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Atman

(31,464 posts)
Thu Oct 31, 2013, 05:00 PM Oct 2013

Things must really suck for Walmart...

Their new commercials have nothing to do with merchandise or sales. They're all about damage control. Thirty seconds of anonymous people saying how awesome their employer is, before they zoom out and admit that they're talking about Walmart. Really, Walmart "matches my charitable giving?" Your $7.50/hr paycheck has lots of extra cash for the soup kitchen in which you have to eat half your meals?

Color me unimpressed.

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global1

(25,263 posts)
1. Wow - Great Minds Think Alike - You Must Have Just Seen The Same Commercial That I Just Did.....
Thu Oct 31, 2013, 05:01 PM
Oct 2013

Looks like we posted this simultaneously.

Atman

(31,464 posts)
3. Yup! My wife even commented about that ad this morning.
Thu Oct 31, 2013, 05:05 PM
Oct 2013

She doesn't usually pay that close attention, but she noticed the Walmart ad. What a joke! "Really, we don't suck that bad!" Great ad campaign.

rurallib

(62,437 posts)
4. They should do one with an employee looking at the camera and saying
Thu Oct 31, 2013, 05:05 PM
Oct 2013

"Just want to thank you taxpayers. Without Medicaid, soup kitchens, food stamps, public transportation I couldn't work at this crappy job. What I would really like is a union and real wages and benefits. I am a Human Being."

gordianot

(15,242 posts)
5. Some one must be stirring their pot (pun intended) at first I thought it was a school commercial....
Thu Oct 31, 2013, 05:33 PM
Oct 2013

for daytime TV watchers when I first saw it. I was looking for the plug line "You stay home all the time call today stop putting it off".

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