Flame me if you want

[SPKrazy]

but I shop at Wal Mart

sorry

I live in Wal Mart land and there aren't too many options to shop otherwise

a new Super Target is being built

I shop at local merchants when possible

but the reality is

Walmart has a grocery store 5 blocks from me

I go there much more than I go to a regular Walmart

Flame me if you want, I will still go there.

No need for lectures about what Walmarts do to local mom and pop stores, or small town economies. Arkansas was an experiment for them. They ruined it before they ruined anywhere else.

They also put a lot of money back into the state and local economies.

I don't agree with what they do, but they, like all things are not all evil.

Just mostly I suppose.

:hide:

[graywarrior]

1. *snort*

We're so much better than YOU!

[SPKrazy]

2. I knew you were

who else is?


:shrug:

;)

[graywarrior]

13. All of us who shop at Wal-Mart but never admit to it.

[SPKrazy]

14. oh, gotcha!

admit to what now? :think:

:rofl:


:hi:

[graywarrior]

17. To "it"!

[SPKrazy]

18. i no longer can remember what we were talking about

:P

:rofl:

(trying to help you save face while I listen to TSO)

awesome btw!

[graywarrior]

19. I lost face some time ago.

[SPKrazy]

20. hokay

:rofl:

well I won't steal your duck today then :P

besides

at least not until Christmas

gotta protect it

from eatin'

how are ya?

[graywarrior]

24. On edge

as usual.

You doing ok?

[SPKrazy]

27. oh,

on edge too

lol

as usual as well

but otherwise

okay

[graywarrior]

31. All I think about these days is taking a nap.

[SPKrazy]

38. sounds

nice

:hug:

[CBHagman]

3. Naughty Southpawkicker.

I'll have you know I have well-cooked pasta at this very moment, and I'm not afraid to use it! ;-)

[SPKrazy]

4. lashes with wet noodles

bring it on :P

:rofl:

[_testify_]

5. I go there occasionally as well

Maybe I'm nuts but where are the mom 'n' pop grocery stores that everyone talks about?

[SPKrazy]

7. walmart killed them

or at least around here it did

if they existed here

i'd go

last one i remember died about 10 years ago

bad location

no ability to move or adapt

BOOM

[Deja Q]

6. Don't flame me, but

Walk to Walmart, but the groceries, walk home

Less gas, more exercise, all's good.

(My grocery and walmart stores are about 1.5 miles away - which I have walked on occasion, but the city planners updated my town for auto traffic, not pedestrians...)

[SPKrazy]

8. I could do that

it wasn't made to be convenient to do that though

hmmm

probably get run over doing it

:hi:

[NMDemDist2]

9. I'm too stubborn

we have a Walmart, Dollar stores and two grocery stores in town

no KMart, no Target, Walmart is about the only choice without driving 35 miles one way

In the 18 months I've lived here I have not shopped at Walmart

I shop online or occasionally (a couple times a year) take a road trip

Yeah I pay a bit more at the Albertsons, but look for sales and stock up when they come around.

I have talked to the WalMart employees and ex employees and I don't support their business practices

your mileage may vary

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

10. don't even have an Albertsons here AZ

a few grocery stores around

I go there too as well for some things.

my mileage does vary

depends how fast I go :P

:hi:

[FloridaJudy]

11. No flame here

I try to avoid it when possible, but I shop there myself on occasion. They're the only place in town that carries the brand of dog food my aging sweetie needs - believe me, I've checked. And their prices on over-the-counter medications can't be beat. It's hard resisting the rest of the crap they sell, but it's good for my character.

I guess we both need :spank:


Cool! First time I've had a use for that smilie.

[SPKrazy]

12. cool

i got your first spanking

:rofl:

i understand what you say

I wish there were some place that met my needs, maybe the super target will

but are they any better?

[FloridaJudy]

15. Target's way out of my comfortable driving range

But from what I've seen they're not a heckuvalot better.

I'm hoping someday they'll open a CostCo in this town. I visited one with my sister in California: they're awesome. It would be worth a drive every so often to stock up if they did.

[SPKrazy]

16. Costco would be good too

Super Target will be in a good place

but good gawds they are taking forever to build it and spending a fortune on it, building up retaining walls and putting it well up above the freeway so that it looks like a fortress :eyes:

Great location for it though

meanwhile, walmart put in another supercenter :eyes:

:shrug:

[Gormy Cuss]

21. Move, you lazy bum.

It's people like you who are enabling the Walton spawn's destruction of America.



Hey, you asked for it.
}(

[SPKrazy]

23. I'd move in a heartbeat

my son is here though

I hate it here where I'm at

:shrug:

Walmart world :eyes:

[Gormy Cuss]

36. On a serious note, I can't imagine living in the state where it all began.

The Walton money must have considerable influence on zoning and development plans. I don't shop at Walmart first and foremost because I hate the stores (I'm not a megalomart person) and I have plenty of choices. I'm somewhat ideologically crazy about food sourcing because living here it's so easy to buy locally produced and less adulterated food, not to mention growing my own vegetables year round. Beyond that, I'm not a big shopper anyway.

[SPKrazy]

37. Yup

they own the state

they owned it when Clinton was here and if you don't think they influenced his politics or paid for him, think again

they've given money to lots of charitable causes in the state but what they really spend money on is advertising and legal expenses

They pretty well can write their own ticket if they want to put in a supercenter, the city/state will bend over backwards to accomodate traffic pattern changes and building bridges, expanding roads etc.

yeah

I'm serious about not wanting to be here too

This is not my home, I'm a transplant, and now I'm stuck here in the area at least.

Gotta figure out where is the happiest place here I can live 'cause it ain't where I'm at right now.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

22. I have the opposite situation...

WalMart is somewhat of a drive for me, and Target is closer, so it's easy for me to take a moral stance because I have choices.

The single most powerful impression I had when I visited WalMart (an ex-girlfriend and I were out driving around and she asked me to stop there so she could pick up a few things) was the consistent and complete lack of joy among the employees, from the greeters through the checkers and everyone else in between.

The reasons for that lack of joy are pretty well documented, but when you experience it first-hand, it's another matter entirely.

Here's hoping your Super Target is finished soon and you can enjoy a more positive shopping experience.

:toast:

[SPKrazy]

25. I hope so too!

they are building a fortress and spending a fortune on the location for the Target

:toast:

[Whoa_Nelly]

26. No flaming here...sometimes you do what you need to do

However, I do stay out of WalMart, not only because of the reasons you stated, and the fact that they are a huge contributor to the GOP, but also because of their discrimination against women.

http://www.cmht.com/cases_walmart.php


But, that's just me, and I'd never impose my reasons for choice on anyone else. :hug:

[SPKrazy]

30. I've got lots of reasons to HATE walmart

and look forward to other choices

they effectively shut out other choices we have a super K mart but it is frankly, worthless in comparison

I do try to stay out of the Super Walmart as much as possible

the "Walmart Neighborhood Market" is a grocery store, and it carries a lot of things that I buy, although they seem to be getting rid of some things i like

:hug:

[Mutley]

28. I won't flame you

That's one thing that really annoys me about DU (and indeed, real life) -- people who openly denigrate others because they don't shop in the right places, eat in the right places, listen to the right music, watch the right shows on teevee, etc. Telling people how they should live their lives... hmmm, now why does that sound familiar?

[SPKrazy]

32. uhm....

sounds like fundy-ism

:shrug:


:hug:

[Mutley]

34. Heh

And I'm not in as pissy a mood as that post made me sound. :P

:hug:

[SPKrazy]

35. okay...

didn't think ya sounded pissy, just passionate! :P

;)

[BarenakedLady]

29. Please leave your liberal card on the table.

Security will escort you to your car.

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

33. only while i'm in walmart though

the fundies wouldn't have me

:rofl:

[LeftyFingerPop]

39. The LOL Hillbillies...

Weez in yur thred, bustin' yur balz cuz you shop the Wall Mart.

[SPKrazy]

40. LOL Hillbillies

:rofl: :rofl:

they look pretty skeery man

:scared:

glad there's no one like that around here

well not near here anyway

:hi:

[LeftyFingerPop]

41. Fess up to the DU man...

You know that is a picture of you and me after our Thanksgiving meal a few days ago. :hide:

[SPKrazy]

42. Shhhh......

I don't wanna have people guessing which one is me

:rofl:

[LeftyFingerPop]

43. They don't have to guess...

I think most people know that you don't have any tattoos. :rofl: :rofl: :popcorn:

[SPKrazy]

46. I had me some iron ons

damn they hurt going on too :P

:rofl:

[LeftyFingerPop]

47. Well, at least now I have a good explanation for....

that big burn mark on your BUTTOCKS!!! You held the iron on too long!! :rofl:

[SPKrazy]

48. yeah...

that one hurt too :(

the one on my bicep is painful too

:rofl:

[LeftyFingerPop]

49. That's ok...

Instead of "Buns of Steel", you have "Buns of Iron", which is the hillbilly equivalent! :hi: :thumbsup:

[SPKrazy]

50. yeah I do

Iron Buns they call me :P

[LeftyFingerPop]

53. unlike this...

[IronLionZion]

44. target is 5 min from me but I'll still drive 15 min to go to Wal-mart

simply because they have some of the things I want and no other store carries it. My girlfriend is Minnesotan and a Target loyalist so she gets furious with me and tells me I dare not get her anything from Wal-mart.

[SPKrazy]

45. well

you go to who has what you need

I'd like to have more options

:shrug:

:hi:

[IronLionZion]

52. the internet is available to everyone

drugstore.com, amazon, and buy.com are all pretty useful. What sort of things do you need? Arkansas has excellent farmers markets for produce. Don't you have Winn-Dixie or Publix or some other grocers too? You probably have home depot or something for hardware.

My girlfriend's parents live on a chicken farm in northern Arkansas and shop at wal-mart but she brings them tons of stuff from Minnesota and takes fresh produce back.

[SPKrazy]

54. mostly what i shop for there

at the wal mart neighborhood market

food

prescriptions

supercenter for other items

online, yes i do my fair share of that

farmer's market sure there is one

no winn dixie or Publix here

Harp's, Price Cutter, and CV's are the only chains that are here besides Wal Mart that I can think of

:shrug:

[demnan]

51. Prescriptions are cheap there

my brother doesn't have health insurance so its the best place for him to get medicine.

My other brother works at one. He hates them for an entirely different set of reasons. (Yes he does have health care).

They suck, but its too late now to object, they're all over and people shop where they live.

[Phillycat]

55. I refuse to shop at Wal Mart, but not for the "usual" DU reasons

Yeah, I think their business practices are shit, and they are morally corrupt, but I make exceptions for other big chain stores that I like, so it's not like I'm a purist. I refuse to shop at Wal Mart because their products are almost all cheaply made and tacky, and the stores in my area are populated with trashy people who bring their screaming dirty children in at all hours. The stores are poorly organized and never cleaned up, so it looks like a rummage sale. And the employees (probably because they're so poorly treated by the company) are simultaneously surly and unhelpful. I'd rather pay a few dollars more at Target for a nicer product and a nicer shopping experience. :shrug:

[Tektonik]

56. Not to ruin anyone's party in this thread

but Target's labor practices aren't much better than Wally World. If one shops at Target, they may as well just shop at Walmart.