**DUERS** ARE YOU UP TO THE WALMART CHALLENGE???

[MagickMuffin]

Since Walmart is asking us to help provide food for their workers, why not help them out.

Hence My Challenge:

Go to Walmart fill your shopping carts full of food and place the food in the storage bins!


WIN - WIN … … … Everybody WINS!

Workers will have their holiday food and Walmart will be supplying their workers with the food they are asking us to give.

Spread the message far and wide!!!

Give Freely and Happy THANKSGIVING.

[NYC_SKP]

1. I don't think general shoppers have access to the employee area with the bins.

But I love the concept, if only it worked.

[lonestarnot]

3. Bin. Who needsa bin?

[NYC_SKP]

6. What bins? Grab a nice coffee maker in appliances, some giftwrap and a bow over in aisle 54.

~~~

Wrap up the coffee maker and give it to the cashier as you leave the store!

BAM!

[lonestarnot]

8. Wouldn't they throw you on the floor for unwrapping the wrapping paper and accuse of trying to pinch

it?

[NYC_SKP]

21. THAT's when take the happy face pin you grabbing coming in and stick it on the security guy's shirt.

And kiss them on the cheek!

(It might work)

[2naSalit]

10. That's just sooo deviant

I can't help but love the concept!

[madokie]

38. And say

Here, this is your Christmas gift from me as you smile on your way out of the store.
This will come back to bite walmart in the ass as sure as it should. If it doesn't do anything else it will show the shoppers that walmart is short changing their help. I see walmart loosing market share at a steeper rate than they are already now.

[lonestarnot]

39. yeah. And they'll figure out some deviance to further fuck the slaves.

Slaves need to stand up to them.

[MagickMuffin]

32. I Demand Access To the Bins

Also a good idea would be to mark the can with permanent markers, so the food doesn't end up being resold by Walmart to unsuspecting customers.

I certainly wouldn't put anything past the waltons!

[lonestarnot]

2. Excellent idea!

[Rex]

4. There is a RWing email going around telling Repukes

to boycott Costco (gee I wonder why) and only shop at Wal-Mart! That is a good Repubican store!

Remind anyone you run into this season as to WHY certain groups hate Costco and love Wal-Mart. Don't forget to remind them of how Wal-Mart is asking for free handouts to feed their employees.

Should be priceless.

[lonestarnot]

9. Well I don't like the smell of them in Costco anyway.

[Rex]

12. I thought it was funny but sad that anyone

would send emails around like that, but I like to keep an eye on what is in the RW news blabber...just had to share that since the thread reminded me of that email. Me personally I shop local.

[lonestarnot]

17. This thread reminded you of a sad person sending around a stupid email? Are you implying that you

think actions against Walmart are like a sad email. Maybe I'm just too tired to be here right now.

[2naSalit]

13. And don't forget

to add that they are making their employees work all the T-day holiday and COSTCO will be closed on Thursday too.

[Rex]

15. I guess it would kill the Waltons to have a paid for holiday for their employees.

Not like families outside the inner circle mean anything really. Just common trash like the rest of the workers. Why can't they be happy eating ash?

[2naSalit]

16. I hate to say it

only because I don't want to be accused of inciting mayhem but I smell a big comeuppance brewing and I don't want to see what happens when it does... because I fear that a lot of good people will be hurt. I think I'll just stay out here on this volcano and hope there's something left when the dust settles.

[Rex]

20. Well food riots etc would have to break out for that level of mayham.

Rich people always think that have all the time and money in the world on their side and they are half correct.

[2naSalit]

24. I don't think

those kind of population uproar activities are too far off in the future. Think about it... food subsidies cut to the bone, wages are scandalously low and heating costs are still too high, when folks are hungry and cold and they have to choose... there will be another choice they might consider at that point. In my neck of the woods, winter is long and usually pretty damned cold, even in the higher populated areas and poverty is ubiquitous now more than ever... civility is at an all time low. This molotov cocktail isn't too far from a lit match at this point. Our allegedly agreed upon social contract is quickly becoming a faded memory, not good signs for a fixable resolve in the near future.

[Rex]

27. Yes and now cutting food stamps and aid to the military.

Really bad idea forcing most of the population to go hungry every night. Let us hope somebody reigns in the insanity in Congress. The level of austerity Republicans want will destroy the social fabric. And ironically enough, start with their own constituents being the ones to yell for pitchforks and torches first.

[2naSalit]

31. It's kind of amamzing

that their own constituents keep electing them while acting like they have a clue about policy and agendas. Reminds me of an OP from last night about the workers (union) at the Union Leader, a rightwing rag in NH, are striking and complaining about a wage cut and a union busting ploy... oh the irony!

but I agree with you, they are cutting too close to the bone and I don't think they understand what happens to people who are facing endless destitution. If they do, they are far more evil than I give them credit for because it would mean that they intend to push everyone over the edge in order to call on martial law... and that will not go well at all. But I can't put that kind of mindset entirely beyond them either.

[Rex]

33. I dismissed that mindset after Cheney gave up the reigns of rule.

They had their chance to really take over the country and I think they did in many ways. Republicans will get it only when they see their very own at their gates and fences lines up and hungry for food and thirsty for water.

[JI7]

25. they would be missing out by doing that

on better deals and products overall .

walmart is depressing to be at. i'm lucky i have many other options around me to pick from .

[Rex]

30. I hear ya, we have a very strong state chain of grocery stores

that are locally owned and operated. They are so successful that they moved into the meta-store structure and now sell clothes and everything else a superstore carries. They also make most of the food on the shelves (as an alt to the brand name) and most of their products are better than the retail.

If I travel 15 miles to the west, I can go to a new Super Wal-Mart and so I did to see what they had on sale. Most of the isles were half way stocked and I didn't know if it was because it is a new store or that the service is that bad. It was like a half stocked store, really weird looking.

[2naSalit]

34. I went into one last spring

and it was creepy to see the half stocked shelves (stocked with Koch Industries made stuff). I had to go in because I was with a friend who needs a hand doing her shopping, we have to drive a little over 100 miles to get to the nearest one, thank goodness, and I couldn't talk her out of going there. I didn't buy anything there because we we were also going to Costco.

Sometimes I go in the other direction, 130 miles and go to an employee owned grocery (WINCO), they don't have them in my state but the state I live on the border of does, and stock up on whatever I need there. Other times I go to the gouge-o-rama markets in the town down the hill to get some perishables but I try to keep my purchases under $10. When I go to the city, in either state, I go to Costco and other stores I don't have moral issues about patronizing. Walmart is evil, don't go there.

Living rural makes you plan ahead, it's hard to compulsively purchase things!

[VanillaRhapsody]

5. Guess who will get to restock all of that on Thanksgiving...between the turkey and the pumpkin pie..

[SoCalDem]

7. The donation bins are in the employee only areas..

Food donated in the shoppers' area bins/barrels probably gets put back on the shelves & resold (based on Walmart's general "aura&quot .

If you are part of a group, perhaps you could hold a food-drive specifically aimed at Walmart employees.. get some press too

Have walmart employees show a paycheck stub (with their names, SS & address blacked out).. The press might enjoy actually showing how little some of these folks make..and the check IDs them so they can get the free food.. Their faces could blurred in any pictures..

Shame works

[lonestarnot]

11. Another good idea.

[WillyT]

22. How About... "I Just Heard You're Workers Are Under-Paid... I'm Here To Help..."

Where can I contribute ???

[Heather MC]

28. But Encourage donators to shop at Cosco

And bring the donations to Walmart

Imagine A long line of people walking into Walmart with Cosco shopping bags to donate to walmart employees

[SoCalDem]

29. yep.. buy the food at a union store (if there are any left in the area)

[Heather MC]

36. True, I hate Walmart

Walmart knows how to suck the life out of a town.

New plan Get the donated food from small mom and pop shops, if any exist

[Marie Marie]

14. If anyone does feel inclined to help out Walmart employees with a food donation,

just be sure to buy that donation from any other store other than Walmart. Jeebus, I've worked for some cheap ass places and even we were given a frozen Turkey for the holidays which I usually turned around and donated to a food bank.

[SoCalDem]

18. Yep. It was a common practice to give every employee a turkey/ham for Thanksgiving

and Xmas.. or at least gift certificates with the paycheck that preceded the holidays.

Last year my husband won a $50 gift certificate at their Xmas party (their boss always has drawings for extras) Wouldn't you know, it was for WALMART.. I gave it to my best friend who is always in dire straits . (she is a caretaker for her handicapped older brother). I could not bring myself to shop there..even with a gift certificate

[2naSalit]

19. Excellent point!

Don't buy a thing from those pigs, it only encourages them and makes them money.

[libdem4life]

23. There needs to be an Express Line at the Human Services Office...WalMart Employees Express Line

so they can get make it back from their lunch break on time. Imagine the WM horror!! The though, however, is delightful.

Even restaurant workers get some food, FFS.

[Deep13]

26. And they will still be poor on Dec. 26.

They need a union.

[DonCoquixote]

35. Here is Alice Walton's little museum

http://crystalbridges.org/about/

One she got by buying works of art from Public collections throughout the world, throwing money at local governments that then used the fact they had less art to shrink museums anyway.

And this Musuem is meant to showcase American art, by undermining the American ideals that made that art. Oh, and it is supposed to develop bentonville too. Sorry, even though they have great art that I would gladly go abroad to see, I have no intention of rewarding Bentonville, not to mention I will bet most of the residents neither want nor need the museum, as they are likely too busy working at Wal mart.

[Le Taz Hot]

37. This requires me to shop at WalMart.

Nope. I'll give to my local food bank who helps LOTS OF PEOPLE all year 'round. Besides, wasn't it WalMart a few years ago that was caught PUTTING BACK IN STOCK Christmas gifts that had been donated to the needy? I don't trust them and I won't step foot in one of them.