The deals there are just unbelievable. I wish people quit talking bad about Walmart. Just came from there.

saintsation said:

it's kind of like a occult if you think about it

DiscoDiva said:

I know what you mean. I tried to stay away from Wal-Mart, but they sucked me in with those prices and all the selections. Even though I think it's kinda weird buying your groceries at a store that also sells clothing and guns, I couldn't help myself. I can buy a 21 oz. box of BRAND NAME cereal for $2.44. At other local stores that very same cereal costs $5.69! Damn you Sam Walton!

They have a $400 laptop the day after Thanksgiving....

ReturnOfDOOK said:

details! now! my laptop's a broken POS...

evenstar3 said:

You don't want to go to Walmart for the deals because people literally FIGHT to get the stuff. It's always entertaining when they show video of it on the news every year.

lovemachine said:

I'm vicious! i'll step on anyone who gets in my way!

evenstar3 said:

Just type "Walmart" and "black friday" in google....you'll see it.

ReturnOfDOOK said:

oh...bah, I have an hp pavilion ze5700. they're selling the ze2308, which i assume is worse off than mine. oh well

like i said, good stuff, 400 dollar laptop, i am there!!!!!1

I actually prefer Target. Usually no looooong lines at check out. Cleaner. Friendlier staff (perhaps I've been living in the "real" part of the city too long) They also have some pretty wicked shoes that can pass as nine west n stuff.

I love Target

KatSkrizzle said:

and none of that silly bullshit corporate evilness of walmart...I mean, I'm sure it is there to a point, but if people would take the time to read about wal mart, you wouldn't love it so much.

I actually DON'T like Wal-Mart and I have moments of self loathing after going to Wal_mart, but it's so addictive...in the same way that that damn "Silver Shamrock" song is addictive...it will take an exorcism to rid me of both Wal-Mart and Silver Shamrock!

jerseykrs said:

I agree with you totally, they are blatantly crooked to their staff.

jerseykrs said:

Rembember the sources though. Liberals have targeted walmart and a lot of stuff they are writing isn't fair. I will say it again. Is cartboy a job that people should be able to make a career out of and collect full benefits for for 35 years at a salary high enough to support a family? Of course not. It's a job for high school kids but thats not what these bleeding heart types want to believe. They are out to save the world.

Also, its not any harder to get a job at Target then Walmart but people still line up for jobs at Walmart. Its another case of liberals trying to protect people who don't need or want protecting.

lovemachine said:

well, LM, some of this is in the numbers. Wal-Mart operates 4,382 stores worldwide, compared to Target's 1,100. Increasingly, Wal-Mart is the only employer, especially for entry-level jobs, in a region. And if they get their way, they will be the only remaining retailer in many markets.

and if getting the word out about Wal-Marts employment and purchasing practices is a "liberal thing", then i think right-wingers are falling down on the job, since they proclaim to care for the little guy.

IrresistibleB1tch said:

yeah, that's the stuff I'm referring to more so than the point LM made on the cartboy. I agree with him on that. But the wicked practices Wal mart uses behind the doors is ugly. Their pricing schemes to the product suppliers is rotten. This is getting too much like a P&R threadj.....let me say something stupid to get it back on track.


I think Dook is gay.

IrresistibleB1tch said:

There are not 4,400 Walmart stores in the US. That number includes sam's Clubs and the liquor store thingies they own and that aside you still didn't address my cartboy argument.


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[Edited 11/5/05 15:15pm]

We don't have them here YET - and I am sure it won't be long. I have sent my husband off to the US with a walmart shopping list, to get the kids Leap Frog books (which cost AUS$30-40 here and will cost AUS$10.60 at walmart!!!)
[Edited 11/5/05 15:27pm]

I had to divorce that bitch Too shady to its employees...

IrresistibleB1tch said:

I'm actually in corporate retail myself and my company (Mervyns) isn't doing anything different based on heating, etc - we've definitely ramped up advertising over the last 6 months, but everybody's been doing that. Maybe some retailers are banking on a soft 4th quarter, but we're pretty confident we're going to do some amazing sales.

I love shopping at Wal-Mart too!
I also encourage child labor…
Uncompetitive practices…
…and the socialist economy built on the back of unfettered capitalism.


Hey F* 'em.
If they don't like living in India...they should move.
If they don't like being a cashier, they should get a CEO posistion somewhere.

Bitch Bitch Bitch
I want my cheap Shit now man, I don't wanna wait.
I sure as hell don't want to pay more for it.

i hate the place sometimes.... but i will be working tonight making $19.14 an hour

DuckPurple said:

lovemachine said:

i said there were 4,400 Walmart stores WORLDWIDE. and whether or not this number includes Sam's Marts doesn't matter much - i seriously doubt their employment and purchasing policies vary greatly from their parent company.

in reference to your "cartboy" comment (please accept my humblest apologies for not responding to all of your points to the level to which you seem to feel entitled), you actually have a point, in the sense that "cartboy" is not a long-term career. but do you feel similarly about customer service reps, or warehouse workers? should ANYBODY at Walmart make a living wage?

and, as a person who grew up very much working class, i believe that your dismissive way of talking about the people who serve you as a Walmart shopper does not reflect well on you.

ReturnOfDOOK said:

interesting!

here is the report i was talking about - you might find it interesting:

http://www.npr.org/templa...Id=4984721

IrresistibleB1tch said:

Saying that cartboy shouldn't be a career is dismissive? You are just trying to take the moral highroad in this argument by making me looking bad to people who hadn't read my comments.


I am certainly not ashamed of this statement.

"I will say it again. Is cartboy a job that people should be able to make a career out of and collect full benefits for for 35 years at a salary high enough to support a family? Of course not. It's a job for high school kids but thats not what these bleeding heart types want to believe."
[Edited 11/6/05 0:38am]

ReturnOfDOOK said:

Trying to make money is evil.

lovemachine said:

"Job for high school kids" ? Maybe so. But low-paying jobs are the ones you have to bust your ass at. The lower the pay, the harder you have to work. I'm talking about physical labour, not sitting on your ass at a computer all day. I worked for minimum wage as a dishwasher -which, btw, in my area does not constitute a living wage -and what did i get for it? I fucked up my already arthritic wrist and hand joints, and my marks in college dropped noticably, and because of the amount of work I was doing -over 40 hours a week -I gained 15 pounds of muscle but my body fat dropped far below a healthy number for a woman my age.

Now I work two jobs, also low-paying and labour-intensive -and may have to go out and get a third one.

Ideally jobs like these are only short term -I certainly don't plan on doing this my entire life -but "cartboys" and everyone else who has to work the shitty jobs most people think they're too good for damn well deserve benefits. There's more health risks in jobs like these than say, a CEO -so why shouldn't we?