Wal Mart

[red baron]

1. At Wal-Mart, Americans spend $36,000,000 every hour of every day.

2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!

3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick's Day (March
17th) than Target sells all year.

4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco +
K-Mart combined.

5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the largest private
employer. And most can't speak English

6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the World.

7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger & Safeway combined, and keep
in mind they did this in only 15 years.

8. During this same period, 31 Supermarket chains sought bankruptcy
(including Winn-Dixie).

9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.

10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the  USA  of which 1,906 are
SuperCenters; this is 1,000 more than it had 5 years ago.

11. This year, 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at
a Wal-Mart store. (Earth's population is approximately 6.5 billion.)

12. 90% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart
13. Let Wal Mart bail out Wall Street

[Kopfjäger]

7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger & Safeway combined, and keep
in mind they did this in only 15 years.

8. During this same period, 31 Supermarket chains sought bankruptcy
(including Winn-Dixie).

12. 90% of all Americans live within 15 miles of a Wal-Mart

I live within 15 miles of three Super-Walmart's

There are also 4 Winn-Dixie's in the same area. 

[River]

I tend to agree...if we are really in that much trouble, let Wallmart kick in.  They've been making money off of lower and middle America for YEARS.

[Buckethead]

5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people and is the largest private
employer. And most can't speak English

That's partly due to the fact that Wal-Mart has a large presence in Central- and South America.

They've recently expanded into China (which should save them A TON in shipping costs  ) and India.

I'm all for supporting local businesses that offer a unique and/or better product. I just don't understand paying more than I have to for commodities.

[Uncle Mofo]

14. Wal-Mart is where Randall gets his women     

[He Man]

That's partly due to the fact that Wal-Mart has a large presence in Central- and South America.

They've recently expanded into China (which should save them A TON in shipping costs  ) and India.

I'm all for supporting local businesses that offer a unique and/or better product. I just don't understand paying more than I have to for commodities.

What you dont know is that chinese people are smart enough to not buy their own crappy shit.

[Buckethead]

Whereas American people are smart enough not to capitalize Chinese?

[Howie]

Maybe we should have a special "Wallmart Tax" to create a special  wellfare fund to support the buisinesses hurt by them.  It wouldn't affect me since I don't spend my money there anyway.

[Grampa]

14. Wal-Mart is where Randall gets his women     

he he

[Triple J]

Wal Mart also exploits its employees, as is evident by all of the lawsuits and settlements around the country.

[Grampa]

Wal Mart also exploits its employees, as is evident by all of the lawsuits and settlements around the country.

I find it difficut to tell the employees from the customers.

[Drunken Monkey]

I won't shop at Wal Mart.

It has nothing to do with politics or economics.

It has to do with the shoppers at Wal Mart making me really, really sad.

[Grampa]

I won't shop at Wal Mart.

It has nothing to do with politics or economics.

It has to do with the shoppers at Wal Mart making me really, really sad.

I only go in quick to look for Ducati models.

[superjohn]

I won't shop at Wal Mart.

It has nothing to do with politics or economics.

It has to do with the shoppers at Wal Mart making me really, really sad.

+1

I have boycotted Wal-Mart for the last 15 years. They opened a store in my hometown of 6500, lowered the prices below cost and drove out the other retail outlets, then raised the prices. Then they built a Super Wal-Mart next to it and did the same thing to all the local grocery stores. Now, people in town will drive 40-50 miles away to a more populous urban area where the Wal-Mart has more competition to buy their goods because their local store raised the prices again.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not whining and I'm not picketing the place, but I'm not about to fuel a business that I see as predatory to small, locally owned business.

[JohnnyDucati]

Been Walmart free for 3+ years.

Am not going back.