DU this poll re Walmart.

[laureloak]

How do you feel about Walmart?


http://www.wral.com/money/6837306/detail.html

[WhiteTara]

1. done 29% love it 23% hate it

:kick:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. My vote was blocked

Interesting. Hope no one else encounters this problem.

[I Have A Dream]

5. I had to do it several times before I was able to have it accept...

it, but it finally did. (At least it looked as though it did.)

[mntleo2]

Check Your Pop Up Blocker

The survey is in a popup window. Often this is the prob.

Cat In Seattle <----Geek and proud of it! :o)

[Maraya1969]

7. Mine was blocked also. I tried several times.

"The server encountered an error processing your request. Please use the retry function of your browser to try again or use the back function to return to the previous page."

[napi21]

3. Interesting results!

The "don't like" votes are fairly high if you add the I het it together with the I don't like shopping there, but there are still way too many Positive ones too!

[mzteris]

4. It wouldn't let me vote on

I HATE IT, but it took my "I don't like shopping there".

:shrug:

[I Have A Dream]

6. I had to try several times with 'I hate it', but it finally went through.

n/t

[mntleo2]

8. Check Your Pop Up Blocker

The survey is in a pop up window and often this is the prob.

Cat In Seattle <----Geek and proud of it! :o)

[Bobbieo]

10. Feelings Toward Wal-Mart

I feel the same way about Wal-Mart as I do about Bush. I voted against both of them but I am stuck with them and have the make the best of it until something better comes along.

[Angry Girl]

12. Me too. Do you suppose it's deliberate? Probably crap server...

[Yollam]

9. I can understand why poor/working people shop there...

...even though they are stabbing themselves in the back and not really saving much. So much of what they sell at Wal-Mart is plastic crapola that will be in the trash bin by the end of the year.

But why upper-middle class and wealthy folks shop there is beyond me. Don't they want quality over quantity? Hell, I'm broke and I'd rather have two good quality shirts than ten crappy wal-mart ones. Don't they hate the store's messy interior, filled with screaming kids and overall chaos? I'm poor and I do. In fact, We probably don't go to ANY big box store but maybe 2 or 3 times a year. Maybe it's something about living in the city - makes it a pain to trek out to the 'burbs to those places.

[Angry Girl]

11. Hate it - 23% still. Let's DU this up!

How do you feel about Wal-Mart?

59153 Votes
I love it. - 16925 - 29%
It's OK. - 16642 - 28%
I don't like - 11008 - 19%
I hate it. - 13426 - 23%
No opinion - 1152 - 2%

[BR_Parkway]

13. why would so many people voting "no opinion" even bother taking

the time to do the survey? 1,155 voted for No Opinion

[otohara]

14. Done

[liberal N proud]

15. Guys, I have to love Wal-Mart, My wife is a manager for them

and that is half our combined salary.
Much of what I hear and read by the anti Wal-Mart is hyped. I will admit it is not the Wal-Mart that Sam Walton founded and those who took over after he died have really hurt the company. The stock performance reflects that as well.
When Sam was alive it was an all American company and promoted American products over others. In towns where a factories made product sold at Wal-Mart they would have permanent displays at the front of the store for those products.

The health care rhetoric is as hyped as everything else, they provide good health care benefits. many of the employees choose not to enroll for obvious reasons and that is were Wal-Mart fails, pay.

I am a former Union worker and support unions fully, but there are two places where I think that the only thing that unions have done is drive the cost up Food Service (groceries and restaurants) and Retail. I didn't notice that until I moved from a semi rural area where those business were not union to the sub-urban area where every grocery store and many restaurants are union, the cost are significantly higher. The wages are not, as my daughter worked in one of the grocery stores and the wages were actually lower than starting wage at Wal-Mart.

So I have to take much of what is said about Wal-Mart with grain of salt, experience tells me what is more likely to be true.

[biscotti]

16. Done