Yet Another Reason to Oppose Wal-Mart

I like Wal*Mart.

I cant do Target - Its just too RED in there. Its like they're trying to rub in the fact that everything on the shelves is made in China..

I have yet to see either have that damn Ensure on sale for anything less than $8.00 a 6 pack. Damn doctors, they think your check can afford this sh!t?????

Although, I did find the secret to getting that crap down, turn it into hot coco.

Chefantwon, if you are a veteran, Ensure is available on a prescription basis by the VA. They send me a couple of cases when needed with a co-payment fee only. My other medical insurance pays the co-payment. I have tried it with coffee, unsweetened cocoa, chocolate and strawberry syrup. The syrup makes it too sweet.

Back to the topic, Walmart is a huge benefit in our area.

I don’t buy meat at Wal-Mart because it is not fresh. Unlike a lot of grocery stores that have fresh ground beef, steaks and so forth Wal-Mart ships all of their “fresh” meat in to avoid unions. Bottom line their fresh meat is never as fresh as your local market.

Soooo.....do you shoplift it instead of buying it?

Their products and services are enticing enough for folks in some areas to fight the very existence of the stores because they would be too tempting for upstanding citizens to resist breaking the law?

I guess a thief would pay for a union-cut pork chop from another brand of grocery store rather than paying for a non-union-cut chop from Walmart. Or, they'll steal from any store. ....or momma tells them it's better to steal from one store than another.

Walmart's existence didn't magically create shoplifters and thieves. Providing stores that sell products that people need everyday at lower prices allows people of lower income levels to buy more and raise their own lifestyles WITHOUT STEALING IT or GETTING IT FROM THE GOVERNMENT!

DC is the perfect example of liberalism practiced in full. More spent per student than any other area in the country with abysmal results. A combined conglomerate of tax takers and enablers that has not only kept a significant segment of the population dependent for generations on government subsidies, criminal behavior by the spawns of these dependents is blamed on the very existence of non-union controlled businesses.

malibbers recollection is just fine, and he did not sully DonDiego because malibber was quite accurate in his criticism. DonDiego did claim that the website in question had involvement with the SEIU because it had a similar name, and because the website linked to the SEIU.

Because of outgoing links, apparently DonDiego also believes that the Las Vegas Advisor has involvement with the Crazy Horse gentlemen's club. Silly, huh?

For once, I totally agree with Bob Orme. To blame a vendor because one's child commits a crime (shop lifting) is absurd. If anything, it is the end result of poor parenting. Place the blame where it belongs. Every day I am amazed at the stupidity of people.

I hate to tell you Mail, but...... fresh beef for the most part went they way of the dodo back in the 1980's. Most of the current beef is already prepackaged in various forms. You have the rolls of ground beef which is either a very rough grind of beef from the processing plant or a ready to go product. Steaks come prepackaged in bulk form, meaning you do the trimming and use the waste for hamburger. Most of the straight off the cow beef comes from the smaller stores and speciality shops. This started back in the late 1970's in order to reduce cost and preparation time. Some of the larger chains still use a whole cow, but it's normally the more expensive grade and cuts of beef. Damn, I never figured I'd ever use the stuff I learned while working in the meat department when I was a teenager.

A tip here, always get the made with beef trimmings for your hamburger. Most of the recalls involve the roll stuff not the hamburger made in the store.

Love them, or hate them, but you can't ignore them. WalMart is the world's largest corporate employer. It is definetely too large to fail. I don't think they are that much better than, say, Kroger or Safeway, when it comes to prices and service, but they are so damn BIG!

Where to begin, . . . where to begin . . . ?

item i: The purpose of the original thread was to bring attention to the Wal-Mart Free DC folks who were employing flyers and internet images of a target on Wal-Mart to organize a protest against the Wal-Mart expansion into DC at a private individual's home. In context this post appeared was immediately after the shooting in Tucson when significant public objection was being made to "right-wingers" employing gunsights and targets in identifying political opponents while similar imagery employed by "left-wingers" was largely uncommented upon.
n.b.DonDiego has no objection to such imagery; he was objecting to the politically motivated one-sided coverage by the press.

item ii: malibbers recollection was incorrect; his statement that "[DonDiego's] evidence in that thread consisted of at least in part the argument that it would be unheard of people organizing to oppose Wal-Mart on their own thus the anti-Wal-Mart group must be involved with unions." is wrong. DonDiego alleged no such thing. DonDiego's recollection is insufficient as well; he recalls such an argument being advanced in the earlier thread but does not recall by whom.

itwm iii: forkush's recollection is also incorrect; DonDiego did not claim that "the website in question had involvement with the SEIU because it had a similar name" (presumedly to the SEIU's own Wal Mart Watch).

item iv: DonDiego never considered his so-called "good name" sullied by malibber.

item v: This thread is not about Wal-Mart Free DC or the SEIU. It is not about gun-related imagery and/or objections to gun-related imagery employed for political purposes.

item vi: This thread is about a Washington DC resident who objects to the presence of Wal-Mart in her neighborhood, because "young people would get criminal records".
n.b. Ms. Speaks quoted in the initial post is not concerned about criminal activity; she is not concerned about Wal-Mart losing inventory; she is not concerned about Wal-Mart having to charge higher prices to make up for the lost inventory or for improved security; she is not even concerned about "young people" in the neighborhood stealing from Wal-Mart. She is concerned that if they were to steal, and if they were apprehended, and if they were prosecuted, and if they were convicted, that they would "get a criminal record".
DonDiego finds Ms. Speaks' priorities inappropriate for neighborhood improvement.