Always Low Prices, Always -- The Ironic Nature of Cross-promoting Walmart on MSNBC's Network Shows

[LovingA2andMI]

Help me understand. Okay, so Beyoncé dropping $37,500 at a Walmart in $50 gift cards is a "Good Thing", while the employees at the Walmart are in many cases receiving government assistance for making substandard wages?

Well, according to Joy-Ann Reid who sub-hosted msnbc Melissa Harris-Perry show today, this is like the "FREAKING BEST THING EVER!" So, I assume the network and Ms. Reid are A-Okay now with the Walmart Employees making substandard wages because Beyonce graced her presence at one of the retailers' Massachusetts stores.

And some folks think MSNBC is everything but a Corporately Owned Publicly Traded Network owned by Comcast.

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[Squinch]

1. Very good point. I wondered myself.

[LovingA2andMI]

2. Thanks!

And it made no sense for Joy Ann Reid promote a sense of 'Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy' glee over Bey's business move to drop $37.5 on Gift Cards at Walmart.

Bey did what she did in response to Target declining to sell her latest iTunes promoted CD in their stores. In return, to "stick it" to Target (who as a retailer is experiencing plenty of rightful problems of its' own with the three week data theft scandal) Bey made a BUSINESS MOVE for publicly and to increase revenue sells for her CD elsewhere.

Meanwhile, the so-called Progressive Network -- MSNBC cross-promotes Bey's business move at the SAME Corporate retailer where the network has spent the better half of 2013 connecting how Walmart's low wages cause the retailers employees to seek government assistance programs.

Talk about talking out of both ends. MSNBC should be ASHAMED of themselves. Also, others need to know MSNBC is not "Progressive" in any meaning or shape of the word.

[Squinch]

3. It is a retailer putting the consumer in the middle of a tit for tat that doesn't benefit

the consumer anyway. A nominally liberal media outlet shouldn't be glamorizing it.

[SheilaT]

4. A couple of years ago my supervisor at work

tried to give me a $25 gift card for WalMart because of some good thing I'd done on the job. I handed it right back, saying simply that I never shop there.

She was clearly completely taken aback that anyone would turn something like that down.

[LovingA2andMI]

5. Good for you for turning it down!

There are PLENTY of other places to shop and for that instance, promote besides substandard wage paying, Walmart.

[SheilaT]

6. The best thing was that it wasn't at all difficult

to refuse the card. I'm not independently wealthy, but I don't live on the financial edge, either. I do understand I'm fortunate, and there are those here who might go ahead and take the card because that twenty-five bucks would make a difference.