Eskimo
Big Gulp
cast in the name of god
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Post by Eskimo on Dec 9, 2003 14:49:42 GMT -5
were you really joking? my god, I was about to flame the living poop out of you for downplaying those excellent points.
BTW, for the humorless, I'm also joking
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Post by leprechauneddie on Dec 9, 2003 20:43:39 GMT -5
The Chaun would like to know what's so wrong with Walmart? Isn't that how business gets done? Or is that Nextel?
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Post by bob on Dec 10, 2003 16:17:13 GMT -5
you know what really pisses me off about wal mart? in the commercials they always have the greeters at the door ready to make your shopping experience a magical one. as a frequent wal mart shopper, it has come to my attention that THESE PEOPLE DONT EXIST.
In all seriousness, whoever is in charge of that crap is a huge butthole.
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Post by unojuno on Dec 11, 2003 16:10:39 GMT -5
Oh, but they do exist. They just dont do their job. They just sit there and smoke and give you crazy looks if you talk to them.
To continue with the topic...
Wal-Mart is quite evil. They lie about the sweashops they do buisness with and they diliberately (sp?) cast a blind eye on those buisnesses. Wal-mart likes morally bad buisnesses because work gets done constantly and it's cheap labor. If you only have to pay workers (combined) 8-16 cents for a $30 shirt, that's alot of profit.
A Sweatshop in Am. Samoa brought women from vietnam promising them a "good future in America." These women had to get loans of $6,000 to travel. They thought they were going to america, but really they were sent to Am. Samoa, a territory of America that does not have to follow minimum wage laws and other things of that sort. They brutally beat the women, forced impossible production-rates, and withheld paychecks. They were payed around 8 cents an hour and were not payed for overtime as a "punnishment." They worked around 85+ hours a week. These women could not flee back to their homeland because if they did, that 6,000 dollar loan would be inflated by the vietnamese government (who played a role in this deal). The intrest rate over there is 50%. You do the math. Also, if they fled, their families would be black-listed.
Fortunately, this problem finnally surfaced, and the National Labor Council took action. Today, the owner and many of the figureheads of this company face life in prison. The women still are missing money they are owed. JC Penny purchased from this company and has given a couple hundred thousand dollars towards the cause. This doesnt sound like much, but then Wal-mart has refused to give any money. Not a cent.
This is only one example...not a very good one. There are incidents where Wal-mart has gone out of the way to find sweatshops no one knows of (esp in China). Wal-mart denies doing buisness when the Sweatshops are discovered, and then when cruelty and ties to wal-mart are discovered Wal-mart says "Yes, we lied, but it's bad buisness acknowledge things like that." They actually said that.
All this on purpose to make profit. What happened to the "All-American made, well rounded Family store"?
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Post by SockRocker on Dec 11, 2003 22:05:24 GMT -5
What happened to the "All-American made, well rounded Family store"? society chewed it up....spat it out.....and ran it over.... |
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Post by scott on Dec 11, 2003 22:07:41 GMT -5
With a large SUV.
I will never ever shop at this hell hole again.K-Mart is the mart for me.
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Raptor_18
X-Treme Gulp
All up ons
Socom 3 Referee (PS2)
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Post by Raptor_18 on Dec 11, 2003 22:14:03 GMT -5
rollin rollin rolling.....
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Post by SockRocker on Dec 11, 2003 22:15:55 GMT -5
i must agree with k-mart......yeah blue light always savings!!!
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DarkNightmare
X-Treme Gulp
Well, I dreamed that the world was comin' down, We sat on my back porch, and watched it...
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Post by DarkNightmare on Dec 12, 2003 12:52:50 GMT -5
I dunno about you guys or the K-marts near you, but mine (on John R.) totally sucks since Big K went bankrupt... I mean, all the best stuff has been shopplifted! Aw crap. weeeell, it IS the closest store, but I'll never forget how I had to wait an hour for one "Julian" to get back to his post in electronics so that I could get my copy of SCII. that pissed me off, haven't been back since.
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Post by SockRocker on Dec 12, 2003 19:08:39 GMT -5
that sucks....now the k-mart where i live is pretty sweet....low prices always....
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Post by bob on Dec 12, 2003 20:45:11 GMT -5
i like target. meijer suxors wal mart too
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DarkNightmare
X-Treme Gulp
Well, I dreamed that the world was comin' down, We sat on my back porch, and watched it...
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Post by DarkNightmare on Dec 12, 2003 22:04:34 GMT -5
yeah, thanx for the sympathy... the nearest GOOD store is a Target... But their prices are jacked up... Dammit!
...I guess every store has its downside...
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Post by Lordofthealmightypenguin on Dec 12, 2003 23:19:27 GMT -5
From what i hear your all on alittle bit of everything for even posting about not going to walmart even if walmart suck.
.......but then again i am usually wrong.....or am i
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Post by unojuno on Dec 13, 2003 11:33:05 GMT -5
There is a difference between not going to wal-mart because it is an evil corporation that doesnt worry about the well being of others, and not going to wal-mart because you think it "sucks" and you prefer another store.
Little do you all know that every corporation like Wal-mart does the same, they have just cleaned up their act. Wal-mart hasnt learned that it should make improvements with those they buy from. K-mart has a history too, but they stoped (or at least they say they have and they dont show any reaking evidence).
I think the main focus of this topic is the cruelty to sweatshop workers, the neglegence, and the refusal of benifts. not whether you think the store is better because it's cleaner, more nearby, or just better "just because."
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Post by MrFoodMonster on Dec 14, 2003 15:30:06 GMT -5
Yup, they have always sucked. They dont even have that good of prices, you can find a LOT better. Shop around and find the cheapest pie you can!
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