Our Unofficial Wal-Mart Logo Redesign Contest Winner!

Congratulations,Chris! You surely received inspiration from the ACTUAL flag of China. How appropriate.

will you be selling the T-Shirts, I would buy one,

I agree with Peggy. T-Shirts? I’d by one too.

definitely need to make this into a t-shirt!

i think that the unoffical logo that chris made was… genius!!! wal-mart should definately take a look at it and will think twice about it’s “friendship” with people in china.

I’m not a bumper sticker kind of person, but this I would certainly place on my car (and every other car in the lot!).  Very well stated & well done.  Congratulations.

You think you could get Clinton to sell these to help retire her campaign debt?

Great job all.  I would love a t-shirt with winning logo.  The t-shirt with the runner up, happy face with fangs, on the back of the t-shirt would go great with the red color!  Any chance of a t-shirt encompassing both designs?

I also love the runner up design with the unhappy face in the official sun symbol with “cheap crap” at the bottom.  How about two t-shirt?  I would buy both and give some to friends.

These are all excellent. I think I’d have chosen the one that says our employees always work for less. I’d love a tee shirt too.

All of these logos are great!!  I would definitely buy one of these t-shirts if they were for sale!!!  The cost of the shirts would be a great way to raise money to help the fight against unwanted Walmarts in our communities.

PLEASE MAKE CERTAIN THE TEE SHIRTS ARE NOT MADE OR PRINTED IN CHINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’d like to see the"Wal-Mart,Our employees always work for Less, Always"logo on a Tee Shirt. I’d surely purchase it, then wear it when shopping at my local Wal-Mart! 

I’m sure, it would get lots of attention!

I would love those t shirts please consider selling them

Is Wal-Mart that bad? I think the entire world is poisoning. How about the pharmaceutical industry poisoning people with medication thats supposed to help us. How about the food industry selling products containing aspartame that effects the heart. Or the shampoo that we use contains ethyl ether that causes depression in women. Did you know flouride does the same to women? How about the lotions that contain parabens that are linked to cancer. The entire world is harming us!! Not only Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart is just the tip of the iceberg. It’s an epidemic! We feed our children these packaged foods, do we really know whats in them? No!! They’re poisoning our children! How about the antibiotics in the milk?? Or the hormones they feed our fruits and veggies to make them more perfect, the pesticides!!!! Doesn’t this anger you?? Or the chemical they put in the water bottles. Don’t let your water bottle sit in the sun!! We need a rude awakening. It’s a shame our children don’t stand a chance in this poisioned world.

Arthur in Belton,Texas, the idea is NOT to shop at your “local Wal-Mart!” Make available tee shirts of all the finalists.  They are all good!  The winner, though, is very clever and right on target.  Great job, Chris!!!

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Well Wal-Mart only gives people what they want.  This is the USA and you can not shop there and you can not work there its all up to you.  But if you get over yourself wal-mart has helped out alot of people in this country.  They have put food on the table for many house holds.  There are companys out there that have paid there employees a great wage when the union has got that for them.  Know they have no jobs because the company had to go out of business.  I love and hate Wal-Mart.  I hate Wal-Mart because they buy so much from other countries but I love Wal-Mart because they do take care of there employees as much as the next american company.  American employees think they are worth a large pay check but go into any store that pays there employees what is considered a fare wage.  You still get the same service as you do at Wal-Mart and the emploeeys stand around talking about drinking, sex and other non work related thing.  I have been to the high end retail stores and heard this go on.  So shut your mouths about this company that feeds families every day because the unionized suppermarkets do not even make shure there employees are taken care of.  I have worked at a unionized suppermarket and i work for wal-mart know and its different as night and day.  I say the union sucks and Wal-Mart has given this country what they want.  If Wal-Mart was not giving this countrie or its employees what it wanted they would be out of business.

The problem is not with this company it is with the amarican people.  We think we are better than any one in the world and every one owes us something.  Wake up and if you do not like Wal-Mart then do not shop there and do not work there its that simple.

Dale

A proud Wal-Mart employee

You can put my name on the list for about a dozen of tee’s. But what about the others? They are great as well, what’s going to be done about them? Around here I could sell a stack or ten and drum up the money for another comerical.

I would LOVE to get the “Wal-mart Our Employees always for less. Always!” sticker and slap them on every wal-mart basket left sitting out in the parking lot not far from my house. That or slap stickers of all the designs on the light poles near by.

Maria is right, we, all of us, are doing the poisoning...Still, since Walmart is the tip of the iceberg, it is a great starting point.  That iceberg is enormous and noticeable. We can and must chip away at it. Bringing attention to the immoral and unthinkable business practices of Walmart is what this is about.  We don’t have to buy there, but we do. Change can only come from within the ranks. We need to stay with it - let WalMart know how much we disapprove of its disregard of anything that might cut into its profits.  Perhaps the rest of us will begin thinking, as well.  It is our own survival we are talking about.

I can’t wait to see those tees in Canada.  My children and I will be sporting them proudly.  Congrats to Chris!

Dale: Hey Dale, how do you feel that the Chinese WalMart workers have MORE say in WalMart’s employee practices than American associates do?Does that make YOU proud?

Walmart is a symptom of a disease and its called “consumerism”. Notice how many people’s first instinct was to want to buy something with the winning logo on it.

This mindset is why Walmart does so well, Dale is right - Walmart wouldn’t sell stuff if people didn’t buy it.

If you really want to help then take the money you were planning on spending on yet another tee shirt and send it to a worthwhile charity - preferably one that helps people in the developed world that Walmart is exploiting.

I suggest the Red Cross or Oxfam or Doctor’s without Borders or any other of a number of similar organizations. You don’t need the tee and they need the money.

ddrb in

Yes it does.  Because we the amarican people keep letting everything get bout out by other countries.  If you do not invest in companies in this countrie then you suport the Chines as well.  Nothing is amarican made or amarican owned anymore.  It can say made in amarica but many times it was not even made here.

Dale IN

Dale - Maybe if you knew how to spell you could get a better job than Wal-Mart.

I have a great job that makes great money.  I am just pissed off at people who run there mouth about the company.  Just shut up and shop some place thats not a wal-mart store.

Dale

A proud Wal-Mart employee

How long have you been with Wal-Mart, Dale?

There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man’s lawful prey. ~ John Ruskin

AMEN Tricia!

Heck...I ‘ll buy 1-2 of each...To add to my collection

great job.....

if you stop and think about it we are walking billboards…
what a better way to get the message out there…

plus some business cards...for more info…

i have been with wal-mart for 5 years and make over $18.00 an hour.  I have great health insurence and work with a great group of people.  I have worked in many stores through out the USA.  I have not been treated bad.  Ya I may not be a great speller but thats not a wal-mart thing thats public education for you.

Dale

I buy, wear and sell, as well as buy for family direct from Mfg.’s/Wholesalers in Taiwan/Mainland China and underwear from Honduras! I wish I could do the same here! But...I am
disgusted at the way the second Sam was cool the Employee
used ads, Made in, by,sold to and by for Americans. I am Disabled and cannot afforda 2 tee-shirts forwhat we can get 36 for! I found one case where I had to buy if 2 tee-shirts for 15.98 my whlsler was 4.62 Wal-Marts Wholesale was $.89
a fair retail for an $.89 shirt would be 1.99-2.99
The wholesaler had 36 wonderful colors ...but another
.05 off for sticking to 4-6 colors only WE DO NOT LIKE THEM.
The $.89 shirt was selling from 7.99 in the 4 colors too
$9.99 in any of 3-4 other colors (1st shipment only)!
My entire family in-laws daughter, nephews and wives and brother and sister ALL like the warmth in winter of lined leather! Wal-Mart does not carry any 2-3 wholesalers do so! at 69-100.00 we get the same name brand for 12-22.00! Our
Combined gross incom for 2007 was 21,000.00 Cannot live on it unless buying wholesale ...please be honest bout it though and if cost was 20.00 retail a mark @ 39.99 we’d buy
American! Good ol’ Sam and “Made in America,” gone? say it isn’t so Al Heinzeroth Rockford Ilinoins 175,000 pop and a 5th superstore being built!
WARING DANGER!! I asked for the produce mgr a ladycameand I shwed her the foam and molds and 1000’s of fruit flies in and over 4 watermelon pallets! A boy came out and before a word could be said spoke “You should see the produce in back, started with melons and isin hi-priced berries,apples, citruce, grapes everything” I said"Looksas if your prouce fruits are a total loss?” She swore and told the boys too show her! We soon departed! Always go around the back as a shortcut and saves a gallon of gas! Too our surprise ALL produce fruits wer being selectedfo looks & small things were being hosed w/a arden hose all those pallot boxes ofvarious melons were under high presure and
but into new pallet boxes and we went back two hours later all filled and doing busineses (prices had been lowered) this
is a sad reflection on groceries! A business un-suited for Wal-Mart (Danger here sherrie!) the produce, boxes all hours clutterring aisles so as to build up “Point of Sale” haltings!
also I founf “Mock tenders” a flank cut that if run through a
tenderizer twice melts in your mouth better than tough cube-
steak also makes a dandy burger! Pushed the asst. button got a high school kid! “Sorry! Wal-Mart has no butchers, all
our meats come in pre-priced and frozen!Never Wally meat again! No service but no warnings either that if you are freezing any it will be a second freeze and ANY butcher will tell you a no-no posible salmonella as well as otherdiseases if frozen twice before use. Same goes for their fowl and ham much frozen twice before you eat! Also “Price-Fixing”? look to the meat dept! Alls priced with scanner before shipping and various items sell for variouse prices in various areas of U.S.A. Not Wally!! thanks for letting me rant!  AL Heinzeroth
335 dawn ave. #6 Rockford, Illinois 61107 ph# 1-815-708-
7636 E-MAIL purple.hippo123@comcast.net Al Heinzeroth

i have been with wal-mart for 5 years and make over $18.00 an hour.

I wouldn’t get too comfortable, Dale. 5 years/$18 an hour must put you near the top of Susan Chamber’s list of tenured employees they’d just as soon un-tenure.

If none of the recent changes (open availability, wage caps, etc.) have affected you, one can only wonder why. Perhaps you have other ingratiating habits besides your spelling.

I must admit, however, I am a little skeptical that anyone, even someone who blames his shortcomings on the public education system, could live in this day and age and not know how to spell A-M-E-R-I-C-A.

I wish I knew what Dale meant to say because of the spelling errors. Maybe it’s from breathing all those toxic fumes from all the plastic crap at Mal-Wart.
This so called mega-store is the worst example of greed. It moves into areas with mom and pop stores that have been there for years and then these businesses go out of business because they can’t compete with the cheap crap from Mal-Wart. Then their track record on employee relations and them not treating women equally to men is a total disgrace.
I wouldn’t step foot in that store if they were GIVING away free stuff. Or Sam’s Club either. Both of these stores are a pimple on the ass of life.
Dale, it’s admirable that you are proud of where you work. But until you see what a truly despicable company it is that you work for, you are hopeless. The way they treated that woman who was injured on the job and almost died then to lose a son in Iraq and then have to pay for her medical treatments that your company was suppose to have paid,is unconscionable.
Excellent logo. As long as those t-shirts are not made in China, sign me up for one. And a bumper sticker.

Oh Dale let me tell you about that “great company” my teenage son works for walmart and he got injured unloading a truck they were going just to send him home no incident report or anything.WRONG.. after about an hours fight a incident report was filled out and he was sent to the doctor AFTER they had to pull the video and watch it repeatedly to make sure he did not do anything wrong.Great company my fanny! They do not care about thier workers,My son has since returned to work on light duty to a hostile work enviroment in fact just recently they put all thier workers on part time status know what that means Dale? NO BENEFITS!.
The only thing that walmart cares about is profit not people.
Just look what they did to that poor woman who was injured and brain damaged,they sued her...Great company!

Lisa

I think it should be mandatory on all web sites that spell and grammar check be implemented.

Well Dale, let me tell you something, I was with the company for 15 years and guess what !! they just let me go for doing what a Co-manager told me to do...take addtional prices on clearance items. The company sucks as far as I am concern, they dont care about the value of families, they only care about making that big bonus at the end of the year. I have a 7 year old daugther that has a rare genetic skin disorder and since January of this year she has lost half of her mouth from the cancer that it causes, so guess what Walmart paid out alot of money for her surgeries and she still has more reconstructions to go, but now I now longer have the insurance THANKS to the caring people at WALMART!. They are doing everything and anything to get the long term associates out the door. Oh another Dale you are not Amercian or you would know how to spell no matter how upset you are. Just give Walmart time, 5 mores year with the company and you will be out the door too.

By the way Chris...Great job on the logo’s. Would buy 2 t-shirts myself and proudly wear them to show how bad of a company WalMart really is.

I do not see any reason to be jumping Dale, it’s Walmart we all hate. Good job Chris. Have a good day Dale.

Johanna-

Walmart paid out alot of money for her surgeries

Thank you for pointing out the value of the company’s insurance. How much did they pay?

Dale,
I have had a lot of friends and family work at Wal*Mart.  I agree that Wal*Mart has helped a lot of people, but they have harmed a lot more. And they treat their employees a lot worse. I have also heard Wal*Mart employees stand around talking about drinking, sex and other non work related topics.
Wal*Mart obviously is not “Proud To Be an American”.
Are they offering you some sort of reward to sing their praises?  Because other wise I think you must not know your own self worth. Maybe you think you don’t deserve to be treated any better.?

Congratulations Chris, your design is by far the most perfect. I would proudly sport a t-shirt with your design.

Dale:  I retired from Wal~Mart and I hope you realize that discussing your rate of pay can lead to your being let go.  You have not only discussed this on-line but with the millions who read this........There is an old saying “you are the master of the unspoken word, once it is out of your mouth, you are it’s slave”.  You might consider it.

I thought mine was pretty good, it had a third world child and said ruining third world countries one a time, always. Oh well, this website seems to not really care about the third world and only about walmart outsourcing, if walmart or any other company didn’t outsource I doubt people would even give a crap about human rights in the third world. Hey as long as those “filthy third worlders” don’t have your money right?

Great T-shirt designs! My family avoids Wal-Mart as much as possible and if you ask eployees who work there, 99% of them will say they hate their jobs. Sometimes I’ll go into a Wal-Mart just to ask that question and maybe once a year will buy something. It is true that they are just the tip of the iceberg, though, and excess consumerism in Ameeerica is mainly what drives them.  Just stop shopping so much!

The designs are great!  If you make t-shirts, be sure to put “MADE IN USA” on them.  I like the idea of using the money for communities to fight Walmart coming into small towns.  Oklahoma is full of the darn stores.

I would buy a couple but only at a good price and quality.  I figure WM is about the only place who can meet that criteria.

Good morning,

This is a really sad story I want to share with all of you and excuse me to bother with this letter because I am completely sure you have more important things to do and worry about, but what happen to me and my wife is something that really impact and affect our family life. We were buying at Wal-Mart 4444 W Vine St Kissimmee, Fl 34741. My wife was trying on a blouse when mysteriously her purse disappeared with $6.600,00 in cash, you will say why we were carrying that amount of money in cash with us, and the reason is that we arrived Saturday night from Venezuela so the banks were already closed to make a deposit, all of this happen Sunday night and destroyed our illusions of an wonderful vacation in your country, leaving us without one US dollar to afford not even for a bottle of water. Imaging two foreigners on their second day out of five of what we thought was going to be a relaxing and enjoyable vacation; it became the worse nightmare of my whole life.
Good people are not out of reach of bad ones, but I really have confidence and trust in the US system, because I have been flying to the US since 1995 and work for the Department of State (US Embassy in Caracas-Venezuela) since 1999 and these two big experiences made me understand and love the US system.
The purpose of this letter is to inform you the situation that occur at some Wal-Mart stores that maybe do not pass to your attention, these kind of situation will damage your reputation and image that cost you too much sacrifices to build, on the other hand, I will encourage you to hide a better qualified personal. I know this is a delicate matter what I am going to say, but we are almost sure it was an employee who was next to us who took my wife purse, pull out just the money and hide the purse, after five minutes she “SUPPOSEDLY” found it already open and handle it to customer services (a customer will not waste time looking what is inside the purse running the risk of been seen, He/She takes the purse and disappears) The manager in charge of the store Mr. Carlos Cardona did not collaborate with us, said the only thing he could do was to call the police. He did not call the internal security personal (by the way, they never appeared) giving time the thief to run out of the store or to hide the money He did not gave any opportunity to see any camera or a security video?

We reported the case to the Kissimmee police department and the case number is 1-08-004821.

We’ll appreciate all your support on this matter, and thank you very much for your attention, And as Mr. Sam Walton said: Saving people money so they can live better was not true for us into one of his stores, an employee stole our money and we have not at least received any e-mail saying that they sorry about the situation into a WalMart store.

Mayson Heredia
011-58-412-9852007 Mayson_heredia@yahoo.es

Elsy Avendaño
011-58-412-9016488 Aelsy262@hotmail.com

I hope the T shirts you print will be organic & made in the U.S.  I’ll print the same message on my grown & sewn in US organic cotton bags! (www.SustainableBags.Net)

copy the logo you want into your photo editor. Enlarge it if necessary. Print it out on transfer paper, and iron it onto the T-shirt of your chose!!!

Congrdts to Chris and the finalists.. I also hope you will sell t-shirts with this logo, I’d wear it

What denial some people have! When I saw the Documentary called, Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price,
I was infuriated...especially seeing how Walmart treats their
own employees!!!!!!!!!! I was shocked. So if any Walmart employees get mad at this website, then I would suspect
you have not seen this Documentary...It is dated back to
2005, and I just watched it a few days ago. It shocked me.
To think that Walmart’s employees make ends meet because the taxpayer’s dollar in each state foots the bill
for food stamps and Medicaid/ health care...to think the bosses at Walmart encouraged them to get help from the State???? to think that Walmart’s employees gave more money to charity than The entire Walton family
combined in 2005!!!!! To think the CEO of Walmart makes close (or more now) to $14,000.00 an hour????????????? Please get informed people....this is sooo shameful....need I go on?????? I have great respect for Walmart Employees,
but obviously Walmart doesn’t!!!!! And being the billion
dollar empire they are, why won’t they take care of their workers?????? SHAME ON THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was thinking…
no wonder China wants to poison us!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It makes
sense, seeing how these people make such little money
and are treated like dirt over there!!! It is embarassing!
As “Rainman” once said about K-mart, I have to say it
about Walmart: WAL-MART SUX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have a good Slogan for a T-Shirt....

Crawl-Mart...where employees are abused and seldom
able to get back on their feet!

Thanks for letting me share with you :)

Pedro (above) and others:  Everyone ALL OVER the world deserves fair pay for the work they do.  For myself, I don’t want any one exploited for me to save me a little money- not people, not the environment.  Sweatshops should not exist, children should not have to do labor - and they do because others are willing to buy items from Sweatshop/child labor so that we can save a little money.

If you’ve ever used a sewing machine, you know for yourself how much time and effort it takes to make garments and other items.  We are clearly NOT paying a fair amount of money to people who do this work!

Our government used to have laws that protected for manufacturers in the US, but Reagan, and other supply-side politicians (McCain, et al. as well) have gotten rid of that, so that corporations will buy wholesale from the cheapest place in the world. It’s become a giant race to the bottom - and ALL People - all over the world lose.  Barbara Ehrenright’s book “Nickel and Dimed” said it best:  If you’re getting a bargain - then someone else is paying for it! 

The only way things will change is when people REFUSE to buy things that are made by people in sweatshops - no matter where they live! EVERYONE deserves to be treated fairly. 

It’s up to us all with the way you spend your money.  If people don’t buy sweatshop made items, then companies won’t be able to sell them, and they will go out of business.  When that happens, the rest of the world will stop hating the U.S.  and begin to start respecting US again.  DON’T BUY IN WALMART!!

While this was an exercise in creativity, I can’t help but think that it is negative. Here’s what I do that’s positive:
1) I shop at Goodwill & Salvation Army stores for nice used pre-shrunk clothes that I can dry clean to look new.
2) I shop at friendly neighborhood Mom & Pop groceries that I can walk or ride my bike to.
3) I smile and make sure my cashier knows how important they are to me, and if it’s a friendly teenager, they get treated like royalty, since they’re dealing with the public at such a tender age.
4) When I can’t find something and some kid is stocking shelves I ask, “Pardon me--I know you’re busy: can you show me where batteries are?” They never turn me down when I recognize they’re working. They’re glad to talk to a human being for a break.
Conclusion: I would like to wear one of these logos on a t-shirt, but I wouldn’t want to even adorn myself with the name, “WalMart” even in protest. I loved the circular letter W with the red ban sign through it. It stood for “No Dubya Bush,” as well as “No Walmart”
As far as the colorful creative logos from this contest, let’s make bumper stickers and fliers out of them and post them everywhere we can. That way we won’t have to wear the W-word on our bodies.
Thank you for listening.
--Michael
P.S. I wasn’t sure what you wanted in the homepage box.

I want a t-shirt AND bumper stick!!!

Terre Haute, Indiana

former Hell-Mart employee…

To someone in USA:
It doesnt matter how much they paid out , I paid into the insurance company for 15 years, This is the first major time I have had to use the insurance. But since I was let go now and I was the only person working in our family, I have to try and get her on Medicaid to pay for the reconstructions on her face so that she can lead a normal life. I was paying my part into the insurance and was working to do it and not wanting someone else to do it for me, but now everybody else is going to be paying for it once I get her on medicaid...is this really saving us money so we can live better?  NOT! They did me wrong and that is not fair to you and everyone else out there trying to make an honest living. I did alot of prices changes for this company and I will tell you in the past 4 months I seen nothing but prices going up, so where is that saving you money to live better! Wake up people, WalMart is not all out to what they want you to think they are. They are slave drivers and they brain wash you to think that they are the best company to work for...NOT...I will never step foot into another WALMART ever again!

At least Sam Walton would get the stuff from Mexico or Brasilia or some other Norht or South American source… maybe a few things from Taiwan, but none of this Maoist-approved economic attack on our nation. Nor would he have treated the employees like some Chinatown sweatshop workers. Since he died, Wally World has really gone down the loo…

BOYCOTT CHINA OLYMPIAD until those bastard Maoists pull out of Tibet - and ABDICATE in favour of the Taiwanese government!

I think it is very sad what Walmart has done to Sam Walton’s ideals.  It is equally sad that a nation of poor people have little choice but to shop there.  It is even sadder that so many jobs in the USA have been out-sourced and one is hard pressed to find something actually made in the USA. 

We have no jobs, no insurance - there is little difference in the US today and third-world countries.

I don’t like other things they do in China either. Voice4Dogs.  After skinning them alive they make pretty little stuffed toys that they sell at Walmart and other places.  It is illegal but the labeling laws just don’t get it.

Oh for Heaven’s sake get off the spelling thing.  I am a writer and I can’t spell worth a flip. 

The last time I checked, we still had a right to speak our own mind.

Who are you to judge Dale or anyone for what they write?

Yes, most of the comments here are well thought out and most of us do not like Walmart.  Walmart is not the only sorry company in the US.  All companies want to make large profits, look at Exxon.  They do that by whatever means they can.  Until the government stops them, they will continue to do in the little guy.

BTW, Michael in Toledo, OH - Bravo!  those are very positive things we all can do!

I have to agree with the vote with your money suggestions.  We have choices of where to shop.  It’s not a matter of adorning a t-shirt and being anti-Wal*Mart.  It is better to be pro-some other store.

Michael from Toledo has the right idea.  Treating people with respect and shopping elsewhere is a good positive message. 

As Americans ,on the whole, we have become lazy.  We don’t want to do the work to become aware of who we are buying from, so we simply buy the cheapest things.  I think it is important to get the message out about Wal*Mart and other companies that are hurting our world, but I also think it is important to be aware of the positive alternatives to steer people towards a better choice.

I have banned Wal*Mart for 4 years now and mention to people why I ban in my conversations, if the topic comes up.  I also tell people where I am shopping instead.  Now there is a powerful message. To help the employees, maybe we need to suggest other places for them to work when you see openings for them.

The only way a capital company like Wal*Mart will go down is to hit them in their wallets by buying from their competition.

i need one of theese shirts. i actually would buy all of the finalists.

This is still a free country.  If people do not want to shop or work
there, go somewhere else.  Just about everyone has foreign
merchandise for sale.  Get a life and off the back of WalMart. Some
less fortunate people like their prices and need them to survive. It’s
a free country so shop and work where you want.  People have
enough trouble controlling their own lives, much less WalMart’s.
Acturally, if those who put down the company would channel all
that negativity towards something that would really make a difference
in this world, like working for Habitity for Humanity etc.  would
be worthwhile. Do something positive with your life. Putting
down WalMart is just not worth your energy.

These people..do you really think WalMart has ANYTHING that anybody really wants to buy in the first place? I want to buy one of these shirts to help SAVE THE WORLD..!!!

Wal-Mart is sending the wrong message, I prefer to buy local, fair trade, or union made stuff, because my preference is American Made Products.

I’m sorry, I’m a teacher and poor spelling and grammar is one of my pet peeves.  As a writer you would never publish a piece of writing (which is essentially what you do when you write on a blog) without spell checking.

Soon to be an ex-employee at Wal-Mart.  Just but in my two weeks notice in about 4 hours ago.  Worked there for about 1 year.  It’s almost one of the worst employers I ever had.  It was not my job I did not like but the way management ran things.  The waste of food is disgusting.  Hundreds of dollars worth of food thrown away daily, because they will not give it away, not even to the local food pantries like other stores do.  I have also seen hot food such a roteriesse chicken, lunch meat, and sandwhiches sit out in the open for hours because of lazyiness or lack of help.  As far as shopping or working any where eles Wal-Mart is the only major store around for miles and miles.  Wal-Mart can and they are very unfair to the workers.  They also have very low standards and poor customer service.  Wal-Mart at the present time seems to be letting go of the long-term, high paid employees.  Do you know why that is?  So they don’t have to pay for benefits.  In to receive benefit one has to work at least 35 hours a week. That’s almost full-time.  How shaddy.

You know what? I will say it again. I. DON’T. CARE!!!!

I was thinking of submitting a picture that was like an actual logo… but then I realized that it wouldn’t stand a chance.

I feel offended by the winning logo’s play on the Chinese flag. It’s like using the American flag, it’s not respectful. I have a little sister from China, and she is a great person. I have stuff from my parent’s trip to pick her up. China is a place full of rich history. China exports. It is how it get’s money. Like America exports.

Also, every store had problems with the lead problem. Not just Wal-Mart

-Skeptical Teenager

Yo Dave,
don’t go around bad mouthing public education, I am 14 years and I’ve been public schooled my whole life except for the previous school term and I spell just fine, thank you verry much.  They’ve gotten much better, immensely so, in the past 10 years.

As for the t-shirts, i thnink that the folks a walmart watch should make tees out of all the aforementioned logos and that 1/2 of the profits should go toward spreading the word about the evils of Walmart.  These shirts and stickers and buttons ad whatever else they are made into would sell A LOT and in turn could provide all the neccecary capitol for advertrisinfg on the internet, local radio, maybe even get the attention of a few local newspapers. 
I will be purchasing one of these as soon as they’re out. =)

Dear Dale, A proud Wal-Mart employee,

I too am a Walmart employee, I was injured 11 months ago by equipment that was bad because the management didn’t want to spend money to replace because it would take away from their bonus! To date I go to therapy 3 times a week, have had 2 MRI’s, have to use my gas to get to the doctors plus missed work, so far I have NOT been reimbursed for anything! including mileage, lost wages, etc. not a dime! The store manager won’t even look at me, let alone talk to me, She already tried to fire me.

You have the attitude that ALL the managers have at walmart, I bet that you ARE a manager or are Aspiring to be one, but let me tell you, Walmart doesn’t treat their employees right at all! The second MRI was because after complaining to upper management about a manager that was harasing me a week later while at the door greeting customers a cart pusher decided to shove a whole row of carts into my back, he didn’t see me standing there. How convenient.

I will be making a bumper sticker of some of these (If it is ok with walmartwatch of course) and proudly displaying them on my van so when I go to work they will know how I feel (what kind of accidents will happen then I wonder?)

This is such a great site!!!
Terry

I am a former Wal*mart employee. After 4.6 years, I was terminated 1 week before scheduled surgery. Wal*Mart tried to fight me on unemployment benefits. Wal*Mart made up all sorts of stuff. When the employment commission came to check on my claim, Wal*Mart couldn’t prove anything. So I received my unemployment. The real reason I was let go is that I used my heath benefits and I was earning a wage higher than anyone else in my dept. The only reason I worked at Wal*Mart was to earn some job stability.

Marie in Oak Park, IL.,

“The way they treated that woman who was injured on the job and almost died then to lose a son in Iraq and then have to pay for her medical treatments that your company was suppose to have paid,is unconscionable.”

This is another good example of how the anti people get things wrong, just because they are willing to BELIEVE almost everything they hear!!  First, the woman was NOT injured ‘on the job’, she was in an auto accident and hit by a truck, that she pulled out in front of (and it was NOT a Wal-Mart truck)!!  Second, they DID pay her medical bills for her medical treatments, the flap came from the insurance wanting to get subrogation from her $1 million lawsuit settlement from the trucking company!!  But, I guess your version sounds more anti Wal-Mart, than the truth!!

As most of the comments here, seem to always be the same, it is like people are quoting things from one of those so-called documentaries, like Victoria R in Sunrise, Florida mentioned, “Wal-Mart: The High cost of Low prices”, which if she had checked further, was a union ‘slam Wal-Mart’ movie, not an actual documentary, (a real documentary, will show both sides of an issue)!!  A lot of what was in that movie, has been proven to be false, twisted or slanted!!

But, like I said, some people will believe almost anything!!

Donna T in Fallon, NV,

“I have also seen hot food such a roteriesse chicken, lunch meat, and sandwhiches sit out in the open for hours because of lazyiness”

Are you saying that SOME of Wal-Mart’s employees are LAZY?  I thought they were all hard working people who needed a raise?

hey could someone buy me one of those t-shirts, see I’m a current employee of Walmart and don’t make enought to get myself or family members any!!

GabbieRox;

[don’t go around bad mouthing public education, I am 14 years and I’ve been public schooled my whole life except for the previous school term and I spell just fine]

Well, I can tell by your post, that your education is doing you well and you sure do know how to spell just fine.  But, I found a few mistakes, first off, The first word of a sentence needs to be capitalized: See ‘don’t’ above.

Next: How about these?

[thank you verry much.]
[i thnink that] ‘also, the word ‘I’ is usually capitalized’.
[the neccecary capitol]
[for advertrisinfg on]

Nice job of spelling.

I like Wal-Mart.  My wife and I have shopped Wal-Mart since the first store moved into our neighborhood about 10 years ago.  Now, we both work full-time at a Wal-Mart store and find our work enjoyable.

People can knock Wal-Mart but I dare say the company will be around as the largest retailer beyond our lifetimes.  Why? Because it outperforms competitors.

FACT: The filmmaker behind “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices” wanted desperately to feature both sides to the story, but the higher-ups at Wal-Mart shut the door on them time and time again. They were left with a one-sided movie, which still presented TRUTH. Yes, a documentary film presents both sides to a story. But what makes a documentary film even more effective, is it’s TRUTH-TELLING.

Great designs, I also would buy one of each and wear them proudly!  Dale, there are always two sides to every story, and in your case it would seem that Walmart did well by you.  I do, however, disagree strongly with your statement as regards the public school system.  It IS NOT the school system that is at fault, you make the decisions as to whether or not you are going to apply yourself and learn everything that the school system has to teach!  I also attended public school, and I don’t seem to have any problem spelling correctly!  If Walmart is as good as you claim, then why are there so many negative remarks when compared to a few positive ones?

I would LOVE one of those t-shirts! The finalists were all FANTASTIC, love the smiley face with the fangs! How appropriate for the walmart world! I too, was fired from walmart, right after Christmas, many years ago, due to the fact that I was a full time employee with “benefits”, they only wanted part-timers with no benefits after the holidays were over. Yes, I too, collected unemployment against them after a fight. I don’t shop walmart to this day. I think they have brain-washed the public into thinking they have lower prices, on some items, they may be, but item was made and/or purchased from foreign country CHEAP! We need to go back to the “Made in U.S.A.” purchase of goods only. I think they have put many Mom & Pop stores out of business. I will shop ANY specialty shop I need, to find an item, other than walmart, regardless how far I have to drive. Thats how much I despise walmart tactics & upper management. One thing I noticed while working at walmart was the fact that they hired MANY blacks & people that weren’t to bright, they could manipulate that type of people easily. And these type people bend over backwards to please upper management, upper management does not like anyone who bucks their system, or they will get rid of them, for whatever reason. I SAY: PEOPLE OF THE WORLD.....GET SMART........STAY AWAY FROM WALMART....SHOP ELSEWHERE! LETS SHUT THEM DOWN, BRING BACK SMALL BUSINESSES.....AND ALLOW THEM TO GROW!

I love the design and would love to own a T-shirt

Hey Dale,

So how long have you worked for the Propaganda Department at Wal-Mart?

File this one in the Debbie Shank file for “How Low Can You Go’?I will be ordering several Tees shirts .I HOPE they become available before WalMart rolls out the WalMart moms political campaign this fall.The only WalMart moms who count are the ones who shop there. NOT the WalMart moms who work there.China is NOT the only one found guilty of Human Rights violations.PLEASE read this.

By H.J. CUMMINS, Star Tribune

Last update: July 1, 2008 - 9:11 PM

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. broke Minnesota labor law more than 2 million times over six years, routinely forcing some employees to work off the clock through lunch and rest breaks, a Dakota County judge has ruled.

The violations were willful, said District Judge Robert King in a ruling Monday in Hastings. They could bring a penalty of up to $1,000 per violation, which could mean a $2 billion fine for the world’s largest retailer. A jury will decide the size of the penalty during the second phase of the trial, expected to begin Oct. 20.

Nancy Braun, one of four named plaintiffs on the suit, said Tuesday that she was “ecstatic” about the judge’s decision. Braun, who worked in an Apple Valley store for about 14 months beginning in March 1998, said the store repeatedly didn’t find people to give her breaks when she was the sole cook and waitress at the store’s grill.

In several instances no one came in time for her to go to the bathroom. “I would end up soiling myself,” said Braun, now 53 and living in Rochester. “Sometimes I’d have other clothes with me in my locker, or they would say to me, ‘We have clothes in the store you can buy.’”

Braun said she kept complaining, “and they kept promising to get me help, but they never did it.”

In his ruling, King especially noted Braun’s treatment and a similar episode with a menstruating employee, calling it “dehumanizing and reprehensible” but also an “aberration.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Loved the comments from Michael in Toledo!  Thank you for walking the high road in the middle of such a low topic.
Dale… why are you on this website?
English teacher… I now remember why I hated high school so much.
To all the creative hearts who designed these logos- Marvleous! All of them are priceless. Thank you for your effort and time.

tee shirt i would buy several!!!!!

Lori,

“but the higher-ups at Wal-Mart shut the door on them time and time again.”

Why do you think they did that?  They didn’t do it to CNBC and their documentary “The Age of Wal-Mart”!!

“They were left with a one-sided movie, which still presented TRUTH.”

What about the part, where they claimed Wal-Mart put a hardware store ‘out of business’ and later it was revealed that the business was going out, before Wal-Mart came to town?  Was what the movie said, the truth?

Carol,

“If Walmart is as good as you claim, then why are there so many negative remarks when compared to a few positive ones?”

Probably, because this is an ANTI Wal-Mart site, run by the SEIU union!!  And, they want to make Wal-Mart LOOK bad, to get a union into Wal-Mart, to tap into all that DUES money!!  Just think, if the union only charged $1.00 a month in dues, it would take in $1.5 million a month or $18 million a year, and you know it will be MORE than $1.00 a month!!

You may notice, every time someone says something ‘good’ about Wal-Mart, they get tagged as a paid Wal-Mart shill or troll!!  Think about it, if Wal-Mart was as ‘bad’ as portrayed here, why do millions of people shop there and work there?  Why do they remain the #1 retailer?  If Wal-Mart is so ‘bad’, why do people keep coming back again, week after week, why don’t they go to some other ‘better’ store?  And, why is it that some people work there for YEARS?

RDS: Why do people shoot heroin,smoke crack, drink alcohol,smoke cancer sticks? ADDICTION! .............Addicted to cheap,Chinese junk ? Gives a whole new meaning to the term “Junkie”. Guess who’s the pusher?

RDS:Why do you think they did that?  They didn’t do it to CNBC and their documentary “The Age of Wal-Mart”!! RDS~~~~~~~Umm, maybe because NBC owns G.E. (General Electric) who has a huge interest in WalMart,since G.E. Capital(a division of G.E.) handles all of the billings and collections on WalMart credit cards?

I love them all, but I particularly laughed at the “Bang Head Here” poster, the vampire smiley face (shades of Lord Waldemart), and the *Cheap Crap. Can you make the runners-up all available for download? Or, hey, bumper stickers would be cool.

“RDS: Why do people shoot heroin,smoke crack, drink alcohol,smoke cancer sticks? ADDICTION! .............Addicted to cheap,Chinese junk ? Gives a whole new meaning to the term “Junkie”. Guess who’s the pusher? “

Wow so now all Walmart shoppers are on the same level as heroin junkies.  I never knew so many MILLIONS of shoppers are considered such low life by the anti-walmart crowd.  Talk about elitism.  ddrb takes the cake, and all because she wasn’t smart enough to find a home that wasn’t right next door to a Walmart and she feels vindictive of anything and anyone associated with the name Walmart.  So who’s the really dummy here?...... I thought so.

Mary: You really shouoldn’t refer to yourself in such dispaparging terms. However, WalMart shoppers would no doubt be interested in the terms used by WalMart themselves,when referring to their OWN customers. I wonder what demographic you fit into Mary?

Yay!  I love them all. Always.

BTW: Reread my post-“RDS: Why do people shoot heroin,smoke crack, drink alcohol,smoke cancer sticks? ADDICTION! .............Addicted to cheap,Chinese junk ? Gives a whole new meaning to the term “Junkie”. Guess who’s the pusher? “

Mary, WHERE do I use the term,WalMart?

WoW !!! You people really are as stupid as I have heard you were !!! You are seriously spending your time banging a GREAT company !!! I have heard about you and this web-site but never dreamed that you were really this hard up for attention !!! WoW !!!! The AMAZING thing is that you sit here and bash Walmart* then get up and go shop it ---- don’t lie, you know you do !!! Post your pictures next to your name and I bet they can find you on their security cameras .. Do you “REALLY” know this company? Have you ever worked (and I mean work - not just recieve a paycheck) for this company? Have you every used their benifits? Have you spoken to the former associates that have retired from this company?
Heres’ my thinking on you folks ---
Fist off --- you should be over in Iraq because you are acting just like the rebels our troops are working so hard to eliminate !!! You have an agenda to run Walmart* out of business (don’t lie - that’s what you want to do) and you dont even know the consequences that would cause the United States - remember that Walmart* is the largest employeer…
Second --- this site is run by the Unions.. You folks are like a bad case of disease carrying mesquitos infesting a neighborhood - bloodsucking and not concerned with who you harm (ie: Women, CHILDREN, and Famalies)… You want in there so bad so YOU can take EVEN more money, that you claim the associates don’t make, from their mouths and put in your pockets… Why not go get a real job and break away from the Unions - they are the PAST - let the Unions die with dignity, afterall, they were good for the people 100 years ago… Things have changed, move on !!!
Third --- ever heard the old saying “Don’t judge a man till you’ve walked a mile in his shoes”?  Practice that !!! You might just be suprised !!! I don’t like to shop at Harvest Foods because I’ve heard the manager there talk to his associates like they were dirt --- but I sure havn’e created this type of fuss !!! People have a choice—if a Walmart* associate chooses not to work for that company, guess what, THEY CAN QUIT !!! It’s AMERICA remember --- The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave !!!!

I’ve read on here that Walmart* should stop buying from China ?? I wish they could - however, we have but one issue ---- The American people are too freaking lazy to do the work here so that we would not have to look outward to buy from a country “willing to work” ... Ever looked at our unemployment rate? Every stood in a Walmart* store in their “long lines” and watched the countless people buying things that I can’t even afford using OUR GOVERNMENT MONEY ??? Now there’s a fight you should go after !!! Ever see a white man working on a highway crew? Mexicans mow my neighbors yards - India Indians run every convienence store and gas station in the D/FW area and they all live in upscale homes that I could never afford - why> because the Governmant is paying for them to live there ---- Imagine if you put half the effort that you put into bashing Walmart* into stopping the Governmental abuse that our own people are causing --- just imagine what you could do for our country !!!
The Center for Community and Corporate Ethics ?? Ha Ha !! That’s a GREAT mask to use considering Halloween is fast approaching !!! See my piont? Call a Spade a Spade --- be like the great gangs of New York and tell folks who you really are? Who you really work for? What your agenda really is !!! Tell the truth !!!!!
I am so ashamed of you, this site, and what you all are doing here !!! There are millions of Americans dying everyday from poverty, get up from your computer and go fix and deliver a meal to a homeless family, see how that makes you feel? There are true battles that need to be fought to make this a better Nation, battles much more important than the one you are fighting here.. Utilize your time and resources to “do your work” where you are needed.. Walmart* doesn’t need you - nor do they want you.. My local Walmart* truly hates the Unions !!! How can a union be respected when it has to hide behind a mask, delivers mis-leading materials and “drops them off in the employee bathroom” (WoW!!)—tell’s bold face lies and claims they can make things better for a company that is already GREAT !!!!
This is only but a few minutes of my thoughts --- I will choose to fight against you - but better yet, I will choose to put my time, money, and GODs given effort into helping those that really need the help…
Praying on the weak, misleading folks, and living in your SIN, are all things that I choose not to be a part of !!! Instead, I choose to fight against you ...
Today, I will go apply at my local Walmart*—Today I will start a site that is Anti-WalmartWatch.com—Today I will announce that I will stand up againt you and fight the true enemy --- the unions of Five Stones and the Center for Community and Corporate Ethics !!!
On GUARD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great Work! I’ll happily buy a shrt or two. I’d like to address a couple of comments by a few posters:
1)Maria in Burlington,nj: Hi Maria! Yes Wal$Mart really is that bad! The business model is to use their size to put all competition out of business and as they dominate one market, toys for example, they then go after, Groceries, Record Stores, Drug Stores, etc. Since Wal/Marts meteoric rize the decline in good paying service sector jobs has been staggering and has all but killed the American Middle Class. But the overall economic effect is 2 fold. Not only have they eliminated the service sector jobs, Wal666Mart was completely behing the moves of manufacturing of many of America great companies like Mattell. Rubbermaid and the list goes on. They twist the concept of a free market economy and have been waging economic warfare on the American Economy since Bill Clinton took office (His Wife was on the board of directors untill the start of his campaign). Look at how many American Jobs went to Communist China from 1993 to 2000. Can you imagine the outrage if Ronald Reagan had done a simmilar trade deal with the USSR? I’m affraid the debate is about to settle itself shortly in the form of a major reccession. Wal*Marts stock is doing well because they make more money the more missery index climbs. I would be very happy to discuss and debate these issues with anyone who wants. I’ve got the inside scoop. Loose lips sink ships!
2)Daryl G in D/FW, TX: Hi Daryl, In the 70’s and 80’s the government and corporations blamed our Nations financial woes on the “Lazy American Workers” Wal-Mart picks on unions. Unions never would have existed if it wasn’t for Wal*Mart’s forefathers and their ilk. You should read a book titled the “Capitalist Philosophers” It is required reading for Wal`Mart management. You should also read anything you can get your hands on regarding the Nazi, Amaerican and British Propaganda Campaigns leading up to and durring the second world war. Sound-bites and Slogans are for Morons. You’re not a Moron are you Daryl?
To everybody else including private citizens, equity funds, and Government pension plans. You don’t REALLY need all that Wal*Mart stock in your portfolio. I say dump it and find something that is going to help America. Sam Walton and good ole Lee Scott love to say America Votes With it’s Wallet! Well America, Look at all the foreclosures, bank failures and the automobile industry. This is what you have been voting for.
God Bless (Help) us All,
Bobby

ddrb, how dare you ask me any questions.  Do you think I am supposed to answer you?  I thought that was the motto of the anti-walmart crowd around here.... don’t answer the questions because the truth will come back around to smack you in the head.

Now if you would like to enlighten everyone how you ended up living “a few footsteps away” from a Walmart (that being a primary reason why you hate Walmart so much) then I will be more than happy answer your questions and to point out the error in your ways.

Bobby:~~~ America Votes With it’s Wallet! Well America, Look at all the foreclosures, bank failures and the automobile industry. This is what you have been voting for."~~~Bobby,you shoulda entered the tee shirt contest-THAT"S A WINNER!!!

BTW: Wallet Mart?

ddrb in
Thanks for the kind words. I started on a logo but have been way too busy to finish before deadline. I did want to add a few after-thoughts to my last post and your response has given me an excuse, so again, I thank you.
1) American Workers Rock and deserve a big pat on the back! (But they need to stop shopping at W-mart)!
2) Wal*Mart simply sucks. Money, Resources, Lives and Souls. It sucks them all.
3) The best cure for our Nation’s ills would be a giant enema. Where to shove the nozzle? Bentonville Arkansas!!

: )

Bobby

Congradulations to the winner and the runnerups.  Would be great to have T shirts and Bumper Stickers of all the fine pieces of art.  I would buy them all and spend a day at my ‘Adopted’ Wal-Mart in Pecos.  where I spent sveral days of my time conducting a Candy Sale for the Wal-Mart Emplooyees, and just passing out imflamatory stuff i printed on my own printer and used my own resources to get across the point that Wal-Mart in the death of America.  Sure there are other companies just as bad but let’s get one place at a time.  There are not enough people in the world to start going after all the corporations who peddle bad medicine, insufficient insurance to cover legitate losses, world wide banking institutions that peddle loans and then forclose on homes and cars the minute you miss a payment because the job they had was shipped overseas so that Wal-Mart san buy its products for pennies and sell it back to its cuntomers for dollars. 
Do any of you who love to work at Wal-Mart and love to shop at Wal-Mart think you are getting the best bang for your buck?  NOT ME.  I have necer shopped at th place because the first thing I learned many years ago was that even Ol” Sam was a damn liar.  He claimed to buy American and sell American Products and the very first time, over 40 years ago that I went to a WM, lo and behold I wasted a half day looking for something from an American Manufacturer.  So I never went back.  Screw ‘em they are lousy corporate deserters of America who may have an office in the US but extend their crap all over the world. 
In any event, if I spell good or bad, if I am one of those Union Members who are thought badly of or what ever you think of me I will spend my life, what is left of it, to do andy harm I can to Wal-Mart even if it is only keeping one shopper out of its stores
I’m only in my eighties now but If I live to be 100 I just may have to be carried off from raising hell in from of my adopted store.

to Dale in
Friday, July 18 at 11:43 AM

So what you are saying is that as a Wal*Mart employee, you believe that Wal*Mart is great and the American People Suck?!!!!!!!! Good Gosh!!! They really do brainwash you people :(
Wal*Mart has never helped any body put food on their table. Americans had food on their table long before Wal*Mart! The big question is will they have food on their table AFTER Wal*Mart. Use your head brother! WAL*MART CREATES NOTHING! Except for the destruction of the middle class.
Good Luck, I hope you make it to greeter some day.

Wow Dale....wow. You must be kidding me. Do you want to know why Wal-Mart is one of the nations biggest employers? It is because they go into just about every small town in this country build some big ass box known as a Wal-Mart. Which in turn forces small family owned businesses that have been around for generations to close. Where else are these people going to work?? Wal-Mart. Good ole Wal-Mart. The guy who use to own the grocery store? They put him in the produce department. The guy who owned the hardware store? He is mixing paint at your local Wal-Mart. They go into these small towns with the INTENTION of closing these small family owned businesses! Good for America?? I think not! Now since all the family owned businesses are closed where is everyone going to shop at?? You got it...Wal-Mart were we are foced to buy products from China. Ever seen a empty Wal-Mart building that the city can do nothing with?? Why would they go a mile down the road a build a new box?? Weird huh??? You want to know why your local Wal-Mart is so against Unions?? Because if Wal-Mart had a union they would be forced to pay there employees a fair wage. I have not shopped at Wal-Mart in a long long long time. I choose to give my money to a company that is not out to ruin America. Wal-Mart has sure done a good job on you Dale. I think you have watched to many of their propaganda videos.....

Congrats to the winner by the way! If someone does make them into T-Shirts let me know.

WOW!  I Bet Wal-Mart is Quaking With Fear Now!

This website has become something less than a parody!

Now that the “official” Unofficial Logo Redesign Contest is history, I’m sure this will motivate Wal-Mart to change its ways.

And then there’s “mary.” Is she serious?  I’m sure her question to ddrb is purely rhetorical: “Do you think I am supposed to answer you?”

I’ve been asking that question for years of people like “Someone in USA,” RDS, and the long-departed “Whats His Name” from Pennsylvania when there were “demands” that I debate them or refute their “logic.”

And speaking of asking questions and not getting answers… we never did find out where WMW isimporting all these new postings from.  Where were all of these “concerned commenters” during the Wal-Mart ILC controversey, the Susan Chambers Memo incident, the Shank case commentary, and let’s not forget the “Deadly and Toxic” flip-flop scandal!

PLEASE MAKE CERTAIN THE TEE SHIRTS ARE NOT MADE OR PRINTED IN CHINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ddrb in
Friday, July 18 at 11:26 AM

DAMN

ddrb in is totally right!

otherwise, that would be ironic,

i love all logos! good job!

And speaking of asking questions and not getting answers… we never did find out where WMW isimporting all these new postings from.  Where were all of these “concerned commenters” during the Wal-Mart ILC controversey, the Susan Chambers Memo incident, the Shank case commentary, and let’s not forget the “Deadly and Toxic” flip-flop scandal!

Though I may not agree with you (ideologically speaking) on many things, you hit the nail on the head with this one, Mr. S…

Now if you would like to enlighten everyone how you ended up living “a few footsteps away” from a Walmart...

Funny how old “what’s her name” completely dodged your request, Mary, which is not all that surprising.

I’m convinced that WM’s “next door neighbor” may be about as “real” as the 90 or so others who commented on this thread…

Tabitha,

“Do you want to know why Wal-Mart is one of the nations biggest employers? It is because they go into just about every small town in this country build some big ass box known as a Wal-Mart. Which in turn forces small family owned businesses that have been around for generations to close”

Could you please explain to us all here, just how Wal-Mart forces “small family owned businesses that have been around for generations”, to close?

In order for those small businesses to close, the customers would have to ‘leave’ those stores and ‘go’ to Wal-Mart, right?  But, WHY would they do that?  What is it that makes a ‘loyal’ customer stop patronizing their ‘old’ store to go to a ‘new’ store?  If people ‘Liked’ their ‘old’ store in the first place, they would never set foot in the ‘new’ store, but, to do so, shows that they were unhappy with their ‘old’ store, and it deserved to close!!  Wal-Mart cannot FORCE people to shop there, it is the customers CHOICE!!

Go see who this guy is that keeps putting down Wal-Mart. He owns stock in other companies like Macy’s, Sears, Target ETC. They sell you ( us ) all the same made in China merchandise but for a lot higher price. So, he makes more profit from stupid people. All the other retailers also get their products from the same sources for the most part. Other employers don’t have any insurance available quite often,and many employers pay less than Wal-Mart,unless they have to pay State minimum wage.Sure, a good union store may ( or may not !) take better care of their employees,but most stores nowadays unfortunately don’t.And where does most everyone shop ? who ALWAYS has a full parking lot ? Who ALWAYS (almost ) has the best prices ? Wal-Mart.And no,I don’t work there,but I know people who do.They get paid just fine in comparison to lots of other jobs,and they at least have insurance,lots of places don’t even offer insurance. My friends who work for WalMart are happy there. So, why pay more for the same items from somewhere else ? And I like your new logo-T-Shirts ETC. It may put down a fine company, but hey,your still advertising their name !! lol !!

Walmart blows they are trying to put a 4th one up in my town by 2010. they just opened another supersuk center here last week. This is not sams waltons walmart. just because it say made in america is that north central or south? We never shop there my wife is Taiwanese (US citizen this Oct) and considers shopping walmart aiding the enemy a terrorist act. Me born and raised a USA citizen in springfield il. I feel the shame when my union brothers and sisters shop there and spams club. Pay to shop NEVER! Keep shopping there and soon you’ll speak chinese or some form of spanish, your jobs will disappear, and your doctors diploma will bear the big yellow smile. Since when does a made in china product last a year? Enjoy your poisened discount drugs, your really kewl lead painted toys, you’ll need to buy more to keep the 3 eyed kids from crying because you fed poor fluffy or sparky some of that great discount pet food. Move a company outside USA borders take your family with you. TRAITORS

People talk of how wal-mart prices keep going up and up, and yet, they still have the most affordable prices. so wouldn’t that mean that everyone else was as evil as they are claiming wal-mart is? And don’t you find it funny how most of the people trashing wal-mart on this e-mail, and everywhere else shops there at least once a week?

Sorry Chis but not everyone is shopping at walmart once a week, because I know that I will never step foot into that business ever again. Walmarts logo is Save You Money, So You can live better is far from the truth. So if you have never worked for Walmart you have no clue about the pricing. I for one did work there for 15 years and I know that their markup on items was very high and they would only pay pennies on a dollar, so they are getting richer and richer by the second everytime someone buys something from them. I dont find anything funny about trashing Walmart when in fact it is the truth about them. Go work for them and see how you are treated after putting 15 years into a company.

Jo,

“I for one did work there for 15 years and I know that their markup on items was very high and they would only pay pennies on a dollar”

So, you only worked for that terrible company for 15 years, isn’t that quite a long time to put up with being treated like a slave and being underpaid?  And, if their markups are so high, why is it that they only have a 3.5% profit margin?  Don’t forget, part of that markup went to pay YOUR wages and benefits, plus the overhead (remember, ‘markup’ does not equal profit)!!  Also, if Wal-Mart marks up their prices so high, just imagine how much the higher priced stores are marking up their’s!!

Since People Have Already Chimed in About Dale’s Spelling...

Does that “fabulous” wage you’re making at Wal-Mart soothe your conconscience and somehow make everything right?  How’s it feel to be a part of the problem instead of the solution?  If scumbags like you wouldn’t whore their labor to The Beast, websites like this wouldn’t be necessary!

Now, as far as your spelling.  Most of us here have decided a long time ago, to let occasional “typos” slide.  It happens to the best of us.  I can certainly understand why someone working for Wal-Mart would be challenged when it comes to spelling A-M-E-R-I-C-A.

But dude!  “Chines"? You really ought to know how to spell C-H-I-N-E-S-E or C-H-I-N-A!  Wal-Mart may some day soon be a wholly owned Chinese company.

And then there’s RDS with his ration of Ridiculous Daily Shit!  “just imagine how much the higher priced stores are marking up their’s!!”

Yeah...I was telling myself just yesterday as I was shopping at Target.  “Just imagine how a store can afford to actually put fixtures over it’s overhead store lighting---unlike the bare exposed flourescent bulb look of your average Wal-Mart.  Just imagine how a store could actually have shiny tiled floors instead of the sealed concrete look of your typical WM Supercenter.  Just imagine how I had no problem checking out in under 5 minutes.  Just imagine… I didn’t see a “customer service” department cluttered with about 10-12 fully loaded shopping carts with crap that was abandoned by shoppers looking for a bargain, and which some poor slave like Dale has to now restock.  I wonder if Wal-Mart could supply us with a figure of what it costs to constantly restock merchandise that is strewn about the store? 

Yeah, RDS.... just imagine what you all get when you’re willing to spend a little more!

For your information RDS Walmart wasnt that bad of a place to work for back starting in 1993. I enjoyed what I did, plus I had to support my family at the time too....unlike many others living off the goverment. Walmart started changing really bad about 3 years ago and they are just getting worst and worst as they go. You tell me , was it right for a Co-Manager of the store to come to me and tell me to take markdowns on clearance items and then 7 days later get fired for it, because he nows says that he didnt tell me to do it, I have now lost my only income for my family, not to mention the insurance too. Its not fair how that treat and get rid of their long term associates.
SCREWEDBYWALMART: you hit it right on the money about people leaving carts full of Merch. because Walmart wont hire enough cashiers to ring them out and yes I was one of those departments that had to put it back...cant blame the customers for what Walmart does but we had to take the heat for it while management sat on their asses back in the offices. Have you ever noticed how FAT alot of those managers are....lol.....thats because they do nothing but sit and eat!

You guys, some people just can’t spell. It’s not their fault and doesn’t mean that they are stupid. I know it’s easy to pick on something obvious like that but please remember it’s not totally indicative of their intelligence. My 2 cents—which wouldn’t buy a goddamn thing at any store, much less Wal-Mart :)

Dale said: “I have been with wal-mart for 5 years and make over $18.00 an hour.”

I’ve been there for 20 yrs and make $14/hr. Maybe the rate of pay is because I’m female????? I’ve also been cut back to P/T work since returning from medical leave a few yrs ago. I’m ready, willing, and able to work F/T, but they won’t because I my availablity is between 7-6pm. Surely they could put me into something F/T during those hours! Honestly, I’m *NOW READY* to start a career somewhere, anywhere else!!!!!!!!!!!

Current worker,have you read about the Dukes vs.WalMArt lawsuit? Sounds like an echo of the situation you describe:~~~~~~Wal-Mart Loses Bid to Block Group Bias Suit
Appeals Court Allows 2 Million Women to Seek Compensation Over Discrimination in Pay, Promotions

By Amy Joyce
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 7, 2007

A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that the largest sex discrimination lawsuit in U.S. history could proceed as a class action against Wal-Mart, which is accused of paying female workers less than men and giving them fewer promotions.

The ruling will allow about 2 million women who have worked for Wal-Mart since 1998 to seek compensation for
. A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2007, that Wal-Mart Stores Inc., must face a class-action lawsuit alleging Dukes and other female employees, including some of her fellow plaintiffs were discriminated against in pay and promotions. 

With nearly 2 million women, the lawsuit is the nation’s largest sex discrimination case filed against a business. Most large discrimination cases are settled out of court. The suit claims that Wal-Mart’s female employees receive lower pay and fewer promotions than male employees. But Wal-Mart’s lawyers argued that there is no pattern of discrimination.

“No amount of PR or spin is going to allow Wal-Mart to avoid facing its legacy of discrimination,” Brad Seligman, a lawyer and executive director of the Impact Fund, said in an interview. “Now two courts have ruled this trial should go forward. I expect they will attempt to further appeal, but I have great confidence the women will get their day.”

A class-action lawsuit allows a small number of plaintiffs to sue on behalf of a much larger group in a similar situation.

The judge in the original case ruled that the attorneys for the six named women presented SUFFICIENT evidence for a class-action suit, calling it “largely uncontested descriptive statistics which show that women working in Wal-Mart stores are paid less than men in every region, that pay disparities exist in most job categories, that the salary gap widens over time even for men and women hired into the same jobs at the same time, that women take longer to enter into management positions, and that the higher one looks in the corporate management,the less women one sees.

Richard Drogin, a statistician at California State University at East Bay hired by the plaintiffs, said that it took women an average of 4.38 years from the date of hire to be promoted to assistant manager, while it took men 2.86 years. It took 10.12 years, on average, for women to become managers compared with 8.64 years for men. He also found that female managers made an average salary of $89,280 a year, while men in the same position earned an average of $105,682 a year. The results for hourly workers show that women were paid 6.7 percent less than men in comparable positions.~~~~~~~~WaPo~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Yeah...I was telling myself just yesterday as I was shopping at Target.

Did you look beyond the buffed floors and drop ceilings at the bigger picture while you were there, Mr. Screwed?

While there is no doubt Target is an extremely well-run chain, it is certainly no “high-priced store”. 

Target, like WM and Kmart, is a discount store, plain and simple—one of the “big three”.

The only major difference for the shopper is Target has a tendancy to focus more on home and fashion, than, say hardware/garden, and auto parts.

Oh, and one other thing—it has been documented around the web that Target’s starting pay for part-timers is lower than WM.  Plus, Target does not offer health benefits to the large number of part-timers on the payroll.

I guess I should add that Target, like WM, is also on the UFCW’s radar, which is made evident at that company’s annual shareholder meetings near their Minnesota HQ.

Speaking of the BIGGER picture, maybe a BIGGER frame of refernce is in order regarding Minnesota, which has been at the forefront of much activity by WalMart and its minions of late. There’s the Katherine Kersten article where Edelman PR talking ppoints are inserted verbatim in a news article praising the viabilty of WalMart jobs. Then there’s the revelation by a local TV team that WalMart was behind an ad using Mafia type characters to dispel unionization.(Crooks and Liars website has video.). Lastly, the Senatorial campaign between Al Franken (D)and Norm Coleman (R),is highlighting two candidates whose philosophies of politics are diametrically opposed.Target Corporation,W/M’s premier rival is based in Minnesota-that no doubt is a thorn in Bentonville’s side.From the land of Minnehaha-think they’re laughing ?

BTW: For a touch of “gilding “on that bigger frame of reference,re: Katherine Kersten article:~~~~"According to a marketing executive, an Edelman executive providing media training to his firm said:

Sometimes, you just have to stand up there and lie. Make the audience or the reporter believe that everything is ok. How many times have you heard a CEO stand up and say “No, I’m not leaving the company” and then - days later - he’s gone. Reporters understand that you “had” to do it and they won’t hold it against you in your next job when you deal with them again. “~~~~~~Sourcewatch~~~~~~~

Target Corporation,W/M’s premier rival is based in Minnesota-that no doubt is a thorn in Bentonville’s side.From the land of Minnehaha-think they’re laughing ?

When it comes to the unions, I doubt it.

Though it often gets overlooked by you people, Target, like Wal-Mart is a non-union shop (and prefers to remain that way). 

Check it out…

Pretty smart of Target to sit back and let their rival ,WalMart , do the “dirty” work and take the PR hit in the press -and the pocketbook- if a non-union shop is what Target actually wants .

Screwedby,

“fixtures over it’s overhead store lighting”

Can I take them home with me?

“shiny tiled floors”

Can I take them home with me?

“checking out in under 5 minutes.”

Am I really that much in a hurry?

“a “customer service” department cluttered with about 10-12 fully loaded shopping carts”

I didn’t leave them there!!  They were probably left by people who can’t wait more than 5 minutes to check out or by those anti Wal-Mart groups that fill carts and then walk out of the store!!

“which some poor slave like Dale has to now restock”

In the case of the anti Wal-Mart groups, they are the ones making poor Dale work so hard!!

“Yeah, RDS.... just imagine what you all get when you’re willing to spend a little more!”

Like I said, which of those things do I GET to take home with me?  Why should I care about what I can’t take home with me?  But, the things I DO get to take home with me, are, the products I went to buy and my wallet with more money in it, then if I went to Target!!

BTW:  Care to tell everyone how it is that you know about all those things that Wal-Mart has, if you don’t go there!!

Jo,

“For your information RDS Walmart wasnt that bad of a place to work for back starting in 1993. I enjoyed what I did, plus I had to support my family at the time too”

And, how did you manage to support your family, being underpaid, with non-livable wages, for 15 years?

“Walmart started changing really bad about 3 years ago”

How can that be?  According to Ken V., Wal-Mart started changing really bad, when Lee Scott took over about 8 years ago!!

“Its not fair how that treat and get rid of their long term associates.”

Here’s where I have a problem, ‘Current SC Worker in OK’ has been with Wal-Mart for 20 years and is still working there, how come she is still working there, if they get rid of long term associates like you, after 15 years?  It has been my experience, that the longer an employee works ‘anywhere’, some of them think that they are entitled to work LESS and let the ‘newbies’ take on the brunt of the work, maybe, some people get ‘let go’ sooner, because of the fact that they are slacking off!! They are those LAZY people many associates talk about and customers see and can’t get any help from!!

Screwedby,

“fixtures over it’s overhead store lighting”

Can I take them home with me?

“shiny tiled floors”

Can I take them home with me?

“checking out in under 5 minutes.”

Am I really that much in a hurry?

“a “customer service” department cluttered with about 10-12 fully loaded shopping carts”

I didn’t leave them there!!  They were probably left by people who can’t wait more than 5 minutes to check out or by those anti Wal-Mart groups that fill carts and then walk out of the store!!

“which some poor slave like Dale has to now restock”

In the case of the anti Wal-Mart groups, they are the ones making poor Dale work so hard!!

“Yeah, RDS.... just imagine what you all get when you’re willing to spend a little more!”

Like I said, which of those things do I GET to take home with me?  Why should I care about what I can’t take home with me?  But, the things I DO get to take home with me, are, the products I went to buy and my wallet with more money in it, then if I went to Target!!

BTW:  Care to tell everyone how it is that you know about all those things that Wal-Mart has, if you don’t go there!!

Jo,

“For your information RDS Walmart wasnt that bad of a place to work for back starting in 1993. I enjoyed what I did, plus I had to support my family at the time too”

And, how did you manage to support your family, being underpaid, with non-livable wages, for 15 years?

“Walmart started changing really bad about 3 years ago”

How can that be?  According to Ken V., Wal-Mart started changing really bad, when Lee Scott took over about 8 years ago!!

“Its not fair how that treat and get rid of their long term associates.”

Here’s where I have a problem, ‘Current SC Worker in OK’ has been with Wal-Mart for 20 years and is still working there, how come she is still working there, if they get rid of long term associates like you, after 15 years?  It has been my experience, that the longer an employee works ‘anywhere’, some of them think that they are entitled to work LESS and let the ‘newbies’ take on the brunt of the work, maybe, some people get ‘let go’ sooner, because of the fact that they are slacking off!! They are those LAZY people many associates talk about and customers see and can’t get any help from!!

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Hmmm!!! RDS you are so full of shit! When did I ever say that I was underpaid? I stayed with the company because the pay I earned after 15 years was good for me to live off of. So since you have all the answers you tell me why they let me go? I never had a write-ups, coachings, or decision making days in the whole 15 years, plus I received above about standard yearly raises....hmmm does that sound like someone that has been lazy after 15 years of service...NOT!
I think the real reason they let me go because it was costing them so much in medical bills on my 7 year old daugther and we still have more surgeries to go this year. My daugther did nothing to this company and now we have to get the goverment and the rest of the working people out there to pay for these surgeries, how fair is that. I was a very hard worker, done my job very well and did other peoples jobs too. So dont you ever call me lazy, you piece of shit that you are!

RDS you are so full of shit!

Don’t let RDS get under your skin, Jo. He’s an old, disabled, dry-drunk, living out his quiet desperation in an obscure corner of Arkansas.

You worked for Wal-Mart and know what you’re talking about, something RDS has no experience with.

Thank you Ken V. .....He is far from getting under my skin and you are right I did work for Walmart and I am not ashame to admit to that either. God knows that I was let go unfairly but he is here and he wil take care of me and my family. So RDS you might want to look into letting God into your life, he does answer prayers!

Jo,

“RDS you are so full of shit! When did I ever say that I was underpaid?”

It isn’t me who says you were underpaid, I was just repeating what the other anti Wal-Mart people say!!

“I stayed with the company because the pay I earned after 15 years was good for me to live off of.”

Again, I was just repeating what the anti Wal-Mart people and this site say, According to people like SDV, ALL Wal-Mart workers ‘sleep in their junkie old cars out in the Wal-Mart parking lot’!!  Now, you say that your pay was ‘good enough to live off of’, catching them in another lie!!

“So dont you ever call me lazy”

I didn’t call YOU ‘lazy’, I was just expaining why SOME long term people get fired!!  What makes you think that I was talking about YOU when I said that?  I can’t say why you were fired, but, the person who has worked there 20 years and wasn’t fired, makes one wonder if it is really getting rid of long term workers or something else!!

Ken V.,

“You worked for Wal-Mart and know what you’re talking about”

Yes, and she said “I stayed with the company because the pay I earned after 15 years was good for me to live off of.”, just the opposite of what you and other anti Wal-Marters say!!

“He’s an old, disabled, dry-drunk, living out his quiet desperation in an obscure corner of Arkansas.”

And, you are a typical “I wish I were a ‘big shot’”, trying to impress everyone with your “I’m willing to spend more paying for ‘frills’”, “Everything is ‘bigger & better’ in Texas”, crusading for ‘the little guy’ and he’s not YOU, Texan!!

They say, ‘if you are not a part of the solution, you are part of the problem’, well, you are part of the group of people that push for a “Higher Standard of Living” and that is what got us to where families now need 2 incomes!!  People in the past, didn’t have to pay for T.V. (cable or satellite), didn’t have to have 2 cars and pay high gasoline bills, didn’t have to have a ‘cellphone’, with bills over $100.00 a month, didn’t have to pay for childcare, didn’t have to pay high prices for per-prepared foods (they cooked from scratch with healthy foods) and they didn’t care about ‘fancy’ signs or what was above the lighting at the store, they cared about taking care of their families and made ‘good’ use of the money they had!!  And, they also were able to have savings accounts, they didn’t have maxed out credit cards, to support their excessive ‘paying for frills’ buying habits, and they paid their bills without borrowing money against their houses or filing for bankruptsy!!  In other words they “lived within their means”!!  Lastly, there was someone at home to take care of the kids and keep them out of trouble!!

“obscure corner of Arkansas.”

Yeah, obscure with names like Wal-Mart, Tyson Foods and J.B. Hunt, names nobody ever heard of, right?

Don’t let RDS get under your skin, Jo. He’s an old, disabled, dry-drunk, living out his quiet desperation in an obscure corner of Arkansas.

And I suppose you’re just “perfect”, huh?

Why not tell us about your Arkansan excursion…

They say, ‘if you are not a part of the solution, you are part of the problem’, well, you are part of the group of people that push for a “Higher Standard of Living” and that is what got us to where families now need 2 incomes!!  People in the past, didn’t have to pay for T.V. (cable or satellite), didn’t have to have 2 cars and pay high gasoline bills, didn’t have to have a ‘cellphone’, with bills over $100.00 a month, didn’t have to pay for childcare, didn’t have to pay high prices for per-prepared foods (they cooked from scratch with healthy foods) and they didn’t care about ‘fancy’ signs or what was above the lighting at the store, they cared about taking care of their families and made ‘good’ use of the money they had!!  And, they also were able to have savings accounts, they didn’t have maxed out credit cards, to support their excessive ‘paying for frills’ buying habits, and they paid their bills without borrowing money against their houses or filing for bankruptsy!!  In other words they “lived within their means”!!  Lastly, there was someone at home to take care of the kids and keep them out of trouble!! ~~~~~~~RDS~~~~~~~~~Note: People in the past didn’t have WalMart ,either. Or the dollar and the American economy collapsing under the weight of Chinese imports,foreign investors ,or deregulated “free trade” policies like NAFTA,CAFTA, SHAFTA,.Isn’t hyperconsumerism the basis for WalMart’s existence and expansion?Seems you’re veering from the company’s talking points,arent you,RDS?By longing for the good ole days before WalMart.-when need ,not greed, reigned supreme?

“They say, ‘if you are not a part of the solution, you are part of the problem’, well, you are part of the group of people that push for a “Higher Standard of Living~"~~~~~~RDS : I agree with you. WalMart is NOT part of the solution. It is a MAJOR part of the problem.

Jo in: If you have reason to believe you were wrongfully discharged,you may want to type in” wrongful termination “into the search engine here,in the upper right corner of this page. Ofcourse, you can research the term “WalMart wrongful termination” on ANY search engine of your choice,Good luck!

Thank you Ken V.

You’re more than welcome, jo. Just because I advised you not to let RDS get under your skin doesn’t mean I won’t get under his (and his comic sidekick ‘bb’).

My description of RDS may seem a little harsh to some of you but it is taken from information supplied by RDS himself. His description of me, however, is pure speculation.
First of all I am a big shot!

:o)

HOME WORK!!!!!!!!!!!

OK, for anyone who wants to make a real difference and raise the standard of living for about 80% of the US population, please educate yourselves about the following:
1) Right to work laws.
2) Urban Sprawl and the Cost to the US Taxpayer
3) Fuel Consumtion related to Urban Sprawl.
4) Urban Sprawl and the Credit/Foreclosure Crisis.
5) The Hisory of Pension Plans and 401K/IRA and the Vast Movement of American Wealth to the top 2% of individuals.
6) The Ratio of Personal Savings Accounts VS. Debt.

Just a few points:
1) Wal*Mart perfected the perversion of the right to work laws and have trained hundreds of US companies on how to hire enough employees to keep business growing and fire enough employees to keep benefit payments low. This is what Wal*Mart has “exported” for the American Employees.

2) Wal*Mart has consistantly used its political clout to encourage Urban Sprawl. In the next few years Poor City Planning is going to cost Tax Payer’s a lot more than the Iraq War, Illegal Aliens, Welfare and The Space Program Combined*.
*Fuel Consumption, Foreclosures, Lost Wages, Increased Crime, etc.

3) See Above

4) See Above

5) Remember Pension Plans? American’s even into the late 1980’s still had savings accounts, excellent medical coverage, and guaranteed retirement benefits. In the “Wal*Mart Millionair” America people are having trouble remembering those days. They take a chunk of your pay and invest it in their own stock. Hilarious!

6) We’re Broke! 88-95% af American Households owe more money than they have