So big and crazy, chopping down acres to build their crappy stores. Stop runing the little stores by building your big one every ten feet!

1/28/2008 11:13:38 PM

yeah target doesnt do that at all

1/28/2008 11:14:13 PM

Frankly, my experiences in mom and pop stores have been low-quality shit that's overpriced (not to mention they're usually filled to the brim with the rednecks you all seem to hate in Wal-Mart). I don't care if Wal-Mart shuts down inferior stores, regardless of any down-home attachment some people may have had to them. If mom and pop have the job experience of having successfully run a store, it shouldn't be that hard for them to find a new job. Hell, if they're smart and sell the store instead of going down with the ship, they might even be able to coast to retirement.

It's fucking Wal-Mart, requires no work experience or skill whatsoever, and as such it's unreasonable to expect good pay and benefits.

Hurting this country environmentally? How so? Selling cheap goods releases greenhouse gasses?
Edit: Oh, chopping down the trees... if they didn't, a new subdivision would. And I can't buy shit from someone else's neighborhood.


[Edited on January 28, 2008 at 11:17 PM. Reason : .]

1/28/2008 11:14:16 PM

targets are pretty big too, do they not chop down acres to build their stores?

1/28/2008 11:16:42 PM

Kiwi, you're hurting the cause

1/28/2008 11:17:13 PM

You guys ever notice that wal-mart is perpetually busy.

At 3 am...

1/28/2008 11:18:05 PM

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"if they didn't, a new subdivision would. And I can't buy shit from someone else's neighborhood."

sure you can, its called yardsales.

1/28/2008 11:19:42 PM

I go to wal-mart just to see little black children get smacked.

1/28/2008 11:19:48 PM

Quote :

"You guys ever notice that wal-mart is perpetually busy. At 3 am... "

That's a great quality. If I want to buy shit at all hours of the morning, I should have the freedom to do so. That's just plain American.

1/28/2008 11:19:56 PM

I don't have much research to back it up. I used to work for a mom and pop store, if you have stores that tend to a specific range of items they're likely to be much more knowledgeable on the subject and that is ALWAYS a plus.

1/28/2008 11:20:10 PM

Quote :

"You guys ever notice that wal-mart is perpetually busy. At 3 am..."

It's the closest thing Clayton has to a night life (that and Walgreens).

1/28/2008 11:20:47 PM

wal-mart is a corporate beast...

doesn't matter what people say or do...they are and always will be there...

1/28/2008 11:22:12 PM

Wal-mart is often a savior for small communities in the boonies...they now dont have to travel long distances to get simple items that we take for granted. Wal-mart just runs a very productive business and they do it well.....

As far as treating employees unfairly, i have heard the same....never letting anyone work full time hours so they cant receive health insurance and what not...and that sucks, but they also give these people a job.

i dunno...it's a love hate thing with wal mart...i just hate it cause it's wal mart, but i am not afraid to shop there if i wanna get a dvd for a good price, an air soft gun, fishing gear, fighting fish, spray paint, candy, beef jerky and puffy paint.........damn right i said puffy paint

lowes and food lion do the exact same thing to the mom and pop shops.....no one complains about them

[Edited on January 28, 2008 at 11:25 PM. Reason : d]

1/28/2008 11:22:55 PM

yeah so you might as well take advantage of their low, low prices

1/28/2008 11:23:37 PM

Quote :

"never letting anyone work full time hours so they cant receive health insurance and what not...and that sucks, but they also give these people a job."

All retail stores, and probably lots of other types of businesses, do this though.

1/28/2008 11:24:01 PM

yeah, i forgot to mention that^which makes it just like any other store...just huge and full of lots of things that are in demand

LOL^^

It's just a store......don't let that fucker frighten you.





[Edited on January 28, 2008 at 11:28 PM. Reason : d]

1/28/2008 11:26:05 PM

1/28/2008 11:39:21 PM

i agree definitely with that picture...i'm one of those efficient get in and get out(no homo) people

1/28/2008 11:41:02 PM

^^ what if you're a protester and youre protesting IN walmart?

^ i just don't go unless it's a life or death situation

[Edited on January 28, 2008 at 11:42 PM. Reason : ]

1/28/2008 11:41:41 PM

On Smith Street, a 32-year-old woman said she and another woman argued over money. She said when she stepped into the street, the other woman struck her and her dog, "King Gangster." The 32-year-old woman had minor injuries. Medics arrived, but she refused treatment. An officer noted: "King Gangster suffered lacerations to his right leg and paw." Apparently, the woman got upset because hospital medics wouldn't treat King Gangster. "Fuck off," she allegedly told police and medics. "[The woman] refused to secure her extremely large pit bull when asked to by police." She got a ticket for aggravated assault.

1/28/2008 11:43:12 PM

how has snewf avoided posting in this thread

1/28/2008 11:44:37 PM

King Gangster

1/28/2008 11:46:05 PM

one thing about Wal-Mart...they always play REALLY catchy, REALLY bad music

like Daffy Duck singing "All I Want For Christmas Is More More More"

and then I get the songs stuck in my head for the next month

1/28/2008 11:55:25 PM

I don't really have anything to contribute to this thread but I'll just say that I fucking despise Wal-Mart and one of the things that I love about Raleigh is that I can go pretty much anywhere without running into one; the only one I even know of is way the hell out on Glenwood.

1/29/2008 12:49:11 AM

Wal-mart

Fuck yeah

1/29/2008 12:51:54 AM

MCDONALDS!


BOOKS!


IMMIGRANTS!

1/29/2008 12:52:38 AM

PUPPIES JR

PUPPIES

1/29/2008 1:25:40 AM

why is WalMart bad? Do you guys ever notice that all of the strange/fucked up news stories that happen are either right in front of Wal-Marts or in their parking lots? The average news watching American has probably seen about 2 hours of Wal Mart in store or parking lot surveillance video footage in their lifetime already. I mean if you could Google search Wal-Mart not for articles on their business but JUST on the shit that goes on in/in front of their stores during the holidays..............

1/29/2008 8:28:14 AM

I can't understand why these bleeding heart types would hate a store that provides decent products at a cheaper price which helps out the po' folks they supposedly want to help out.

1/29/2008 8:45:02 AM

like the poor folks even really need half the shit they sell at wal mart

1/29/2008 9:05:03 AM

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"bleeding heart types "

They're usually not big fans of capitalism.

1/29/2008 9:05:55 AM

I don't hate Walmart stores... meaning the building, what they sell, and prices. For stuff like deodorant and Bounty paper towels I don't give a shit what store it comes from and Walmart is usually cheapest.

I hate the FUCKING SHITBAG PEOPLE who are in the store - employees and customers. They're either fat, Garner-style, Golden Corral loving, whole milk & bologna eaters or nappy headed, loud mouthed, rude, rent-to-owners.

I'll pay many % more not to have to encounter the lower levels of Southern society.

Plus, Target usually has at least one register being run by a mildy doable chick.

1/29/2008 9:06:00 AM

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"Garner-style"

there is a Garner style true

Quote :

"Plus, Target usually has at least one register being run by a mildy doable chick."

1/29/2008 9:09:12 AM

yea the difference between target and wal mart is crazy

1/29/2008 9:09:34 AM

according to google image search



is the worst store in the world.

with



a close second

[Edited on January 29, 2008 at 9:14 AM. Reason : .]

[Edited on January 29, 2008 at 9:15 AM. Reason : ..]

1/29/2008 9:13:45 AM

Granted WalMart has gotten better about this BUT

when I was a kid, the WalMart in Garner ALWAYS had shit stacked in the aisles. Like you couldn't just walk through there without being stuck behind a cart. It was aisle endcap, 3 feet exactly, then a stack of stuff in the middle. Target seems more spread out and that is what is nice when you go inside. Like I said WallyWorld has figured this out lately. Kmart just has shitty fixtures to begin with.

1/29/2008 9:15:50 AM

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"They don't support their employees properly, whether little health insurance, awful pay, or overworked. And they shut down the little mom and pop stores while hurting this country environmentally. BAM!"

Way to spew out what some news anchor said without processing it.

So what if they shut down mom and pop stores? They do it cheaper and better. Should we keep everyone in business because they do a slightly worse job?


If Employees are getting treated poorly, get a new job. I know they aren't the most qualified people in the world, but I'm sure to go work at a grocery store, target, or some other retail store really doesn't require much higher qualifications.

1/29/2008 9:20:47 AM

dnl: walmarts are generally frowned upon by a lot of people because one of the big reasons that they are able to give cheap prices is because of all the tax incentives they pretty much DEMAND from local governments. walmart strip malls are big time as far as getting other big businesses in town (see fuquay varina). now, lots of the time, the state/local governments give tax packages to big businesses to move into town, because walmart tells them "fine, don't give it to us, we'll just go to the next town" - so they end up not paying property taxes, or end up not paying sales taxes (even though you're still charged them)

there have been case studies (i'll see if i can find any off the top of my head) where mom and pops stores werent beat out because of the prices. in some cases, the prices were actually lower at the mom and pop places and they had decent business, but they still werent making the profits that walmart / REI / home depot, etc were (because of the tax breaks)

to me, its one of those things where you cant win either way. i mean one side says WHY THE FUCK would they give one of the richest guys ever free taxes... and why don't they pass those savings to the employees? i mean think about what wal mart people probably make ($7.50?)... even with no taxes i bet those people are hurting like hell right now. the other side says well some places need the economic boost that walmart and the outparcels and strip malls bring. tough stuff.

thats just one of the many reasons people dont like wal-mart, thats my contribution

ps i use target, but mainly cause its closer. im sure they get similar breaks in different areas

1/29/2008 9:21:11 AM

I agree, (with JRB jackleg posted while I was typing this is an edit) unless there is no other job where you live. Thats the problem.

Walmart in our area is actually irrelevant. You have infinite shopping choices and employment options.

is WHEN they ELIMINATE other choices that there is a problem.

we are get soapboxy in chit chat lol- this is a debate for the ages, the WalMart America

[Edited on January 29, 2008 at 9:24 AM. Reason : see southpark episode where dads must go in all the time and work there]

1/29/2008 9:22:44 AM

Quote :

"whatever is close > whatever is far"

1/29/2008 9:24:03 AM

wow, Kiwi is a fucking idiot.

1/29/2008 9:29:27 AM

me and my people were in a wal-mart in emerald isle last weekend...they had a quarter operated bull which i promptly mounted and JohnnyTHM took a picture

the wal-mart greeter yelled at us and told us NO PICTURES ALLOWED IN WAL-MART

what's up with that wal-mart?

I THOUGHT YOU WERE ABOUT SAYING "CHRISTMAS", "FREEDOM" AND "USA #1"?

GUESS NOT

1/29/2008 9:29:48 AM

hahaha dont they have one hour walmart photo?

1/29/2008 9:32:03 AM

well they can't have anybody have evidence other than their surveillance cameras can they? I mean with all the media stories that happen around there, they must have tight control over what gets leaked out!!

This is not a democracy! THIS IS WALMART!

1/29/2008 9:33:18 AM

i actually took some cell phone pictures of some crap in walmart that was labeled "CLASSIFIED: WAL-MART" or some shit. no idea why it was supposedly such a secret, it was just like layouts for what went where on the aisle or whatever.

i think i posted them here, actually i'm sure i did. cause why take pictures of that if you can't post em on tww

1/29/2008 9:35:08 AM

on cnn.com's front page: Wal-Mart chops prices in bid to lure shoppers
http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/29/news/companies/walmart_pricecuts/index.htm?postversion=2008012908

1/29/2008 9:39:01 AM

1/29/2008 9:45:07 AM

This bleeding heart crap is making me sick. Go to your nearest Walmart, look at an employee, and you will realize he/she is overpaid.

These are the people who couldn't get jobs in places like NCSU's cashier's office. Think about it.

1/29/2008 9:50:25 AM

MADE IN CHINA

1/29/2008 9:59:11 AM

haha. Going to walmart at 2-3am can be pretty entertaining.

1/29/2008 10:09:00 AM