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[PlayTheOdds]

NWA/AMT, you are correct about a wide diversity of people opposing Wal-Mart and I didn't mean to exclude everyone but unions. My point was that union people, or should I say the people at this site complain of one industry's high prices and then the others low prices. You just can't make them happy. They will complain and gripe when there is nothing wrong, to the point that there will be a problem. In other words they create their own misery.

 

[CruelSummer]

You guys are relentless. I think you people really have nothing better in life to do other than find something to whine and cry about...

Isn't this what message boards are for??

 

[markkus757]

If you think Wal-mart is the only company that does this, you're clueless. What about Blowes or Home Despot? You don't think that they're driving small businesses away and taking the suppliers overseas? Check out where Stanley makes their tools. You're probably already contributing, you just don't know it. :down:

 

[CruelSummer]

Well, what is the solution?

 

[NWA/AMT]

If you think Wal-mart is the only company that does this, you're clueless.

No one said they were. The name of the thread makes that pretty clear. However, Wal-Mart is the largest example of the trend. Considering that over 10% of China's total exports in 2004 went to Wal-Mart alone, which was a larger portion than went to several large nations, you'd be hard pressed to find another company to compare them to.

What about Blowes or Home Despot?

Wouldn't know, don't shop there either. While the number of alternatives to such stores have decreased at a steadily increasing rate, they do still exist.

You don't think that they're driving small businesses away and taking the suppliers overseas?

Yes, but not to the extent that Wal-Mart has. While they both offer goods from other countries, I'm told that they still offer the majority of their goods from US sources and they have not exerted the pressure on their suppliers that Wal-Mart has which has forced so many US jobs overseas. Nor do they attempt to wrap themselves in the American flag while doing it.

Check out where Stanley makes their tools.

While the majority of the tools under the "Stanley" brand name are still made in the USA, that part of their company has been the latest to feel the "Wal-Mart effect". Meanwhile, Stanley Inc., the corporate parent, has been cited repeatedly by the Federal Trade commission for advertising and selling tools under their other brands such as "Proto" and "Husky" as "Made in the USA" when in fact they were not. In many cases the tools were even marked "Made in the USA" when they were actually made overseas.

You're probably already contributing, you just don't know it.

If you're willing to put forth a minimal effort, you don't have to be. At least not willingly. You can minimize the amount of money you give to such companies without doing much damage to your wallet in the process.

 

[CruelSummer]

Considering that over 10% of China's total exports in 2004 went to Wal-Mart alone, which was a larger portion than went to several large nations, you'd be hard pressed to find another company to compare them to.

I didn't know this... unbelieveable.

You bring up some good points, NWA/AMT.

 

[NWA/AMT]

I didn't know this... unbelieveable.

You bring up some good points, NWA/AMT.

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/view/

In the end the only real voice we have is to vote with our wallets.

 

[local 12 proud]

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/view/

In the end the only real voice we have is to vote with our wallets.

very good reading NWA/AMT, but we live in a society where people want something for nothing and it is going to kill the american dream except for the few filthy rich!

 

[tahitigirl]

Want to see something really scary? Check out what the executives of Wal Mart make off the backs of the poor that make the crap they sell us. :down:


What the big guys make

 

[SBN580]

We are the Wal-Mart. Shopping as you know it is over. Your local economies will be assmilated. They will be used to service, us. Locally owned stores are irrelavant. High paying jobs are irrelavant. Health benefits are irrelavant. Resistance is futile.

 

[wnbubbleboy]

Well, what is the solution?

http://www.truevalue.com/

 

[Dea Certe]

What is the solution? Write your representives. Let them know that if they don't support the American people, you will not vote for them.

Get involved in your own community. Many small and large cities in America have been successful in keeping WalMart out of their communities by taking action. Picket, leaflet, write letters, tell your neighbors. I urge to see the documentary WalMart does not want you see: "WalMart, the High Cost of Low Prices."

Do not shop at WalMart or Sam's Club. I don't care if you have to drive miles to shop at Target or K-Mart instead. We all have to do our part to let this cancer know we will not support their business practices.

Did you that WalMart has security cameras in their parking lots? Not to stop the many crimes that occur in large parking lots everywhere, but to keep track of any union activity that might be going on. And there's a very high rate of assault, rape, muggings and burgleries in WalMart shopping parks.

Lee Scott, the CEO of WalMart seems completely out of touch with the realities of his employees. They qualify for food stamps in many cases. And these are full-time employees! Not slackers looking for a free ride!

WalMart is setting the tone for all of American Labor.We cannot have a strong economy in our country with this mind set.

Dea

 

[stars and stripes]

I agree