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Post by trashcanman on Dec 7, 2011 21:45:20 GMT 2
So in case you aren't aware, Wal-Mart is essentially a combination of low-class social club and supervillain megacorporation masquerading as a ginormous store that exists only to put every other business in any given community the ground. They are legendary for stocking clothing from sweat shops, treating/paying their workers like shit, and for censorship of values that don;t line up with the company's Southern roots. Also, this woman was on their board of directors before she married the man who would be president (which apparently, she thought was transmittable as a VD):  There are also web site like www.peopleofwalmart.com/ dedicated to the white trash that flock there and a documentary called "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices". In my city, Wal-Mart built a massive store to clog up our new shopping center and about 5 years later they abandoned it and built a new one ACROSS THE STREET, leaving the old building a massive fucking corpse (which now has the largest homeless colony in the community's history living behind it) and dooming all of the other businesses that set up shop there when they built the complex. Why did they do that? So nobody could build a competing store across the street. If Target goes under, it's very likely that Wal-Mart will be the only available place to shop in America within a decade. So. Pure evil. On a lighter note, here's a list of things Wal-Mart has banned: www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/34728As stupid as some of that stuff is, I can't really argue with kid's panties that say "who needs credit cards" over the wearer's vagina. God, what were they thinking? Kind of surprising at first that they kicked the racist barbeque sauce to the curb until you realize that lower income folks are very often minorities and black people have money too. |
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Post by Ben on Dec 8, 2011 22:43:21 GMT 2
I like Wal-Mart better than Target for one reason: a couple days before the 4th of July I went to Target to buy an American Flag and couldn't find an ounce of red white or blue in the entire store. I went into Wal-Mart and couldn't escape it.
I'm just "meh" on all the sweat shop stuff and putting small businesses under. It sucks, but if they don't do it, someone else will. Corporations have been doing it for decades.
Oh, I also hate Target because they don't sell cap guns. Pissed me right off when I was ten.
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Post by trashcanman on Dec 9, 2011 2:13:40 GMT 2
Yeah, I know. Ever since Reagan and Clinton turned this country into a game of Monopoly small businesses have been doomed. Nonetheless, I'm less likely to support the actual corporate overlord destroying our communities than the one that might have been. Not that Target's all that much better (a mere runner up); but in my community, you're about 100X more likely to run into some random gang violence in Wal-Mart than Target so there's that. Anyways, not selling cap guns is always a bitch move. But as an adult I'm more interested in having the option of buying an music album that doesn't have gaps in the audio where a word somebody else decided was naughty used to be. Thank God for Amazon.... What, the same Amazon that did this? hampton-northhampton.patch.com/articles/amazon-deal-another-nail-in-the-coffin-for-local-stores Wait, looking for a flag? I'm pretty well aware of what country I live in so why would I need to buy an American flag? To remind myself or someone else what country I'm currently in? How do you guys forget a thing like that? I don't get that whole thing. Hey, fellow American, did you know that I am also an American living here in America? If you hadn't been wearing that stars and stripes shirt with that American flag flying from your red white and blue pickup, I'd have figured you for some kind of Soviet commie! |
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Post by Ben on Dec 9, 2011 23:35:24 GMT 2
Oh please. As if the only purpose of owning and displaying a flag is so people know what country I'm from. On certain holidays, namely Veteran's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, etc. flying a flag is just good etiquette. I'm not an advocate for painting my house red white and blue to prove my patriotism or any of that nonsense, but I am proud of the country I live in and flying the flag on the aforementioned holidays is a very simple and very easy way of acknowledging and showing respect for the occasion.
Back to Wal-Mart and such, I buy all my music on Amazon for the same reason- they've got pretty much everything, I get to hear the cusses, and it's way cheaper. Hadn't heard about that barcode scanning scheme, but it doesn't surprise me. Part of me sympathizes, I suppose, but businesses have been overcharging for music for as long as I've been buying it. This is mostly the labels' fault, though, so my hatred is generally directed towards them.
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Post by trashcanman on Dec 10, 2011 0:20:16 GMT 2
Ah, holiday etiquette. To make other people happy, then. I guess that works. Just don't be that guy that leaves his flag out until it's all ratty and looks like some kind of anti-American propaganda. That always cracks me up; they want to show their love for their country SO HARD that they end up totally disrespecting the symbol they are trying to represent for.
That's actually a really good point. Most vendors themselves for the most part pale in comparison to the corps they get their goods from in terms of unscrupulous business practices. But it's just more convenient to hassle the company that's physically sitting on the corner of your block profiting from it. It's the difference between a drug dealer and a drug supplier.
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Post by Ben on Dec 11, 2011 0:05:21 GMT 2
People who leave their flags flying all the time are fools. Whether or not you know the "rules" for displaying it (take it down in bad weather, have a light on it if flying it at night, retire it once it gets ratty, etc) it's common sense not to fly the thing in a damn thunderstorm. The Eagle Scout inside of me facedesks every time I see it.
I agree. It's definitely not hard to hate the record shop that charges $18.99 for a new album or the corporation that still charges $7.99 for a disc that's 30 years old. However, record labels are still at the root of all the evil, and I'm willing to bet they won't drop their prices significantly until they waive their arrogance and admit that the CD is dying. Which will likely happen long after everyone has already moved on to downloads.
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Post by trashcanman on Dec 11, 2011 21:10:59 GMT 2
For sure. $7.99 for an old disc? They charge that for old USED albums in my neck of the woods. I often see classic rock and rap albums for $15-20. At that point, I'd rather wait for the boxed set to go on sale. But bear in mind that record labels do business the same way as big movie/television/video game companies or any other massive business. The point is always to give you as little as possible while taking as much as they can. If we get anything good at all, we have the artists to thank and not the distributors.
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