[Oe List ...] Wal-Mart and the weapons of mass destruction

Tue Apr 8 16:17:07 EDT 2008

Costco pays its employees (associates) much better including healthcare.? Go to Costco.

I do go to Wal-Mart occasionally (alas!), but every time I get to the check-out I inquire about whether the personnel like their jobs. There is very little complaining. (They're very compliant w/management, or they woulda been replaced.)

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I try to be sensitive to the real, unspoken human suffering I'm faced with, and imagine what could be done to improve their health care, working conditions, and their family's struggle with?economic tyranny.

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Marshall

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From: W. J. <synergi at yahoo.com>
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I do go to Wal-Mart occasionally (alas!), but every time I get to the check-out I inquire about whether the personnel like their jobs. There is very little complaining. (They're very compliant w/management, or they woulda been replaced.)

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I try to be sensitive to the real, unspoken human suffering I'm faced with, and imagine what could be done to improve their health care, working conditions, and their family's struggle with?economic tyranny.

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Marshall

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R Williams <rcwmbw at yahoo.com> wrote:

I am in complete agreement with everything George, Jon, Marshall, et al are saying about Walmart.? But there is one little twinge I have.? In our town of 5,600 people there is a Walmart of course, and I have been in there.? Here's my twinge.? The employees there, regardless of deplorable?wages, benefits, working conditions and the rest, because of education, age, disabilities or whatever,?likely would not have jobs anywhere else.? What are we to think of them?

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Randy

George Holcombe <geowanda at earthlink.net> wrote:

I suppose we're fortunate in Austin, TX, many of our local chains like H.E.B. and Fiesta have better prices on the items that we buy than Wal Mart. ?I understand that due to a suit that Wall Mart has withdrawn its claim to have the lowest prices. ?Both H.E.B. and Fiesta have far better and fresher produce than Wal Mart. ?I wouldn't doubt that because of the fuel increases and the far flung shipping ?routes that Wal Mart uses, the locals, who buy local, may have an advantage in their costs and prices for their customers. 

George Holcombe

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Austin, TX 78728

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On Apr 7, 2008, at 3:08 PM, jonzondo at juno.com wrote:

I have not shopped at WalMart in years.? And what I find amazing is the number of "aware" persons in my life who have a bundle of excuses for why they continue to shop at Walmart.? The brainwashing machine surely seems to work sometimes, eh?

My new idea is that for the next person I know who speaks of shopping for something at WalMart, I will offer to pay the difference if they go to another store.? I wonder what will happen with that idea...

In Balance,?? Jon

-- "W. J." <synergi at yahoo.com> wrote:

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But wait! Wal-Mart is just a good target for our outrage, After all, it's the world's most powerful delivery system for?exploiting a global market economy which wields the economic weapons of mass destruction.

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Ah, yes. The tyranny of the economic process. It's coming back to bite even those of the affluent 15% who believed that the U.S. housing market would never deflate, and bought in at the top of the speculative bubble. (For the story in Wiegel's area, see http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/realestate/keymagazine/406ariz-t.html?ei=5087&em=&en=136025ebaea46e85&ex=1207713600&pagewanted=all)

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