I buy a lot of things in Wal Mart. It has good prices.
Here’s some statistics
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Our economical research team shows that over the past 10 years WalMart has been in Canada, there has been an average increase in other retailers profits of ~10%, which does not exist in cities and towns without conveniant access to a WalMart
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More than 80% of all WalMart Canada merchandise is sourced from suppliers operating in Canada.
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Last Year, Walmart Canada+US spent 4.6 billion dollars in certifying our suppliers as Sweat-shop free.
We would have had one of those Super Wal-Marts here, but the damn little business guys tore down the idea. Oh well, it’s their loss.
Let’s see here.
“Local” Wal-Mart = 2 towns away, prices are about the same as guy around the corner. Guy around the corner can order things specifically for me when it comes to things I need. Wal-Mart, well, it can’t.
Where will I go, you think? To the big company who treats me just like another customer, or to the guy who actually has to do some sort of convenient customer service as it’s the only thing he has better than Wal-Mart?
Is the answer Balloon?
Wal Mart’s accusations require a two-part response: first, a clarification of the prognosis implied by my previous letter; and second, a commentary on Wal Mart’s own prognoses. Let me begin by citing a range of examples from the public sphere. For starters, if Wal Mart were paying attention – which it would seem it is not, as I’ve already gone over this – it’d see that it must sense its own irremediable inferiority. That’s why Wal Mart is so desperate to identify political and religious groups that are its political enemies and re-label them as “pusillanimous bozos” in order to justify operations against them; it’s the only way for it to distinguish themselves from the herd. It would be a lot nicer, however, if Wal Mart also realized that if you are not smart enough to realize this, then you become the victim of your own ignorance. Wal Mart believes that it is entitled to open the gates of hell. That’s just wrong. It further believes that violence and prejudice are funny. Wrong again!
An armed revolt against Wal Mart is morally justified. However, I contend that it is not yet strategically justified. There’s an important difference between me and Wal Mart. Namely, I am willing to die for my cause. Wal Mart, in contrast, is willing to kill for its – or, if not to kill, at least to provide sappy big-labor bosses (especially the surly type) with an irresistible temptation to toss quaint concepts like decency, fairness, and rational debate out the window. How I pity Wal Mart if I were to be its judge. I would start by notifying the jury that Wal Mart’s viewpoints were never about tolerance and equality. That was just window dressing for the “innocents”. Rather, Wal Mart wants nothing less than to glorify arrogant loonies, hence its repeated, almost hypnotic, insistence on the importance of its pudibund, grotesque harangues.
If I had to choose the most delirious specimen from Wal Mart’s welter of simple-minded gabble, it would have to be Wal Mart’s claim that it can walk on water. My own position on this issue is both simple and clear: Wal Mart and I disagree about our civic duties. I claim that we must do our utmost to offer a framework for discussion so that we can more quickly reach a consensus as expeditiously as possible. Wal Mart, on the other hand, believes that it can absorb mana by devouring its nemeses’ brains. Wal Mart tries to make us think the way it wants us to think, not by showing us evidence and reasoning with us, but by understanding how to push our emotional buttons. I find Wal Mart’s epithets symptomatic of a dangerous but spreading mentality. It’s that simple.
As our society continues to unravel, more and more people will be grasping for straws, grasping for something to hold onto, grasping for something that promises to give them the sense of security and certainty that they so desperately need. These are the sorts of people Wal Mart preys upon. Wal Mart teaches workshops on cannibalism. Students who have been through the program compare it to a Communist re-education camp. Although Wal Mart has managed to avoid indictment, or even a consensus that it did anything illegal, once people obtain the critical skills that enable them to think and reflect and speculate independently, they’ll realize that Wal Mart wants us to think of it as a do-gooder. Keep in mind, though, that it wants to “do good” with other people’s money and often with other people’s lives. If Wal Mart really wanted to be a do-gooder, it could start by admitting that now that I’ve been exposed to its epigrams, I must admit that I don’t completely understand them. Perhaps I need to get out more. Or perhaps it has recently been going around claiming that it’s perfectly safe to drink and drive. You really have to tie your brain in knots to be gullible enough to believe that junk. Didn’t Wal Mart tell its cohorts that it wants to reinforce the concept of collective guilt that is the root of all prejudice? Did it first give any thought to what would happen if it did? Of course, that question is ridiculous – as ridiculous as its tyrannical ideologies.
Wal Mart can go on saying that we should avoid personal responsibility, but the rest of us have serious problems to deal with that preclude our indulging in such sexist dreams just now. What’s interesting is that in a recent essay, Wal Mart stated that it is a martyr for freedom and a victim of militarism. Since the arguments it made in the rest of its essay are based in part on that assumption, it should be aware that it just isn’t true. Not only that, but its profligate ploys are in full flower, and their poisonous petals of autism are blooming all around us. Do you think I’m the only one who wants to nourish children with good morals and self-esteem? I assure you, I am not. But people often get the impression that foolhardy, oleaginous control freaks and Wal Mart’s attendants are separate entities. Not so. When one catches cold, the other sneezes. As proof, note that ancient Greek dramatists discerned a peculiar virtue in being tragic. Wal Mart would do well to realize that they never discerned any virtue in being destructive. On a closing note, I hope that this letter, while incomplete, informal, and having no authority except its own inner strength and conviction, has clearly demonstrated to you that we might be able to explain away many of Wal Mart’s pestiferous announcements as being merely the effect of bad drugs.
Nice use of the flame generator.
generator? I made all that up, my arguments are both cool and proffesional sounding.
Seen that coming the second I seen this thread title 
It hit me too, Cro. Wasn’t there some argument over a member and Wal Mart, and something about guitars?
Cro + Guitars + Wal-Mart was awesome, but then we were told to stop. 
I once read a book called “How Wal-Mart is destroying America (And the World)”… Granted I am not a Wal-Mart Supporter, but I think there are more pressing matters as to who or what is destroying America (and the world) and my belief is that it is the neo-conservatives. But I don’t shop heavily at Wal-Mart because their selection of games sucks, as does their music selection. Nor do I buy clothes there. I buy clothing at the thrift stores, and Games I usually buy at EB. The one thing I do shop Wal-Mart for, is groceries.
That book must kick so much ass.
OK, Asda (Own by Wal-mart or I prefre The Uk Name for Wal-Mart) is turning in to more Like the Wal-Mart store State side (according several freinds). I think the Gun laws and the Lack of Intest, has made guns not appear.
Me Asda: Nowt, I don’t do the shopping. But My famaly go for food, Occational Mag, And My Mate had to asked for this: Root Beer. Yup Asda didn’t have root Beer unit My mate asked for it.
Big Nutter
International: Espescally Manchester-Based newspapers. (The Guardian was started in Manchester)
Wait… Wal Mart is worldwide? My dutch friends don’t know what a ‘wal mart’ is. =/