Another reason NOT to shop at Walmart

Posted this on my own forum, but I feel the need to spread it around.

If any of you needed more of a reason not to shop there, read on.

Walmart sues braindamaged, paralyzed woman for her legally won compensation:

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Man, fuck your "fiduciary duty." You're gonna have a my-foot-up-your-ass duty.

Stuff like this just totally engrages me. Sad thing is there isn't a goddamned thing we can do about, except just not shop there. But that's not gonna stop all the other people who don't read this story from not shopping there.

One day, things like this are going to really push someone over the edge, and one of these stores is gonna get firebombed or somthing. We've already got a pretty large undeground anti-corporation movement in this country already, it's only a matter of time before it turns violent. Stories like this though don't invoke very much sympathy for them.

 

The problem is lots of americans are ignorant or just don't care. They either don't realize or understand how Walmart is destroying everything in the race to the bottom, or they just don't give a shit. I don't think enough people are going to stop shopping there, lets just hope their stores burn down. Perhaps with the people that shop there still in it.

 

I still think that a Walmart just blowing up might be a positive thing because of all the dumb people in it....I mean, of course thats not true, but you know.

 

Strangely enough, I seem to get more and more fond of social medicine, compared to opposite. And it scares the hell out of me, when it goes the American way. When it comes to health security.

 

There are two major problems.

1. Consumer Greed
2. US Health Care system is getting worse (in terms of cost).

Consumer greed mostly being consumers who rather pay less for crap vs more for higher quality stuff. As well feel it's their right get stuff for practicaly nothing. Thus more stuff is farmed out to china to make it cheaper.

Health care in the states is getting expensive and the government is doing **** to help bring the cost down. So companies keep cutting back what they cover.

 

And I thought that South Park episode with Walmart was just joke... -__-;;

 

I never really had any "issues" with buying things at Wal-Mart (and its almost the only store here, other than where I work).

Some old black cashier lady called me a Satanist the other day for wanting to buy Prince of Persia, though. Because Prince of Persia was one of the ten billion nicknames of the Devil.

 

Now that's customer service.

 

As unfortunate as it is, Wal-Mart is the only choice a lot of people have. I live in a somewhat large city, and we basically have two other options for groceries. There is Aldi, which is dirt cheap, has decent food, and seems to have pretty good business practices - I shop here when I don't need anything electronic. The only other option for groceries is Harris Teeter, which is usually marked up 25% from Wal-Marts prices, and they are an awful company (I would know as I used to work for them).

The way I see it is, sometimes it is a necessity to buy things from Wal-Mart. It is up to the consumer to shop with their head screwed on straight.

Edit: That is a terrible headline.

 

If I was getting paid minimum wage and my hours erased from the time clock because it is known that over 50% of store managers erase your hours, expect to get shitty service.

 

This too. Wal-Mart treats their employees like shit, and it shows. I've found that I care a lot more about a company when they make the smallest effort to make me more comfortable working there. I'm working a double shift at Target tonight, but I don't really care because I get time and a half, and they're also buying us "Thanksgiving dinner" (aka likely pizza).

 

Yeah, but if you get hit by a truck, does Target sue you to get your settelment money? In any decent, moral society this should be front page news, embarassing the hell out of Walmart.

You may have to shop there, becasue they came to your town and drove everyone else out of business. That's fine, I don't mind giving large corporations my money when they provide me with what I want. But I expect them to engage in business practicies that actually helps my people and my nation.

The whole thing just really, really, really pisses me off. We should kill them all.

Feel free to post this link on any other boards you may frequent.

 

I completely agree with you. I'm just easy to please as far as working with corporations go, as much as I try to avoid it.

Wal-Mart is a parasite, but unfortunately there is little we can do to stop it, other than post stories such as this one.

 

It's a pile of crap, but unfortunately a lot of society consists of flies and flies will be attracted to said pile of crap.

 

Hmmm at least Aldi is not the worst around here, and well maybe it is because they are a European firm (German if I remember right) ? but who knows maybe Aldi in USA fucks their workers too ?

 

Nope. I've heard cashiers make around $10.15 an hour, which is four dollars above minimum wage here. Aldi generally just seems to be a nice grocery store. From what I can tell, most European companies have their shit together.

 

You know, if you don't agree with Walmart then don't shop there. If you're struggling to make ends meet and don't have a choice then so be it. Don't start slating people for shopping there. It's not your life to criticise and you're not in their situation. Count yourself lucky that you can afford somewhere better.

But if you're going to take that stance against Walmart then don't kid yourself, be a hypocrite and go to Target or other chain stores. In one way or another they are all of the same level. They are all screwing the small guys.

 

Eh, We only shop at target

Foodshop at walmart sometimes but mostly we go to BJs.

 

I don't complain about the free markets. If I were treated like a slave at a job, I would free myself from it. In fact, there are poor areas in cities where people (gasp) want walmarts to come in so they can *get* a job. Don't like how much they pay? I'm sure it's not under minimum wage.

As for the article in the main post... first of all we don't know the whole story here, not only did walmart fail to comment (which doesn't prove anything as it's most likely a given that they will not comment on anything, especially since people take everything out of context these days *ahem* washington post), but the details are much too vague to get the real picture here. For example, say for her injury lawsuit she was awarded 2 mil, then she squeezed out 700,000 from her medical insurance on top of that. Ok, so the settlement paid for the medical bills plus damages and they get medical bill insurance money on top of that. That's what the clause is there for. Not to take from her, but to make sure that everyone who works at walmart can get their medical coverage (maybe coverage that they don't sue big $$$ off walmart for?). [edit: just read the entire article. wow that's shitty. for this situation I think what they are doing is retarded, althought combined they got 900,000 instead of the quoted 700,000 at the start of the article if you add what the husband got.]

I don't really care if walmarts are spreading around or not. I do, however, think that more information could be had before everyone just flies off the handle. I used to be that way about McDonalds... until my good friend's little sister needed a liver transplant and they couldn't afford it. They had lots of help from the Ronald McDonald charities when they were in trouble financially. So, that was really the first time I noticed money from a big organization actually helping somebody I knew that needed it. What's that? A big money grabbing corporation that is shamefully "americanizing" cultures and keeping people obese is actually doing something worthwhile and good? I thought they were suppose to be bad?

The point is there are probably bigger pictures, numbers, and social ideas here that we are not aware of. Doing the whole Good vs Evil thing is something we criticize short sighted, narrow minded idiots (bush) of doing, and I don't want to be doing that to anyone here, especially on my 6 or 7th post here.