Wal-Mart’s New Package

More of the same.  Regardless of what Walmart does, walmart watch will use it as an excuse to criticize.  Katrina is another example.

walmart watch has no higher expectations from Walmart.  Bascially they do not care what they do, except that they would like for them to be unionized.

Walmart is the Microsoft of Retail stores so they get to do what they want and there ain’t thing one we can do about it.

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David,

I don’t know what blog you were reading, but the blog posting I read recognized Wal-Mart’s effort and simply pointed out that Wal-Mart can do more for America. I mean, shouldn’t they do more for our communities? Are to they loyal to America, or is it all about the bottom line?

Jeb

A corporation is not an instrument of social policy. That is why we elect crooks like Mike Veon and Fast Eddie Rendell. Wal-Mart is a corporation and, as such, their first, but by no means only, goal is profit for shareholders. Wal-Mart does not exist to make our environment cleaner, our schools better, our streets safer. If you want corporations to shoulder these burdens, fine. Eliminate the $2.4 trillion federal budget. If companies have to do it all, why does the government need money?

Loyalty to America is not inconsistant with the bottom line. In fact, when an American company is successful, it benefits America. How? Well, let’s look at Wal-Mart. They employ 1.5 million Americans, including more women, more minorities, more handicapped and more seniors than any company on Earth. They generate more than $10 billion in profits, about 25% of which goes back to shareholders in the form of dividends (which are taxed first, then invested to make more money and create more jobs). They pay untold billions in sales taxes, real estate taxes, income taxes and employment taxes. They contribute, directly and indirectly, billions to charity. They have created shareholder wealth in excess of $220 billion, excluding dividends. And they save American consumers 8%-18% on purchases, depending on the area. They did $285 billion in sales last year so if you take the 8% figure, American consumers had nearly $23 billion more in their pockets because of Wal-Mart.

Wal-Mart helps to create wealth. The government confiscates wealth. Wal-Mart distributes wealth through the natural workings of the free market. The government redistributes wealth at gunpoint. Wal-Mart was much more efficient than all levels of government during the Katrina disaster. The American people realized that government, be it local, state or federal, is inefficient and corrupt and that companies like Wal-Mart are more helpful and more efficient than government. If you are in need of water and food, who do you think would be able to help you get it faster? Fast Eddie Rendell or Wal-Mart?

I rest my case.

Mindsmack: “Walmart is the Microsoft of Retail stores so they get to do what they want and there ain’t thing one we can do about it. “

There is plenty we can do about both: we can ignore them. Neither one is anything like a monopoly. Plenty of alternatives exist for both.

By the way, your mindsmack site is dead. Just a white screen, and some messages about obscure unnecessary popups being blocked. Whatever it is, it is not web ready. If you want, I can refer you to some HTML for Beginners books at Amazon.com so you can make your first web site a success. Some of these are available online in the book section at www.walmart.com.

ND, apparently your web browser is having Flash plugin issues (lol) mindsmack.com has some very nice graphics animation (pro level)

Those obscure popup blocks are actually HINTS to UPDATE YOUR FLASH PLUGIN.

I also think you should “re-thunk” your idea to just forget about monopolies, or businesses that attempt, by alternative means, to “overtake, overpower, and underbid all competition, even to the utter destruction of it’s own employees"”

My sister worked at wal-mart for a short while. I never saw someone so physically and mentally drained, nor have I seen such an insignificant paycheck since then.

Try working at a place where you get to help a few percent of thousands of people a day.

Imagine working during the Christmas drag race of product mayhem destruction for minimum wage. Imagine losing your job if you decide to spend the holiday with important family, like your four children that you have no holiday daycare for.

Now tell me that we need to ignore companies that do this to their own “vehicle”.

C’mon, are we lemmings or human beings?

Brett

Your comments are mostly just raving.  However, there is one comment worth replying to.  “Imagine losing your job if you decide to spend the holiday with important family, like your four children that you have no holiday daycare for.” I have never worked for any company, including the US Air Force that would just let you decide when you did or did not work.  They might accomodate you, but at the end of the day, if you want to keep working, you do what they say.  Everyone would like important holidays off.  Not everyone can get what they want.

Brett: The best “update” to Flash is to remove it. Unless you love junk popups.  It is a web design failure to require obscure popups even to visit a home page. An HTML 101 lesson is really in order.

Brett: “I also think you should “re-thunk” your idea to just forget about monopolies”

Caught you lying. Nobody discussed companies that were monopolies.

After this, you referred to lemmings and what companies did to their cars. Sorry, lost you on that.