Another Survey Finds Wal-Mart Charges More for Groceries in Low-Income Neighborhoods.

Here is a survey about a low income city.

Chicago War Zone Information

Body count.

In the last six months 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago , 221 killed in Iraq .

Sens. Barack Obama & Dick Durbin, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., Gov. Rod Blogojevich, House leader Mike Madigan, Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan, Mayor Richard Daley...our leadership in Illinois...all Democrats.

Thank you for the combat zone in Chicago .

Of course they’re all blaming each other.

Can’t blame Republicans, there aren’t any!

State pension fu nd $44 Billion in debt, worst in country. Cook County ( Chicago ) sales tax 10.25% highest in country.

Chicago school system one of the worst in country.

This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois .

He’s gonna ‘fix’ Washington politics?

Hey, Larry....don’t live in Chicago! (not exactly rocket science).

This shouldn’t come as any big surprise to you, Larry. Remember how bad Chi town was when Al Capone ran things?

Will someone please point Larry to the Tom Brokaw site?

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” ~ John Kenneth Galbraith

Being poor is expensive. Yep.

Competition reduces prices. Duh.

But how do the Wal-Mart prices in poor neighborhoods compare to other stores—likely the much-vaunted mom-and-pops since many chain grocers won’t go into poor neigborhoods—and how do those prices compare to prices in poor neighborhoods that have no big competition to the mom-and-pops?

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, spent nearly $1.4 million in the second quarter lobbying the federal government.

Wal-Mart Vice President of Corporate Affairs Raymond Bracy is listed on the reporting form as the company’s lobbyist.

Though Wal-Mart draws customers from all walks of life, the company is quick to note that its core customers are poor — 20 percent of Wal-Mart shoppers don’t have checking accounts. The disclosure shows that Wal-Mart lobbied on a food stamps provision in an Agriculture Department bill. ~~~WMW,August,’08~~~~~~~NOTE: Is there a correlation between higher prices in lower income neighborhoods,BECAUSE these areas may use taxpayer subsidized food stamps on a regular ,or more frequent basis?

“Can’t blame Republicans, there aren’t any!” ~Larry in USN WWII

Apparently there were plenty of Republicans to bring us all of the “great” bailouts, Larry.  Care to defend that?

Check out the list of great bailouts:
Penn Central Railroad (1970)
Lockheed Aircraft Corp (1971)
Franklin National Bank (1974)
New York City (1975)
Chrysler (1980)
Savings and Loan Bailout (1989)
Airline Industry Bailout (2001)
Bear Stearns (2008)
Freddie Mae/Freddie Mac (2008)
American International Group (2008)
Troubled Asset Relief Program T.A.R.P (2008)

This bears repeating just for you, Larry…

T.A.R.P. = Tired of Asshole Republicans in Power.

Can’t blame Republicans, there aren’t any!

I’ll admit, it’s getting harder and harder to find people that claim to be Republican, but fair is fair. I have new-found respect for Senator Richard Shelby (R-Ala.)

They say that if the bailout totals $700 billion it will cost every taxpayer about $6,000. Um...let’s see.... Bush gave me a $400 tax refund early on and then another $600 as part of the ‘stimulus package’. That’s a grand total of $1,000. In return I, and all of you, are indebted for an additional 6 large. Would that fit the definition of a Ponzi scheme?

Any sissy can bail out the market. It takes real men to face a depression!

“The free market for all intents and purposes is dead in America.” Senator Jim Bunning, (R) Kentucky ~ NYT

“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from
defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.”
-John Adams”

“Unless the people, through united action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish ambitions.”
-Calvin Coolidge October 1932

“When the government fears the people, there is liberty; when the people fear the government, there is tyranny.” -Thomas Jefferson

“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.”
- Abraham Lincoln

“There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword, the other is by debt.”
- John Adams

“No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.”
-Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, 1775

“There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword, the other is by debt.”
- John Adams

This sounds like China’s plan for America.

...debauched in their Manners...

That sounds like fun!

Well, boys and girls, we tried “trickle down”, now it’s time for tsunami up. Can you say ‘redistribution of wealth’?

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. ~ Gore Vidal

Ken V--try this one on for size. Speaking of redistribution of wealth--the PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes) is up at the Ticonderoga store about 1 and a half hours away from me. And guess what Wal-Mart is doing? SUING TICONDEROGA FOR A REDUCTION IN THEIR ASSESSMENT!! They want a 3 MILLION DOLLAR REDUCTION.
Now that Wal-Mart has to pay their full share of taxes on the property--they don’t want to! Am I surprised? No. 
For those who don’t know what a PILOT is--who ever gets one gets a gradual rising of their taxes over a 10 year period of time. It takes 10 years for someone to pay 100% of their share of taxes on that piece of property.
Ticonderoga’s local politicians were STUPID to give Wal-Mart the pilot in the first place. This is the reward they get for giving this corporation a tax break--NOT THAT THEY NEEDED IT!! Wal-Mart could have well afforded to pay their full share from the beginning.
So who gets the brunt of this lawsuit? Taxpayers of course!! Nice going Wal-Mart. Yes--Ken--What’s good for Wal-Mart is bad for America!!!

Jane in N.Y. in
Let the Shareholder’s and shopper’s take up a collection. Or Better Still! They can tear it down and replace it with one of those shows of skinned plasticized Chinese people. I think that that would be a great reminder to the people who visit the fort!!! It’s a good time to remind a few people how lucky we still are.

Jane: I think that charging higher prices in lower icome neighborhoods (that use tax payer funded food stamps) is ANOTHER tax scam.Hey, we can charge more-the tax payer is picking up the slack!

As a Retailer I too understand why Wally World charges more in poor areas, because they shoplift MORE. And I know that sound BAD but that is just the way it is for retailers around the world.
Oh but I still HATE!!!! WalMart.

So why weren’t the OTHER grocery stores charging MORE for the same items,at different locations,within THEIR own chain,too? By chance,did you read the article in its entiety?

Tom in GA,
I was in retail many many years ago and shoplifting is nothing new. We never raised our prices to offset shrinkage. We improved our layout and security, educated our employees and caught the bastards. the ass holes went to jail. We did let a couple of people off the hook, because it was the right thing to do at the time. What we wound up with was respect in the community. The bad guy’s not only left us alone, they started watching our backs. Our shop lifting problems all but evaporated! Internal shrinkage is another thing entirely. Where a guy like you can kick Wal*Mart’s ass is by simply treating your staff well and get them to watch your back.

BG: What WalMart DOESN’T want people to know is just how much “shrinkage” is actually from within- fpom their OWN employees,NOT shoppers!

Bobby,

“We improved our layout and security, educated our employees and caught the bastards. the ass holes went to jail.”

You must have missed the posts by the anti side, that decried as wrongful, for Wal-Mart to catch the bastards and even went are far as to complain that Wal-Mart was ‘holding against their will’ people whom the security alarm went off and they were asked to present their receipt for inspection!!  See, no matter what Wal-Mart does, to an anti Wal-Marter, it will always be WRONG!!  And, with you, the only RIGHT thing Wal-Mart could do, is “Go out of business”

BG: You also missed the posts and threads that explained the reason ,for years, that WalMart locked in their overnight employees(shades of Middle Ages) for fear of shrinkage. Lack of medical assistance, injury and death resulted from this archaic practice. On second thought, you may have seen the extensive spread the NYT and Steven Greenhouse did on this practice,a few years back.

RDS in
Unlike you,
I call them as I see them.
If it doesn’t fit a mold, not my problem. And Wal*Mart got to their size on unfair trade deals and unscrupulous business practices. The Nazi’s were a pretty efficient bunch and I didn’t like them any better than Wal*Mart.

You know I’m sick to death of Walmart coming into cities and then dictating policy to them. Top it off with the fact that they like to build wherever they please. (right now we’re fighting a plan to build right beside an Environmentally Sensitive Area). I’m sick sick sick. I never shop at the place, but I am going to take my sons there, so that they can learn about economics 101. I’m going to show them how stores use Loss Leaders to try to squeeze you out of the little money you have. If they aren’t stopped soon, Walmart will be the ONLY place we can work and shop.  (insert sarcasm here) Won’t that be Walmartaful?

Pundrity.

Channel 42 - Finance Channel.

God - Mark Haines co-host is in Washington.

Specifically -

Interviewing Casey and Shays.

1.  It is very to sit down; when interviewing Senators
2.  These are giants among men
3.  You’re gorgeous.

:).

So the senators went back to the office in the rotunda;

Sat back in leather chairs - smoking cuban cigars.

These giants among men;

Senator Casey spoke first -

He was colorblind;

“Red -

It was red.”.

They all laughed.

And then Shay’s spoke -

No - Senator -

“Her bra was blue.”.

:).

The Senators all puffed on cigars -

Contemplating things -

Big and small.

And then Shelby - his hands shaking.

“No - brothers - it was definately blue.”.

:).

American Government in Action.

Wallstreet needs lubrication -

to f taxpayers - you know where -

Where is the fun - if it’s easy.

:).

Raise your hand if you are a jew.

1. AIG should go to zero
2. Default on all traded loans -

they leveraged to 100.

(I hate hurricanes - on main street and wall street).

3. Prudent banks - always have been there - living well.
4. They should profit - buying assets 5 cents on the dollar.

5.  Ground Zero Should be built - re-built - as a prison.

6.  If there was another war - and you or i - or a wall street rich person were in a foxholl - with 20 rounds and twenty men against you - only one would survive -

7.  Would you believe him?  (or her - this is 2008).

8.  Warrants - international rule of law - malfeasance;

9.  Theft of voters votes.

10.  Criminal activity.

11.  Take all and every penny away -

12.  This is a house of cards - with one rotten shue -

13.  Appropriate - 8 times 52 - should go to jail.

Charter jets - you must leave - now.

1.  you will be bailed out.
2.  you will not be bailed out.

3.  either way you lose.

go quickly.

I know nothing of numbers - nor of New York.

But Bloomberg - he is a broken man - it was an accident.

Bionic actually - made his money - never creating anythin.

He’s even on board - and warns - every job lost on wall street - will effect (i could never that straight - effect v. affect);

“Every job lost on wall street - will effect 3 other poeple).

It is the end of New York - as the banker of the world.

Whether or not this bailout package passes - by people like me -

You know - the little folk - honest - hurting - who continue to pay . ................

New York is a “majority minority state.”.

I want to see - for the current news is boring -

Out of work analysts with health coverage -

Reaping yet not sewing -

as there are 7 minorities - to every majority minority.

Truly it will be a trickle up economy.

Yet if you take mine honest taxpayer money -

for i am poor - weak - weary -

You even piss off me -

An honest white man.

That is the true nightmare.

Birds must fly.

Eli - my gardener’s name is Hector.

I cannot afford to pay him.

Eli - I can barely walk -

yet i continue to work -

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

How many pennies am I worth -

Eli.

?.

“Bridge loan -

Bridge to nowhere -

I sincerely hope you own an island.”.

:)

Eli.

Ron Paul for President -

Write it in -

Write your initials on the machine -

Even if you do not vote -

democracy - plutocracy - autocracy -

everything is at stake.

Honest men - can be lied to.

Yet not for often.

Senator Schumer.

There will be no drepression -

There will be a global reallocation of funds.

.

It is a repeat of the 1920’s;

You must beware of Napolean;

1930’s Germany;

And Stalin’s Socialism.

.

Again you reap -

What you sew.

I have balance.

Wall Street has no Balance.

I want warrants put on all of them -

Who did wrong -

I care nothing of pedigree.

I - a taxpayer - am royally pissed off.

.

:).

I do not care if my 401k goes away;

this is unnacceptable - even to me.

I do not care if i barely walk - what’s new.

I do not care if i have to scrounge in the dirt -

learn how to grow potatoes -

buy a sheep - a lamb - 5 chickens and 10 eggs.

this is totally unnaceptable.

:).

For i see the future - forseeable.

I am going to tell what has to happen on wall street -

over the next five business days.

Frenzied weekend meetings;

Wild 14% ia swings - day after after day;

And a trading that never ends.

Gold $2,000 American.

Simple as that.

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

P.S. - I am poor.

Can’t be too poor-you got a computer and I woiuld assume pwer to operate it. Unless, you’re in a library or maybe a public institution or office of some kind.

Always end in humor.

Senator Shay’s hands had stopped shaking;

He remembered him a senator - older than most;

younger than some - his “boys” in Brazil - there is always viagra. :).

He relished this - his cuban cigar - his comfortable chair.

I thought of the finance channel interview - words spoken in humor -

Of his interview.

And then spoke.

“I think Erin found our Washington Climate Intemperate.”.

The others Senators contemplated -

And burst out laughing.

Mrs. Pelosi - hear me.

I do not want my taxpayer dollars - i always pay -

to go to wallstreets’ enending greed.

I do not wish to be educated - for i am a banker.

And if you do pass this bill - i do not want a bone -

I do not want a 2n’d stimilus package - i can barely pay my bills -

It would be insulting.

If you send it to me -

I shall use it as the 1st donation -

“Ground Zero Prison Fund.”.

To build a prison - for all of the criminals (not all);

To build a prison - for the criminals on Wallstreet.

Senator Obama Specifically.

If you say these words - I shall vote for you.

I will not vote on the taxpayer package - until after the election.

I voted once in my life.

So proud - i voted for Ronald Reagan.

I have been turning off my tv - after awhile - every time i see George Bush.

Be a king.

Be a leader.

Impress me.

With deeds - beyond words.

Cnn specifically -

“Wolf - is that the blond-haired girl from the “gnooze.”.

I think the marine blinked.

:).

Wolf -

Somewhere in West Virginia - a mom is yelling -

That’s my son.

Meanwhile - back the whitehouse -

Swaying -

The marine is thinking - “thank god i am young.”.

“I can’t do this - i didn’t sign up for this -

waves - surfboards - ugly fat women -

“god that blond had a nice ass.”.

.....

:).

“BG: You also missed the posts and threads that explained the reason ,for years, that WalMart locked in their overnight employees(shades of Middle Ages) for fear of shrinkage. Lack of medical assistance, injury and death resulted from this archaic practice. On second thought, you may have seen the extensive spread the NYT and Steven Greenhouse did on this practice,a few years back. “

The doors unlock from the inside and there are fire exits throughout the building.  They were not locked in to the point where they couldn’t get medical attention because of being “locked in.” They were locked in for their safety.  Leaving doors unlocked with alarms off when the store isn’t open is asking to have someone come in and rob the store and potentially hurt the employees. 

As for the prices someone already explained it but apparently you guys didn’t read it.  The prices are higher in poor areas because there is no competition.  Walmart comps their competitors prices.  If there is no one to comp, the prices wont be lowered.  It’s not that hard to understand.

January 18, 2004
Walmart locks night shift workers in
The New York Times today features a shocking story on night shift employees who are locked in at Walmart and its affiliated stores.  In a work practice that seems like something out of a Dickens novel or a third world sweatshop, exits are locked at night under the guise of protecting workers. The article relates the story of one employee, Michael Rodriguez of Corpus Christi, TX, who waited hours to get help for a crushed ankle because all exits but the fire exit were locked, and there was no manager with a key. He had been led to believe that he and his supervisor would both be fired if he used the fire exit.

“The reason for Mr. Rodriguez’s delayed trip to the hospital was a little-known Wal-Mart policy: the lock-in. For more than 15 years, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, has locked in overnight employees at some of its Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club stores. It is a policy that many employees say has created disconcerting situations, such as when a worker in Indiana suffered a heart attack, when hurricanes hit in Florida and when workers’ wives have gone into labor.”

Company spokespeople maintain the practice is to protect workers who work in high crime areas, but employees and other industry insiders say the practice is primarily to curtail “shrinkage” or theft.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Janet Anderson, who was a night supervisor at a Sam’s Club in Colorado from 1996 to 2002, said that many of her employees were also airmen stationed at a nearby Air Force base. Their commanders sometimes called the store to order them to report to duty immediately, but she said they often had to wait until a manager arrived around 6 a.m. She said one airman received a reprimand from management for leaving by the fire door to report for duty.

Ms. Anderson also told of a worker who had broken his foot one night while using a cardboard box baler and had to wait four hours for someone to open the door. She said the store’s managers had lied to her and the overnight crew, telling them the fire doors could not be physically opened by the workers and that the doors would open automatically when the fire alarm was triggered.

Only after several years as night supervisor did she learn that she could open the fire door from inside, she said, but she was told she faced dismissal if she opened it when there was no fire. One night, she said, she cut her finger badly with a box cutter but dared not go out the fire exit — waiting until morning to get 13 stitches at a hospital.

Several longtime Wal-Mart workers recalled that in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, the fire doors of some Wal-Marts were chained shut. ~~~~~~~NY Times,January ‘06, Steven Greenhouse

Mr. Lewis, a former store manager, said he had been willing to get out of bed at any hour to drive back to his store to unlock the door in an emergency. But he said many Sam’s Club managers were not as responsive. “Sometimes you couldn’t get hold of a manager,” he said. “The tendency of most managers was to sleep through the nights. They let the answering machine pick up.”

Mr. Cobb, the overnight supervisor in Florida, said he remembered once when a stocker was deathly sick, throwing up repeatedly. He said he called the store manager at home and told him, “ `You need to come let this person out.’ He said: `Find one of the mattresses. Have him lay down on the floor.’

“I went into certain situations like that, and I called store managers, and they pretty much told me that they wouldn’t come in to unlock the door. So I would call another manager, and a lot of times they would tell you that they were on their way, when they weren’t.”

Mr. Cobb said the Wal-Mart rule that generally prohibits employees from working more than 40 hours a week to avoid paying overtime played out in strange ways for night-shift employees. Mr. Cobb said that on many workers’ fifth work day of the week, they would approach the 40-hour mark and then clock out, usually around 1 a.m. They would then have to sit around, napping, playing cards or watching television, until a manager arrived at 6 a.m.

Roy Ellsworth Jr., who was a cashier at a Wal-Mart in Pueblo, Colo., said he was normally scheduled to work until the store closed at 10 p.m., but most nights management locked the front door, at closing time, and did not let workers leave until everyone had straightened up the store.

“They would keep us there for however long they wanted,” Mr. Ellsworth said. “It was often for half an hour, and it could be two hours or longer during Christmas season.”

One night, shortly after closing time, Mr. Ellsworth had an asthma attack. “My inhaler hardly helped,” he said. “I couldn’t breathe. I felt I was going to pass out. I got fuzzy vision. I told the assistant manager I really needed to go to the hospital. He pretty much got in my face and told me not to leave or I’d get fired. I was having trouble standing. When I finally told him I was going to call a lawyer, he finally let me out."~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~NY Times,"Workers Assail Night Lock Ins”, Steven Greenhouse, Jan.’06

Nice copy and pastes.  Now to reality.  Go to your local Walmart and look at the locks.  They all open from the inside without a key and most can even be opened without even being unlocked if you just push them open.  It is fire code that they have to be able to get out.  Anyone that stayed inside when they were injured was just not that intelligent.  Also one of the stories even mentioned that the fire exits weren’t closed. I worked at a store where we were “locked in,” and it was just as I said.  The doors were locked and the alarms were set, but if you needed to you could still get out, you would just set off the alarm which if you needed medical help that bad it wouldn’t be a bad thing.  This is yet another story that the antiWalmart has blown out of proportion without trying to get the facts.

Monkey-

in a tree, very hairy-

also known as ddrb-

a queen of sorts-

the cut and paste sort-

who hates the poor-

assumptions made easily- by her, about them.

that is very poor.

Dave: You can take up your denials with Steve Geenhouse. Deny all you wish. Your denials ,to borrow a phrase, are IRRELEVANT-you are a WalMart employee. Its hard to be objective when your paycheck is obstructing your line of vision.

Addendum”: My cut and pastes provide reference points. Are you REQUIRED to read them? Odd that there is no similar “pushback” for the voluminous vagaries of Anonymous, or a reference to the pernicious cut and pastes of “Nick”...also known as the “cut and paste” King. If you feel your interests lay with priorities OTHER than my C&P;,PLEASE do yourself(and many of us) a favor by scrolling on to some other post of your choice and interest.

ddrb,

“Deny all you wish. Your denials ,to borrow a phrase, are IRRELEVANT-you are a WalMart employee.”

The truth finally surfaces, this site claims to be aimed at the ‘betterment’ of the Wal-Mart employee, yet, an ‘outsider’ claims THEIR knowledge of Wal-Mart’s practices are relevant, but the Wal-Mart employees knowledge is IRRELEVANT!!  After all, what would a Wal-Mart employee know about what happens where they work?  Makes more sense, that someone who DOESN’T work or shop at Wal-Mart would know more, right?

I don’t know where YOU work, if you do at all, but, would you think that I know more about your workplace, than YOU do?  Are you somehow ‘blind’ because you work there and I can ‘see’, because I don’t?

“a reference to the pernicious cut and pastes of “Nick”...also known as the “cut and paste” King.”

Excuse me, but SDV was the ‘cut & paste’ King, but, since he left*, YOU have taken over the ‘cut & paste’ throne!!

* Just another complainer, who LOST INTEREST!!

RDS: (Hey, check out my LATEST cut and paste on the activities of Wasilla witchpastor.)

Its under the thread on the next page ,(the thread referring to WalMart’s image problems.) Yeah, I’d say the McPalin ticket has a REAL image problem, with video images of a wacko witchdoctor praying over VP candidate Palin, and healing services that include head butting and punching ill congregants in the stomach.

RDS: Do YOU work at WalMart, to defend their practices as you do, and to speak with apparent authority on THEIR behalf regarding THEIR practices?

Addendum”: My cut and pastes provide reference points. Are you REQUIRED to read them?

No - and I, like so many others, simply scroll past them, as I consider your ill-researched material a waste of precious reading time.

Odd that there is no similar “pushback” for the voluminous vagaries of Anonymous...

I don’t read a lot of his/her material, either—however, it should be noteworthy that Anon’s musings are proof that there is little or no editorial oversight, here.

...or a reference to the pernicious cut and pastes of “Nick”...also known as the “cut and paste” King.

Let’s see—Nick departed nearly a year ago—seems to me you have trouble getting-over those who got on with their lives (namely, the aforementioned Nick and cazar, among others...).

If you feel your interests lay with priorities OTHER than my C&P;,PLEASE do yourself(and many of us) a favor by scrolling on to some other post of your choice and interest.

I can’t speak for Dave but why on earth would we not want to rip on you?

bbrd: And when will YOU,and why haven’t YOU gotten on with YOUR life,bb?You’ve attached yourself to my posts like a barnacle(from Cape Cod?). Who’s intelligence SHOULD be in question? The one who dismisses me,be is obsesssed with my posts? Maybe YOU’RE the one whose wasting your precious time commenting and posting on ill researched C&P;. Very schizophrenic,indeed. Ken pegged you correctly,a while back,as did others.

bbrd: And when will YOU,and why haven’t YOU gotten on with YOUR life,bb?

When you don’t hear from me for a few days, rest assured, I am getting-on with my life…

You’ve attached yourself to my posts like a barnacle(from Cape Cod?).

I prefer to be more like an aggravating boil (from Boston).

Who’s intelligence SHOULD be in question?

Yours.  You, my dear, are as phony as a 3-dollar bill!

The one who dismisses me,be is obsesssed with my posts?

I’m not the only one—I may be the most vocal.

Maybe YOU’RE the one whose wasting your precious time commenting and posting on ill researched C&P;

I would say less than 5 percent of everything I have ever posted is C&P;, which is far more than I can say for you, dear…

Very schizophrenic,indeed. Ken pegged you correctly,a while back,as did others.

Sorry, sweetie, but the opinions of you and the “sour grapes bunch” (Ken, and the “others") doesn’t matter a whole lot to me. 

And, for the record, I am only bbrd, which is more than I can say for some of your buddies, here…

“Deny all you wish. Your denials ,to borrow a phrase, are IRRELEVANT”

I didn’t ask you to believe me.  I told you to go to a Walmart and look at the doors yourself.  You know, do a little actual research instead of believing biased articles.  You don’t even have to buy anything or walk past the front doors, or you could just believe your own copy and paste that says the fire exits were not locked.  So many choices for getting information, but you would rather go on believe what you want instead of finding out the truth.

“Odd that there is no similar “pushback” for the voluminous vagaries of Anonymous, or a reference to the pernicious cut and pastes of “Nick”...”

That’s because we are smart enough to know that Anonymous wants attention so commenting on his posts just makes him do it more, and Nick hasn’t posted here since I have been on here so I really have no reason to complain about him.

ddrb,

“RDS: Do YOU work at WalMart, to defend their practices as you do, and to speak with apparent authority on THEIR behalf regarding THEIR practices?”

If you had been paying attention, you would know that I am ‘retired’ and don’t ‘work’ anywhere, but Dave does and I shop there, so based on what he says and what I SEE, I find it more reliable to post on those things, rather than just agree with people who don’t work or shop there!!  Besides, I know that YOU have an agenda, based on the fact that they built a store next to your house and YOU didn’t like it!!

Next, I have never defended Wal-Mart’s practices, I have only taken ‘stupid’ things said by the anti side and presented a more reasonable, unbiased rationalization of what was posted!!  Example: If an anti person says that everything Wal-Mart sells is JUNK and falls apart after 1 use, I have said that that is ‘stupid’ and is unrealistic!!  And, if someone says that Wal-Mart pays ‘slave, below poverty’ wages, I have shown that that is UNTRUE and given government statistics on it!!  I have even used a site provided by Screwedby, to show that Wal-Mart’s wages are above the ‘living wage’ (except in California) for a family of 2!!  And, if your family is more than 2, it is NOT Wal-Mart’s responsibility for a family’s total support, NO company pays based on family’s size!!

I am not here to DEFEND Wal-Mart, but rather to inform ‘newbies’ of your sides falsehoods!!

RDS: I read in an earlier post that you have a family tie to Tyson,one of WalMart’s biggest vendors,whose processing plant is in Springdale,otherwise known as “Chickendale.” It is logical that you might have more awareness of WalMart practices than most.

FRED,

“RDS you say you have nothing to do with walmart . Then why are you on here for 3 YEARS TALKING PRO walmart TRASH .”

I don’t talk Wal-Mart TRASH, you just interpret it that way!!  Also, it is a barrel of laughs each day, to read all of the comments, especially the ones that don’t make any sense!!

“YOU ARE SUCH A FAKE . I THINK YOUR DAUGHTER OR SON IN LAW WORKS FOR WALMART , and that is the real reason to leave cheese ville .”

My daughter works for Tyson Foods and I have no son-in-law, she is divorced!!  And, I and my wife are both retired, so neither of us works for, nor has ever worked for Wal-Mart!!  And, as for leaving cheeseville, have you ever been there in the winter?  Freezing temps and 3+ foot snow, was the reason I left, that and high taxes!!

RDS in
Monday, September 01,2008 at 11:22 PM~~~~~~~~~

ddrb,

“RDS: I read in an earlier post that you have a family tie to Tyson,one of WalMart’s biggest vendors”

I like the way you ‘tie’ things to Wal-Mart!!  I guess if your city’s police department had ALL Chevies as police cars, you would say the city had a tie to GM!!

“whose processing plant is in Springdale,otherwise known as “Chickendale.””

Yes, it is known as “Chickendale” to Jonah Tebbets, but not to MOST people!!  In fact, Springdale has only 1 Tyson plant, while Fayetteville (where Jonah lives), has 3 and there are many other plants, in cities around the country and their World Headquarters is in Johnson, Ar., so Springdale is far from being “Chickendale”, as it’s plant is only a ‘small’ part of the Tyson Foods Company.!!

“It is logical that you might have more awareness of WalMart practices than most.”

Why, would my daughter, working for Tyson Foods World Headquarters, give me some sort of ‘awareness’ as to how Wal-Mart works?  Would an employee of GM, have a better ‘awareness’ of how your police station works, if the police drive Chevies?  Guess that must just be the result of your conspiracy mindset!!

I read in an earlier post that you have a family tie to Tyson,one of WalMart’s biggest vendors...

How about one of the grocery industry’s biggest vendors?

Don’t believe me, sweetums?  Ask anyone affiliated with any grocer other than WM…

UPDATED: Tyson Foods Buys 3 Brazilian Firms
By Andrew Jensen
9/18/2008 9:12:12 AM

CEO Richard Bond leads Tyson Foods Inc., which announced the purchase of three Brazilian poultry companies Thursday.

Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale said Wednesday that it has bought three poultry companies in Brazil.

Tyson officials confirmed in a news release that the company is purchasing Macedo Agroindustrial and Avicola Itaiopolis, both in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, and will initially have 70 percent ownership of Frangobras in the state of Parana.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Tyson says it expects the deals to close within 60 days.

Macedo is a strong retail chicken brand in southern Brazil. The company also exports chicken to a variety of countries including the United Kingdom, Belgium, Spain, Hong Kong, Japan, South Africa and Yemen. Tyson plans to expand production, more than doubling the plant’s capacity to 176,000 birds per day.

Avita and Frangobras are new poultry companies with tremendous growth potential, Tyson said. Both recently built new, strategically-located plants that contain modern processing technology.

Tyson’s investment in Avita and Frangobras will enable each processing facility to increase daily chicken production to 320,000 birds.

The company’s debt got an upgrade Friday from one agency a week after Standard & Poor’s downgraded its credit rating to junk status on Sept. 4.

On Friday, following an announcement that Tyson added collateral and guarantees to its $1 billion credit agreement, Fitch Ratings of Chicago upgraded its rating on Tyson’s debt from “BB+” to “BBB-”. BB is a speculative rating while BBB indicates good credit. The plus or minus indicates the rating’s position within the category.

On Sept. 4, Tyson announced a 20 million share offering and priced $450 million in convertible senior notes maturing in 2013 to pay down debt and fund acquisitions and strategic investments. After the market closed, S&P;downgraded Tyson’s debt from “BBB-” to “BB”.

On Sept. 10, the Springdale-based meat producer said it would set a share price of $12.75 for the Class A common shares and that former company chairman Don Tyson would purchase 3 million of the shares.

Also on Sept. 10, Tyson announced a 60 percent acquisition in Shandong Xinchang Group, a Chinese poultry producer, as it continues to expand internationally. ~~~~~~~~~NOTE: Isn’t WalMart expanding in Brazil,also? If I’m not mistaken there was a recent thread here about Castro Wright speaking to Mayor’s Conference in Miami,stressing the expansion in South America by WalMart. Castro wright is from Brazil if I’m not mistaken. Seems whither thou goest,W/M, ..........

Why, would my daughter, working for Tyson Foods World Headquarters, give me some sort of ‘awareness’ as to how Wal-Mart works?  RDS~~~~~~~~~~NOTE:Ostensibly, I would think that would depend upon her job description and the scope of her responsibilities.

P.S.: IReread my original post. I DID NOT use the phrase “How WalMart works”. I said “awareness of WalMart practices. “

ddrb,

“Ostensibly, I would think that would depend upon her job description and the scope of her responsibilities.”

As she works in “Account Payables”, she has little to do with the Wal-Mart side of the business!!

“IReread my original post. I DID NOT use the phrase “How WalMart works”. I said “awareness of WalMart practices. “”

Semantics!!  Wal-Mart’s practices, is how Wal-Mart’s business works!!

RDS: NO,RDS, your response is how"illusionist",bait and switch,sleight of hand (and mind) works. Are you saying that WalMart is NOT an “Account Payable”?

Has anyone been watching the PBS series on the effect of inequality of income upon health? Its called Unnatural Causes. Excellent. Oddly enough,last week one of the segments in this multi part series was about Marshall Islanders.They were profiled about their plight ,much related to low income. The program also showed Springdale,Arkansas and the Tyson plant where they work,many of them. The efforts to control TB is discussed by Arkansas health workers.Other diseases affecting these folk are VD and leprosy. I wrote about this 2 or 3 months ago,here on this site.

ddrb in
Thursday, April 24 at 01:57 PM~~~~~~~~~~NOTE: If indeed your daughter works in the office,and NOT in the Tyson poultry processing plant in Springdale, I guess that’s why you chose to “blow off “ the rise of leprosy in Springdale, But it does give logical rise to if your tenents aren’t processing plant workers.

We have known for a long time of leprosy in the Marshall Islands,” [Dr. Joe Bates, deputy state health director with the Department of Health and Human Services] said. “It’s a substantial issue in the Marshall Islands. And they are bringing their health issues to this country with them.
And, from a different conference:
According to Bates there are 8,000 (legal) Marshalleese immigrants in Springdale. They’re the most unhealthy immigrant group in the state, known to suffer from TB [tuberculosis], VD, and leprosy. Not a single case of the latter has been cured. Bates also said that, in contrast to Hawaii, which has $10 million federal dollars for its Micronesian population, Arkansas gets nothing for its Marshall Islanders.

[A compact between their country and the U.S., see doi.gov/oia/Islandpages/rmipage.htm] allows citizens of the Marshall Islands to live and work in the United States without being subject to U.S. immigration laws, but they are ineligible for Medicare, non-emergency Medicaid, Social Security, food stamps, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and most other forms of federally-funded public assistance…

Deputy State Health Officer Dr. Joe Bates testified that between 2000 and 2005, Northwest Arkansas had nine cases of congenital syphilis, six of which involved Marshallese; 38 people with infectious syphilis, 21 of whom were Marshallese; and eight cases of leprosy, all Marshallese…

..."We think there are two to three times more cases of leprosy than we know about,” he said…
It says that some of them might be covered by health insurance from their employers but that that might not include some of their family members. (TLW,2008).Ah,Free Market and Global economy.

ddrb in
Tuesday, March 04 at 04:59 PM~~~~~~~~~~~~~Note: I posted this WELL before PBS did ANY report. RDS blew my post off.

ddrb,

“NO,RDS, your response is how"illusionist",bait and switch,sleight of hand (and mind) works. Are you saying that WalMart is NOT an “Account Payable”?”

Do you even know what “Account Payable” means?  As Wal-Mart buys from Tysons, they would pay Tysons for products received, that’s called “Account Receivables”, she deals with paying suppliers, paying taxes, etc., not collecting money from Wal-Mart!!

No wonder you’re not very good at handling your money!!  Do you pay people who buy things from you?

RDS: If she’s calculating taxes, wouldn’t theoretically some of those taxes be computed off income from the receivables department?

BTW; Aren’t you concerned about the diseases being brought to Springdale by the immigrants? I would be VERY concerned. Odd that you aren’t,especially with you and your family living in the same community. ...you seem to have irrational opinions about so many other things,yet indifferent to this very REAL health issue right under your nose.

ddrb,

“RDS: If she’s calculating taxes, wouldn’t theoretically some of those taxes be computed off income from the receivables department?”

THEORETICALLY, but ‘accounts receivables’ just gives an income number, not a line by line account of where the income came from!!

“Aren’t you concerned about the diseases being brought to Springdale by the immigrants?”

Don’t YOU have immigrants moving into YOUR area?  Are YOU worried about diseases they may be bringing in?  To tell you the TRUTH, I haven’t hear ANYTHING about diseases, except from YOU and I bet you heard it from Jonah Tebbets, the guy who hates Springdale!!  Look at a map once at N.W. Arkansas and you will see, 6 towns in a 20 mile radius of each other, how come ONLY Springdale (in the middle), would have a problem with this and none of the others do?

Has anyone been watching the PBS series on the effect of inequality of income upon health? Its called Unnatural Causes. Excellent. Oddly enough,last week one of the segments in this multi part series was about Marshall Islanders.They were profiled about their plight ,much related to low income. The program also showed Springdale,Arkansas and the Tyson plant where they work,many of them. The efforts to control TB is discussed by Arkansas health workers.Other diseases affecting these folk are VD and leprosy. I wrote about this 2 or 3 months ago,here on this site.

ddrb in
Thursday, April 24 at 01:57 PM~~~~~~~~~~NOTE:I’m posting this AGAIN (,it is posted upthread),but you obviously did not read it. PBS did a series in April of this year,and included the Springdale Tyson plant workers.  I ORIGINALLY raised the leprosy issue here ,prior to the PBS series. At that time, I did NOT even KNOW your daughter worked for Tyson. Only very recently did I learn that.

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http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:RWmLxATAmMwJ:www.kfsm.com/Global/story.asp?S=7841296+Leprosy+Arkansas&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us

SPRINGDALE - The medical community is warning the public: a leprosy outbreak in Springdale could blossom into an epidemic, if something isn’t done soon.

Doctors say at least nine cases of leprosy have been confirmed in Springdale. Local doctors say they would be shocked by even one case of leprosy in their entire career, so they say something must be done soon, in order to stop leprosy’s spread.

Springdale MD Jennifer Bingham says, “my initial response was: I am shocked. I am shocked we are seeing this. It’s a true reason to be very worried.”

Medical specialists say the Marshall Islands have the most cases of leprosy, in the world. And the city with the largest number of Marshallese people, outside the Marshall islands, is Springdale. And Bingham says, it makes sense, then, that leprosy is spreading to the city. “It’s from the Marshall islands; that’s why we’re seeing it.”

Bingham says she is all for Marshallese people entering the United States, after proper medical tests. But whether they’re immigrants or not, she says people must stick to treatment, when infected. And she says, when she treats those from the Marshall Islands, this doesn’t happen. “We’re not getting the compliance that is absolutely essential to take care of this process.”

Bingham says without cooperation, leprosy, which has no vaccine, and is transmitted through the air, will spread, and could easily become an epidemic. “People absolutely should be concerned. What I’m afraid of, is when people start thinking about it enough, it will already be out of control.”

So now, Bingham, and others like Mayoral candidate Nancy Jenkins, say government help is the next step. Jenkins says she’s angered the federal government has been so lax with border patrol. She says, “We’ve just opened the borders and said, ‘Come on in! Bring your diseases! Bring ‘em!’ Why are we doing that? Those who have it need to be quarantined and treated, or sent back to their country.”

Dr. Bingham is requesting the public take action, and write everyone from legislators, and presidential candidates, to Congress, and the Health Department. Shey says, “the only way to truly protect our community and our economic growth, is to think of this as a very important, panic-mode attempt to treat leprosy: before it gets out of hand.”

Doctors say leprosy will appear as a discoloration, or nodules, on the skin, especially the fingers, toes, arms, and face. With treatment, it is curable, but it can take from six months, to two years, to completely disappear.

Springdale is also reporting over 100 cases of tuberculosis.

Hour 4 : “Collateral Damage” traces the health challenges of Marshall Islanders from the South Pacific to Springdale, Arkansas:

The lives and health of Marshall Islanders in the South Pacific were disrupted in a unique fashion when the U.S. used their outer islands for extensive nuclear testing after WWII.  But the dislocation set in motion by globalization and the presence of the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Base may be taking an even greater toll on their health. Their traditional way of life destroyed, many Marshallese, desperate for jobs at the base, crowd the nearby island of Ebeye, where tuberculosis and other diseases are fed by poverty and squalid conditions. Today, many Marshallese, seeking a better life, have ended up in the unlikely place of Springdale, Arkansas.  But they bring a legacy of poverty and powerlessness with them. ~~~~~~~~~~"Unnatural Causes” April,08, PBS