You are supporting Walmart strikers, aren't you?

[backscatter712]

Walmart workers in several states are walking off the job and striking for livable wages

http://www.thenation.com/blog/174551/walmart-workers-launch-first-ever-prolonged-strikes-today#

Everybody here on DU who hasn't already sworn off of shopping at Walmart needs to be boycotting them. At. Any. Cost.

[hrmjustin]

1. I have never been in a walmart in my life! of course we don't have them in NYC.

[newmember]

2. I hope this spreads to every state

but I have no other place to shop . There are no mom and pop stores where I live.

[chillfactor]

3. I live high in the mountains in New Mexico....

near a small community..I pay more to shop there but I have not graced the doors of a Wal-Mart in many moons...I would feel like I am betraying the workers.....

[Luminous Animal]

6. Really.

[BrotherIvan]

7. I do understand, but there must have been something before WalMart

And there is the internet for some of the other things. Maybe posting what you're looking for will bring some creative suggestions. Your community should rally and take their power back.

[ohheckyeah]

15. There was something before WalMart....

it's called KMart.

[MichaelSoE]

30. and before all of them

woolworths ... woolworths???? let's hope karma catches up with them and in the future people will me saying, "do you remember walmart?"

[Luminous Animal]

9. So, you'd have to drive 40 more miles to support workers... people used to die to do that...

They didn't have the luxury of sitting in a car a pushing the gas pedal.

[Pelican]

5. No Wal-Mart in Afghanistan...

So you are covered. Can't speak for my wife though... Think she got some deck chairs last week.

[Luminous Animal]

13. What happened to the old deck chairs.

[Pelican]

29. Didn't exist...

Transitioned from apartment to home...

[burrowowl]

8. YES!!!!

[Dwayne Hicks]

10. Yes!

Of course I will support them! Walmart is whats wrong with this country!

[summer-hazz]

26. I agree...

I started my boycott only four months ago, and happy I did...

I will no longer support them and their ways.

[Zoeisright]

11. I have never spent a penny at that asshole place.

And I never, ever will.

[Luminous Animal]

12. Same here and I never will. And how much cheaply made plastic crap does

any one person need anyway.

[vanlassie]

14. Of course. 365 days a year I don't go there.

[Nye Bevan]

16. I stick with Amazon Prime (nt)

[Luminous Animal]

17. OUR Walmart activists are also planning a series of caravans, inspired by the 1961 civil rights

movement freedom rides, which will converge in Bentonville this weekend prior to the shareholder gathering. That “Ride for Respect” will bring workers to about thirty cities, including Los Angeles, DC, Chicago and Cincinnati, where they’ll meet supporters and visit Walmart stores before continuing to Arkansas. Schlademan called the caravans “a massive education program meant to educate Walmart workers and communities about the issues of Walmart.”

Read more: http://www.thenation.com/blog/174551/walmart-workers-launch-first-ever-prolonged-strikes-today#ixzz2UeYuDEo8

http://forrespect.org/

OURWalmart For Respect

[xtraxritical]

18. A mighty K&R!

[Auggie]

19. I wouldn't step foot in one

[Fire Walk With Me]

20. K&R!

[ButterflyBlood]

21. Wouldn't be caught dead there

Have been boycotting for years.

[Populist_Prole]

23. Me too

Haven't been to one in ages.

[LittleGirl]

22. haven't shopped at one in at least a decade n/t

[Egalitarian Thug]

24. Yes, but I have been boycotting wally-world for so long I'm not sure it counts

as supporting striking workers.

I used their bathroom about two years ago.

[ReRe]

25. K&R

I am supporting them, because I don't shop there. Not only do I support them, but I think that every person who is employed by any corporation in the USA should be represented and defended by a Union. Corps' hunger for cheap labor has gone entirely too far. If Corps are getting richer, the employees need to be prospering too. Common sense, folks. Common sense.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

27. Funny thing

I went to Costco on Memorial Day to get some pictures developed, and they were CLOSED! Imagine....a holiday for employees. It felt great to drive away.

[easychoice]

28. the Renton,Wa.store stinks like dirty feet! EWWWWWW!!

I met someone there for a sale on craigslist.Since I had never been in one I popped in to take a look.I lasted about 3 minutes,that store stinks like stale sweat and stinky feet...ack,gack,hork!

I noticed the floors were dirty and there was misplaced stock all over the shelves and isle floors.The store was generally a victim of very poor housekeeping.There is no excuse for that kind of crap in a retail space.
I have never bought anything at WallyWorld and I never will.They suck.

Now if you want to talk about Costco I am ready to go.

[LWolf]

31. Of course, but

I haven't shopped at a Wal Mart in about 12 years, anyway.

[SoCalDem]

32. I guess so

I have not stepped foot inside a Walmart in 10 years..and only went then because my best friend had a gift certificate that was burning a hole in her pocket.

My husband's company gave out $100 gift certificates to all employees at Xmas time & I re-gifted it to our son in Texas..they were expecting our grand-daughter (born 12/31) and needed stuff & Walmart was their closest store.

[Tom Ripley]

33. I have never even pissed in their parking lot