If you were going to Wal-Mart, what would you get?

[PartyPooper]

I would get a serious case of WTF am I doing here?!?

What about you?

Would you even be caught dead in that store? Would you buy something?

Tell us your story.

:-)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. If I was there, I'd go to the manager

and tell him/her exactly why I wasn't buying anything from them. Then I'd leave.

[Lex]

4. Same here.

I don't shop at Walmart.

[The Zanti Regent]

72. I'd just use the bathroom

and then I would complain beacuse it wasn't clean...

[Clark2008]

81. I love anteaters

They are truly one of God's most unique creatures. :)

[Radical Activist]

2. I'd get some union literature on the way there

So I could have something to pass out until they ask me to leave.

[Baja Margie]

37. I like that idea !

[iconoclastic cat]

3. I would catch crabs and try on EVERYTHING.

[DustMolecule]

5. I'd get a serious case of the dry-heaves

n/t

[aQuArius]

6. I got a Wal*Mart gift card! WTF do I do with it????

I need to know!

[DustMolecule]

8. Someone earlier today was confronted with the same dilemma...

see here for 'options':

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2267670

[stranger_with_candy]

11. i got one and sold it on ebay

actually got the full amount for it.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

27. Great idea!

[WritersBlock]

55. I'm really surprised

that you didn't get a couple of bids for over the amount.:)

[stranger_with_candy]

66. i was surprised they paid the whole amount!!!!

why not just go get one at a store...

[goodbody]

14. Buy some cat litter?

can't go wrong with that.

[aQuArius]

17. if I had a cat..... hmmmm

[goodbody]

33. some dog chews?

[demosincebirth]

16. I got one too.

I'll take it down to the St Vincent de Paul dinning room and give it to one of the down and out women with children.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

25. Can you exchange it for cash?

If not, donate it to a homeless shelter.

[crimson333]

32. donate it to a charity of your choice

childrens hospital, hospice, Department of Human resources could use it to buy stuff for foster kids ect...

[Vanje]

7. It might be a good time......

....to take up shop-lifting

[Dukkha]

9. a gun

then I'd blow my brains out by plastic flags and ribbon magnets while a Toby Keith song played on their PA.
then some underpaid 3rd shift blue vest would have to mop up my bloody mess.

[benburch]

10. I would get in line with hundreds of dollars worth of goods...

let them ring them up. And then ask for the manager before paying.

I'd then tell him that I spend that much every year, but never at WalMart because of their policies, politics, and predatory competition.

Then I'd leave.

[alittlelark]

12. I would never enter that DEN of EVIL......

...but if I did I would 1st stock up on ICE CREAM!!!! Then I would get about 30 lbs of MEAT (put in the top carrier). I would then load up on strawberries, peaches and blueberries. Next comes the canned food. 1 gallon containers - toss em in!!! Then time for the cheese and salad and lunchmeat!!!

I'll finish up the trip trying on sweat-shop clothing for an hour or so.

Then, OMG!!!!! I forgot my credit card!!!!!

Sorry.:evilgrin:

[SKKY]

13. A big huge guilt trip when I think about all the Chinese sweatshops...

...that stay in business because of Walmart.

[yvr girl]

15. Wal-Mart right before Christmas

Are you insane?

[murielm99]

18. If I was a robber, I would go there.

They deserve to be robbed.

I wonder if things will get bad enough that we will have some new Bonnies and Clydes and Dillingers. They could be the new folk heroes, robbing all the Wal-marts.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

19. About 13 years ago, one opened in the small Oregon town where I

was living. I walked in, looked around, decided that it was nothing special, and walked right out.

I am proud to say that I have avoided WalMart ever since. :-)

[found object]

20. jack

As in jack shite.

[miss_kitty]

21. the only reason I would go to Wal Mart is to use the toilet

same reason I only go into MacDonald's et al for. To pee.

So far though, I have never been into a Wal Mart

[PartyPooper]

23. DING>>>DING>>>DING!!! Great response! You win a prize.

I agree 100%!

Congratulations!

:party:

:toast:

:beer:

[miss_kitty]

29. See, I cost them something

and give them nothing in return. Same with McD's. Never ate there, but peed in McD's up and down the I5, through europe, etc. Almost always a clean restroom. I imagine the indentured servants at Wal Mart have to keep the loos nice and tidy.

[Az]

42. Similar to me and Dominos pizza

I have a friend that used to work there. I would eat their pizza all the time ... for free. I think I cost them several thousand dollars.

[Clark2008]

80. My ex-husband used to manage one

But, it was franchised and not owned by Tom whatshisdoogie...

I also ate several thousand in free pizzas. :)

[RadicalMom]

51. I've only been to the Reagan Library to change a poopy diaper,

And even then I only borrowed the parking lot to do it. Didn't leave the diaper, though I thought about it.

[mitchum]

22. Something made in China?

I have never spent a penny in that place

[raysr]

24. Not what I'd get

but what I'd leave.

[Gothic Sponge]

26. I'd get my brain checked out for being in a Wal-Mart.

Wal-Mart is evil.

[u4ic]

28. Sick...n/t

[samplegirl]

30. I'd get a Bush must go sticker

For the Salvation Army Bell Ringers Kettle!

[bvar22]

31. Enter Wal-Mart only to hold up my sign, and put these...

...stickers ALL over the store!

Money spent at Wal-Mart
KILLS GOD'S Unborn
Children!!!!

Wal-Mart Supports
Forced Abortions!!!

I'm pro-choice, but alot of Fundies shop at Wally World. I think they need to deal with this conflict of Conscience.

Maybe get some of those bloody fetus posters the fundies use at Planned Parenthood and hand them out at Wal-Mart.

[TaleWgnDg]

34. For many reasons, Wal-Mart should be boycotted . . .

For many reasons, Wal-Mart should be boycotted, here's just a very few . . .

1.) The suit alleges that the retail giant (Wal-Mart) set up a system that frequently pays its female workers less than their male counterparts for comparable jobs and bypasses them for promotions. If the appeals court does not overturn last month's ruling by U.S. District Judge Martin Jenkins, the case will become the nation's largest civil rights lawsuit targeting one company. The case is Wal-Mart v. Dukes, docket #04-80057 (9th Circuit Court of Appeals). (Another reason why GWBush wants "tort reform" for his corporate pals.)

2.) Wal-Mart does not pay healthcare coverage. Where, then, do its employees get their healthcare coverage? If they are lucky and wise they enroll in welfare healthcare benefits and/or "free care." Who, then, pays for these employees healthcare coverage? Why, of course, the American taxpayers. This is what Wal-Mart pushes in its corporate documentation.

3.) Wal-Mart pays minimum wage or damn close to it. It has no benefits for its employees, instead, it relies upon the local, state, and federal government to intercede whenever its employees need assistance. Again, this is computed into the American taxpayers taxes. You are paying for Wal-Mart's transgressions.

4.) Wal-Mart actively muscles-out vendors for the lowest-of-the-low prices, threatening vendors that it will get their product cheaper from Chinese labor; thereby, bankrupting American merchant/vendors.

5.) Surprisingly, Wal-Mart's overall pricing is not the lowest as many assume, for Wal-Mart only prices low certain articles that are advertised and/or placed in its store in certain merchandising ways.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Anyone want to add more reasons why Wal-Mart should be boycotted? Particularly, address the reasons why the middle class and the working-class should NEVER buy from Wal-Mart . . . because those purchases add up and make Wal-Mart who Wal-Mart is, the out-sourcing giant that it is, the model for graduate business school courses across America for how-to-do-out-sourcing case studies.

edited for typo.

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[ragin_acadian]

35. okay, okay.

y'all have to stay with me on this one:

wal mart has a transaction database that is larger than the world wide web, and second only in size to the pentagon. (i'm not making this up) it records purchases going back two years. why: so they can target advertise you, and f*#! you hard, among other things.

after hurricane charly, every wal mart in florida kept seven times more strawberry pop-tarts in stock than usual wal mart policy (again, not making this up): why? apparently strawberry pop-tarts sell best before and after hurricanes. wal mart knows, they have records from the last two years of hurricanes in florida.

-personally, i think you could get less chemicals from licking the battery terminals on your pickup truck, than you could from eating a pop tart. i would not even tile a floor with the damn things-

so follow my thinking:

go into wal mart, buy babyfood, rat poison, and razor blades every day for a month with your credit card. see what shows up in the mail.
-then go return all of it at the end of the month. convince a few of your friends to do the same.

two months later, go look at the babyfood, rat poison, and razor blade aisle. notice any changes?

are we having fun yet?

[TaleWgnDg]

75. Sounds like dandy fun to me . . .

Sounds like dandy fun to me . . .

However, did you compute that Wal-Mart also keeps records of your returned merchandise? Of course it does. Don't forget, too, that return policies vary widely state-to-state. Wal-Mart may, and can, refuse to accept returned goods. Check it out b4 doing that anger stuff that you suggest . . . others should too.


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[n2mark]

36. I won't go there

[LSdemocrat]

38. Ultra cheap generic drugs to screw the drug companies

[RagingInMiami]

43. Generic drugs are cheaper in Costco

And Costco is a much better company

[Clark2008]

82. I wonder if I could lobby for a Costco here

The Target down the street is moving to larger digs (outside of the city because of lower property taxes - figures) and that building will sit empty. And, of course, it was a building that was built AFTER Target tore down a beautiful, stately old home to do it about 20 years ago.

I'm betting Costco would be a perfect fit in my neighborhood. The county (outside the city limts) went Bush and, coupled with the few in the city who voted for Bush, made the whole county (and state) go red, but the city went blue. My neighborhood went nearly completely for Kerry. My guess is that this neighborhood would geniunely support a Costco.

[Baja Margie]

39. You guys

aren't going to believe this one, but here it is: The WalMart Store on Dennery Road in Chula Vista racks up the largest sales bar none in the whole of the United States. Why? Sheet, everyone from Tijuana flocks there, they LOVE it, they do not give a shit about the policies, they go there all google eyed over all the "things" American. And they buy, buy, buy, buy, with pesos too would you believe it.


Trying to explain to these people the evil that WalMart embodies is like pulling teeth, once they have crossed that border and hit WalMart, man, to them that is HEAVEN, and they have reached the promised land.

It is disgusting.

[Az]

40. Arrested

Only reason I could fathom ever going to Mal-Wart would be for a protest.

[chaska]

41. The large economy sized package of "out of there".

[bettyellen]

44. good one! i know that's not george costanza, but who is it?

[chaska]

45. The inimitable chaska p coltrane...

at your service.

[bettyellen]

46. i have seen you around, but the photo is you?

[chaska]

47. No, that would appear to be The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh.

(Psst, it's Paul Wellstone. I'm much better looking ... and less dead.)








Sorry DU, no offense.

[bettyellen]

48. Oh my gosh, nice pick. He didn't get his pic in the

papers so much here in the east coast.
one more question, since you are so good at this...
who's the icon of woman who looks a lot like cosbys daughter? what's her name? shoot the one who was in highh fidelity. who is that icon?

[izzie]

49. I go about twice a year when I do not feel like driving

I usually do not find what I want but once in a while look when I do not feel like driving to a store I am sure will have what I want. It is like socks, and I usually end up also buying animal food as it is pretty cheap.

[RadicalMom]

50. Counseling!

And if I were lucky, my friends would do an intervention on me to save me from myself.

[Lilith Velkor]

52. an old SNL song comes to mind

Gonna get me a shotgun and shoot all the whiteys I see
Gonna get me a shotgun and shoot all the whiteys I see-eee
Ohhh sweet Jesus, hold my shells for me
Gonna get me a shotgun and shoot all the whiteys I see!

[Nile]

53. I would buy what ever I went in there looking for.

If they had what I needed at a better price than other places I would buy it there. Any savings is usually used to pay off other things. I do not believe in throwing away my hard earned money.

[RadicalMom]

56. Are you not aware of the negative impact that WalMart is having

on the economies and the jobs of Americans and the way they don't pay their emloyees or provide health insurance and are doing a major part in upsetting the balance of trade? Or do you just not give a damn? The world can go to hell as long as you save a buck. How about buying one or two fewer things and do your part in supporting America by buying in a decent store with a conscience? You wouldn't believe in helping a charity or a homeless person with your hard earned money either, would you?

[Nile]

58. It has a positive impact on those of us who are not rich.

It has a positive impact on those of us who are not rich like you. Most Americans fit into the need to "save a buck" category. As far as charity goes its pretty presumptuous of you to say what you did. I donate plenty to charity along with volunteering many hours to feeding the needy and homeless. So just get off of your high horse and come down to reality.

[RadicalMom]

71. If you look around you, you'll see your attitude about WalMart

is rather in the minority around here. What makes you think I'm rich? My husband's whole industry has primarily been outsourced, and he's been out of work well over a year, and in and out of work for several. Personally, I'm handicapped and am not able to go back to work for a long time, so what makes you think that I'm rich because I'm too principled to shop at Litttle China? I'm not getting into it any further with you, but I suggest you might do a little research on just what WalMart is doing to business in general, forcing its competitors to buy from China or go out of business, and as such forcing that many more people here out of work. There are many more reasons to boycot the place, besides the fact that they contribute almost exclusively to Republicans. Saving a buck is very important to most of us who refuse to shop in Hell, but will no longer do so for not wanting to contribute to the downfall of the local and the big businesses and the average people who are hurt by them. You must appreciate Bush to some degree, because he believes outsourcing is good for America. Yeah just as good as when you lose your own job. Enjoy yourself next time you go.

[TyeDye75]

54. Id get pissed off /nt

[Seabiscuit]

57. The name of the manager, board members, and CEO

I'd talk to/write them about heir anti-labor policies - how they exploit poor workers without paying benefits. I'd shake them up about a potential class-action suit if they pooh-pooh-ed my complaints. I'd let them know I'm a lawyer.

I wouldn't buy shit from them.

[Bertha Venation]

59. Someone's spittle in my face, probably.

Nah, I'm not that confrontative. I can see myself, though, sitting on the curb outside the door, reading Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Worker's Rights at Wal-Mart, by Liza Featherstone. And if someone were to ask me about it . . . well . . . :shrug:

[NoPasaran]

60. Home lobotomy kit

Only because I have a coupon

[Cymbaline68]

61. Nothing

Used to shop there all the time. I stopped about 9 months ago. And I don't buy the 'but I can save money if I shop there' argument. I like (and need) bargains just like everyone else, but bargains can be found elsewhere.
I'll admit that we still have a Sam's card- I don't carry it anymore just in case I get that silly urge to buy massive quantities of something that I don't need. Hubby likes to buy gas there. I can't seem to make it there, I always end up at Shell..
:evilgrin:

[Dzimbowicz]

62. I never patronize the place n/t

[Aristus]

63. I'd get my head examined!

Just walking into the place is a justification for keeping twelve year old Thai girls chained to their sewing machines for sixteen hours a day at 27 cents per hour.

No thanks!

[annonymous]

64. Directions to the Costco store.

I would tell the greeter I am lost.

[Oddly Stevenson]

77. This is a great idea.....

...we should start a national trend of stopping at WalMart to ask directions to Costco. At first, they would think it was just coincidence, but then, after a couple of days, I can imagine the greeter going to their their supervisor and saying "I know this sounds weird, but I'm getting 30 or 40 people a day asking me for directions to Costco."

[AG78]

65. I'll go in one

But I'll just walk around. I won't buy anything. It's fun to listen to what people say. Just one of those being inside the mouse maze opportunities, except not being the mouse.

If they're talking in a low voice, you don't want to listen in. But, if there's a young kid around, and he or she is yelling to their parents, it's hilarious.

One time, one young kid was yelling, "I don't have any toys!", as they were walking around. I'm sure most kids do that in most stores, but you know that whatever it is that pulsates in the middle of Wal-Mart was salivating at the thought of getting its claws into that kid's mind. And at the same time, they had "Jurassic Park" on one of their TV's, and it was at the part with the T-Rex making its dinosaur scream. If you can imagine that, it was the perfect moment.

But then you walk out of the store with nothing, and wonder when the Wal-Mart police will be knocking at your door the next day saying, "Sir, you did not purchase any merchandise at Wal-Mart yesterday. We have, on our records, that you were on our property, in our store. No, sir, don't worry about how we have that information. Just be aware that we do. And here is your penalty ticket, which you will use within 24 hours, to buy at least 10 items that you see on our shelves. I hope this doesn't happen again."

Or something like that.

[Mabeline]

67. Ahem...I would do my best to buy something

made in America, thereby supporting the company and those who work for that company.

[pdx_prog]

68. A bunch of cheap Chinese crap

but at everyday low prices!

Oh.....and you get the good feeling that you are helping to put americans out of work!

[arwalden]

69. A Headache?

[SmileyBoy]

70. I haven't bought anything from Wal-Fart in over 3 years.

However, I still like to go to them and just observe the behaviour of the customers and workers there without buying anything. In the past few years of me doing this, I have found some very strange things. For example, even here in the Great White North, people inside Wal-Marts talk with southern accents. *shudder*

[soup]

73. a panic attack.

I can't breathe in Walmart. There's no air. It sucks the life right out of me. I 'know' I will die there.

Weirdest thing. Just the thought of it brings on a small sense of the actual panic-stricken 'can't move, can't breathe, get me out of here' feelings.

This was long before I learned anything about their 'politics'.

Haven't been in one in over 3 years. Don't forsee a visit anytime in the future, either.

[AntiFascist]

74. I'd get the hell out of there.

[BrklynLiberal]

76. I'd get out of there very quickly

[lakemonster11]

78. I used to go to Wal-Mart to play pinball.

It was the only pinball machine in town, as far as I knew. But then one day it was gone! Oh well... :)

[BulletproofLandshark]

79. Nauseous

[doc03]

83. Only shop there when I absolutely have to.