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

[30A Skunkape]

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.

Was he wearing knee high black socks? That would be a Snowbird jihadist; they are skilled at making explosives from sweet and low.

 

[Smiling JOe]

A lot of things are not made in the US, but have a competitor who still makes them here.

Many of the items in my house are made in the US, because it's a priority for me.

I eat off Corelle plates.

I mix, measure, and store with Pyrex.

I cook with All-clad, Calphalon, and Magnalite.

I drink tap water out of a Nalgene water bottle.

I sleep on Company Store pillows.

I ride a Trek bicycle.

My toiletries are by Burt's Bees, Soap Peddler, Dial, Aveda, Tampax, and Proctor and Gamble.

My dishwasher is a Whirlpool.

I cook on a Weber grill with Kingsford charcoal.

It takes a little effort/research, but you can still find most items made in the USA.

Even when people like yourself attempt to buy only products produced in the USA, it is nearly impossible, unless you live low on the land, making your own things and growing or eating locally grown foods only.

Unless your TREK bicycle is a higher-end OCLV
carbon fiber bike, it is likely made in Taiwan or China, according to Trek. Also, it is likely that all the components (derailer, shifters, brackets, crankset, chain, sprockets, wheels, tires, gears, seat, brakes, frame, handbars, sprocket, pedals, etc) are made overseas.

Sure, there are some things for which you may have an American-made choice, but there are more without any, or very few American-made alternatives. Some things that quickly come to mind are iPods, cell phones, computers, printers, modems, TVs, radios and electronics components for your automobile.

Good for you for trying to keep jobs in the USA!
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When I occasionly shop at Walmart or Target, I'm usually buying the exact same brands which I regularly buy at Publix, just at a much cheaper price. If my purchase choices at Walmart are sending jobs oversees, call me guilty when I shop at Target and Publix, too.

 

[Bob]

Let's say Wal Mart sources their products from Nigeria, because captured combatants can be chained to machinery and ordered to make t shirts and nascar hats. Bentonville then discovers that non violent criminals on work release will work for less than minimum wage so the rollbacks continue. At what point do you call out a corporation that has no sense of right and wrong, that treats it's employees as modern day serfs, so that you may buy 5 lb bags of sam's cheese puffs for 2.99 and adult diapers for a buck less than publix? Wal mart is betting your self interest in saving money will trump their scorched earth merchandising. So far, greed wins.

 

[30A Skunkape]

Let's say Wal Mart sources their products from Nigeria, because captured combatants can be chained to machinery and ordered to make t shirts and nascar hats. Bentonville then discovers that non violent criminals on work release will work for less than minimum wage so the rollbacks continue. At what point do you call out a corporation that has no sense of right and wrong, that treats it's employees as modern day serfs, so that you may buy 5 lb bags of sam's cheese puffs for 2.99 and adult diapers for a buck less than publix? Wal mart is betting your self interest in saving money will trump their scorched earth merchandising. So far, greed wins.

I guess the perfect world order that was in place prior to Wal Mart going public in 1972 really did go to hell in a blue hand basket.

See you on aisle 5, Bob

 

[Yarmap]

With all this evidence Bob has about Wal-Mart and there corruption,we might see him on an episode of................Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura.

 

[Matt J]

Was he wearing knee high black socks? That would be a Snowbird jihadist; they are skilled at making explosives from sweet and low.

Nope, too young, clearly a threat.

 

[30A Skunkape]

Now this video is worth a look. It looks like Wal Mart and the evil multinationals have really turned the screws to the developing world. Wow!

YouTube - Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four

 

[Smiling JOe]

If Walmart is so evil, I guess many of the name brands you buy in Publix are also evil. They sell many of the same goods, exact same! Frito lay chips sold at Walmart are made by the same people that make the Frito Lay chips sold in Publix. Do we really have to go down the entire list of every product that Walmart retails to wake you up? From TVs to pizzas, most items sold in Walmart the very same products you buy outside of Walmart. Even Walmart branded foods, are produced in the same factories as name brands -- from green beans to peanut butter.

 

[Bob]

If Walmart is so evil, I guess many of the name brands you buy in Publix are also evil. They sell many of the same goods, exact same! Frito lay chips sold at Walmart are made by the same people that make the Frito Lay chips sold in Publix. Do we really have to go down the entire list of every product that Walmart retails to wake you up? From TVs to pizzas, most items sold in Walmart the very same products you buy outside of Walmart. Even Walmart branded foods, are produced in the same factories as name brands -- from green beans to peanut butter.

[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publix]Publix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame] Publix is currently ranked No. 86 on Fortune magazine's list of 100 Best Companies to Work For 2010[3] and was ranked No. 9 on Forbes' 2009 list of America's Largest Private Companies and is the largest in Florida.[4].....Publix operates in 5 states. There are many long time Publix employees made millionaires purchasing their private stock through payroll. From butchers to managers. How many on the Wal Mart side? How has your life been improved by saving a buck made by treating it's employees as slaves? When Wal Mart figures how to ship milk from China, they will.

 

[30A Skunkape]

Publix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Publix is currently ranked No. 86 on Fortune magazine's list of 100 Best Companies to Work For 2010[3] and was ranked No. 9 on Forbes' 2009 list of America's Largest Private Companies and is the largest in Florida.[4].....Publix operates in 5 states. There are many long time Publix employees made millionaires purchasing their private stock through payroll. From butchers to managers. How many on the Wal Mart side? How has your life been improved by saving a buck made by treating it's employees as slaves? When Wal Mart figures how to ship milk from China, they will.

Let me say this, for what it is worth. I know two people, one who used to work for Publix, one works for Wal-Mart. Both had health issues, both were looking for workplace accommodation. I assure you, Publix pitched a much more high and tight hardball than did Wal-Mart and in fact, the Wal Mart employee continues to happily work for Sam, while the Publix employee is gone. By the way, Sam's employee had a Blue Cross policy, not medicaid. Exceptional case? Maybe, maybe not, just what I have seen personally.