OT Do you care were the products you buy are made

[Renegade 13]

Well, no I didn't start it. Just turns out she liked me and I didn't even know it. Whenever she gets in a spat with her boyfriend, she comes to me. But I'm still in highschool, so maybe this has something to do with the weird dynamics that exist in every highschool that don't exist anywhere else.

(Edit: Sorry for getting the off topic topic farther off topic )

[ January 16, 2004, 00:28: Message edited by: Renegade 13 ]

[rextorres]

Wal-mart is a particularly bad and unpatriotic (for people who care about such things) company and I don't even step foot in one. They are driving down the wages of the average worker:

by forcing manufacturers to ship out jobs overseas so that their prices are low enough so that wal-mart will buy from them

AND

by causing competitors to lower prices and ultimately lower wages to compete with them.

It's ironic (if I may use that word) that the people whose job they are costing are the very same they expect to come in and shop in their store.

It's a downward spiral.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Baron Munch, that's very valuable information. and i'm now boycotting walmart.

[Fyron]

I was already not shopping at Walmart just cause they have low-quality crap and are rather crowded (with ailses very narrow and such), dirty stores with products all mixed up and all over the place. And they really are not that cheaper than most places, with few exceptions.

[Loser]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
dirty stores

This was the part that got me. I used to work at Target where I was, among many other things, a 'cart attendant'. In this role I pretty much took care of everything that went wrong but did not require a certified professional (and occasionally things that should have).

Dammit our store was clean.

And while the 'Target brand' stuff like Utility and whatnot was a hell of a lot less durable than Levi's, it never felt as low-grade as what I could find at Wal-Mart.

Though they do have good produce.

[Kamog]

I hardly ever go to Wal-Mart because there isn't one near me. But the few times I've been to one, I thought the store was pretty good. I didn't know about this!

They come into a community and sell their goods at below cost until they drive local businesses under. Once they have captured the market the prices go up.

[Growltigger]

Originally posted by Loser:
Few things are as entertaining and without risk as flirting with married (or otherwise firmly attached) women.

I totally agree with you loser, but the problem happens when what you thought was a firmly attached woman decides that she rather likes you after all so much that she would risk all and/or ditch her partner!!

Trying to disengage from one of those positions is one of the hardest things I know