A picture Wal Mart wishes was not on the net.

[Lifelong Protester]

47. "Vote with your consumer dollar" may seem a 'fail' IF

one expects that his or her measily spending (in my case, a family of 2) will make any difference to a big Megalomart like Wal-Mart.

But I do not have any illusions about my refusal to shop there being a part of some big plan to bring down Wal-Mart.

I do not shop there because I will not spend my dollars to support their policies of treating workers, here and abroad, so shabbily.

I do not shop there, because I do not NEED another $4 tee-shirt, made at the expense of some child in Pakistan not being in school

I do not shop there because I personally do not want to be a part of their 'evil empire', built on greed, strong-arm tactics with suppliers, anti-union and anti-worker stance.

I do not shop there because I am not interested in supporting with my scant dollars, the Walton heirs, especially the one who built the art museum shrine to herself.

I do not shop there because I do not like that they have put a lot of mom and pop businesses OUT of business, then leave a lot of unattended real-estate blotting the landscape.

And yes, frankly, that is leaving me with fewer and fewer choices of things to buy. I try to keep it to just what I need. I try very hard to buy American, and buy locally made.

There are many reasons not to shop at Wal-Mart without assuming that anyone who does not shop there harbors some illusion that voting with their consumer dollar is going to bring them down.