowed.”

“I don't think tilt is the sole perp in the "how to be an a$$ scene".

In part, I find it pretty humorous that tilt and stovie are upright guys in reality. There is something about the net that brings out their dark side.”

“Liberals always have an excuse for each other's a$$holeness.”

“Your excuse would be....no one is nice to me?”

“Why would it matter to him if anyone was nice to you?”

“�Liberals always have an excuse for each other's a$$holeness.�
Stovie
2:16:00 PM
7/10/09

I never offered an excuse, I merely pointed out the obvious.”

“Was your name on the post?
I merely point out the obvious.”

“WOW just rereading the thread...did you know that all the money you give to Walmart goes to China?

So no overhead for property taxes, no overhead for paying for transportation of their goods to the stores, no overhead for payroll, no overhead for insurance...WOW no wonder WalMart can do it so cheaply....(LOL)

And the food I buy...so all that is brought in from China????WOW...thats incredible.”

“Good point, stovie, I was being presumptions.

No, dammit, XL, the shrimp comes from Thailand. It seems they have figgered out how to raise them in ponds. If that every catches on in the Mississippi Delta, there will be shrimp boats on every flat piece of water in the state.”

“ummm....I have worked for 2 different companies in 2 different states and in 2 different industries that both sold products to Walmart...I don't think we get the pork from China, then ship it to walmart...but I do know alot of the sports accessories that we sold to Walmart were manufactured in China etc...but walmart had nothing to do with that..”

“I think my Walmart bananas came from China.....so did the lettuce....and the chicken.

I wonder if the Chinese have a problem with illegals from Mexico crossing their border to pick the produce?


Thank God we still have places like Best Buy where we can buy American. We're number one!”

“I have to admit, I have never looked on my lettuce wrapper to see if it came from China. And I damn sure don't look at the little sticker on the banana.”

“And BTW, I didn't mean for it to sound like I was hassling you earlier, chili, you just pretty much confirmed everyone's suspicions about the tr*ll.

Still, the best measure of a person's true character is how they act when no one is looking or no one else is around.”

“well gosh, if they had a decent store here where I didn't have to drive all over creation spewing co2 from my car and a place that didn't cost an arm and a leg....I would go buy stuff there! But....I have walmart.”

“American made? Doesn't "making" something require a factory? And - OMG!- factory workers?
Americans have been brainwashed into thinking they're above manual labor. It starts early. In the schools, If you're not on a college track, you're, like, a total loser! Your career objective is at least a cubicle, if not a corner office. Obviously, Mexicans are winning by being the "losers".

I say we outsource what we can, ie, auto industry, printing, telemarketing, etc, and do ourselves those things we can't outsource, ie, construction, mining, drilling, agriculture, timber, fishing, etc.

I'll take these calloused hands any day over those soft girly hands of yours.
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““In part, I find it pretty humorous that tilt and stovie are upright guys in reality. There is something about the net that brings out their dark side.”
chili36
5:11:50 PM
7/10/09

I never had a problem with tilt until he created Thirdterm for halloween. No one knew who thirdterm was (or no one was saying anyway). And under that mask he became one hell of a hater. I put thirdterm on ignore (still is) but learned afterward that it was tilt. I think for a while he saved his truly doucheness for third term but it wasn't too long before you couldn't tell the difference between the thirdterm troll and tilt. I say troll because most everybody else let people know who they were under teh Halloween mask, but not thirdterm/tilt. Not in the beginning anyway.

Oh, about the produce coming from china. My ex-wife worked at a restaurant in Calabash, NC (a town very popular for seafood buffets) back in the 80's. Even though they were shrimpboats operating from docks right next to the restaurants all the shrimp came from Bolivia (the country, not the small town 20 miles away). It was teh same for the restaurants I cooked in in the 70/s and 80's.”

“Little t*lty still uses trolls for his photoshop work.
Check out 'Gomez'.”

““You all want clean air and purty forests but don't buy from the factories that regulate air quality eh? Whatever's cheapest is best for you eh? And YOU are all that matters. =)
Happy shopping!”

People who live pay check to pay check aren't too concerned with the theory of global warming. And the destitute care even less. and why should they? They're just trying to get by.

This concept that not shopping at Walmart is saving the world is silly at best. They are simply buying their Chinese made products somewhere else.”

“I bought lettuce yesterday in Coldwater, MS. The first friggin thing I did was check the label.

Yep, produced in the good ole USA. Fromm here on out, I am spending my bucks at Piggly Wiggly........



..............NOT. It was about 30 cents more than Walmart. They tomatoes were more too, and the selection was terrible. WalMart destroys the small grocery stores for a reason. They have better stuff, for less money.”

“I didn�t bring this up again (Dave) but I�ll be more than happy to clarify ----


Sure, there are lots of people who simply don�t have a choice anymore. Local stores are undercut and run out of business, but then MalWart is free to raise prices again (until Target moves in).

But the goods are still from overseas. Target doesn�t have the leverage to force manufacturers to bid against each other to reach that price-point, though. MalWart absolutely does. And if the companies have to move production offshore to accomplish it, that simply isn�t MalWart�s concern.

So like most people I don�t have a choice anymore. Many times an American made product no longer exists ---- but I�m not going to reward MalWart. Their stockholders can go fvck themselves.

Be sure to compare those prices, though. That �aways the lowest price� thing is just an advertising line. And beware the bait-and-switch. That�s what the former manager said when he was inverviewed. They use all the standard tricks.

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

(you can watch the whole program online)


It�s been almost five years, now. I�d love to see a followup to this: who has gained and lost market share, balance of trade of trade numbers, US manufacturing jobs lost over the intervening years, etc.


I wonder how the rabid chihuahuas will attempt to twist this so that I�m a traitor for suggesting that we try to Buy American or at least try not to reward the bad actors who sell us all out on a regular basis.”

“T*lt IS a traitor.
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“Time to go back to starving the trolls again.

I'll probably backslide eventually, though.... turn around and kick them in the teeth the usual 5 or 10% of the time. Then their little friends can raise Hell if they like. Anyone who sees parity in that ratio is just as fvcked up as Kevin.”

“Declare defeat and then run and hide.
Silly t*lt.”

“I was food shopping the other day and I noticed the Mexican food selection has grown by several yards. Mexicans LOVE Wal-Mart.”

“I am not sure what world tilt lives in to see himself the way he does. To listen to him you'd think he was Mother Theresa.”

““I was food shopping the other day and I noticed the Mexican food selection has grown by several yards. Mexicans LOVE Wal-Mart.”

The few jobs that do pop up are bid down by illigrant unemployment that has to be very high. Many are now being paid less to demolish the houses they built three years ago.”

“T*lt has never lacked a very high opinion of himself on TT. LOL”

“you guys need to get a room.”

“LOL!!!!

About 3 & 1/2 hours.

Poor little t*lypoo is commenting on my posts again, on a different thread.
He's as truthfull about 'ignoring' me as dork.



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“Nigal, I wasn't addressing people living hand to mouth; I was addressing TTers.”

“and it used to be such a loving thread...”

“Buy local!”

“I try to buy from my local Wal-Mart.”

“I buy from my local farmer.”

“Weed doesn't count, rosey.”

“read and learn stoviet


1. ass-hat

One whose head is so far up their rear end it could pass for a hat; used to describe a person who is stubborn, cruel, or otherwise unpleasant to be around.”

“Be sure to compare those prices, though. That �aways the lowest price� thing is just an advertising line. And beware the bait-and-switch. That�s what the former manager said when he was inverviewed. They use all the standard tricks.

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

(you can watch the whole program online)


It�s been almost five years, now. I�d love to see a followup to this: who has gained and lost market share, balance of trade of trade numbers, US manufacturing jobs lost over the intervening years, etc.


I wonder how the rabid chihuahuas will attempt to twist this so that I�m a traitor for suggesting that we try to Buy American or at least try not to reward the bad actors who sell us all out on a regular basis.�
Tllt
9:42:00 AM
7/11/09


You're correct, they absolutely do not always have the best prices. We buy groceries and household goods (misc stuff) there. I buy consumable commodities there. If I need a tool, I'm stuck at Home Depot but until the local hardware man closed his doors, I bought from him. If I buy an appliance or something like that I lean towards Sears....but only after reviewing Consumer Reports. I look generally look at quality first, price second, them compare the two for the balance that I feel that I want. I prefer American, but if the quality of that American product is in the toilet, then that's not my fault.

Also, I don't think people are jumping on you solely for advocating buying American. As previously stated in this thread you're advocating buying American and "People who support elective war, polluters and finance industry criminals get no quarter. Period. I don't know if they're brainwashed, brain-damaged, evil or what."

Does that mean if I shop at wal-mart that I am a "People who support elective war, polluters and finance industry criminals get no quarter. Period. I don't know if they're brainwashed, brain-damaged, evil or what?" And if so, does that now make me worthy of all of your spit and vinegar?”

“Why hasn't Tilt waged war on the Italian Nutella?”

“I shop sales....lots of time I can get better deals at k-mart then at walmart....they are accros the street from one another.”

“Walmart needs to fly it's flags upside down.”

“Kmart and Winn Dixie are closer to my house than Wal-Mart. I won't go out of my way to go to Wal-Mart. I do pay extra to not go as far sometimes. I do love the little mom and pop produce stand on my way home. I may have get my wife to let me hop in there for our produce instead of her buying it at wallyworld. I understand not wanting one more stop with 3 kids in tow.”