Just saw the Walmart movie-I will NEVER step foot in a Walmart again

[liveoaktx]

In my town the local IGA was bought out by a chain that uses store cards. Didn't want to go there so I was traveling occasionally to Walmart to go shopping.

Not after seeing this. WalMart is, on more levels, more corrupt that I realized.

[ddeclue]

1. Wally World just lost their court case to the tune of 206 M.

They were forcing people to work off the clock on their lunch break and got caught!

Doug D.

[Sal Minella]

3. The movie is worth watching, imo.

A personable young black woman (clearly not a whiner) talks about asking her supervisor why she was not being promoted -- "Is it because I'm a woman, or because I'm black?" she asked. And he replied, "Well, two out of two ain't bad."

When there's the slightest whiff of union activity at a store, suits fly in from Bentonville on the corporate jet (!) and replace all the management with trained anti-union managers, and people suspected of union activity are switched to jobs they cannot perform and forced out.

Time cards are routinely changed to avoid paying overtime. A worker MUST punch out at the end of her shift, but those five cartloads of merchandise MUST be put back on the shelves before the end of her shift.....so she punches out and puts the merchandise back. She needs the job.

Sweatshop conditions in foreign countries are inhumane because that's the way Wal-Mart wants it. Sweatshop workers are coached how to reply during "inspections," trained to lie about the fact that they work seven days a week, may work 14 hours a day.

The film shows one sweatshop in China that pays the workers $3.00 for working a 14-hour day.

The movie is well worth seeing. If you think you don't like Wal-Mart, this movie explains exactly why you feel that way. Highly recommended.

[ddeclue]

4. Already saw.

[liveoaktx]

5. The most disgusting part was the woman who was kidnapped from

the parking lot, and, although they had video cameras, they were only there to record to bust unions.

[ddeclue]

11. She should have yelled "Union"

Doug D.

[Sal Minella]

22. I didn't go into that because it seems so unbelievable.....

A kidnapper was captured on tape in a Wal-Mart parking lot, but only because the cams were running to ferret out anything that might resemble suspicious union-forming activity in the parking lot. Just unreal.

Attacks are reduced markedly when there's even one employee patrolling outdoor areas -- Wal-Mart's own studies show this -- but the Behemoth of Bentonville can't be bothered to pay even one person per store to prevent rapes and robberies and kidnappings.

[awoke_in_2003]

12. "suits fly in from Bentonville on the corporate jet "

Boy, that brings back bad memories. A friend and I tried to start a union in a GE shop. 4 hours after the petition was filed, suits were there to go to work on us (company HQ in NY, we in Dallas). Scared most of our support. THEY do not want the little man to have ONE bit of say on his working conditions.

[Swede]

10. I just saw that on CNN.

These shitstains bend and break the rules,pay the fines when caught (part of doing business don't you know? They then move onto the next scam.

[The Flaming Red Head]

19. I inventoried for Walmart as contract labor for RGIS

We started at 5 am and then got an hour lunch from 11am till 12pm and then we were expected to work till 8 o'clock at night without even a 15 minute break. (That's 8 hours with no break) We traveled Ark, LA, Miss, and Tx and they would put us up in motels and we would inventory nothing but Wallie Worlds.

Me and my friend decided to start an insurrection and we left and started taking 15 minutes every afternoon around 3 or 4pm.

Somebody (a Walmart manager) told on us and we told our supervisor that we would take it to the labor board or to an attorney if he fired us. We didn't like working 8 hours straight without a break.

The next day, to the amazement of everyone (usually there was a crew of at least 50 of us. Some had worked like that for years without knowing they had recourse) our crew supervisor announced at 3:30 PM that all RGIS employees would now take a 15 minute break, me and Jannette (my work buddy and bunk mate) thought we were all that.

Walmart and RGIS were horrible they didn't give us proper ladders for the upper shelves and would yell at us if we sat even for a minute while doing lower shelves (the very bottom ones), we were expected to maintain squat positions for hours at a time, which is very hard to do.

[elfin]

2. Been nearly three years since I shopped there

It isn't that hard to break the habit.

[liveoaktx]

6. For me, it will mean doing more internet shopping or traveling 50 miles in

Fort Worth for other things, which isn't so great. But I have already stopped shopping at the local grocery because they only offere discounts to store card owners.

[gulfcoastliberal]

26. I've gotten Albertons, Food World, and Safeway store acrds simply by

saying no, I don't have the card abut I'd like one without filling anything out. Usually the cashier just pulls one out and gives it to you, no problem. I don't want anyone tracking my shopping items either. But no way in hell would I ever step into a Wal Mart. I feel bad just shopping at Target.

[Skittles]

7. I am ordering it from BuzzFlash

yes INDEED

[politicat]

8. Here's how you deal with store cards...

It's okay to get one. Just use other names and addresses.

Mine is in the name of Elizabeth Hudson, 221 Baker St, Apartment B, Westminster, CO 80219, an uses phone number 867-5309.

DH's cards are for Charles Addams, 725 Cemetery Ridge, Boulder, CO 80305, phone number 733-3328 (Red-Deat(h) )

Pick some fiction and make it fun. I personally enjoy being called Mrs. Hudson... Hell, if I could have gotten away with it, I would have called myself Sherlock.

[deadmessengers]

9. I signed up for a Kroger card as John Q. Privacy

No one batted an eyelash.

[LunaC]

14. Read the store card application carefully

All the way on the bottom of the Albertson's application there is an itty-bitty box that says (paraphrased) "Please issue a card without my personal information." This, of course, is in small print and hardly noticeable to anyone who's already provided all their personal details. Sneaky bastards.

[liveoaktx]

23. Really! Let me ask this-when you (or anyone else) has gotten a store

care, the people just give them to you without checking ID? Do they try to mail them to you or give you one on the spot?

[LunaC]

25. On the spot

The gal at the courtesy desk that issues the card initially asked me to please fill in my personal info. I pointed out the "anonymous" box on the bottom. This caused her a certain amount of confusion (apparently neither she or anyone else really noticed it before) and she felt compelled to check with the manager who approved it without any further hassle. I have the card and they don't have a lick of info on me.

[Moosepoop]

17. Dammit!! Now I've got that earworm in my head!

"Eight-six-seven-five-three-oh-niiiiine....."

Thanks a lot, politcat! :P

[politicat]

18. Sorry... but it's a useful earworm!

Lots of companies block obviously fake phone numbers (ones starting with 555, or that are all one digit, f'rexample). That one is not issued by most phone companies (for now obvious reasons) and passes (computer based) inspection...

As for ear worms... I've had one for 2 whole weeks, and it won't go away. I'm starting to think the Mamas, don't Let your Babies solution might be it.

[murielm99]

21. What the F is a store card?

Why do they have them?

[liveoaktx]

24. Read this

http://www.nocards.org/

[texpatriot2004]

13. Satan's Superstore aka The Mart of Darkness. nm

[BlueIris]

15. I haven't been able to shop there since 2002.

Not one dime after that point. I couldn't even make myself during my most cash-strapped hours. I'm no martyr, but that company really is run by Satan incarnate.

[WearyOne]

16. support small stores. Don't shop at Walmart

[Xenotime]

20. WalMart has made this world a disgusting place.

[Mr_Spock]

27. Thank you

I have been boycotting for almost 2 years and have my little "boycott Walmart" in my sig hoping others will be enlightened...

[bluestateguy]

28. I ain't shopped there in 3 years

and my parents not in 2 years. My mother works in the corporate offices of another grocery store chain, so Wal Mart is no friend of our family.