International Action At Wal-Mart Watch

I find it interesting the map highlights Mexico.  The crown jewel of their foreign ventures, Mexico pretty much fell like a plum into Bentonville’s lap, catapulting Eduardo Castro Wright to fame and fortune.

There are some indications, however, that the honeymoon may be drawing to a close.  There have been several incidents this past year of Wal-Mart de Mexico employee unrest and there are even a few pesky Mexicans that resent Wal-Mart building a store within sight of a national archeological treasure.

Ken

I noticed something which contradicts what you are saying.

A direct quote:  “MEXICO WELCOMING WAL-MART BANK”.  “Mexico is eager to increase bank competition and has given the local unit of the world’s largest retailer the go-ahead to provide computer banking services.”

To summarize the rest of the article; it appears that Mexico likes Walmart.

Mexicans Say No to Wal-Mart

Around 250 demonstrators stormed a Wal-Mart store outside Mexico City on Tuesday alleging that Wal-Mart’s low prices have come at the cost of hurting local farmers and markets. For the rest of this story please got to:

http://vivirlatino.com/2006/11/17/mexicans-say-no-to-walmart.php

The demonstration came two days after activists from several U.S. groups and 10 Mexican labor, community and commercial organizations participated in a weekend gathering dubbed the First Binational U.S.-Mexico Meeting Against Wal-Mart.
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/miami/21866.html

It is not just economic destruction in the U.S. Its anywhere WalMart goes-

The China Price
by Ralph Nader

“WalMart is a gigantic pressure cooker in the “meet the China Price” rat race or else. With a relentlessness comparable to its low-wage, union-busting practices, WalMart tells its suppliers to find ways to meet the “China Price” or pick up and move to China with its hardworking, non-union, 30 or 40 cents per hour workers.”

“The China Price” is emptying out many factories even in Mexico that were set up by U.S. corporations a few years ago. Apparently, one dollar an hour is too much to pay for Mexican labor.”
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0621-12.htm

MEXICAN LEFTIST PROTEST IN WAL-MART STORES, ALLEGING ELECTION FRAUDThe Associated Press Published: September 24, 2006

“MEXICO CITY Supporters of defeated presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador blocked cash registers and threw around merchandise at several Wal-Mart stores in Mexico City on Sunday, continuing to protest the July election despite calls for unity.”

“About 80 protesters read a message at the stores telling Wal-Mart to stay out of Mexican politics. They accused the retail giant of supporting conservative President-elect Felipe Calderon, which the store denies. The protesters also alleged the stores exploit workers.”

“Wal-Mart de Mexico, the Mexican unit of Arkansas-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc., is the country’s biggest retailer with 818 retail stores and restaurants at the end of June. Calls to company on Sunday were not answered.”

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/09/24/america/LA_GEN_Mexico_Leftist_Protests.php

WalMart- And you thought we just screwed people over in the United States.

Just like American leftists (unions, Democrats, Code Pink, Michael Moore, etc.), Mexican leftists can’t debate any issue in a professional manner. If they lose an election, it was stolen. If you say something they don’t agree with, you are the devil. If you disagree with their opinion, you are intolerant. If they don’t get their way, they resort to the old leftist throwback-a protest. They “blocked cash registers and threw around merchandise......”. Sounds like a tactic they learned from the UFCW.

“Sounds like a tactic they learned from the UFCW.”

EllisW in
Wednesday, February 14 at 09:07 AM

Perhaps you would like to claim that WalMart and the right-wing crowd (Bush/ Waltons etc.) were not involved in funding right-wing canidates in the latest round of Mexican elections. Or perhaps you are defending the right to do that, even though it is illegal-

WalMart- We screw people over internationally. Let’s blame the unions.

Our good friend EllisW wrote:
“Just like American leftists (unions, Democrats, Code Pink, Michael Moore, etc.), Mexican leftists can’t debate any issue in a professional manner.”

How do your childish HA HA HA’s that you end many of your posts with help to support your “professional debate” standards EllisW?

R E M E M B E R
J O N Q U I E R E
Q U E B E C
Home of Walmart Worker Abuse.
We will NEVER forget what you did Walmart.

Ken V,

“There are some indications, however, that the honeymoon may be drawing to a close.”

The following seems to dispute your conclusion:

“The Mexican unit of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Tuesday it plans to open 125 new stores and restaurants as part of its 2007 expansion plans.”

The Mexican unit of Wal-Mart stores wants to build more stores in Mexico. That doesn’t mean the Mexican people want more Wal-Mart stores. It just means Wal-Mart wants to build more stores. Note the dfference, Bob. Is Wal-Mart’s honeymoon drawing to a close? Absolutely.

Jane

Perhaps you could explain something to me. You claim that people, both in the US and in Mexico, do not want Wal-Mart to open stores. You claim that Wal-Mart opens stores in communities where they are not wanted.

1. Not wanted by whom?
2. Do citizens get to vote on it?
3. Do citizens have the right to vote out a clean, legal and safe business?

My main question is this. If nobody wants a Wal-Mart and these stores are being opened in the face of community opposition, just who in the community shops there? Surely you don’t really believe that Wal-Mart has 4,000 unwelcome stores in the US alone, do you?

To sum up my question: if Wal-Mart is universally hated and nobody wants a Wal-Mart in their town, who spent $340 BILLION at Wal-Mart last year?

Please address my points. Thanks.

“who spent $340 BILLION at Wal-Mart last year?”

Sounds like Walmart is happy with their sales.
Why are employee’s not enjoying some of the success?

R E M E M B E R
J O N Q U I E R E
Q U E B E C
Home of Walmart Worker Abuse.
We will never forget what you did Walmart.

Jane,

“It just means Wal-Mart wants to build more stores. Note the dfference, Bob.”

Have you ever heard of a thing called “A Feasibility Study”?  That is a study made to find out of people in an area will actually shop at a store if it is built.  They just don’t spend millions of dollars to build stores, hoping that someone will shop there.  Just because 250 people out of a 50,000 populace city, are against a store being built, doesn’t mean that the others don’t want it too!!!

Also, if so many people ‘hate’ Wal-Mart, how come when I go to the store in my area, at any given time, there are more than 300 cars in the parking lot and I either have to wait for someone to pull out of a close parking spot or have to walk quite a distance to get to the store?

“...I either have to wait for someone to pull out of a close parking spot or have to walk quite a distance to get to the store?”

Imagine how long you’d have to wait if it wasn’t for the anti Wal-Mart movement!

A recent study commissioned by Wal-Mart showed that from 2 percent to 8 percent of its customers had stopped shopping there because of “negative press.”

No need to thank me, Bob.

Ken V,

“Imagine how long you’d have to wait if it wasn’t for the anti Wal-Mart movement!”

So, you are admitting that even more people would choose to shop at Wal-Mart, if your movement hadn’t convinced them that they were somehow ‘bad’ if they shopped there.

Admit it?  Like it’s a big secret.

As long as people see smiley Wal-Mart and not the Beast, as long as they still believe Wal-Mart is following Sam’s “dream” and is not merely a money-grubbing retail strip miner, as long as one customer continues to shop there I will continue to show them why it is bad.

Ken

Answer this direct question with a direct answer:

If Wal-Mart is so bad, how do they attract millions of job applicants each year and how did they convince 130 million customers per week to spend $340 billion in their stores last year?

Please answer the question in a simple and honest manner. Thank you.

Ellis

Sounds to me like the unemployment rate in this country is much worse than we are led to believe. People apply there mostly out of DESPERATION!!!!!

The fact that there is a WM in almost every town with a population of 10,000 or more and there is such heavy saturation in large citys, I would have to conclude that most people are..... A: lured in by the convience of the stores local..... B: Ill informed as to the negative effects that WM has made in the American work force....... C: Too lazy to go elsewhere..... D: Just like so many voters (aldeit dumb ones)don’t believe their votes count, they don’t think that by there not going and spending their money at WM that it will make any diference (ignorance)....... Is that enough or should I keep going?

DAVE SMITH
PROUD UNION IRONWORKER

Thank you, Dave. That seemed direct enough.

IRONHEADED,

So, you are saying that one of the traits of a Wal-Mart worker, is: Too lazy to go elsewhere!!!  Can you explain why a company would want to pay top wages and give top benefits to people with these qualities?  Another trait, could be, that they have no skill level to attain a job in anything higher than what Wal-Mart offers!!!

Boob

Come on Boob sing along with me....... Lets twist again....... come on it seems to be your theme song. You ought to know the words.

Or maybe I just have to make things sooooo simple that a numb skull like yourself can keep up.

“Sounds to me like the unemployment rate in this country is much worse than we are led to believe. People apply there mostly out of DESPERATION!!!!!”

That paragraph above is refering to the people that apply for work at WM. Are you able to keep up with me here?

The following paragraph is refering to the second of Ellises questions. answering as to why people still shop at and spend their hard earned money with this discusting company. Are you still with me on this?

“The fact that there is a WM in almost every town with a population of 10,000 or more and there is such heavy saturation in large citys, I would have to conclude that most people are..... A: lured in by the convience of the stores local..... B: Ill informed as to the negative effects that WM has made in the American work force....... C: Too lazy to go elsewhere..... D: Just like so many voters (aldeit dumb ones)don’t believe their votes count, they don’t think that by there not going and spending their money at WM that it will make any diference (ignorance)....... Is that enough or should I keep going”

Somehow I suspect that you already knew this but were just up to your old ways of TWISTING everything to suit your DUMB arguments. Because ANY FOOL could see what was written, even you Boob.

DAVE SMITH
PROUD UNION IRONWORKER

Build more stores in Mexico—keep the Mexicans south of the Rio Grande, we don’t need to support them in the USA
and golly jeepers if WM builds bunches of stores in Mexico, look at the jobs>

Praise WM for helping stop “illegal aliens”!!

IRONHEADED,

“That paragraph above is refering to the people that apply for work at WM. Are you able to keep up with me here?

The following paragraph is refering to the second of Ellises questions. answering as to why people still shop at and spend their hard earned money with this discusting company. Are you still with me on this?”

Would not you agree, that for the most part, the people who shop at Wal-Mart, are the same type of people who apply for jobs at Wal-Mart?  Therefore, the traits you mentioned, would apply to both.

Also, it is just your Assumption, that “the unemployment rate in this country is much worse than we are led to believe. People apply there mostly out of DESPERATION!!!!!”, where is your proof of this?

Boob

TWIST, TWIST, TWIST, TWIST ha,ha,ha,ha,ha.........Your pethetic!.........HA, HA, HA, HA

DAVE SMITH
PROUD UNION IRONWORKER

IRONHEADED,

I knew if I asked for PROOF, you would go Wacko, mainly because you have none.  When people can’t defend, they rant!!!

Boob

I have given yue the proof, and listed the government web site for you on numerous occasions. Just because you choose not to go to them and do your home work, that doesn’t make it my problem. Get it?

TWIST,TWIST,TWIST, ha, ha, ha,

DAVE SMITH
PROUD UNION IRONWORKER

IRONHEADED,

There are working people and there are working people, some are counted and some aren’t.  Have you ever heard of ‘working under the table’?  Those people are working, but just aren’t counted or paying taxes.

“There are working people and there are working people, some are counted and some aren’t.  Have you ever heard of ‘working under the table’?  Those people are working, but just aren’t counted or paying taxes.”
Bob in
Tuesday, February 20 at 01:01 PM

Yes. WalMart’s illegal alien janitors.

Boob

That should have said:

There are unemployed people and there are unemployed people, some are counted and some aren’t.

You need to do a little research as to how the unemployment rate is figured. I have given you the government web site on this, but of corse you never looked at it. Thats your problem. If ignorance is bliss, you must be VERY HAPPY!

DAVE SMITH
PROUD UNION IRONWORKER

“There are unemployed people and there are unemployed people, some are counted and some aren’t.”

This must refer to (EllisW, Bob in, Mark and knowledgeable) because surely they don’t get paid for posting all the hours they do on this site? They never heard of Edelman or a WalMart ‘war room’ so perhaps they are blogging here as a retired persons hobby.

WalMart- We pay ‘under contract with Edelman ‘war room’ bloggers’ to evade and distort information. Do the WalMart-Edelman ‘war room’ bloggers get better health care benefits than the rest of the peasant ‘associates’? Do the ‘war room’ bloggers clean up their own mess at the office or let some illegal alien janitor do it?

San Diego

Oh, I get it! Those who post in support of Wal-Mart or capitalism, who use truth and logic and factual evidence, are obviously paid Wal-Mart bloggers.

Those who write constantly in opposition of Wal-Mart are honest, hard working souls who blog out of the goodness of their hearts, for free, and obviously have no stake in the outcome.

Did I get this straight?

Did I get this straight?

Not quite, Ellis.  There are bloggers like me that aren’t doing this out of the goodness of my heart but rather out of a heightened sense of revenge!

Anyone want to buy a partially consumed bottle of DaSani water?

EllisW-

I support capitalism far more than you do. Your approach is self apparent and simply dishonest. You give capitalism a bad name. We want to operate the free enterprise system honestly. You don’t. Your comments are built on frauds and you try to pass that crap off as informed or reasonable. When Walmart gets caught on subsidies and tax frauds, exploiting employees and stealing from them, dumping ‘associates’ onto state health care programs for taxpayers to pick-up more of the bill for WalMart etc etc etc, you are there to defend WalMart as ‘capitalism’. The ‘whatever we can get away with’ business philosophy/ model.

You are not defending/helping/supporting capitalism. You are defending WalMart.
By doing so, you give capitalism a bad name.

I refer you to one of Ken’s thoughts-

“But why would anyone blog for Wal-Mart for free? I can’t for a minute believe it is to defend capitalism in general or to advocate their Ayn Rand/Adam Smith-on-crack morality.
That would be altruistic.”

Ken V in Texas

I have never received any compensation of any kind for my comments on any site. I have no membership or agreement of any kind with any union. My posts are purely from a biblicist/sociological interest. The evidence about Edelman and the WalMart ‘war room’ is overwhelming and public.

(thank you for correcting my typo from Any to Ayn.)