Less people shop at Wal-Mart = Good thing.
Just my 2 cents.
Has anyone considered that Wal-Mart IS listening to its customers in removing the magazines? As I recall, the Waltons are a Christian family who like to see their values reflected in their stores. If they’ve had a large customer base complaining about the content of the magazines, then they’d do well to listen to them. Although this is probably alienating ANOTHER part of their customer base, it’s their call on which customers they want to satisfy.
If the consequences result in them going out of business, it’s their call. You still have Target, Meijer, K-Mart and however many other stores in your area to satisfy your shopping needs. The beautiful thing about capitalism is that the market loves to fill a void.
I’ve never been to a walmart. It’s just one of those places I’ve decided not to go, and haven’t.
So let me get this straight, Wal Mart is willing to sell firearms but not Maxim? I tell ya, i’ll never figure people out.
I’ve only shot someone using a Maxim magazine once and she wasn’t hurt, she only needed a shower.
This is one of those “Only in America” threads, isn’t it.
The British paper The Sunday Times had naked female nipples in one of the fashion photos in the style section last weekend, I doubt they’ll receive complaints.
(Psst…Do Walmart know that Cosmo etc probably have more boobies and sex talk than the lad mags?)
Will this lead to “You can have my “soft porn” when you pry it from my cold, dead hand!” type slogans?
Probably more like “You can have my soft porn when you pry it from my sweaty, sticky hand!”
It’s been 10 months since I’ve shopped at a Wal-Mart and I’ll never go again. I’m glad I’ve lived in places where I had that luxury, since I come from a small town that only has a Wal-Mart and little else (since, well, Wal-Mart drove away a lot of competition).
Wal-Mart fucking sucks. I can’t remember the last time I went there. I’d rather pay slightly more to support more independent stores and avoid the fucking hassle. The last Wal-Mart I went in smelled like a gymnasium. It was sick. No thanks, I’ll take my business elsewhere.
Somewhat related: I got a bit of a chuckle a couple weeks ago when I was going through the checkout at the grocery store. That month’s copy of SHAPE magazine had one of those little boards in front of it that blocked everything but the name (like you’d usually see on a Playboy-type mag.) I actually subscribe to that magazine so I knew without flipping it back that it was a healthy, fit woman in a bathing suit, much as you would expect a women’s fitness magazine to have on the cover. Weirdness!
I haven’t shopped at a Wal-Mart in years. Of course, around here there’s just no need, and the nearest one is quite some distance from me anyway. That said, I wouldn’t shop at one, even if it was the closest, most convenient place.
For the record, liberal I may be, but I would never censor Huckleberry Finn, or the Merchant of Venice, or anything else for that matter. I deplore that practice.
I have seen a store that sells tobacco, booze, ammo, and porn.
It was called “Bad Habits.”
I love it.
This thread is making me want to buy a copy of FHM and Maxim now. Thanks, Wal Mart! 
Actually, I hate wal mart. The light in there is evil. It makes everything look like it’s catering to zombie folk, or “persons of rot”, as they call themselves.
There was a place in Flagstaff that had tobacco, booze, guns and porn. And it had a drive-thru window.
I’m hoping he’ll franchise.
Don’t they?
It seems very much that WalMart is listening to its customers, and that most of its customers want a Maxim free shopping experience.
That’s interesting. I wasn’t aware that this little benighted state ws behind it.
But, as has already been said, that’s a business decision. I doubt that many people shop there for their magazine selection.
We have a Wal-Mart in Berlin.
They sell absinthe!
I do wonder, however, if it’s really their customers they’re listening to. I’ve not heard a groundswell of opposition to FHM, Maxim, etc. I’ve not heard of a threatened boycott.
It seems equally likely to me that they’re responding to shareholders, including members of the Timothy Group, who are willing to sacrifice some profit in order to stay on God’s good side.
Whatever. I’m just happy that they’re shooting themselves in the foot. Good on you, Walmart!
Daniel
Mall-Wart likes to wave it’s Christian values about when it suits the media view and/or the P&L.
If you’ve been following the corporate activities of the leviathan from Bentonville, you will undoubtedly have read of lawsuits where safety reports were shredded or disregarded, and where corporate lawyers went so far as to receive stirring rebuke from the bench for their activities.
The reality is that whether Sam Walton wanted that way or not, they are not an all-American outfit. Maximum output is extracted from employees, unionization is discouraged, and those who speak out are quickly cast aside. The set up of a new store contains a fee for an American flag and flagpole, yet if cost overruns occur (newsflash?) that is one of the first things to go.
IMHO, Mall-Wart is an evil entity, and I will not support it. I’d drive across half a state to patronize someone else.
It’s not like you can argue with their success or anything.
This is a great sentiment, and would mean a lot to me if I didn’t live in a part of the Southeast where Walmart is the ONLY local place to shop!!! We harbor a lot of animosity toward Wal-Mart in my area, because they ran a lot of places out of business.
I have no Targets, K-Marts, et cetera available to me.
The main reason I got online was because previously I had to drive 100 miles to buy a (non-edited) CD or book … and I feel that Wal-Mart has a big, underestmated influence on the populace where I live.
What I meant is the Kmart where I worked did a lot of business.
Personally, I hate Walmart, so I don’t care one way or the other. They don’t have to sell anything they don’t want-and people can take their business elsewhere if they don’t like it. It’s capitalism.
shrugs
That said, Walmart still sucks. Oh, and Maxim sucks too.