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Visited Wal*Mart today

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AccruedExpenditure

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For my Christmas bonus, my brother got a $20 gift certificate to Wal*Mart. Neither of us had been there before today.

We walked in, and I immediately noticed that it was different from any shopping place that I've been in. It was like K-mart, but way bigger. We kinda got in and stood at the front of the store, overwhelmed by the shear size of the thing. A greeter person said "happy holidays, can I help you." Just after my brother said that we were still looking, I got that "Why are you here?" vibe. It's like I walked into Dollar Ranch and asked for something that costs more than a dollar. I felt out of place. A vision of the Soup Nazi flashed into view. No soup for me, I don't know what I want.

Cliffs:
1. Upper Middle Class guy goes to walmart
2. Feels out of place
 
Originally posted by: Generator
How do you live without Wal Mart? Even "Upper Middle Class" people got to eat!!!
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Hell I am single and I consider myself middle class, or maybe even upper middle class, and I don't buy a damn thing from Wal Mart.
 
Originally posted by: Babbles
Originally posted by: Generator
How do you live without Wal Mart? Even "Upper Middle Class" people got to eat!!!
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Hell I am single and I consider myself middle class, or maybe even upper middle class, and I don't buy a damn thing from Wal Mart.
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So that makes you a better person?
 
Originally posted by: AccruedExpenditure
For my Christmas bonus, my brother got a $20 gift certificate to Wal*Mart. Neither of us had been there before today.

We walked in, and I immediately noticed that it was different from any shopping place that I've been in. It was like K-mart, but way bigger. We kinda got in and stood at the front of the store, overwhelmed by the shear size of the thing. A greeter person said "happy holidays, can I help you." Just after my brother said that we were still looking, I got that "Why are you here?" vibe. It's like I walked into Dollar Ranch and asked for something that costs more than a dollar. I felt out of place. A vision of the Soup Nazi flashed into view. No soup for me, I don't know what I want.

Cliffs:
1. Upper Middle Class guy goes to walmart
2. Feels out of place
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haha i had same experience awhile back.....it really is an odd place
 
I hate walmart. They drove numerous businesses out of Anchorage, intimidated Target into abandoning plans for a store here, and forced KMart out by opening stores right across the street. Now they want to build THREE supercenters on the same friggin street, all 1 mi. apart?? Those guys are smoking crack or something. We already have two of them, now we need three more? For only 250K people??

I never shop there unless absolutely unavoidable. I agree that the store feels... off. I mean, I hate being condescending but the stores up here... I walk into them and I suddenly feel poorer, stupider, and lower class. The average customer in the Alaska wal-mart has trouble speaking coherently, has a dozen or so loose kids running around, is rude, and looks like rednecky white trash. But when I go to Fred Meyers or Carrs, customers look like "normal" people.
 
I NEVER shop there.

Sam Walton was a great man, but he's long dead. The typical MBA roaches have taken over, and the company has gone to hell.

Do you realize that one of the largest corporations in the world begs your local government for tax abatements and preferrential status? For instance, the city of Dallas (read the local taxpayers) are giving Walmart $1 million dollars to build a new store in the Lake Highlands area. WTF?

Do you realize that Walmart overprices it's medical benefits package, and then encourages it's employees to file for Welfare, MedicAid, and WIC? The total annual cost of this is $1.5 trillion dollars to US taxpayers.

Do you realize that Walmart spends millions policing the inside of it's stores to prevent shrinkage, yet leaves it's parking lots unmonitored? Police reports from dozens of cities show Walmart parking lots as one of the most dangerous areas in these cities.

Boycott Walmat, don't let your cities waste your tax dollars on their new stores, and spread the word!

Scary
 
w0w

i didn't know there were people in civilization that had never been to walmart


so are you rich?
 
Originally posted by: Metron
I don't EVER shop there.

Sam Walton was a great man, but he's long dead. The typical MBA roaches have taken over, and the company has gone to hell.

Do you realize that one of the largest corporations in the world begs your local government for tax abatements and preferrential status? For instance, the city of Dallas (read the local taxpayers) are giving Walmart $1 million dollars to build a new store in the Lake Highlands area. WTF?

Do you realize that Walmart overprices it's medical benefits package, and then encourages it's employees to file for Welfare, MedicAid, and WIC? The total annual cost of this is $1.5 trillion dollars to US taxpayers.

Do you realize that Walmart spends millions policing the inside of it's stores to prevent shrinkage, yet leaves it's parking lots unmonitored? Police reports from dozens of cities show Walmart parking lots as one of the most dangerous areas in these cities.

Boycott Walmat, don't let your cities waste your tax dollars on their new stores, and spread the word!
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I'm going there right now.
 
Originally posted by: TallBill
Originally posted by: Metron
I don't EVER shop there.

Sam Walton was a great man, but he's long dead. The typical MBA roaches have taken over, and the company has gone to hell.

Do you realize that one of the largest corporations in the world begs your local government for tax abatements and preferrential status? For instance, the city of Dallas (read the local taxpayers) are giving Walmart $1 million dollars to build a new store in the Lake Highlands area. WTF?

Do you realize that Walmart overprices it's medical benefits package, and then encourages it's employees to file for Welfare, MedicAid, and WIC? The total annual cost of this is $1.5 trillion dollars to US taxpayers.

Do you realize that Walmart spends millions policing the inside of it's stores to prevent shrinkage, yet leaves it's parking lots unmonitored? Police reports from dozens of cities show Walmart parking lots as one of the most dangerous areas in these cities.

Boycott Walmat, don't let your cities waste your tax dollars on their new stores, and spread the word!
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I'm going there right now.
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TENNESSEE: 9,617 WAL-MART Workers on TennCare

"Wal-Mart, with about 25 percent of the company's 37,000 workers on TennCare, tops the list of businesses with employees on the expanded Medicaid program. Wal-Mart is the state's largest private employer."
Source: Associated Press, "Study Shows Thousands of Wal-Mart Employees on TennCare," WKRN-TV Nashville, January 20, 2005.

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Be sure to thank the managers for spending your tax dollars on employee health care...
 
Originally posted by: Metron
Originally posted by: TallBill
Originally posted by: Metron
I don't EVER shop there.

Sam Walton was a great man, but he's long dead. The typical MBA roaches have taken over, and the company has gone to hell.

Do you realize that one of the largest corporations in the world begs your local government for tax abatements and preferrential status? For instance, the city of Dallas (read the local taxpayers) are giving Walmart $1 million dollars to build a new store in the Lake Highlands area. WTF?

Do you realize that Walmart overprices it's medical benefits package, and then encourages it's employees to file for Welfare, MedicAid, and WIC? The total annual cost of this is $1.5 trillion dollars to US taxpayers.

Do you realize that Walmart spends millions policing the inside of it's stores to prevent shrinkage, yet leaves it's parking lots unmonitored? Police reports from dozens of cities show Walmart parking lots as one of the most dangerous areas in these cities.

Boycott Walmat, don't let your cities waste your tax dollars on their new stores, and spread the word!
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I'm going there right now.
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TENNESSEE: 9,617 WAL-MART Workers on TennCare

"Wal-Mart, with about 25 percent of the company's 37,000 workers on TennCare, tops the list of businesses with employees on the expanded Medicaid program. Wal-Mart is the state's largest private employer."
Source: Associated Press, "Study Shows Thousands of Wal-Mart Employees on TennCare," WKRN-TV Nashville, January 20, 2005.

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Be sure to thank the managers for spending your tax dollars on employee health care...
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The only tax I pay in TN is a sales tax. No property or income tax. And the prices at walmart + the sales tax is cheaper then me getting what I want elsewhere.

You lose.
 
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