Wal-Mart "Marketplace"? What's That?

[ABM]

I drove by one today in West Linn. Huh, used to be a Zupans.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

I think it's just a grocery store from Wal Mart. None of the clothing...

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

MONSATO RUN GMO MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!! KOCH BROTHERS!!!!

 

[MARIS61]

If you truly care about China owning America, stop shopping at WalMart.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

If you truly care about China owning America, stop shopping at WalMart.

Have you ever thought of becoming an on stage comedian?

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

If you truly care about China owning America, stop shopping at WalMart.

Isnt Wal-Mart owned by Americans?

 

[DaLincolnJones]

Isnt Wal-Mart owned by Americans?

yes

what Maris is refering to, and I cant believe that Iagree with his statement, is the fact that most of their products they sell are made in china.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

prison labor = MADE IN THE USA :MARIS61:

 

[DaLincolnJones]

prison labor = MADE IN THE USA :MARIS61:

http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/...n-uses-prison-labor-to-advance-“green”-agenda

for the record, I see nothing wrong with putting these guys to work while in prison

 

[3RA1N1AC]

http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/...n-uses-prison-labor-to-advance-“green”-agenda

for the record, I see nothing wrong with putting these guys to work while in prison

the problem arises when the privatized prisons lobby to make it easier to go to prison and harder to get out, in order for them to continue to have a massive force of slave labor

america has the largest prison system in the history of the world for this very reason

 

[DaLincolnJones]

the problem arises when the privatized prisons lobby to make it easier to go to prison and harder to get out, in order for them to continue to have a massive force of slave labor

america has the largest prison system in the history of the world for this very reason

dont want to go to prison, dont break the law....

really privat prisons are a very small precentage, seconed they are ran more effecient than others, third they often provide employment in communities that want the jobs.

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

It's a massive faceless corporation's further attempt as driving all of their local competition to financial ruin. Welcome to America.

/vegan cafe

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

It's a massive faceless corporation's further attempt as driving all of their local competition to financial ruin. Welcome to America.

/vegan deli

ftfy

 

[MARIS61]

Some Bite Size Wal-Mart Facts

- Wal-Mart sales clerks made an average of $8.23 an hour—or $13,861 a year—in 2001. That's nearly $800 below the federal poverty line for a family of three. (Source: Business Week)

- In Georgia, Wal-Mart employees are six times more likely to rely on state-provided health care for their children than are employees of any other large company. (Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

- Reliance on public assistance programs in California by Wal-Mart workers costs the state's taxpayers an estimated $86 million annually. (Source: UC Berkeley Study)

- In the first decade after Wal-Mart arrived in Iowa, the state lost 555 grocery stores, 298 hardware stores, 293 building supply stores, 161 variety stores, 158 women's apparel stores, 153 shoe stores, 116 drugstores, and 111 men's and boys' apparel stores. (Source: Iowa State University Study)

- Every year Wal-Mart purchases $15 billion worth of products from China. (Source: Washington Post)

- Today Wal-Mart uses over 3,000 Chinese factories to produce its goods—almost as many factories as it has stores in the U.S. (3,600). (Source: L.A. Times)
- All else being equal, U.S. counties where new Wal-Mart stores were built between 1987 and 1998 experienced higher poverty rates than other U.S. counties. (Source: Pennsylvania State University Study)]

http://walmartispureevil.blogspot.com/2005/11/some-bite-size-wal-mart-facts.html

Yet Another Way Wal-Mart is Screwing All of Us

The Raw Story reports that Wal-Mart pays itself rent, gets large tax breaks
Wal-Mart, the nation's largest employer and the world's biggest retailer, is regularly paying itself rent and using the transaction to decrease the taxes it pays to state governments, according to a report in this morning's Wall Street Journal.

In one four-year period, Wal-Mart avoided $350 million in taxes using this strategy, which was developed by the accounting firm Ernst & Young LLP.
That's $350 million dollars that they didn't pay, so the rest of us had to. Nice, eh?

The Always Low Prices line they use doesn't take into account all the costs they pass along to the localities and states that they suck on. Make no mistake, Wal-Mart has nobody's but their own interests at heart. Its not like Wal-Mart can't afford to pay their fair share of taxes, they just do whatever they can to dodge as much as they can for as long as they can. If they could get away with using slave labor, they would (oops, they do, but its overseas and well out of our sight). Shop at Wal-Mart and you are directly contributing to and condoning their business model and practices. Is saving thirty cents on a bottle of soda worth aiding the erosion of our country? I don't think so.

http://walmartispureevil.blogspot.com/2007/02/yet-another-way-wal-mart-is-screwing.html

http://walmartispureevil.blogspot.com/2005/11/what-every-american-needs-to-know.html

 

[3RA1N1AC]

dont want to go to prison, dont break the law....

never went over the speed limit before right? never smoked a joint? never had a couple beers and then drove home?

give me a fucking break

 

[ABM]

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/03/08/363689/index.htm

 

[MARIS61]

dont want to go to prison, dont break the law....

really privat prisons are a very small precentage, seconed they are ran more effecient than others, third they often provide employment in communities that want the jobs.

Wrong, very wrong, and yes they do hire otherwise unemployable morons with dangerously unstable personality issues.

 

[MARIS61]

Just looked out the window and it's snowing like crazy.

 

[ABM]

Just looked out the window and it's snowing like crazy.

Quick, head down to Wal-Mart Marketplace and stock up while they're still open.

 

[maxiep]

Aren't they opening one of these in Lake Grove where the old Nature's Northwest used to be?

 

[ABM]

Aren't they opening one of these in Lake Grove where the old Nature's Northwest used to be?

Yeah, I had heard somewhere in Lake Oswego. I wonder if it actually is in Lake Grove? Also, I think Zupan's opened where Wizer's in Lake Grove used to be.

 

[BlazerWookee]

Quick, head down to Wal-Mart Marketplace and stock up while they're still open.

REPPED.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Marketplace was probably just added in there to keep white trash out of the spot with the illusion that there are higher prices inside. :MARIS61:

 

[MARIS61]

Quick, head down to Wal-Mart Marketplace and stock up while they're still open.

I'm always stocked up.

 

[MARIS61]

Yeah, I had heard somewhere in Lake Oswego. I wonder if it actually is in Lake Grove? Also, I think Zupan's opened where Wizer's in Lake Grove used to be.

When I was a kid we used to buy chocolate covered ants and bees from the original Wizers in Lake Oswego, and play army in the mezzanine and parking garage.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

TROY'S!!!! :MARIS61: