[quote name='PyroGamer']It's the cool hip thing these days to be against Wal-Mart while hanging out at one of your twenty local Starbucks.
I'm not against Wal-Mart at all. They have a fantastic selection of good quality products at cheap prices, and there's stuff there that I can't find anywhere else, and at a good price, at that.
I certainly wouldn't buy my videogames or electronics there, though.
You honestly think Wal-Mart is the only company to take advantage of sweatshops? Wake up and smell the
ing gravy, do you realize how many things in your house were made in a sweatshop by underpaid children working in abysmal conditions? Are you that ignorant? Beyound that, what the hell would people in third world countries do if they couldn't stitch you baseballs in abysmal working conditions? You think they can just take a course at their local community college and go into aerospace engineering or get a cushy job in an office?
The claims about wrongdoing in sweatshop inspections might be valid to look into, if you couldn't levy the same charges at nearly every other retail chain in existance.
Wal-Mart is hated for one simple reason: they strongly oppose the unions, choosing to give the money back to the poor consumers instead of into the coffers of the rich union bosses. And even without unions, they pay their employees more and give them more benefits than many many similar chains.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjsshqyAFh8
And for the record I'm about as
ing hippy as you can get. I buy my food local, vegetarian, etc.
1. OMG srsly? Offshore outsourcing? OMG EVIL!!!!
2. Not true about the pay and healthcare. Wal-Mart is above average on both.
3. Just looking at your postbit I can tell you're either very ignorant or a complete hypocrite.[/quote]
Well, you said what I had to say.
And for the record, shopping at Target doesn't make you better than Walmart customers. I can't think of anything that Target sells that is of better quality than what Walmart sells. But I'll admit, I probably like Target more. It's just ridiculous that so many people would base their decision on going to one place rather than another to avoid being perceived as "one of those dirty Walmart customers."
No one cares, seriously... this isn't high school. Shop where you want to shop, because
you want to shop there.
And I don't like the flocks of people at Walmart either, hence why I go early in the morning (or late at night) when the place is empty besides employees cleaning and so forth.