X'mas from Wal-Mart

[marrael]

Comes to you via child labor. There's something really twisted and sick about putting up a holiday "for kids and kids at heart" while kids in other countries are working over 60 hours a week to produce cheap plastic crap for slave wages. (And is the same reason I hate Disney, BTW

Comments

[paints4fun]

I am so disgusted by Wal- Mart's new advertising campaign!!! Gimme more for less is what it should say- and let's face it, if wages were what they should be in the grand old US, people would be able to afford to shop elsewhere. It's as though Americans continue to be sated by stuff instead of confronting business about increased work hours and fewer actual wages. Don't even get me started on the abuses in China- it's so intertwined and fraught with peril. Thanks for posting this!! I want to dump the whole present exchange thing and instead spend TIME with my loved ones, fancy that, huh? Thanks for posting this!!!

[ngakmafaery]

...I just nevernevernever go there, entirely for these reasons (well, once an elderly mentally-slow gentleman drove me there to get much-needed catfood for my cats, and I didn't want to confuse him, so I bought the tiniest amount and said thank you, and didn't do it again)...I CANNOT understand the common stuff about, "Oh, I hate them and they're Evilmart, and yet I go there all the time because it costs twenty cents less for this plastic crap, and this junkfood that is bloating me up like a mindless blob"...I too am poorish, in a western-working world model level of the word (like no money at all to spend on *anything* this week because the rent is due today and takes two full weeks' wages, but I have food at home, so it's not dire), but it is possible to live without the rancid things...sigh...and four of their family members are in the top ten of the hundred BILLIONAIRES in the Forbes countdown, four out of the top ten...and they're opening some giant banking system in Mexico...really, if people not only whined but DIDN'T SPEND

[fordarkness]

i've been an active boycotter of walmart for the past 5 years for reasons that weren't even related to this. i'm glad to know that my efforts didn't help contribute to this horrible situation. :( thanks for posting the link and information. i'll definitely pass it on.

[children_s_book]

I hate Wal-Mart, It make my grand papa biz down :-(
Never mind, It's simple world rule.

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