Wal-Mart and homeland security- you can't make this stuff up

[Mango]

Has anyone thought that maybe Wal-Mart might be targeted for a terrorist attack? Beside a major stadium or a parade, I can't think of a quicker way to cause the economy to nosedive than someone blowing a Wal-Mart up and then saying it could happen across the country. Those stores would be like ghost towns. Just a thought...

I thought about that, but then I thought, why not Target, or Home Depot? How many super centers are there across the country? Does anyone think that it would stop people from going for any extended period of time? and if these stores really are socializing venues, then I would think that someone strange looking might raise suspicion anyway by shoppers, but if not, at the very least, maybe store theft personnel. They may not be paid enough to profile people and then what could they do with that power? Are they going to hold someone every time they think that person is a threat? Legally, I do not think they can pat down someone or make them remove their clothes. Don't they have to call law enforcement?

I think the reality is no one can really profile your average terrorist. They tried doing it in Europe and they can't. All they can come up with is they usually middle income and come from decent families. I think training store personnel is helpful, but, to be honest, the wages do not substantiate people taking this seriously. Maybe HS is better off putting someone in mega stores, like Walmart, to watch who comes in and out if they really feel that Walmart is a high target.

 

[Elephant Child]

In Wal-Mart you arouse suspicion if your butt crack isn't showing.

.....Or if your horns and tail are showing!

 

[Miss Kitty]

I am terrified of Walmart.

 

[Rita]

I am terrified of Walmart.

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As well you should be...;-)

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[30A Skunkape]

The given here is that everything Wal-Mart sells is made in some third world poo-puddle (except for all the items on Scooterbug's shopping list, save the soap peddler's products!). Therefore, said poo-puddle gets a bit less murkier when slave wage jobs are available to the puddle, since poo puddles generally don't have much in the way of jobs anyway. It is well recognized that Wal Mart and their evil allies actually lift children and adults alike out of sexual slavery and similar oppression...could it be, just maybe, that the modest wages that otherwise idle (the idle mind is Iblis's playground, after all) young poo puddlers earn while working keep them from wandering away to training camps to learn skills like, I don't know, making bombs?

There, I said it. Wal Mart is all that stands between us and a bloodbath. Wal Mart shoppers are the true patriots! Keep your eyes open, Wal Mart shoppers!

 

[Yarmap]

Wal Mart netted 14 billion plus in 2009. Their employees are the working poor.

And if there was no Wal-Mart, all the investors that post on this board would not make as much money(great time to buy JOE) & all those working poor that work at Wal-Mart would be unemployed.

 

[30ashopper]

And if there was no Wal-Mart, all the investors that post on this board would not make as much money(great time to buy JOE) & all those working poor that work at Wal-Mart would be unemployed.

I was going to make that point as well. If Wal-Mart wasn't hiring Medicaid recipients, who would? Granted, offering healthcare would be a good thing. But crapping on WM because they offer jobs to low income, hard to employ workers is misguided.

 

[Minnie]

Wow first one gets insulted for shopping at Walmart now we get insulted for working there.

During college, in a small town, Walmart was the only place that would hire college students seasonally.

The local Mom and Pop stores would not, most hired friends and family and Walmart paid better.

Wal-mart the corporation might be the evil many protray it as, but then so are most large corporations, but the individual stores are staffed by many hard working, decent people. People who would never look down their nose on someone because of where they shop.

I tell you the Walmart discussions really bring out the ugly side of some people.

 

[Matt J]

I was going to make that point as well. If Wal-Mart wasn't hiring Medicaid recipients, who would? Granted, offering healthcare would be a good thing. But crapping on WM because they offer jobs to low income, hard to employ workers is misguided.

You have that completely backwards, first you work at Wal-Mart and then you get on Medicaid and food stamps. If you don't know how, don't worry your friendly HR person at Wal-Mart has a pamphlet to walk you through it.

 

[Matt J]

On a side note we had to go to Home Depot tonight. I was alert and called in the gentleman wearing shorts, clearly not from around here and suspicious.