Walmart

Don't shop there! Nothing but a pile of trash with a price tag! Almost everything I buy there breaks within the first couple of days or couple of months. They barely pay their employees minimum wage and then throw them away like a peice of trash when they don't perform. While the higher managers make great money, in the six figures on some of them. They have cameras to protect their stuff but when something is stolen out from your car they don't stinking care. Some prices are lower because almost everything is made from China. Flimsy, lead filled, poisionous, preservative laden, greedy good for really not thing. Let's give ourselves a Christmas present and not shop there! It would definitelly help support our country instead of theirs. I have nothing against the people of China but don't they realize that our economic fall precipitated across the whole world? That is why almost everyone is suffering. I'm not materialistic, but I just want to live happy. One of my former frie... Read more

Personally, I don't and won't shop at WalMart, for a whole host of reasons, starting with the fact that they carry cheap crap. What anyone else does about WalMart is up to them, and of little interest to me. It never ceases to amaze me, however, that many people who decry the decline of small-town America are among the most loyal patrons of this octopus, which has considerable responsibility for said decline.

Wal-Mart definitely uses some questionnable business practices. No doubt. But is that illegal? Probably, no. Because, if that would be illegal, these guys would be long ago out of business. I almost never shop at Wal-Mart, but that is not because I want to put some statement, just because I do not like shopping at all. You feel sorry for people who work there? Nobody forced them to seek employment at the store. So, that is their choice. So, let it be.

Depending on what you need, Wal-Mart may or may not be the place to go. I have worked there for just over a year as a electronics associate and can definately say that its not the place to go for everything. However, they do have good merchandise for affordable prices as long as you know something about what you are wanting before you go there, as a majority of the associates aren't very dedicated to their job and don't know much about what they are selling.

OK, they have many faults but is hard to find and alternative to what they sell at the price, but this made in the USA crap they once advertised is now totally bogus.

To many people shop there to successfully pull it off.

If we boycotted every place we didn't like, there'd be nowhere to shop, eat, or do business in general.

I won't lie and say I haven't been in there, I've been there a few times...Obviously, everyone would like to pay the lowest cost, but I find their business practices simply deplorable, and the way they treat their employees is like something out of "Oliver Twist." Ever pick up Sam Walton's biography and thumb through it? It's good for a laugh unless you're either completely stupid or a high ranking Wal-Mart executive. Of course, the guy was a smart businessman, but from all of the adulation in the book you'd think that Sam Walton parted the Red Sea, or brought down fire from Olympus... I wonder if 'mikeholly' ever read that book?

I never went to Walmart until I moved to Colorado. Walmart seems to thrive in areas that are already economically depressed. More blame for the the plight of small cities and towns should be put on factory farms and obsolete industry. The city I live in was crappy before Walmart got here due to the downsizing of the steel mill. A lot of people here live on welfare and food stamps and they just want the lowest price. I do feel a corporation with such power should be more willing to improve the communities they do business in. I never once saw a Walmart in Seattle or Rhode Island for one they are ugly and people with money usually don't buy crappy Chinese bric-a-brac.

Looks like I might be the only person here who can make this claim but I've never been inside one in my life. That's neither a political nor an economic statement, however. I've just never had the need. I hear they don't treat their employees very well and I know they're non-union, but they obviuosly aren't the only employers like that.

I hate boycotts. I chose not to shop at Wal-Mart, but I understand those who shop there.

So Wal-Mart has some not so wonderful practices. But to be honest, I hate shopping, I don't make a lot of money, and I hate paying more money for something I can buy for less somewhere else. Wal-Mart has just about everything, so I don't have to waste time going to other stores, and they're cheap. Right or wrong, I'm going to shop there.