Wal-Mart Wants FL Journalist Fired-(They) Don't Like What He Writes...

[XanaDUer]

Published - July, 24, 2005
Here's why you can't buy the News Journal at Wal-Mart
Randy Hammer
@PensacolaNewsJournal.com
You can't buy the Pensacola News Journal at Wal-Mart anymore.

The store ordered us off their property, told us to come pick up our newspaper racks and clear out.

So we did.

A few people called last week, some even wrote letters to the editor, and wanted to know why they couldn't buy the newspaper at Wal-Mart in the days after Hurricane Dennis.

Some managers at Wal-Mart didn't appreciate a column Mark O'Brien wrote last month about the downside of the cheap prices that Sam Walton's empire has brought to America. We all pay a little less, and sometimes a lot less, at the grocery store and department store because of Mr. Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart.

Mr. Walton developed a brilliant business model that allowed him to undercut the prices of his competitors. He made sure that the blue jeans his store sold were cheaper than the jeans the store down the road sold. And if some store had a two-for-one special on boxes of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, Wal-Mart would have a three-for-one special.

Leave it to old Mark, whose column runs four days a week in this newspaper, to find a downside to this. Actually, it wasn't Mark, but Thomas Friedman, who wrote "The World is Flat," which happens to be a best seller right now...

http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050724/OPINION/507240314/1020/ARCHIVE

Original Column:

http://www.gulfcoastgateway.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050618/NEWS01/506180331/1037/COLUMNISTS01

[Mr_Spock]

1. What's a WalMart?

I don't acknowledge their existence

[XanaDUer]

2. It's a mart that stretches from one wall to another...

and a little yellow smiley-face man flies around lowering prices.

[Mr_Spock]

7. Oh, the little yellow shit stain?

I don't see it any more :D

[BlueJazz]

3. Well..Glory Be..At least a few folks, here in Florida , have some Guts...

..Oh..and Wal-Wart...THE TRUTH FUCKIN' HURTS..Doesn't it...

[cascadiance]

4. Can't have dissenting opinions at "China Mart"!

Continue to boycott 'em!



http://www.cafepress.com/chinamart

[ClintonTyree]

5. How positively Republican of them............

too bad assholes, not everyone like your "low prices". Costco is going to kick your ass. They pay their employees well with good benefits and don't treat them as a liability.
Wal*Mart, FUX News, the GOP...........all the same turds in a different disguise.

[Rainscents]

6. Wal-Mart can kiss my ass!!!

[OKDem08]

8. priorities unbalanced

They pay their employees pathetic salaries; however, I do recall they spared no expense on a lavish inaugural event for GWB

[KLF44]

9. Here's Walmart's spin on things

http://walmartfacts.com/

[XanaDUer]

10. OOO, a $350 deductible for the insurance

how generous of them.

[DanCa]

11. Yet more proof

Wal Mart and it's practices are unamerican.

[XanaDUer]

12. They're demonic.

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