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Dinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 01:27 PM
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I Hope mal-wart's Sales Just DIE This Holiday Season
They can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.
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super_nova_of_truth Donating Member (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 01:37 PM
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1. Walmart needed more security. I hope they get sued to death
It is difficult to stop a stampede of crazed consumers....If they don't get their shopping and buying fix, others will likely get hurt. Remember the tickle me Elmo craze a few XMESSs ago?
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fascisthunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 01:37 PM
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2. You Got That Right... I Told a Relative about this Story
and that relative will never go back there, so at least they lost one customer. I hope they lose many, many more... there is nothing better than watching greedy people suffer the loss of their profits.
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Dinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 01:56 PM
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10. I've Let Myself Go There When I "Have To," Well, I Realize Now That I Never "Have To"
Edited on Sat Nov-29-08 01:56 PM by Dinger
go there again. Fuck 'em.
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boozepusher Donating Member (152 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 01:41 PM
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3. Keep in mind
Wal-Mart employs 1.3 million people in the U.S.
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Common Sense Party Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 01:43 PM
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5. Some people would rather have those 1.3 million unemployed
than working at WM and not being unionized.
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Dinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 01:55 PM
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9. So What (nt)
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Sonicmedusa Donating Member (613 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 02:14 PM
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16. And US manufactoring used to employ MUCH more
Fuck Walmart.
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 02:45 PM
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23. Exactly. How many WalMart products are a direct result of outsourcing?
WalMart killed hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs and replaced them with sales clerk jobs.
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Common Sense Party Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 01:42 PM
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4. Don't hold your breath. They're about the only retailer that had a decent
3rd quarter. In tough economic times, WM will do well.
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mediaman007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 01:48 PM
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6. Thank the merchandise god! Couldn't have WalMart slow down its race
to the bottom.
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amdezurik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 01:55 PM
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8. I just have to wonder
how many tons of melamine they pushed on their customers...
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emilyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 02:06 PM
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13. I hope so. I shop there weekly.
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Systematic Chaos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 02:54 PM
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25. VERY weakly, I would imagine....
n/t
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emilyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 09:03 PM
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28. Pretty strongly.
I'm retired. Don't take hand-outs. Need to make the $ stretch.
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ThatsMyBarack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 01:48 PM
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7. I wish the WalMart ADS would die.
What a waste of airtime on TV! :grr:
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Sanctified Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 01:58 PM
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11. Really I kind of hope humanity can see the error of thier ways and
that people will start taking responsibility for their actions. Blaming a store is easy when you don't want to accept that it was humanity acting worse than animals that trampled the employee.
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emilyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 02:06 PM
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14. Amen.
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Tashca Donating Member (935 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 02:23 PM
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20. I agree
When I first heard this I felt so sorry for the family.

Then I felt and still feel that this is a reflection on our current society. It goes much deeper than blaming the shoppers or a store.
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Syrinx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 02:03 PM
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12. why would you wish for a global depression?
Wal-Mart is the largest private employer in the world.
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ben_meyers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 02:10 PM
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15. Since Walmart is the largest private employer in Arizona,
maybe if they shut down all those annoying Norwegians from the Dakotas and Minnesota will have to leave the state. Oh and those conceited Californians too, go back and mess up your own f'ing freeways you slobs!
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Sonicmedusa Donating Member (613 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 02:17 PM
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18. Were you born in Arizona? N/T
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ben_meyers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 02:20 PM
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19. Tell ya the truth, I don't think anybody was.
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Sonicmedusa Donating Member (613 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 02:44 PM
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22. I was. St. Joesph's Hospital.
But yes, few people were. Most were imported just like you.
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Dis Pater Donating Member (153 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 02:46 PM
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24. BAM.
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ben_meyers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 03:05 PM
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26. Well I did jump the border at Lupton
And kind of sneaked down from Holbrook to Heber, avoiding ICE in Flag, and landed in Fountain Hills. But it was an arduous journey and I couldn't find a decent restaurant until Payson.
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 02:16 PM
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17. Even in Arkansas they are talking about it
and how it seems WalMart has become an unsafe, even dangerous place to shop. I predict they will lose sales because of this.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 02:33 PM
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21. WalMarts are deadly and should not be allowed within 1000 feet of schools, churches...
etc...
Think of the children!
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blue_onyx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-29-08 03:12 PM
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27. With all the economic problems..
Walmart's sales will rise. I bet it will be one of the few stores to do well this Christmas.
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