Do you shop at walmart?!
Do you shop at walmart?
this applys only to vegetarians and vegans and fruitarians
Additional Details3 months ago
grrrr i can't pick the best answer
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3 months ago
grrrr i can't pick the best answer
it tied between
lilyian
and greenghost
I refuse to go to Walmart on moral principle. They very intentionally put small businesses under.
If they move next to a mom&pops hardware store, they will lower the prices on thier tools to where they are losing money and the little shop can not compete, and they raise them after destroying the family store. But don't wory the grandma and grandpa who put their lives into the store can be greeters.
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I swear, all of America is going to become a giant Wallmart.... and McDonalds.
thanks a lot, you meatist.
no walmart is 40 miles away
yes
My vegetarian friend does but only for juice
I stopped. I met someone that worked there and she told me they really were as bad as everyone said. So I don't go there anymore.
That's fine, I missed Target anyway. :)
Yes. Do you? If not you should. Don't listen to the exaggerating critics of Walmart. Target is a thief.
Yes. They may not treat their employees as well as I'd like but my viewpoint is that they choose to work there. And Target is no better, Treehugger-they refused to allow employees who were deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep the health insurance for their families through Target AND they refuse to allow Toys for Tots at their stores AND they refuse to let Salvation Army Santas at their stores at Christmas. Plus, they're owned by a French company.
No!!!!!!!!
Wal-mart has ties with the Center for Consumer Freedom(http://consumerdeception.com/) I was doing some internet research and came across this...
SENIOR WAL-MART OFFICIALS, BOB MCADAM AND LEE CULPEPPER, CONNECTED TO RIGHT-WING ATTACK DOG - RICK BERMAN, HEAD OF THE CENTER FOR UNION FACTS
GROUP CALLS ON WAL-MART TO FIRE BOB MCADAM AND LEE CULPEPPER AND END RELATIONSHIP WITH RIGHT WING ATTACK DOG, RICK BERMAN
Washington, D.C. - WakeUpWalMart.com, America’s campaign to change Wal-Mart, has uncovered a close and working relationship between high-ranking senior Wal-Mart executives, Bob McAdam and Lee Culpepper, and right-wing radical Rick Berman.
Earlier this year, Rick Berman, a well-known right-wing radical and defender of mercury poisoning, drunk driving and Big Tobacco, launched a campaign attacking hard-working union members. At the time of Berman’s launch, Wal-Mart spokesman, Sarah Clark, publicly denied any involvement or connection between Wal-Mart and Berman’s group, the Center for Union Facts(now Center for consumer freedom). According to the Los Angeles Times, Clark said Wal-Mart had "never heard" of Berman.
Now, Wal-Mart publicly admits it has not only heard of Berman, but has been working with him. The Detroit Free Press reports, “Wal-Mart said it has a relationship in which it exchanges union information with Berman, the group's head." [Detroit Free Press, 5/24/06
In addition, an investigation by WakeUpWalMart.com confirms that two senior Wal-Mart officials, Bob McAdam and Lee Culpepper, have worked closely with Berman on “special projects” that have related to defending Big Tobacco, defending mercury poisoning, and other right-wing causes.
For example, Bob McAdam worked with Phillip Morris at the Tobacco Institute during the same period of time that Phillip Morris contributed $900,000 to Berman's pro-tobacco campaign. Lee Culpepper worked at the National Restaurant Association. The NRA’s members contributed to Berman's pro-mercury poisoning campaign. In fact, Lee Culpepper, while working at the National Restaurant Association described his relationship with Berman in these glowing terms, “I’ve worked with Rick for years, and indeed he is a lightning rod. People have strong feelings about him, but he helps the industry.”
"Under the leadership of two new senior officials, Wal-Mart has turned to the radical right-wing to try and salvage its declining public image,” said Paul Blank, campaign director for WakeUpWalMart.com.
Blank continued, “The American people will be deeply disturbed to learn Wal-Mart has developed such a close relationship with a right-wing fanatic like Rick Berman.
It appears Bob McAdam, best known as Big Tobacco’s liar-in-chief, has created a culture of lies and deception at Wal-Mart that threatens the company's credibility with the media, consumers and the American people. Since Bob McAdam joined the company, Wal-Mart has misled the public on its health care statistics, lied on its banking application, and falsely claimed it didn't know it was hiring illegal workers. Lee Culpepper’s relationship with Berman is equally reprehensible.
America must wonder why Wal-Mart wants to be associated with three individuals who have spent their careers lobbying against the public interest including defending mercury poisoning, drunk driving, and big tobacco.
Unless Wal-Mart wants to be forever associated with these abhorrent causes, Wal-Mart needs to immediately fire its right-wing attack dogs Bob McAdam and Lee Culpepper, end its disgusting association with Rick Berman’s group, and issue an apology to all of the hard-working families demonized by Mr. Berman.”
yes
I avoid shopping at walmart.
I'm tired of corporations that don't care.
No, I shop at places where the owners actually give a crap whether I shop there or not.
Very grudgingly! I don't like to give them my money but being way out in the country means my choices are either ordering something locally (and waiting days for delivery), hitting an e-tailer and blowing big bux on next day delivery, driving (one way) 50 miles to wallys world of wonders or 100 miles to wallys super world of wonders. The nearest SuperTarget is 400 miles from here! I'll go out of my way to avoid 'big box' retailers any chance I get but sometimes it's just not practical.
Anyone traveling through west Texas can see first hand evidence of wallys destructive nature. Ft.Stockton is a good example; the town and K-mart co-existed for almost 30 years. In less than 10 years after wally showed up most of the local stores and the K-mart closed. Wally is now your only real choice for local shopping now and you bet their prices shot up once everyone else closed! It took less than 20 years for Pecos to become a ghost town after wally showed up! Drive past the town on I-20 and you'll see the (now) shuttered wallyworld to the east of the highway and all the shuttered stores to the west. T&C (a gas/convience store) is your local shopping option now. Go down to Alpine (a town that blocked wally) and you'll see the difference!
wally world is evil!!
sometimes, but I spend too much money there, because I get distracted by the "too many items"...they are fairly far away so gasoline is a factor...I know they don't treat employees right and we are all paying for Walmart employees healthcare that they can't afford..unfortunately until we get national healthcare in the U.S, this will be more and more frequent as companies fight for the almighty dollar and the employees are left in the dust (esp. older employees who survived cancer or acquired a health problem such as diabetes)...
Yes I've shopped there for years. But now after
reading V&P's answer I'm reconsidering.
I've only been buying frozen vegetables
and mock meats there anyway so maybe
I should stop.
I have lived in the same location for seven years.
Most of my stuff I buy from online closeout stores, or I occassionally hit a Burlington coat factory, or a Modell's for some intricate sporting goods.
I have yet to step into the mall, three miles away.
Four years ago, Walmart tricked me once. I needed an oil change in December, and do not have a garage, I was being wimpy. So I drove by Jiffy Lube, line was huge, and went on to Walmart. It took them 45 minutes, in that time I spent like 30 dollars on a comforter and a DVD.
I haven't been back, gave the comforter to my dogs, and kept the DVD - which is just messed up anyway. I need to turn it over half way through the movie to finish watching it.
Those of you who shop there should watch the PBS documentary Frontline on Walmart's practices. It is online at PBS.org - Frontline - and browse the available shows.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/...
I make my students watch it, and write a paper on it for my Sociology classes. Walmart is hurting society, and the owners are some of the richest people in the world. I think it is about time they buy every American a pizza, they could afford it. And they would just get that money back.
Never, Its white trash.
Yes. I live on the backside of nowhere and its Walmart or starve.
No. Walmart is the epitome of trash,.
I do shop at wal mart about once a week. What i really love is their tofu/vegetarian section. They have a huge selection of items.
No, I dont. Walmart is notorious for mislabeling things as organic or natural, when they in fact are not. I don't trust them to do the right thing. They started marketing eggs from "open air" chickens-turns out all they had done was to cut a small window into the regular battery shed. Too deceptive for me. If they will do that for one product, they will do it for all.
yes i shop there. but i don't go there for food or anything because they mislabel things just to get people to pay more. I go there for things like office supplies.
i HATE walmart.
No, not anymore. I did for a while when one first came to the area, I mean I can't deny their prices are cheaper than pretty much anywhere, but that company has so many negative business practices, that I just can't stand to contribute to it anymore.
There are reasons why their prices are so ridiculously low. They're wiping out small business across the country, screw over their employees in the states, and treat the people in their factories overseas like indentured servants. I mean why manufacture their clothing, etc here when they can go to Indonesia and have 70 employees for the same that they would have to pay one US factory worker. These people are lucky if they make even 20 cents an hour, and often are physically disciplined if not working fast enough.
Then there's the whole enviromental issue of it. How could I feel good about my vegetarian lifestyle doing a small part to help conserve our rescources, if I was handing my money over to a corporate powerhouse like Wal Mart? They have been cited countless times for their enviromental practices, have false "recycling" programs,and produce 250 million tons of green houses gasses annually.
I love to save money as much as anyone else, but not when it's attached to so many things that I just cannot support.
The local Super Wal-Mart is the only place near me that stocks tofu and organic veggies. It also carries soy ice-cream and tofutti soy slices, so I don't have much of a choice!
Vegan or not, hell no. I try to avoid companies that are evil, especially blatantly evil.
Did you hear? They are now getting into food now? Food and even organic food. They are one of the top sellers of organic milk. Not a good thing. Why? Walmart (and other big companies wanting in on the organic market) are trying to lower the standards for organic certification just so they can produce cheaper products and make more profits. I'm sure they are planning to start their own organic certification organization which will have lower standards, others are already doing this -- even seen a product that say it's certified by some organization you've never heard of or can't even find any information about on the Internet? I have. Very suspicious.
I try to avoid Whole Foods, Wild Oats, and Capers markets too. Look into it, they are all a bunch of evil bastards trying to make themselves look very friendly. They put people out of business the same way Wal-Mart does just not on as a big scale as Wal-Mart does. The Wild Oats (in Canada called Capers) has put a lot of organic farmers out of business. The local organic farmer I get my honey from has was nearly put out of business by them and has had to stop growing vegetables and focus on honey and pumpkins for Halloween. He said that they hook you with large initial orders, then later on when you are only supplying them exclusively, they start demanding lower prices, then they demand packaging, then he said that they were making negative money -- paying Capers to take their vegetables!!
My wife is in horticulture and she says that Home Depot, Cost Co, etc, all do the same thing to growers of non-edible crops (flowers etc.). They just go from business to business taking advantage of them, them moving on the next.
There are also local Canadian companies that are trying to follow in the footsteps of these overbearing huge American companies -- Plant Organics market clearly states in their mandate to investors that it's all about money and profit and they'll do whatever it takes to make money for their shareholders. Basically, whenever there are faceless shareholders involved and the owners of the company are not actually there in the store to talk with me face-to-face -- no thanks!! I'll go to the locally owned business or the co-op, OK? What's next, the Wal-Mart Co-Op?? ha ha!