# So Wal-Mart sucks? I pit you if you think this. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 30, 2004, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wal-mart-sucks-i-pit-you-if-you-think-this/277301 "2004-11-30T08:00:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wal-mart-sucks-i-pit-you-if-you-think-this/277301/201 "2004-12-02T05:57:35Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > For one thing, I somehow doubt that any big chain’s record is entirely free of blemish; for another, if Wally World is truly evil, my hundred bucks or so in purchases per year does not nag my conscience quite enough to reduce them to zero; No, but it all starts out with one “voice” (by way of voting NO with our wallets), and gains more “voices” along the way. There are enough stores and options in most places (except of course in tiny towns), that a partial or total boycott can be done without it hurting a person’s wallet or convenience. The OP and his supporters continue to claim the “cheapness” factor. But so many people have come in and proved that to not be true. If it is possible to shop elsewhere, and shop elsewhere as or more cheaply and conveniently, it would be a start for more people to “speak” with their wallets. But, jmho ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wal-mart-sucks-i-pit-you-if-you-think-this/277301/202 "2004-12-02T07:22:39Z")
> [@CanvasShoes](#): > > The OP and his supporters continue to claim the “cheapness” factor. But so many people have come in and proved that to not be true. If it is possible to shop elsewhere, and shop elsewhere as or more cheaply and conveniently, it would be a start for more people to “speak” with their wallets. Just tell me where. I’d be more than happy to shop that store. And I’m still waiting for the Doper-Approved List of Guilt-Free Shopping Retailers[sup]TM[/sup]. ---
**Author:** ![5que](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/3bc359/32.png) [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wal-mart-sucks-i-pit-you-if-you-think-this/277301/203 "2004-12-02T15:35:21Z")
> [@GaWd](#): > > I say we farm the work out to **even sven** … Because it just has to be said 1. Spend $20,000 on movie with Brutus and Duffer 2. ??? 3. Profit! ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wal-mart-sucks-i-pit-you-if-you-think-this/277301/204 "2004-12-02T19:41:01Z")
1. Shopping at WalMart may be unpleasant, the stores may smell, they may be dirty, the employees may be surly, smell, and be dirty, the service may be awful, but I’ve never been in one as bad as your typical K-Mart. THOSE stores suck! 2. Whenever I hear about local businesses being driven out by WalMart or malls or the internet or whatever is the latest thing destroying America’s downtowns I recall the joys of shopping at those stores and there were none. Maybe most of you are too young to remember those stores and are viewing them with a nostalgia for a time you never saw but they had all the bad of WalMart with none of the good: no selection, cranky help, high prices because I was supposed to be carrying the Vanishing American Downtown on my back, and they were only open past five one night a week because the Vanishing American Housewife was supposed to be their main customer. I felt no loss watching those stores close. They were the dodos of retailing. 3. And as I worked at some of those stores I know that they paid most of their employees Minimum Wage. You got a raise when Congress forced them to give you one. If you didn’t notice, the $9.82 somebody mentioned earlier when talking about WalMart’s slave wages is pushing twice the Minimum Wage. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2004, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wal-mart-sucks-i-pit-you-if-you-think-this/277301/205 "2004-12-02T19:56:48Z")
> [@duffer](#): > > I assume Michael Moore will be directing? 😉 No no, that wouldn’t be any fun now would it? Hmmm, the plot, the plt… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wal-mart-sucks-i-pit-you-if-you-think-this/277301.md?page=10)