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Walmarts cater to the most price-sensitive segment of the population and for those customers, a boycott would be an expensive proposition, because love it or hate it, shopping elsewhere costs more.
(This is not really true. Not only does Walmart charge more or the same for things like diapers and tampons, but people spend more there buying stuff they don't need because of the size and the layout of the store. It's set up like a maze-trap, or a casino. No windows, torture chamber lighting, and wailing babies to fuel depression and influence you to buy more, more, more. You think that's an accident? Next time you're there, try and find the baby.)
(You can't hurt them, according to this, but that isn't true either. Since there's nowhere else to work I happen to know several WalMart Employees, and WalMart HAS been hurt. Furthermore, when you have unhappy employees they will do the same thing unhappy slaves did back in the day. They will yes you to death and then sabatage you, and you will never know if they are just stupid, since they look it due to poverty and poor medical care, or if they are doing things on purpose. Despit the fact that WalMart tries hard to brainwash it's employees, it isn't working anymore. Even the Stepford employees are rebelling.)
But history shows that Walmart boycotts are mostly futile efforts. That's not to say a well-publicized boycott can't achieve certain goals, but it takes more than a strongly worded letter to hurt the company's bottom line. In November 2005, for example, the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights launched a Walmart boycott to protest the company's discrimination against Christmas. Within six days, before any substantial financial damage could have been felt, the retailer issued an apology, relabeled a special "Holidays" page on its website to "Christmas," and fired a service representative for telling a customer via email that the roots of Christmas were in Siberian shamanism.
Similarly, the Marijuana Policy Project hasn't gotten Casias' job back, but it has made strides -- Wal-Mart no longer plans to contest Casias's unemployment benefits. MPP spokesman Mike Meno recognizes that a boycott is an uphill battle, but he says the group has no plans to back down.
"We are not looking to lift this boycott any time soon," says Meno. "We're trying to draw attention to this despicable act. It's not just unjust or immoral for Wal-Mart to fire this guy who worked there diligently for five years, it also violates Michigan's marijuana laws.""
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How do I hate Walmart? Let me count the ways:
Airless air mattresses
Air conditioners that don't cool one normal sized room without two fans also blowing (the large air conditioner.)
My personal favorite: drawstring pants with a fake-ass drawstring. I STILL can not believe that one. WTF? You really had to save the two pennies...why put it there at all?? It's a FUNCTION, not a decoration.
How fucking stupid. I hate that store. I swear. I will go naked and eat dirt before I step foot in there ever again.
Anyway, there proves my point. You do NOT save money going there. You get aggravated and waste money. You get what you pay for. If you buy a cheap air mattress, be prepared to sleep on the floor. If you buy a shitty air conditioner, be ready to run it day and night, pay a fortune for your electric, and only be marginally cooler than you are in the room with no air conditioner.
And when you are roller skating in your undrawable drawstring pants, be prepared to moon the skateboarders, like they don't already think you're a big dork.
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