"Leave the Cart?" Nah, "Keep the Receipt"

[flvegan]

If you REALLY want to show Wal Mart what their practices are costing them, then consider doing this:

When you buy something, anything that can ALSO be bought at a Wal Mart (which, at this point, includes groceries, beer and all the cheap plastic crap you can carry) keep the receipt. Any grocery store you go to, keep the receipt. Clothes? Office supplies? Computer software? Music? Keep the receipt.

Then, once a week or once a month, or however often, put them all in an envelope and mail them to the CEO. Put a note in the envelope that this is the revenue Wal Mart lost because of their many unethical business practices. If you're really feeling like putting an exclamation point on it, then add up the totals, less the tax.

Remember, $10 spent elsewhere is not only $10 Wal Mart lost, but also $10 that a competitor GAINED.

If this were a big campaign that could catch on, they'd be flooded, and the stockholders would have to take notice.

Of course, redact any vital info, like credit card/ATM account numbers on the receipt. I'd probably also strike through any signature that was showing, as well.

Anyway, just my $0.02...

[mzteris]

1. Wow. I think THAT is a great idea!

It gets the message to Walmart without needless waste of resources and hassle to the employees (who are overworked and underpayed already!)

[lildreamer316]

2. Smart.

I like it!!

[CC]

3. Now that is a great idea.

And with out causing employees trouble. Its not like they all want to be working there but have no other options.

[brokensymmetry]

4. Excellent!

:Kick:

[Angry Girl]

5. That's a really good idea!

Do you mind if I post it on my website? (not sure where yet - everything's a mess...)
http://nightweed.com/angrygirl.html

[flvegan]

6. Please do.

The more, the merrier. Hope it sparks a few folks to act.

[Angry Girl]

14. Thanks!!!

I'll try to put it up in the next couple of weeks!

URGENT! Timing is critical to save earthquake victims before winter!

[Somawas]

7. send this to wakeupwalmart.com

and join there, while you're at it.

[flvegan]

9. Done and done.

Thanks for the idea. I wasn't familiar with them...

[flvegan]

53. Got a response

from their "Online Coordinator" saying he's going to pass my idea along to his team.

Hope they run with it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Cut out personal info. Striking through or blotting over isn't sufficient.

[Angry Girl]

15. good point!

URGENT! Timing is critical to save earthquake victims before winter!

[blue neen]

10. That's a great idea.

I do almost all of my shopping at Costco, even though it's almost an hour away. Wal-Mart could learn a lot from the people who run Costco!

[Pool Hall Ace]

11. I like it.

:kick:

[Beaverhausen]

12. sigh...that's a great idea

:loveya:

[flvegan]

18. Aw shucks

You make me blush.

[niallmac]

This family likes your suggestion. Sounds like great fun!

[pitohui]

13. now that makes sense

you just need to get enough people doing it

the cart idea is stupid and mean-spirited

[chknltl]

16. Luv it... another nomination from me nt

[flvegan]

23. Thank you!

[qanda]

17. I save all of my receipts

But I certainly wouldn't mind sending them a nice copy. I haven't shopped at Wal-Mart in almost a year. I think this is an excellent idea.

[Coloradan4Truth]

19. Great Idea. I wonder if...

scanning them and emailing them to Walmart would have as much impact?
It would save money on stamps and you could easily cut out personal info, and still have your receipt.

What do you all think? And does anyone know where we would email them for the most effect?

[flvegan]

20. Absolutely!

They don't care about anything except what follows that dollar sign.

Matter of fact, if there are a whole bunch of receipts, one is probably better off doing it that way.

I'm looking into the whole contact thing...

[donco6]

21. That's very good.

It leaves the little guys out of the mess. Good idea! I save all my receipts anyway (hey, I'm an accountant, what can I say?)

[democrank]

22. Great idea.

Much better than taking out frustrations on a low wage worker collecting shopping carts at the end of a long day.

[nickyt]

24. Pure de 100% GENIUS. I am so IN!!! Thank you! n/t

[cry baby]

25. This idea is soo much better than the "fill the cart and leave it" thing

Thank you for a constructive idea.

[seabeyond]

26. that is a good idea. christmas coming. i will spend more at toysrus

than at walmart. they will get the point i will spend more to not shop with them. and.......

it hurts no one

[Mutley]

40. Shop at the small businesses in your area...

If there are any left. Toys R Us, while not as bad as Walmart, treats its employees like crap, too.

[seabeyond]

49. if we are now shopping at places who pay employees well,

in the state of texas anyway, i wont be buying. the small places are paying less than the big places. the have greater overhead and get even less of the deals on product, ergo less profit. but i do have a couple local toy stores i hit first. and buy the different presents in.

[emdee]

27. Now, that's a good idea....

Wal-Mart has lost at least 90% of my business already. I'm working hard to lose that last 10% I give them (convenience and lack of time are my excuses). I am afraid of the day that we only have WM to shop at and would rather give my money to the others.

I was pleased last Christmas that WM received NONE of my Christmas $$$$ - I love your idea of sending the receipts in!! ((copies of course, in case the real ones are needed for returns))

Thanks for the idea - now to find the corporate address of someone who might give a darn!!

emdee

[babsbunny]

28. I can do that!

I use to shop at Walmart and Sam's Club, even have credit cards, but since I have found out about THEM, I haven't shopped there for almost a year! A great idea, and I always keep my receipts. I could even send my pharmacy receipts too from my prescriptions that I chose to fill elsewhere!

[tsuki]

29. Will Do! Yer'a genius! eom

[slay]

30. Good plan

Also maybe attaching fliers to Walmart shopping carts detailing the ways they mistreat employees, like another poster suggested, might not be a bad idea either. I agree that the "leaving full shopping carts" is not really a good plan. Probably the reason people liked it at first is because it sounds like it will accomplish something by hurting the company, but in actuality such an act would mostly just hurt the workers.

[flvegan]

36. I'm a

POP vandal. Point Of Purchase, that is. Funny how anti-(whatever) stickers will fit on the advert sections of a shopping cart, eh?

I'm just sayin...

[yankeeinlouisiana]

31. That is the best .02 I've heard

in a long time. And with the Holidays approaching...

:bounce:

[politicat]

32. Photocopies.

Because keeping those receipts make it a lot easier to do taxes, too.

[Quixote1818]

33. Yeah whatever. This is one of those ideas that NO ONE will follow through

on or will be completely forgotten in two days. The Walmart offices will get like ten or twenty of these and forget about them in 15 minutes.

[flvegan]

34. Bet me.

C'mon...$1 bet...

This is MINE, and I'm on it. I'll give you 10 to 1 odds...

BUT, if I'm the winner, you have to follow through. You have to submit 10 receipts.

Fair?

[Mutley]

41. So, torturing the employees is better?

Walmart will not care about people leaving carts behind. They will not hire someone just to put the merchandise away. The employees will not get overtime. Life ain't that rosy in retailworld.

[I_am_Spartacus]

35. I like it better when the protest involves NOT buying things.

I also think that when Wal Mart realizes that it's bad bublic image is dramatically increasing the work they need to do, they'll be more inclined to change policies.

Also, by adding all that work for Wal Mart you're increasing the number of people wal mart will have to hire which is good for poor people. You can consider it your own private WPA program for the private sector.

[Mutley]

42. No they won't

They will do what they have to do to save money. Bottom line. They won't hire any new employees or allow the existing employees overtime. If it got bad enough they would just close the store, then all of those people are out of a job because of you.

Have you ever worked in retail?

[sandnsea]

37. Very good idea, especially over the holidays

Maybe Working For Change would want to organize this.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

38. Now THERE's a well-thought idea!

Much better than the mink farm thing. ;-)

[Mutley]

39. Now THIS is a better idea!

THIS will actually get Walmart's attention, if enough people did it, and no one would be torturing the employees. Great idea!

[chat_noir]

43. Great idea!

To have a greater impact, we need to enlist the support and cooperation of the anti-WM groups out there, including labor unions.

http://walmartwatch.com/

http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/

http://www.alternet.org/walmart/26503/

http://www.ufcw.org/

http://www.unionlabel.org/

[Solon]

44. This idea makes much better sense...

THANK YOU!!!!

[Arianrhod]

45. You probably won't get down to my post

but I just want to add my accolades. I like this idea a lot.

[akarnitz]

46. Well, I got down here and am joining you, Arianrhod.

Kudos, flvegan. I'm gonna do it, too.

[flvegan]

54. Awesome! Thanks.

[kywildcat]

47. By cracky, this is it!

What an excellent suggestion. Now to get this idea out there. :yourock:

[BlueEyedSon]

48. You mean BOYCOTT WALMART... No way!

[LincolnMcGrath]

50. Why do you want to oppress the mail room workers at China Mart!

They already open up mail all day long! Now they will have to open up MORE mail!

Apparently none of you people have ever worked in a corporate mail room. Its all day long with the bags of mail, avoiding stabbing myself with the letter opener, separating the recyclables form the non, pushing the mail cart, etc etc.

:evilgrin:

[Arianrhod]

51. "Sort this, deliver that--I'll make them all pay!"

Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Movie.

:)

[mopinko]

52. especially from costco

i never shopped much at walmart, but was a sam's club member for a long time. i am now not only a costco member, i am a huge costco cheerleader. i have single handedly switched the parent organizations at my kids school to costco, and invited costco rep in to sign up teachers and parents for membership.
i will try to do this. my family spends about $500/month at costco, and the school groups spent about $1500 last year. i think they signed up about 50 teachers and school employees.

[THUNDER HANDS]

55. might I suggest making photocopies of the receipts first

you know, just in case you have to return something. :)

[spuddonna]

56. I really like this idea!

I save all my receipts for tax time, and I'd be happy to photocopy them and send a note to Walmart! :)

[flvegan]

57. One more kick...

[flvegan]

58. Final one, for anyone that missed it...