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You know, I don't quite understand this knee-jerk tendency to boycott Wal-Mart whenever they get bad press. I follow the reasons one would boycott a corporation in general, but Wal-Mart certainly seems to get the brunt of it. It's hardly proportionate. Verizon, McDonald's, Texaco, United Airlines - they've all done some shitty things in the past but they've escaped a lot of their aggressors. Not Wal-Mart, though. They fire a single mother over a possible false positive on a drug test and suddenly idiots come crawling out of the woodwork. ARGH WE WILL NEVER BUY CULOTTES FROM YOU AGAIN! People who have no connection to the issue at all are up in arms. If you were a single mother, or a druggie, I could understand some indignance, but cripes. If your only purpose in visiting Wal-Mart is videogames and Little Debbie cakes, what the fuck do you care?
Yeah, Wal-Mart does some shitty things. I still shop there because I require objects now and then and do not want to pay more than is truly necessary for, say, Listerine. I don't particularly care for Exxon's business practices but dang if I still don't need gasoline every few weeks. Practicality outweighs principle, sometimes.
Folks, if you're going to draw a line somewhere, don't do it over your own throats.
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You talk like situations like this are the only reason that people avoid Wal-Mart. From what I understand most people avoid Wal-Mart because they see it as a threat to their community. Since Wal-Mart has a reputation of putting smaller businesses out of business. Which in turn causes people to be unemployed with going to work at the place that cost them their job as basicly their only option. Then they get paid less and get treated poorly.
Situations like this is more throwing salt on the wounds then anything else for people who already hate Wal-Mart.
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