please don't trample your fellow shoppers as you go for your DVD player. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...u=/ap/20031129/ap_on_re_us/trampled_shopper_2
"We are very disappointed this happened," Burk said. "We want her to come back as a shopper." At least they care...
"Ellzey said Wal-Mart officials called later Friday to ask about her sister, and the store apologized and offered to put a DVD player on hold for her." Not even a freebie? She still has to come and pay for it??? There's that Wal-Mart spirit we all know and love. "Wal-Mart Stores spokeswoman Karen Burk said she had never heard of a such a melee during a sale." Bullshit. Wal-Mart's still fighting lawsuits from the injuries that occured during the great Furby stampedes in 1998.
Controlling hundreds of slave labor factories in China for one thing. I thought we did away with that 130 years ago, but it's ok to have slaves in foreign countries.
wow that's an eye opener, i had no clue - as far as the harassment of women walmart is hardly different than most anywhere else, but the rest is more than a bit sickening
For what it's worth, a brand new Wal-Mart opened a couple of blocks away from my house. The location they chose was an old K-Mart that was closed due to a new Target opening a couple of blocks away. The Kmart building sat shuttered for almost two years before Wal-Mart refurbished it and opened. Now the Target is in danger of losing business. Not to mention the fact that every small business in the Wal-Mart shopping center is losing because there is no parking. The Blockbuster, Burger King, Dairy Queen and my barbershop have all lost my business. It's simply not worth the hassle of driving around for fifteen minutes trying to find a place to park. I wish my community would have fought harder to keep Wal-Mart out. If you hear of one coming anywhere near you, I suggest you try and fight it. Although I'm sure it's a real long shot trying to keep them from doing what ever the hell they want.
I'm a little disappointed that the DVD player wasn't stolen out from under her. That would've been the American way!
Places like Wal-mart and Home Depot are bad for the economy. Besides overrunning small businesses they beat their vendors up on prices after they've established a relationship with them. This causes the vendor to decide between making very little profit and not paying their employees well or not selling to Wal-mart and having to layoff employees. Companies like Wal-mart and Home Depot have a very big effect because of thier large inffluence. I encourage people who still have small businesses in their area to spend their money there.
Target kicks Wal-Mart's ass. Arvada, CO, 10 miles NE of Denver and 10 SW of me, is going through a "should we let a Super Wal-Mart come or go" thing. Wal-Mart wants to get 1/2 of a lake condemned so they can build a 2 story parking garage. Some in Arvada are willing to give up just about the only lake in town, and one that's important to the local ecosystem. It's either destroy the lake, wildlife, et al or lose the tax $$$ to another suburb. Ugh.
Wouldn't matter much if the smaller business was gone long before they set foot in a community. The Likes of Wal-Mart and Home Depot, like others, have found it hard here to make their mark in the community.
Hang on, exercise, not polluting the atmosphere with exhaust fumes, needing less acres of tarmac for the car-park, there must be an upside to this walking malarkey surely?
Forget Wal-Mart for a minute. Let's not excuse the hordes of morons waiting for a store to open at 6 o'clock in the morning, including the unfortunate stricken lady, so they can charge through the aisles like Rhinos in heat. How ****ing stupid are people?
....and the differences between New York and Northern Virginia are exposed. (I think Chico's from NoVA) People don't walk here, they drive........everywhere. And they complain about the traffic.
We already settled this issue a few months ago. Wal-Mart pays employees considerably less than many grocery stores.
Tell that to the Mexican kids working 12 hours a day for six days a week at the grocery stores and diners in my neighborhood in Brooklyn.
I didn't say it was "two blocks away", CHICO13 did. "Pure fu**in laziness" is the phrase that spring to mind.
WalMart and Super Target are great for last minute christmas shopping and stocking stuffers. That is all.
the "local grocer" can't be as competitive because they don't have the buying power Wal-mart has. the local hardware store doesn't have the buying power Home Depot has. They can't be competive because they don't have the buying power that Wal-mart and Home Depot have. What's the phrase you like to use for this? Oh yeah, "weak sauce." Shop wherever you want. I'm not asking for laws to be written to stop corporations like Wal-Mart and Home Depot. I just think the way they do business hurts their suppliers businesses. They must deal with thousands of companies with countless more employees. Each one of those employees are effected (and possibly affected) negatively by their employers relationship with Wal-Mart or Home Depot. I don't feel comfortable shopping at those places because of it.