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BlueJazz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 07:10 PM
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Has anybody seen the new round of Wal-Mart ads?
Man, Oh, Man... talk about a Company circling the wagons.

The newest commercials show these "Oh, So sincere" people spouting the latest crap that Wal-Marts Ad executives have come up with.

key words:

"They've brought so many jobs to America"
"They truly give back to the community"
"They've brought respect back to so many areas"
"Their prices allow families to spend more on the necessities of life"

The Wal-Mart scum know all to well that their policies are destroying many communities and this is just the first attempt to
"program the masses" into believing that Wally-World is a caring living being.

AAAGGGG...Excuse me while I go Puke....
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 07:13 PM
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1. How about the road sign that says...
"Wal*Mart Realty"?!?! :wow:

:puke:

Those tv adverts drive me bonkers too. x(
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MsUnderstood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 07:23 PM
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5. How about the rebuilding of a bad neighborhood
Another ad shows A group of African-Americans, walmart customers, employees, residents talk about how walmart bought a building that had been empty for 5 years and gave the community a sense of purpose by building their mega store there. . .

They only built that store cause their data showed those people were going to their stores in other neighborhoods. . .IMHO.
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 09:04 PM
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10. I just saw that one
Wal-Mart is to communities, what rain is to Baseball games.
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nini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 07:13 PM
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2. I saw one last night about an employees kid who would have died..
.. of leukemia if it hadn't been for WalMart's health care or something close to that. I wasn't paying full attention until the end.

It made it seem like they are provided the best health care in the world because the kid was seen at the Mayo Clinic or something.

I'll pay more attention next time, but it surely is a ploy to make it seem like they give out excellent benefits which we know is a joke.
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Champion Jack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 07:14 PM
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3. Yup, it's the "kindler, gentler" wally mart
Bleeech, same crap different wrapper...
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Intelsucks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 07:17 PM
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4. Seeing a Wal-Mart in Dresden, Germany is a real eye opener.
I guess they will eventually take over the entire globe.
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meti57b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 07:33 PM
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6. ads by walmart, who is actively trying to eliminate the ...
so-called "middle class", such that we will only have the wealthy and the worker peons earning slave wages, in addition to driving down the already-low pay earned by workers in third world countries, who make the products sold by walmart.

The ad that is running locally, is the one about the sincere and happy woman who after 18 years or 26 years (or some such) has had the marvelous opportunity to become manager of the stationery department at walmart. I guess that means she makes $7.25 an hour instead of the $7.00 earned by "associates".

One of the cities here in the San Gabriel Valley (Covina or West Covina) recently blocked the sale of land to walmart. Way to go!! I hope where I live, we can do it to!
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citizen snips Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 07:44 PM
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7. I hate the roll back ads.
The roll back ads are so annoying. :mad:
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 07:51 PM
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9. you mean the great
10 cent rollback? or maybe the 17 cent one?
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davidinalameda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-23-04 07:50 PM
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8. I saw the Napa, CA one last night
what a joke

I'm like so sure that people up there wanted a Wal-Mart

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