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FiveB247
05-06-2003, 07:19 AM
http://money.cnn.com/2003/05/06/news/companies/walmart_mags/index.htm
Apparently, half naked women in magazines is offensive...but selling guns in a store that also sells food and linens is somehow ok? You got to love logic.
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Immigration Dude
05-06-2003, 07:35 AM
I live one town over from the largest Walmart in New England. If your ever down or depressed I say go in there on a Saturday morning and see all the freaks in the store. These have gotta be the largest people on earth and ther're all in there turning in their food stamps for deep fried food. I hope that they dont wonder why the're like that.
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TheMojoPin
05-06-2003, 07:36 AM
Waif me, Wal-Mart.
Glad I don't shop there or Sam's CLub.
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high fly
05-06-2003, 08:01 AM
I bet they still got Cosmo.
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furie
05-06-2003, 09:58 AM
I hope that they dont wonder why the're like that.
the funny thing is they don't think they're fat.
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Def Dave in SC
05-06-2003, 11:21 AM
I knew i was in the wrong store when all their clothes were at least 3XL and emblazoned with NASCAR imagery. I was in the womens dept.
Now i only go to Target
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Death Metal Moe
05-06-2003, 01:39 PM
Wasn't Wal-Mart also the same store that refused to carry the Al Snow action figure because they felt that "Head", his female plastic head he carried around somehow supported abuse against women?
I have to say I feel guilty everytime I shop there. I remember the owner of Wal-Mart SWORE he'd NEVER use Union work to build his stores or man his stores. Having made a lot of money as a Union Carpenter I found that a little offensive.
But hey, they have EVERYTHING for DIRT CHEAP prices. And Unions aren't saints either.
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Se7en
05-06-2003, 02:36 PM
selling guns in a store that also sells food and linens is somehow ok?
Yes! I like the fact that I can buy a Glock any damn time I want.
I recently found out they sell cheap paintguns too. Dirt cheap. Some as cheap as 20 bucks!
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Immigration Dude
05-06-2003, 02:41 PM
I knew i was in the wrong store when all their clothes were at least 3XL and emblazoned with NASCAR imagery. I was in the womens dept.
The best thing about the store is that you never need to wear decent clothes there. I'll go there looking like shiz and not be worried about it.
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05-06-2003, 02:43 PM
Being PC blows!
I can still get a cheap thrill out of YM.
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Yes! I like the fact that I can buy a Glock any damn time I want.
I don't like that fact. It frightens me, frankly.
TheMojoPin
05-06-2003, 10:26 PM
"So if I can't shoot rabbits...then I can't shoot fascists?"
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fluffernutter
05-06-2003, 10:38 PM
I have to go to Wal-Marts for my job and check the illustrious Wal-Mart TV Network. I also worked there for 5 and a half years until I found the brighter pastures where I am now.
There was so much brainwashing and just plain CULT oriented shit, it was scary BUT educational at the same time. When our store opened I got paid for 36 hours one weekend to paint cartoons on the breakroom walls. I had that place by the BALLS.
WM will not sell Eminem BUT they will sell the 8Mile soundtrack and Movie and D12. Hmmm...
I noticed this today as WM let this slip past their eyes as well:
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They will catch it eventually.
So there is NO Maxim or Stuff but newspapers at the front checkouts proclaiming Nuclear War next week and The World To Blow Up on Thanksgiving and stuff like that. Sure we adults know it is bullshit but how about the kids who don't know any better.
Wal-Mart employees are supposed to ID kids for buying stuff thatmaybe questionable. The warning comes on the screen but the employees do NOTHING! I see this shit all the time along with the laxadasical approach to a low paying job becasue WM is more concerned with filling their pockets and not their worker who make the business for them in the first place. For a high school kid, yeah, ideal job so you can get by. But I notice so many lifers there who are just "content" or can do no better and WM takes such advantage of that by cutting hours when you start to get paid to much or making up bullshit excuses that you have to be "let go".
For instance, the one store I cover has been in Warminster, PA for about 6 years now. There is a nother WM 12 miles south and 12 miles north and about 15 miles west. 3 miles away from the Warminster store there was a Bradlees that went out of business (hmmm) and a WM just shot up in there in the last year. The employees at the Warminster store were told to transfer or suffer cut hours or to just leave. How is that fair? Becasue Mr. Corporation want to have a store every 5 - 10 miles, people have to lose their jobs and/or start the job AGAIN at a lower wage while the fatcats in Arkansas get richer.
On my route when I started I had 6 Wal Marts within the city limits and suburbs of Philadelphia. By the end of this year I will have 12. 6 new stores in a little bit over 2 years. The goal for the end of this year is to have 85 NEW stores stretching from North Carolina to NYC. There are also plans for Wal Mart to open their own lines of conveinience stores to give the Wawa's, 7-11's, Quik Check's, Circle K's and On The Run's some stiff competition.
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reeshy
05-07-2003, 02:07 AM
pparently, half naked women in magazines is offensive...but selling guns in a store that also sells food and linens is somehow ok?
That's right , Bucko and let's keep it that way!!!
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FiveB247
05-07-2003, 06:25 AM
Fluttuernutter, your desciption of WM are typical of many large chains. They surge into the market going from 6 to 12 stores in a small area to weed out the competition...but after time passes...once competition is non-existent. They wil go back to the 6 store premise. And in effect, they will have a huge share of that particular market as well as be able to keep employee wages low due to no other competition. Typical corporate actions.
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fluffernutter
05-07-2003, 07:07 AM
Yeah Five, I guess that is just the sad state of the Corporate States that we live in today.
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Se7en
05-07-2003, 07:15 AM
I don't like that fact. It frightens me, frankly.
Pussy.
I'm thinking of joining a 2nd Amendment club at my school next year. I'm not strong pro or anti gun, but they've promised me paintball excursions. It's enough to sell me.
BTW, for a good "parody" of sorts on Wal-Mart & Target (and "mega" stores in general), go pick up a copy of Bentley Little's "The Store."
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