Wal-Mart Outsources Its Dirty Work

Time for a boycott.  I’m tired of paying for Walmart employees in my taxes.  Who do these board of dirctors and executives think they are? 
BOYCOTT BOYCOTT BOYCOTT
Start learning how A&P;went down in the early century!!!

Walmart is next!!!

Wal-Mart is a good company.  If you would stop trying to stop it because it it the biggest retailer in the world and see the good that it does, open minded, your oponions would change.

Hmmm...interesting imagery!  “A third world country eating corn off the ground that was thrown off a military truck.”

I don’t think you’ll have to go to a third world country to experience that.  If this country keeps on the same course it’s on now, we may ALL be living in a “third world country”!

Pete in Rogers, AR-
We what the hell were you waiting for, I don’t think WalMart ever wanted You as a shopper to begin with, I think it is a great idea for you to boycott WalMart, and all the other retailers that compete with them.  In fact I think you should boycott the US government for supporting the business practices of these retailers and leave. I think you belong in a third world country eating corn off the ground that was thrown to you off a military truck!!
Good Luck with your brilliant boycott!!

To stay on topic, here is a more comprehensive list of all the companies WalMart is “hiding behind”.

Academy Sports & Outdoors, Ltd.
Ace Hardware
AutoZone, Inc.
The Bargain! Shop Holdings, Inc.
Batteries Plus LLC
Belk, Inc.
Best Buy Co., Inc.
-- BestBuy.com
-- Future Shop Ltd.
Big Lots, Inc.
Blain’s Farm & Fleet of Dodgeville, Inc.
Boots Group PLC
BrandsMart U.S.A.
Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse Corp.
CSK Auto Corporation
CANEX
Chase Pitkin Home & Garden
Claire’s Stores, Inc.
Dollar General Corporation
Duckwall-ALCO Stores, Inc.
Esprit Holdings Limited
Food Lion LLC
Gabriel Brothers, Inc.
Gap Inc.
-- Banana Republic
-- Old Navy
Giant Eagle, Inc.
Giant Tiger Stores Limited
Goodwill Industries International, Inc.
Gordmans, Inc.
Gordon Brothers Group, LLC
Hastings Entertainment, Inc.
The Home Depot, Inc.
-- The Home Depot, Canada
Hudson’s Bay Company
-- The Bay Company
-- Zellers, Inc.
Inter IKEA Systems BV
Interstate Batteries
Jerry’s Home Improvement Center
Jo-Ann Stores, Inc.
Lian Hua Supermarket Co., Ltd. (Lian Mao Corp.)
Limited Brands, Inc.
-- Bath & Body Works
-- Express
-- The Limited
-- The White Barn Candle Co.
-- Victoria’s Secret
Liquidation World, Inc.
Lowe’s Companies, Inc.
Marvin’s, Inc.
Meijer, Inc.
METRO Group
Michaels Stores, Inc.
Modell’s Sporting Goods
NIKE, Inc.
The North West Company
Northern Tool & Equipment Company
Office Depot, Inc.
Operadora de Tiendas, S.A.
-- La Fragua S.A.
Payless ShoeSource, Inc.
PEPBOYS AUTO
PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc.
PETsMART, Inc.
Price-Less Drug Stores, Inc.
Regis Corporation
Rooms To Go, Inc.
Schottenstein Stores Corporation
-- American Signature, Inc.
Retail Ventures, Inc.
-- DSW Shoe Warehouse
-- Filene’s Basement
-- Value City Department Stores
-- Value City Imports
Sears Holdings Corporation
-- Kmart Holding Corporation
-- Sears, Roebuck and Company
ShopKo Stores, Inc.
-- Pamida, Inc.
Target Australia Pty. Ltd.
Target Corporation
Tiger Capital Group, LLC
Tractor Supply Company
Tuesday Morning Corporation
Variety Wholesalers, Inc.
Walgreen Co.
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
-- ASDA Group Limited
-- SAM’S CLUB
-- Wal-Mart Canada, Inc.
-- Walmart.com
The Warehouse Group Limited
--The Warehouse --The Warehouse Australia --Warehouse Stationery
Wilkinson Hardware Stores, Ltd.

OH, I think an investigation should be done regarding the bribe Attorney General Joseph Curran accepted, in exchange for the written nonsense sent to speaker of the house.

Maybe it’s about time that we Americans take a lesson from the Wal and start outsourcing political jobs to reduce our costs. When the politicians see their jobs going overseas (along with the others they stood watched silently all along) they might actually feel compelled to deal with this nasty issue. Think of the savings to the taxpayer. Yes, Wal-mart could just about be the best “thing” to happen in America.

Regarding a boycott, I can tell you that it is actually happening...it’s like the situation where if you have a bad experience you tell 10 people, if you have a good one, you tell one person.  Well, it may be grass roots, but I’ve managed to get 5 couples to see the light and realize Walmart isn’t the right place to shop.  So while that may only be an immediate reduction of 10 people shopping there, those 10 have been spreading the word as well.  It may take time, but sooner or later, I would venture the only people left shopping at Walmart are the employees since they are only paid enough to afford the goods they themselves stock.

S in NY: RE: WalMart is a good company:  as a taxpayer, I’m tired of having my tax dollars subsidize WalMart by paying the health insurance costs of its employees.

Strident in MO:

Hmmm...could this be Coop posting by yet another anonymous name?  You’re more persistent than a bad case of herpes.

columbian said: “Maybe it’s about time that we Americans take a lesson from the Wal and start outsourcing political jobs to reduce our costs.”

What you said hardly makes sense. How would you impliment this? I guess I could go with an election system where some guy in Zambia could run to be mayor of my city. It would hardly change anything: all politics is local, few would vote for the Zambian who has never even seen my town.

Making stereos, toys, and cars, is a different thing. Unlike with politicians, someone who makes these things does not need to “Be local” to do a good job.

“Think of the savings to the taxpayer.”

But did you really think? If we outsourced political jobs, the mayor of my town who lives in Zambia would have to fly back and forth to our town meetings. Think of the air fare costs. Assuming that your idea would even change things and the Zambian would win (and serve alongside my city dogcatcher who lives in Vladivostok and flies in once every 4 years to look for strays).

I think you made some statement just for a hollow rhetorical point, and really had no idea what you were saying. Yes, it makes sense to hire workers who are better at making things than Americans, even if they are not in America. It makes no sense to outsource jobs which REQUIRE a local connection, like politicians and the fire department.

And, by the way, Wal-Mart does not source jobs. Year after year, they hire FAR many more Americans than they fire. When they do hire foreign workers, it is to serve foreign markets (and not to replace jobs once held by Americans).

DeeDee - your constant rhetoric about the “subsidies” that Wal-Mart receives is getting old.  As I have posted before, the amount of taxes that WM pays added to the tax revenue that it generates far outweighs the subsidies that it receives. 

Also, if you have such a problem with the subsidies that WM receives, take it up with the politicians that granted them.  You talk like WM is the only enterprise that ever receives subsidies!!

Hillary Clinton was on Wal-Mart’s board of directors

WARD HARKAVY, VILLAGE VOICE, 2000 - Twice in three days last week, Hillary
Rodham Clinton basked in the adulation of cheering union members. Her
record
of supporting collective bargaining, however, is considerably worse than
wobbly. Pity the thousands of unionists at last Tuesday’s state Democratic
convention who chanted her name, and the hundreds of retired Teamsters at
Thursday’s luncheon in midtown who had interrupted their Founder’s Day meal

to hear the corporate litigator turned union-loving Democrat deliver a
campaign speech.

They would have dropped their forks if they had heard that Hillary served
for six years on the board of the dreaded Wal-Mart, a union-busting
behemoth. If they had learned the details of her friendship with Wal-Mart,
they might have lost their lunches. . . In 1986, when Hillary was first
lady
of Arkansas, she was put on the board of Wal-Mart. Officials at the time
said she wasn’t filling a vacancy. In May 1992, as Hubby’s presidential
campaign heated up, she resigned from the board of Wal-Mart. Company
officials said at the time that they weren’t going to fill her vacancy.

So what the hell was she doing on the Wal-Mart board? According to press
accounts at the time, she was a show horse at the company’s annual meetings

when founder Sam Walton bused in cheering throngs to celebrate his
non-union
empire, which is headquartered in Arkansas, one of the country’s poorest
states. According to published reports, she was placed in charge of the
company’s “green” program to protect the environment. But nobody got
greener
than Sam Walton and his family. For several years in the ‘80s, he was
judged
the richest man in America by Forbes magazine. . .

Was Hillary the voice of conscience on the board for American and foreign
workers? Contemporary accounts make no mention of that. They do describe
her
as a “corporate litigator” in those days, and they mention, speaking of
environmental matters, that she also served on the board of Lafarge, a
company that, according to a press account, once burned hazardous fuels to
run its cement plants. . .

The Clintons depended on Wal-Mart’s largesse not only for Hillary’s regular

payments as a board member but for travel expenses on Wal-Mart planes and
for heavy campaign contributions to Bill’s campaigns there and nationally.
.
.

Meanwhile, Wal-Mart’s first lady, who also benefited from Wal-Mart stock,
solicits support from union workers. Which makes her words to the elderly
Teamsters last week especially poignant: “You can count on me to stand up
for the right to collectively bargain!” Right on, sister!

Michael D:

Maybe the “rhetoric” about Wal-Mart receiving subsidies is “getting old” to you because you don’t like to hear it, but you seem to agree that it exists because you say to DeeDee “take it up with the politicians that granted them.” And speaking of getting old...you pull out that tired old defense.  Whenever Wal-Mart is accused of something...be it importing goods from China or receiving subsidies, we hear refrain… “Wal-Mart isn’t the only one doing this.” So I guess that makes it OK then huh?

Exxon-Mobil just announced record profits of $10.7 billion for the quarter.  Back in April Congress granted $8.1 billion in tax breaks for oil, gas, and energy giants.  I guess Congress was afraid they might go out of business without the help huh?

Yes, Wal-Mart isn’t the only one receiving tax breaks and subsidies from the government, so I guess you can sleep with a clear conscience right Michael D?

DeeDee in Atlanta-

You complain about Wal-Mart a lot and it seems to be the exact same thing over and over.  I noticed that this nagging issue you have is not just Wal-Mart. The real issue is how the local, state, federal, and international governments do business with the retailers.  You single out Wal-Mart as if they are the only ones that behave as the people on this site including yourself accuse them of behaving.  Believe it or not Wal-Mart is not the only retailer that has employees on state aid, true they have the largest overall number on aid, and the actual percentage is the same if not less in most states.  So if you have problems with Wal-Mart say it.  If you disagree with how the industry as a whole works explain it as that.  Singling out Wal-Mart is foolish because it is not just Wal-Mart that is committing these so called bad business practices.  By singling out Wal Mart it makes you sound as if you are anti WalMart, and if you are anti WalMart say it.  In your post you like to sound as if you are pro-change, in business change does not start with one it has to start with all.

My comments are related to WalMart since this is a site about WalMart and its affects on local communities.  I stay on topic.

DeeDee-

It’s no mystery that the purpose of this site is to b*tch and moan and blame Wal-Mart for everything. Strident was merely pointing out two things:

1) You are very good at staying on topic.

2) Your arguments (and basically everything on this site) are misdirected. The enemy is not Wal-Mart at all. Rather it is the system itself and the government that upholds it.

Screwedby-

Have I ever stated that Wal-Mart does not receive subsidies?

-Michael

Screwedby,

I also do not believe that I have ever claimed that Wal-Mart does no wrong.  Accepting subsidies from the government is not wrong.  The government offers them....Wal-Mart takes them. 

I am sure that if you were going to start a large discount store chain, named ScrewedbyMart of course, you would refuse the subsidies that the government would offer you???

Someone in USA:  I’m beginning to worry about you!  This might be the 2nd time you’ve said something I agree with.  You are absolutely right in one respect: “The enemy is not Wal-Mart at all. Rather it is the system itself and the government that upholds it.” However, since Wal-Mart is “playing the system” so well...they ARE the enemy.  Yeah, yeah...I know...Wal-Mart isn’t the only one.  One company at a time please!

Someone in USA-
It is tragic screwed starts to make sense and begin to say something that has merit and then the next thing you hear is.........."Oh shit! my head fell off, hang on just a second while I screw this damn thing back on.  F*ck, it’s not on straight, Oh well now what was I saying? Oh yes blah blah blah, blah blah, blah blah blah”

Screwed,

Going after the biggest retailer taking advantage/playing the system is not the best way to stop it.  You have to start small and work your way up.  “crawl before you walk”.  You and the lazy union leaders who run this site are not capable of beating Wal-Mart because (simply put)… their leaders are smarter than yours.

Big T:

And just when I was about to give you some credit for saying something intelligent...you post this crap!

As I stated in another blog thread… Who do you thinks stands a better chance against the large greedy insurance companies… Wal-Mart or the individual?  Since Wal-Mart is the largest employer in the land, why not start at the top and work our way down...that makes more sense to me!

The store is ok they have somethings that are good to buy and some things that you do not want to touch; some of the food. They need health benefits what can they lose from all the money they produce. Over all it is and good and a bad store just relocate if you own a small convent store and one moves in near you!!!!!

screwed,someone, it is completely ridiculous that you blame the government for wal marts manipulative ways!the gvmt. can’t be there to babysit wm every minute, wm is the same as these sorry/lazy people that use up the system, i.e. welfare/foodstamps, to they’re advantage.I’ve seen this because at a low point in my life these people would trade $ from their foodcard for cash to buy dope or whatever!example “I’ll let you have $75 on my card for $40 worth of pot” wm has only one concern, themselves!what happened to the employer that actually gave a damn about their employee?thats long gone!I hope these companies don’t have to wonder why people don’t give a damn about the co. anymore either!

Ronnie,

OK.  Good one.  You really told WM, didn’t you???