Stinky The Clown
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Fri Feb-27-09 02:02 PM
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If I never see another big box store, it will be too soon ...... |
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.... I hope they all dry up and blow away.
That statement is pure, unadulterated, 100% emotional and not one bit rational.
It is borne of nostalgia for a better time. A time before cheap Chinese crap and corporate hucksters selling cheap Chinese crap for twice what it is worth, but far less than US made comparable items.
I want my country back.
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Fri Feb-27-09 02:03 PM
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It is the only big box store I frequent though.
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Fri Feb-27-09 02:05 PM
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Fri Feb-27-09 03:26 PM
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I need my choice grade beef and real parmeggiano reggiano, stravecchio, no less.
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Fri Feb-27-09 04:29 PM
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30. Costco isn't a big-box store -- it's ... Costco! |
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I gotta get my microwave bacon at Costco!
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Fri Feb-27-09 02:04 PM
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2. How do you find time to go to them, you're on DU 24/7 |
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Fri Feb-27-09 02:08 PM
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7. LOL. I love the addicts. |
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Fri Feb-27-09 02:05 PM
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3. I sort of like Target.... Take away all the others, though |
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Fri Feb-27-09 02:06 PM
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5. One can still find items that are made in the U.S. at Target... |
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Fri Feb-27-09 02:07 PM
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:thumbsdown:
Target is a red company.
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Fri Feb-27-09 02:26 PM
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Fri Feb-27-09 02:39 PM
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Fri Feb-27-09 02:54 PM
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16. The BuyBlue website is down, but take some time to check |
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This has been discussed repeatedly on DU and NO, despite your snark, I do NOT work for them.
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Fri Feb-27-09 02:58 PM
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17. Did you check the Open Secrets site? |
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Fri Feb-27-09 02:59 PM
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18. They also donate to Klobuchar. |
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They're based in MN - they will give money to whomever is in office, because losers don't legislate.
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Fri Feb-27-09 03:02 PM
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20. I know they're based in MN. |
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Your explanation makes sense.
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Fri Feb-27-09 03:11 PM
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21. On further inspection |
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Edited on Fri Feb-27-09 03:13 PM by geardaddy
it looks like they donate to the party of prominence in open seats.
e.g. Ellison in 2006 for CD-5, Paulsen in 2008 for CD-3
On edit: it looks like they went Independent in CD-5 in 2006. Afraid to give Ellison money before he was in?
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Fri Feb-27-09 02:15 PM
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8. Target's got much better buyers |
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and the cheap Asian crap they buy has to pass minimal quality control testing. Plus, somebody's got a sense of style.
I love Costco and have found the Kirtland brand to be high quality across the board. However, the selection is quite limited and there are some things a single person just can't buy in bulk.
The only thing I like about Wally's is one four dollar prescription. It's on nobody else's cheap list and would cost about forty bucks elsewhere, so I got to Wally's once a month when I refill.
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Fri Feb-27-09 02:24 PM
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9. We shop at our local Ace hardware pretty often |
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They hire a lot of older guys who know their stuff.
Lowes is the big box hardware that we shop at otherwise. I even found my "beloved" fridge there at Lowes on deep sale last year.
For most things I shop at smaller stores and like the intimacy. Vast stores leave me cold. I can hardly wait till our seasonal green grocer opens again in April. It won't be long!
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Fri Feb-27-09 02:35 PM
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11. Before walmarts low priced shit |
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we had a oklahoma tire and supply in each of the four towns here that most all of us around here identify with, a western auto in all of them, a couple or three auto parts stores in each town too before the autozones and o'reillys come busting in the door promising us the moon. I've been against this from the get go. I had a chance to buy and was incouraged to do so by my boss at the time to buy walmart stock back when it was 2 bucks a pop, long before it started dividing and all that. Doing so would have been flying in the face of how I believed.
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Fri Feb-27-09 02:38 PM
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12. I would miss Wal-M very much. |
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Fri Feb-27-09 02:50 PM
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14. Yeah, that old-timey simpler era, when all we had was cheap American-made crap. |
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Sorry, my memory of that older, simpler era is segregation, racism, women staying at home where their place was, and unregulated workplaces that poisoned employees and belched waste into the air and water we breathed and drank. And presidents who spouted hatred from the Oval Office.
Xenophobia is exactly the same type of bigotry as racism, and I don't remember it fondly. I have no nostalgia for that time, thank you very much.
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Fri Feb-27-09 03:28 PM
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23. I don't think the OP wanted to restore everything from our past |
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I think he's talking about retail shopping only.
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Fri Feb-27-09 03:31 PM
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... could someone accuse the author of an OP like this one of xenophobia. :eyes:
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Fri Feb-27-09 03:38 PM
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28. No, I think any time someone insulted "Chinese crap" and longed for an all-American retail economy |
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people would objectively consider that a sign of xenophobia.
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Fri Feb-27-09 03:52 PM
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29. Yeah, it's so much better now |
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with the unregulated workplaces that poison employees and belch waste into the air and water are in somebody else's country.
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Fri Feb-27-09 02:51 PM
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15. Well, for what it's worth, I've never once crossed the threshold of a WalMart... |
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... and I have no intention of ever doing so.
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Fri Feb-27-09 03:00 PM
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with those big box stores. They sell things that should not be sold together - like yard chemicals and food and clothes! Have seen some really awful situations, like a bag of weed and feed in the return basket with fresh mushrooms and a bottle of supplements sitting on top of it. Also - since they are nonunion, noone is looking out for worker safety. Many are exposed to dangerous chemicals for their whole shift.
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Fri Feb-27-09 03:29 PM
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24. Don't know if Costco is union |
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But they are good to their employees. The company has been criticized by the greedheads for giving money that (cough, cough) ought to go to the stockholders to employees, instead.
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Fri Feb-27-09 07:32 PM
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to their employees but they are as uninformed about exposure to toxic chemicals as other big box stores. Have communicated with local managers and their headquarters and they do not get it. I do like the store in other respects. Actually, I witnessed a new employee being trained at our local WalMart about not mixing such products. Of course customers still pile their kids into carts that carry weed & feed and food. Much education is needed.
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Fri Feb-27-09 03:30 PM
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Fri Feb-27-09 03:34 PM
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27. I generally despise them.....but for whatever reason I have a soft spot for Target. |
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I like what they carry, and they issue great coupons to Target cardholders.
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Fri Feb-27-09 04:30 PM
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31. Hey, they have a special on bumper stickers saying exactly that ... |
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down at the big-box store.
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Fri Feb-27-09 04:30 PM
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32. Hey, they have a special on bumper stickers saying exactly that ... |
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down at the big-box store.
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