Well?

No!

I would if I could

a more important question: does yew use the bags yew get at wal mart as trashbags?


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JessieJ said:

Protege said:

My mawm does

Fucking right I do.

It's the cheapest place to buy diapers, hair dye and stuff like that.

And I use their bags to bag dirty diapers...

But I am going to start using reusable cloth bags to do my shopping.

theodore said:

AND DOOOOO ALL YER SHOPPANG.....AT *WAL* MART!!!!!

those kids

Protege said:

I would if I could

theodore said:

It's too far away and I like Target way more

too many haters at wal-mart, but it is the closest store, next to kroger.....


gotta travel far to randalls and HEB.....


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JustErin said:

That's sexual

JessieJ said:

Target has nice shit

theodore said:

Everything I do is.

JustErin said:

Ota

Yer damn right, I do. It's pretty much the only store in the podunk town I work in. It's big, it's clean, the prices are good, and they have pretty much whatever I want. It's a lot easier to zip in and buy stuff there than to try go to Target in the city I live in.

And frankly, I think all the anti-Wal-Mart flack is just yuppies trying to claim intellectual and moral superiority over the poor schlubs who find it economical to shop there.

Genesia said:

I recommend watching Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices. I had no idea all the horrible things they do. They purposely pay their employees such low wages that they can't afford health insurance. They tell them to apply for state welfare instead of paying them a living wage.

I sure do!

DevotedPuppy said:

I wonder if it's different here in Canada. Wage wise I mean.

DevotedPuppy said:

Did you get this info from that website? Or where did you learn this?

Unfortunately, I do. My budget is my dictator. But I do shop other places too, like Sears Home Essential, love it there nobody shops there it's all quiet and stuff.

DevotedPuppy said:

No, thank you. I have no desire to sit through a Robert Greenwald screed.

But since you brought up insurance, it might interest you to know that Wal-Mart does offer insurance to its part-time employees - something only 17% of other companies in the United States do. (Target, for example, does not offer insurance to employees who work under 20 hours a week.) 34 percent of Wal-Mart employees who are offered health insurance decline to enroll, either because they are covered by another family member, prefer to be on Medicaid than pay the premium, or choose to go without insurance. Those who go with Medicaid are opting for a higher take-home pay, rather than private insurance. That's understandable - service workers make less money. Every cent they take home is critical.

As of 2005, 5% of Wal-Mart employees were enrolled in Medicaid or S-CHIP, compared to 6% of retail workers and 4% of US workers as a whole. The reason the raw number of Wal-Mart employees enrolled in publicly-administered health care plans looks so big is that Wal-Mart is the largest employer in the United States.

Oh - I should say that all of the above numbers come from a report by Jason Furman at NYU.

MoniGram said:

It's all true, and the info is readily available and not just from that site. WalMart uses strong arm tactics to force their suppliers to use over-seas labor so they can continue to supply WalMart. If your costs are too high you can't sell in WalMart anymore and because of the ENORMOUS retail power WalMart has no one wants to lose them as a client.

Support your local small business people instead, you might pay a little more but you're supporting a family or two. How do I know? I am a small business owner.

RenHoek said:

Lest anyone mistake me for a Wal-Mart apologist, let me say that I do make it a point to patronize local businesses, shop farmer's markets, etc. I think it's especially important to do this where food is concerned. (I try to "eat local" as much as possible.)

RenHoek said:

Where is this all available? Are you sure the places you are getting this info from have all their facts?

I only say this..because my kid's father is a Market Human Resource Manager for Walmart..and he has to deal with this kind of stuff all the time. People not getting their facts right, or putting out one sided material. So I am just curious...he says if anyone really wants to know about the company they should log on to www.walmartfacts.com

But if you have any real questions about Walmart and the things they do..Denis will be happy to answer your questions.

MoniGram said:

I remembered it from watching that documentary. You should really watch it. Obviously the documentary probably exaggerates some things to strengthen their point, but there are *so* many things that Wal-Mart is doing that will make you go that not all of it can be made-up, exaggerated, or yuppie scare tactics. Kind of like "two sides to every story and the truth is somewhere in between" but even if the 'truth' about Wal-Mart is in the middle, it's still really fucked up.

Genesia said:

I don't remember all the statistics about insurance as I was posting from memory. I never said they didn't offer health insurance to PT employees, it's just so expensive and they pay such a low wage that the employees can't afford insurance (which you essentially pointed out in the part I bolded). I just remember being horrified that the Wal-Mart HR people would consider telling their employees applying for welfare a viable solution.

But in addition to the insurance issue, the film also has sections on the high crime rates in the parking lots, putting small companies out of business, Chinese & Indian sweatshop labor, polluting the rivers, etc.

MoniGram said:

Yeah, there's a section in the film about on how Managers are supposed to answer questions too.

Sounds like you are only getting information from one side (the Wal-Mart machine); you should watch the film and form your own opinion based on seeing a different perspective.

JustErin said:

I dont' know, but I remember there was a section about the Canadian employees wanting to unionize. That didn't go over so well with Wal-Mart either.



(btw, if there was a Wal-Mart in NYC, I think I would be very tempted to shop there because I know they have low prices and NY is expensive for a single girl on a budget. I guess I am lucky that I do not have to make that choice.)

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