Well, just pulled up their charts (NYSE symbol WMT). Looks like their stock price is up approx 10% over the last 12 month period, 20% since last July. Up 100% over five years with a 2:1 split in 4/99.
I can think of a few other companies - retailers or otherwise - that would be happy to suck so bad.
This doesn’t relate to the magazine thing, but it does relate to Wal*Mart.
A certain family member of mine wears the little blue vest, and since she has started working there four women have been fired from the very yellow-dot-hell she works at for giving a male employee a handjob in the bathroom.
Oh, and the same exact guy was the recipient of all four hand jobs.
And guess who still works there?
Apparently if you’re a guy working for the megalomaniac chain, it’s perfectly OK to receive a hand job from a coworker in the break room, but if you’re the woman giving it, you’re fired.
Hmmm. I must beg the question regarding the similar increases in Enron. Does one necessarily associate stock increase with moral quotient?
As I recall a professor quoting, “Correlation does not prove causation.”
What’s really funny (and at the same time sad) about this is that it comes from exactly the same impulse that leads fundamentalists of another stripe to cover their women from head to toe lest they tempt the men into evil.
All these scripture-waving moralists hate one another and fight amongst themselves, but from where I sit they’re all the same scummy rodents in the same tiny little box.
Just another reason to continue my boycott of Wal-Mart, not as though I need another reason. I havn’t purchased anything from wallymart in over two years, when I first learned of their policy regarding censored music. Not that it was all that difficult to give up though. In my entire adult life, prior to my boycott, I don’t think I’ve spent more than $200 total their anyway. Their shitty service, questionable product quality and often sketchy customers* was more than enough to keep me away without any additional moral outrage to go with it.
*I was at a walmart, post-boycott but was out running errands with a friend that wanted to go, about a year and half ago when encountered the most disgusting human being I’ve ever seen. We turned down an aisle and in front of us was a morbidly obsese woman in front of us wearing stretch pants which were being pushed to the breaking point. That’s not something you want to see on a Saturday afternoon, but it gets worse. As we got closer we noticed two things 1) a foul odor that seemed to be trailing her, 2) an odd brown mark running up one of her legs. We didn’t want to keep looking but we couldn’t help it. When we finally passed her in the aisle we saw the stain went all the way up to her ass and that it was fresh. This woman had shit herself in public and either didn’t notice (which would be impressive considering the stench) or didn’t care, and just kept on shopping. I don’t know about you folks but I’d rather see Maxim covers as I walk through a store than that!
Cool! My footnote ended up being longer than my post! 
Maybe is wasn’t the woman who shit herself, but the two puppies she had buried in her pants.
I’m sure now that their demands regarding evil, health destroying smut have been met, those Chirstian pressure groups will turn there attention to seeing that Wal-Mart employees are paid a living wage, have decent health care for themselves and there children, and are cheerfully allowed time off in the case of illness or other famliy crisis.
Ok, I better lie down now. I seem to be delirious.
(Family values, my (naked) ass.)
Oh for crying out loud. Maxim is soft-core porn. Not only that, it has all the depth of People.
And Maxim is a gateway porn mag in the sense that until you’re old enough to buy hard-core, you’ll have to settle for Maxim.
And Wal*Mart is trailer trash mallsville. Didn’t you know that? Glorify guns and God, denounce pornography and treat your employees like garbage. It’s like their motto.
I was at some quick mart in Wisconsin that sold guns, ammo, liquor, porn, and LIVE BAIT! They also rented videos (both the kind with cum shots and Disney’s The Little Mermaid) and sold prepackaged deli sandwiches.
(They may have been making book and running girls out the back. Didn’t ask.)
It’s not Walmart that pisses me off. They can do whatever their shareholders vote on.
What pisses me off is that in this day and age there are people who are actually offended by SEMI-NAKED HUMAN BODIES.
Most of these folks are christian family types with a few kids.
How in the holy fuck did these people even fornicate to begin with. Yes I know the bible allows people to procreate, but these morons act like fucking is a sin.
I mean do they say shit like “Sorry sugarbunny, but I must insert the penis so we carry on the family name.”
“Oh ok, you may penetrate me only because we are making another christian warrior.”
“Thank you dear, Oh, BTW can you suck on it a little bit too?”
Sure, but can you lick me down there?"
“Yeehaw, that feels good!”
“Now we must pray for forgiveness.”
“Ok dear, but could you do that one more time before you get the bible?”
“Sure”
Hypocritical dipshits.
Pretty much. I have some Loaded magazines I bought last summer in Ireland while I was on vacation. For some reason I felt more self concious buying them there, so I would usually buy the week’s edition of The Economist along with it. Yes, I’m a putz.
I think the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms should be a store, not an enforcement agency.
“Honey, I’m going to the store!”
“Pick up a carton of Marlboro reds and some shells for the 12-gauge, we’re all out!”
I love how Wal-Mart won’t sell you the uncut soundtrack for 8 Mile, but you can buy the movie on DVD no problem. And now they won’t sell skin mags but continue to sell R-rated movies with just as much if not more skin.
Why are you so much more concerned about the working conditions of Wal-Mart employees than actual Wal-Mart Employees seem to be?
If they had a problem with their working conditions they obviously wouldn’t work there.
why does anyone care about this.
Why is this news.
I almost didn’t care enough about this to hit submit reply.
I am from Fayetteville, Arkansas and have been shopping at Wal-Mart since the early 70’s. That was when they had fewer than 100 stores. Wal-Mart has always had a prudish streak. It’s just something we learned to roll our eyes at and live with. On a side note, I am shocked that Wal-Mart stocks the “Secret Treasures” line of lingerie. The unmentionables might cause the Reverend to get some wrong ideas when he walks past them. And by the way, Maxim is witty and very entertaining. I never miss an issue. I haven’t seen it on the shelves at our local Wal-Mart for some time and had assumed the decision we are talking about had been made long ago. Oh, and would the “vice store” also sell sex toys in addition to the porn? I would love to see some of those huge butt plugs on display at Wal-Mart.
Yeah, Tax Guy, that’s why Wal-Mart is always being sued.
Of course – instead of working some shitty, dead-end, minimum-wage job with no benefits, they’d be working a cushy high-paying job which got them lots of respect and plenty of benefits!
Hey, it’s their choice.
Daniel
Your kidding, right? Please tell me you’re kidding.
Well I guess they decided to work there because their trust fund check was a little late that month.
Believe it or not there have been Walmart workers who have been concerned about working condition. And when they’ve expressed their concern (or uttered the dreaded word “Union”), they have been kicked to the curb. I can’t imagine how their high-priced lawyers allowed that to happen.
Before I hijack this thread any further, just tell me you’re kidding.
I find this sort of thing really sociologically interesting. Basically, porn is taboo, but heaps of people love it. So some people campaign against it, and many many people don’t actively campaign against it but would, if publically asked, say that diminishing the availability of porn is a good thing. And only a tiny tiny minority would come out publically and say that they like porn and want to see it in Wal Mart. All this, while at the same time many, many people from all three groups buy porn, including no doubt many of those from the first group (although they are probably into really weird shit like extreme sado masochism, not the type of stuff Walmart would ever have sold).
So if you did a survey of Walmart customers, undoubtedly a majority would say (at the least) they are indifferent to soft porn being sold there because (they would say) they never buy it (oh no, no one does, funny how the sales figures are so good though, hey?).
So you can’t really blame Walmart. People are just odd.
See what selling Maxim leads to?
No wonder they were fired - they violated corporate policy. They were told very clearly during employee orientation.
The customer always comes first at Wal-mart.
Regards,
Shodan