November 16, 2005 2:58 PM
Wal-Mart's latest defense against the film: "Customers are still shopping in our stores .. It's not a mainstream issue."
Keep telling yourselves that.
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They're clearly on the move, even though they're moving more sickly than AIDS-infested child-molesters. Just check out this comment from the alleged director of "Why Wal-mart Works": http://juvenal.wordpress.com/2005/11/16/wal-mart
Thu Nov 17 2005 10:57 AM
Yea, you can bash Wal mart all you want, you must remember that you are a tiny ant in a big world trying to persuade people to not shop at a store that puts its low prices on a pedastool.... So why do you think that people will pay money to you then go to some other store and pay 50 cents to one dollar more for an item just because you are falsifying facts? plus, I would say that you need to get all wal mart associates to survey to really show if wal mart is as bad as you say.. Bill O Rielly has a point, you are a joke!
Fri Nov 18 2005 11:33 AM
Harriet Moser:
My big question is Why Walmart? They are one of many who have low pay and little benefits. Retail is a hard way to make a living. My mom did it for 17 years and I did it for about six. Mall stores, Target stores and most discount stores offer the same. Why don't you say anything about them? Target went to all part time so they don't have to pay health benefits. Is that okay? You sure don't say anything about it! I don't deny Walmart's wrong doing I just can't stand that you only focus on them! If you don't defend all employees of discount/retail stores why bother!!!!! Go after all the stores that do this. Also why don't you suppliment my income so I can afford to shop at high end stores that you shop at. Some folks can't afford to shop at other places. Walmart is reasonable and I have to get what I can afford. I don't make 50 or 60 thousand and up a year to bash stores.
Sat Nov 19 2005 10:19 PM
Dave E.:
"I don't deny Walmart's wrong doing I just can't stand that you only focus on them! If you don't defend all employees of discount/retail stores why bother!!!!!"
Sheesh. I guess you won't be happy until someone declares an end to tyranny!
Oh, by the way:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051119/ap_on_re_us/wal_mart_illegal_workersBut that keeps the prices artificially affordable, so I guess that's ok. We're not all millionaires, and we all can't benefit from the "save the millionaires" Bush administration that's busy busy busy making sure tax cuts for the wealthiest during war time remain permanent. So we'll keep our cheating Walmart stores and look the other way at all the laws they break, because, well...you can't end tyranny! And that just makes me feel a whole lot better about the liars I put my faith in!
Sat Nov 19 2005 11:24 PM
Why Wal-Mart?
Cause we only have 95 minutes.. and believe me, it was a helluva job getting the Wal-Mart problem into 95 minutes. If you want to see a movie about why corporations are all bad, go see The Corporation. It's 3 hours long.. have fun.
People said the same thing about Outfoxed.. why just Fox News? The real problem is media consolidation!
Some even said it about Uncovered.. why just the Iraq war? people lie about intelligence all the time!
Focus people, focus!
Sigh.
Sun Nov 20 2005 2:04 AM
Tom from Madison:
The defenders of Wal-Mart suffer have bought into a mythology. Wal-mart prices are low only when they have to be to drive out competition. In the short run you save a few dollars, in the long run you lose your community.
Inevitably there will be less competition with fewer big players. This translates into fewer jobs and less $ staying in the community.
It's a fool's deal. Ultimately the lack of competitors in the market place hurts workers.
I'd like to see more cooperatively owned Wal-mart competitors and tax breaks given to small businesses. Also, national health insurance would help. Small businesses would have a much easier time competing if they didn't have the burden of providing health insurance as well.
Mon Nov 21 2005 10:33 AM
NJguardsman:
Here Tom try it this way:
“The defenders of Home Depot suffer have bought into a mythology. Home Depot prices are low only when they have to be to drive out competition. In the short run you save a few dollars, in the long run you lose your community.
Inevitably there will be less competition with fewer big players. This translates into fewer jobs and less $ staying in the community.
It's a fool's deal. Ultimately the lack of competitors in the market place hurts workers.
I'd like to see more cooperatively owned Home Depot competitors and tax breaks given to small businesses. Also, national health insurance would help. Small businesses would have a much easier time competing if they didn't have the burden of providing health insurance as well.”
Please, fill in the retail chain of your choice: K-Mart, Wallgreens, Sony, GM, McDonalds, you name ‘em
I’m no country music fan but Garth Brooks signed an exclusive EXCLUSIVE deal with Wal Mart, this is the ONLY retail chain that will EVER sell his recordings. Now this man can if he wants to wipe his A$$ with 100.00 bills – not only because he’s a good singer but also a good businessman, he is also retired from music to devote himself to his family, now he does not strike me as the “dastardly, greedy, take their money and run” type. Country music’s stars have consistently come from “poor” areas of this country, that being said wouldn’t you think some one with the stature of a Garth Brooks being an intelligent (do diligence) man not want to do business with an entity like Wal Mart? Believe me Garth Brooks is not the yardstick I judge Wal Mart by.
Are there problems and abuses in big companies YES! Are there good and bad people that head those companies YES! (I tend to believe that there’s more good then bad). Will there always be those who take advantage of their positions, of course just like there will always be crime there will always be the police/laws/courts.
Sun Nov 27 2005 9:31 PM
NJGuardsman:
Where is it written that Wal Mart or any company for that matter HAS to offer any benefits at all besides pay? It’s a carrot dangled at the end of an interview to get you to work.
I worked retail for two years then worked in factories where unions took my dues and backed candidates that didn’t share my political beliefs, and when contract time came around the union rep was “taken care of” by management to make sure production didn’t stop. I didn’t like that so I found another way, so did Mr. Gilliam, he works for no one but himself why don’t we ask him if his boss sucks or if he doesn’t like the company he’s currently working for?
Bottom line folks better yourselves find another way minimum wage is not meant for you to live on, change the circumstances you’re in.
Before I get all the “easy for you to say” type responses I was born in Newark, New Jersey a predominantly (I’m being PC here)”minority” city of 300,000 - my mother emigrated from Cuba and my father is from Puerto Rico so I’m not the WASP you people would think I am. I know what it is to be “poor” I know what it is to live in a roach infested apartment, in a drug infested neighborhood in what used to be (and probably still is) a high crime city. I’ve seen with my own eyes what city government has done (run by democrats).
I now live in a suburb where I can watch my kids without having to watch my back and as the saying goes “If I can do it why cant you?”
PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY!!!!!!!!
Sun Nov 27 2005 10:00 PM
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