Target Hits the Bullseye with Social Media…Wal-Mart, Not So Much

I love Walmart.  Walmart has done more good for our economy than bad.  Walmart has been responsible for keeping inflation in check by providing products and services at very low cost.  While everything else seems to be going up, i.e. the price of fuel, my state and federal taxes, my heating costs, the prices at Walmart have been going down.  How can this be a bad thing?  I think all of you people who are opposed to Walmart are idiots who have nothing better to do than to bitch and complain about a well run, well organized, professional company like Walmart.

I love Walmart.  Walmart has done more good for our economy than bad.  Walmart has been responsible for keeping inflation in check by providing products and services at very low cost.  While everything else seems to be going up, i.e. the price of fuel, my state and federal taxes, my heating costs, the prices at Walmart have been going down.  How can this be a bad thing?  I think all of you people who are opposed to Walmart are idiots who have nothing better to do than to bitch and complain about a well run, well organized, professional company like Walmart.

bob go get a job there,you won’t have to worry about bills,wmart deals with commies which be the way is the biggest counterfeiter country on earth , ever wonder if any of that junk is worth it? Think about your food that comes from there in Walmart products and other companys. WE still have farmers here ,do you really need low grade food not knowing what is in it or how it is grown,cleaned if at all or what type of chemicals are used.

Bob where did you go to school,you prove the trash they’re putting out. Go to your prior 10 posts you are the one with nothing to do.  s i m p l e t o n .

JOE,

“Think about your food that comes from there in Walmart products and other companys. WE still have farmers here ,do you really need low grade food not knowing what is in it or how it is grown,cleaned if at all or what type of chemicals are used.”

And, just WHERE did that tainted lettuce, that shut down Taco Bell for about a week, come from, HINT: it wasn’t China?

I wouldn’t waste cyber-ink on bob, guys, it’s what what’s-her-name would call a “drive by comment”. I seriously doubt he is still around to respond.

If there is anyone from the over-worked, under-paid Media Team monitoring, bob’s duplication of his post on multiple threads is just as much spam as if he linked to a male enchancement product and therefore, subject to deletion.

And, just WHERE did that tainted lettuce, that shut down Taco Bell for about a week, come from...?

I will never understand the they-all-do-it-so-let’s-ignore-it school of thought.

RDS Sleepercell ,they were such good people S.T.F.U.

A Waste of Good “Cyber ink”

Bob in… on the Annoyance Scale, you rank somewhere between halitosis and hemorrhoids.

Screwed you can add rds to that list.

Screwed:That is just too funny!

Ken V,

“I will never understand the they-all-do-it-so-let’s-ignore-it school of thought.”

I’m not saying “they-all-do-it-so-let’s-ignore-it”, what I am talking about, is China bashing and people saying, “Because some China products have recalls, don’t buy anything made in China, buy from America, they are safer”, then we hear about meat recalls, lettuce recalls, tire recalls, automobile recalls and now pot pie recalls, all products made here in America!!  So, how can anyone say American products are safer?  And, aren’t people like SDV, saying ‘Costco does it, so therefore so should Wal-Mart’, when it comes to wages?  Or, how about you, who says that when Wal-Mart does some things DIFFERENT than others, they are wrong!!

RDS:If all things are equal,Id rather buy a product made here in America,where if there ARE issues with poisoning of any nature; LEAD PAINT,ECOLI,MERCURY,SPINACH,LETTUCE,MEAT,TIRES-AT LEAST WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO GET A HANDLE ON IT QUICKER AND HAVE LAWS IN PLACE TO PROVIDES THE CONSUMER A MODICUM OF JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY,PLUS FUTURE OVERSIGHT ..WANNA GO TO CHINA AND OVERSEE THE INSPECTIONS,KEN?

ddrb,

“..WANNA GO TO CHINA AND OVERSEE THE INSPECTIONS,KEN?”

Sounds like a good job for Ken and you could be his assistant and why not take Screwedby along too, he could do a documentary on your ‘good’ work!!  Bet, if you three got over there you could get things straightened out!!  I’d say to take SDV along, but I’m not that mean!!

RDS:I certainly wouldnt put my faith to” get ‘er done” ifYou were in charge,RDS-you’d wind up with rent houses and probably working FOR Walmart!!I THINK THATS A TERRIFIC IDEA TO DO A DOC AND EXPOSE THE CORRUPTION AND SLAVE LABOR CONDITIONS!!I would have no objection to SDV,if KenTzu didn’t-you see Ken has Zen and this would be a plus for our endeavor!

ddrb,

And, you guys would probably start WWIII, telling China how ‘evil’ they are!!  Or, they might do to you, what they did do that other guy, what did the “Queen of Hearts” say in Alice in Wonderland, oh yeah, “Off with their heads”!!

If all things are equal, I’d rather buy a product made here in America...

Let me ‘splain it to you this way, RDS. When you buy a pound of hamburger 20% of it is ‘scraps’, trimmings of fat, etc. Bad enough, right?

But it turns out that the US has a scraps deficit. 16% of the US’s annual meat imports is other countries scraps!

The difference may be real or perceived but personally I would rather eat home-grown cow lips in my burger.  Same goes for food from China, Mexico, or whereever.

Should I be poisoned, let it be at the hands of my countrymen!

Ken V in Texas:Cow lips,you say....well,er,thats one of the more “attractive “options used as scraps.Have you or anyone here read Fast Food Nation-WOW!!! This is an eye opener and stomach churner about meat processing and explains much about the industry deregulation and inferior methods of meat processing for anybody wondering why so many recalls.It was made into a movie,but that was an extremely pale imitation of the actual picture the book portrays of the food chain,and its broken links.It is in paperback now,and worth reading !

ddrb,

I think I see the main difference between you and me, you make an analysis of EVERYTHING you use, I on the other hand use what I feel meets my needs!!  Example: If we went to buy a computer, I would look to see if it will be the right size for my needs, you would be looking to see if the speakers were assembled in Malaysia!!  You remind me of people who won’t eat rice, because it looks like maggots or spagetti, because it looks like worms!!  Then, you take it one step further, because YOU don’t like IT, you think others who do like IT, must be idiots!!  And, to explain that you are right, you use scare tactics or conspiracy theories (the entire government is out to get you), to prove your point and back it up with articles from people who think just like you!!  Millions of burgers sold at McDonalds, must prove there are Millions of idiots, because YOU don’t like them (they ‘may’ have foreign cow lips in them)!!  Al Gore, promoted the use of energy efficient light bulbs, (for his Global Warming Theory), but Wal-Mart and George Bush get the blame for any downside of using them, Al Gore, gets a Pulitzer Prize and Wal-Mart and George Bush, get the ‘Rasberries’!!  If people in other countries or even in the U.S. don’t make the amount of money you feel they should, you call them ‘slave labor’ (therefore too ingnorant to get a real, high paying job), and put them down for trying to feed their families, then blame that on the company that employs them, why, because you feel you are superior to everyone else, and always right, and all who disagree, are wrong and therefore must be idiots!!

rds are you talking to ddrb or yourself?MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL .

JOE in:Sounds pretty emotional for a just-the -facts, logic only,kind of guy!

RDS:"You see the difference between you and me is you make an anaysis of everything you use”......excuse me, isn’t that called PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY like you are always harping on,how PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY is the key to EVERYTHING???

Right Conclusion...Wrong Premise, RDS!

““Because some China products have recalls, don’t buy anything made in China, buy from America...” ~RDS

No...there are a lot more important issues or reasons NOT to buy so much from China, RDS.  Did I miss it?  Does China now have a democractic form of government?

How about the massive trade deficit that America has with China and other countries?  Does China buy as much from the U.S. as we buy from China?  Is China now valuing its currency fairly?  What about all those dollars China has been buying up?  What about all the human rights issues that still persist in China?

China is America’s largest “banker.” What do you thiink would happen if China called America’s debt due, RDS?

I don’t think you need to be too worried about “World War III.” China may just bury America economically.

Screwedby,

“No...there are a lot more important issues or reasons NOT to buy so much from China, RDS.  Did I miss it?  Does China now have a democractic form of government?”

So, we should look at the form of government of the country we buy products from, right?  Do all the countries we buy OIL from have democratic governments?

“Does China buy as much from the U.S. as we buy from China?”

Do ‘poor’ people buy as much as ‘wealthy’ people do?  Give them a chance to catch up won’t you!!  They buy more and more every year!!

“Is China now valuing its currency fairly?”

They think they are doing what’s best for their own interests, isn’t that what most countries do?

“What about all the human rights issues that still persist in China?’

How long did it take for America to end slavery, wasn’t that a human rights issue?  As the old saying goes, “Rome wasn’t changed in a day”, big problems take time to change!!  How long has our government been working on fixing Social Security?

“China is America’s largest “banker.” What do you thiink would happen if China called America’s debt due, RDS?

I don’t think you need to be too worried about “World War III.” China may just bury America economically.”

And, just why would they do that, wouldn’t that be like ‘cutting off their nose to spite their face’?  If we are one of it’s best customers, why would they want to ruin that?

Screwedby,

That should have read: “Rome wasn’t built in a day”!!

For a casual look at some of the symptoms of the illness know as ‘WalMart worship’, see bob’s hymn above. Eventually the autopsy will read “Cause of Death: Economic externalizing of costs, WalMart Poverty Disorder, hostility to American labor with a deadly cocktail mixture of reputation aroma stink therapy prescribed by Dr. Edelman and the ‘war room’ propaganda quacks.”

WalMart- We can fool most people until they find out about billions in public subsidies for the WalMart/Bentonville slobs from the taxpayer suckers, bob doesn’t mind paying. So we consider him a successful ‘indoctrinated’ patron.

“The Shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as a destroyer of liberty.”
Abraham Lincoln

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Tuesday, October 16 at 09:04 AM

I hate Walmart. Walmart has done more bad for our economy than good.  Walmart has been irresponsible for impoverishing their employees to keep products and services at very low cost.  While everything else seems to be going up, i.e. the price of fuel, my state and federal taxes, my heating costs, the prices at Walmart have been going up as well. How can this be a good thing? I think all of you people who are in love with Walmart are unpatriotic fools who have no ability or desire to figure out what is really going on with a taxpayer subsidies guzzling, tax evading, poverty creating, Chinese communist supporting economic whorehouse company like Walmart.  Start paying attention with a little time to serious corporate malfeasance. America.

I hate Walmart. Walmart has done more bad for our economy than good.  Walmart has been irresponsible for impoverishing their employees to keep products and services at very low cost.  While everything else seems to be going up, i.e. the price of fuel, my state and federal taxes, my heating costs, the prices at Walmart have been going up as well. How can this be a good thing? I think all of you people who are in love with Walmart are unpatriotic fools who have no ability or desire to figure out what is really going on with a taxpayer subsidies guzzling, tax evading, poverty creating, Chinese communist supporting economic whorehouse company like Walmart.  Start paying attention with a little time to serious corporate malfeasance. America.

bob in rehab:Now,Raymond does your mother know your posting anti-wartmart propoganda?Tsk,Tsk,Mrs.Shaw will NOT be pleased!