Is it fair to say that those who shop at Wal-Mart are like children? That either they don’t know the truth about how the world’s largest corporation does business, or they don’t care? That they just want to consume and enjoy in ignorant (or even knowing) bliss?

I would say yes, in that American consumption is often very childlike, period.

Remember H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine? The Eloi and the Morlocks?

Yes! An excellent comparison. Personally, I prefer to use The Matrix.

I do know people shop there because of the prices, economic imperative. For me, it is imperative not to shop there for the reasons you state.

A point well-made…thx…

This is why I don’t have a tv hookup anymore. To actually PAY for this satanism to enter my home?

Saving money and living better…..than whom?

Check out the Good Jobs First Tax Subsidy Watch on WalMart,and ALL the freebies they get from various states to BRING those bloodsucking Bentonvillains TO an already(in MANY CASES) impoverished community.

NUMBER one state for freebies to WalMart is Illinois,whom as of this week is broke and cannot pay unemployment benefits.

Second state Texas, third state Louisiana.

Does anyone remember the WalMart indoctrination against EFCA,and the Repube WalMart moms campaign by Rick Davis,McCains manager,last fall?

Think its just coincidence that their hey day was right around the time NAFTA was passed?

Off topic-And just in passing, I can’t EVER remember in 30 years a story about a WalMart 18 wheeler being involved in an accident.

WHAT would be the mathematical odds of that,considering the size of WalMArt and Sam’s fleets?

“They don’t think about how the popsicles got in the freezer. Or where sidewalk chalk comes from. They don’t wonder how the hot dogs got on the grill. To them, the magic of summer just happens.”

Now THERE’S a teachable moment!

It’s a shame for the little girl in China sewing the jeans, and the little girl in the USA whose parents can only afford the jeans the little girl in China is sewing. I’m not defending Walmart’s business practices but as someone who has had to shop at Walmart for economic reasons from time to time, I get tired of the guilt trip that I read around the blogs from time to time slamming people who do.

One positive thing is Wal-Mart’s efforts to go green. Among other things, they set a goal of selling 100,000,000 fluorescent bulbs per year. They have taken a number of other positive steps in that direction.

Shouldn’t any job if you work full time pay enough so you can have 2 kids and not qualify for a free school lunch?

If you have a cheap alternative place to go like a Goodwill store go there if you have no other place to go because Wallmart killed the surrounding stores don’t hassle it. We do what we can I have other places to shop so I go other places.

Hey, guy, I’m with ya.
Must be a slow day if that’s the best ya can slam, maybe?

Goodwill does not sell the same goods. I hear you regarding t-shirts, but your comment may not address other things MM may need to shop for.

Maybe we should ban goods that are made with child labor and the workers are not paid a decent wage. Wallmart has quality control right? If they can check the quality they can check their subcontractor’s workers age and pay.

True Wallmart has lots of stuff finding alternative places to shop might not be practical is what I was trying to say.

Wal-Mart is one of the forces which basically destroyed US manufacturing.
http://www.fastcompany.com/mag…..lmart.html

Senator Jim Webb I remember had an idea about limiting CEO pay.

I don’t shop at Wal-Mart but I don’t criticize the people who do. They need all sorts of things and they need them to be inexpensive. They can’t go to The Gap or Macy’s and buy jeans for 3 or 4 kids so they do the best they can.
Whatever, to survive.

WalMart is doing their best to try to lure people like me to shop there because of “green policies.”

I totally understand the economic imperative, including for a lot of people that food/pharmacy costs less there, as in the price at check out is lower. But of course all of their policies have cost impacts, especially in terms of the local businesses that are driven out of business b/c they can’t compete with the loss leaders at WM.

Like the health “care” debate in DC, there are many ways to evaluate the real costs of a thing. For some the bottom line has to be at the register, for others, the bottom line is the boarded up businesses that line the avenues to WM.

I buy books and clothes at the thrift store. When I want cheese, frozen hamburger patties, eggs and milk I shop at Food For Less. A Kroeger store.
PS …and, dog and cat food. woof and meow.

So did Ben & Jerry

Jeff Kaye is upstairs at the Mothership!
Military Interrogations: Torture, Hyprocrisy Pre-Date 9/11

WalMart has been going green for YEARS, and its ALL in their cash registers.

Check out the EPA Multi million fines on environmental pollution for their faulty stormwater practices.

This “greenwashing” is all about getting tax rebates.

And as far as the light bulbs, where’s the final resting place for all those mercury filled bulbs?

What’s WalMart’s green cycling policy for that?

AMEN, but bgrothus ,apparently some people’s sense of community is no bigger than the dimensions of a WalMart shopping cart.

Evidently, they consider themselves a consumer first,rather than a citizen.

EXACTLY the mindset the mindless WalMart commercials wish to perpetuate.

Save Money. Live Better. Shop Elsewhere.

There is NO act more political than WHERE you choose to spend your money.

I get tired of it too. I go there for food.

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My father was a union organizer in the garment industry in NY & NJ. Although NYC is still the “fashion capitol” of the world, there is no more garment industry in NY, thanks largely to the world’s largest low-wage employer and destroyer of small-town business districts everywhere, WalMart.

Call it the “Arkanasasization” of the world. Hillary sat on their Board. The current White House is full of Clintonista’s & Wall Streeters.

You want change? Change almost everyone in DC for somebody leftier.
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Not to ignore their Senators…

Court holds Wal-Mart cannot be held liable for foreign suppliers …
Examiner.com – USA
Wal-Mart, were employees of suppliers to Wal-Mart who work in foreign countries. Their lawsuit alleged that Wal-Mart should be liable for the suppliers’ …
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Wal-Mart Subsidy Watch – Responsible ShopperWal-Mart Subsidy Watch is a new campaign from the nonprofit, Good Jobs First, that tracks information on the subsidies Wal-Mart receives. …
http://www.coopamerica.org/programs/&……cfm?id=86 – Cached – Similar

Wal-Mart Subsidy Watch – brought to you by Good Jobs FirstSelect a city. Select a county. …
http://www.walmartsubsidywatch.com/su…..sub… – Cached – Similar

Consumerist – Walmart Subsidy Watch: Why Do Public Officials Give …Jun 5, 2007 … Here’s something we don’t really understand Why do public officials feel they need to give government subsidies to the nation’s.
consumerist.com/266152/ – Similar

The other day I was in a Wal-Mart and they had a prominent aisle display featuring three low-energy light bulbs for $9.98, which I knew was nothing special. On a shelf, I found a box of six of the same bulbs for $11.88, but the price tag had been removed so I had to ask for the price at the checkout. After going to Wal-Mart I stopped at a hardware store, and they had a package of five of the same light bulbs for $5.99. I bought those, and drove back to Wal-Mart to return the box of 6 bulbs. The place is a fucking ripoff.

No, children are innocent. Adult Americans who shop there are just indifferent or just plain ignorant and usually it’s a combination of both. I have no idea of what miracle gave us something other than a Repug president, but the decision was not made due to intelligence or compassion.

If you have young school-age children set up a clothing swap day with other parents. Little kids grow so fast they hardly have time to destroy their clothes. Shop Salvation Army and Good Will stores for clothes and household goods as much as you can.

In case I am oversensitive about having mentioned reading about 100-year-old Yiddish newspapers the other day, the audience for these was garment workers working in the original sweatshops. No one in my direct family was in the garment industry but it forms a communal connection to the people working in sweatshops now and makes one skeptical about “development” as an excuse. The Chinese cannot rely on these things forever as they depend on exports and poor education.

I’ll second that.

To them, the black magic of low wages just happens.