# Walmart v/s Target, Kmart, etc in terms of workers

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-v-s-target-kmart-etc-in-terms-of-workers/681259>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 13, 2014, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-v-s-target-kmart-etc-in-terms-of-workers/681259 "2014-02-13T16:17:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-v-s-target-kmart-etc-in-terms-of-workers/681259/21 "2014-02-14T21:46:01Z")

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Thank you for replying but my rant about the’“five-page debate about semantics” was in response to **jacobsta811** , who was quibbling over the meaning of “locked in.” Didn’t you notice my earlier post, and **running coach** ’s later one, refuting your suggestion that people were “making stuff up” about Walmart employees being locked in? Do you now admit that no one was “making stuff up”?

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**Author:** ![Corry\_El](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@Corry\_El](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corry_El)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-v-s-target-kmart-etc-in-terms-of-workers/681259/22 "2014-02-14T22:22:13Z")

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> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> Didn’t you notice my earlier post, and **running coach** ’s later one, refuting your suggestion that people were “making stuff up” about Walmart employees being locked in? Do you now admit that no one was “making stuff up”?

I think I covered it in the last post. So the question is whethre _you_ are going to be a stickler for semantics, and only interpret ‘making up’ as from whole cloth, something which absolutely never happened, as opposed to citing _one_ case of people being locked in a store, ten years ago, and a big company settling routine  
overtime claims to avoid litigation, as being of any real substance for a company that size.

But again it gets back to the point I’ve made twice. If you don’t want to shop someplace because of one particular incident years ago, or because a labor relations lawyer thought they could get a settlement out of a company over some claim (do you have any idea how common that is, for all kinds of stuff?), go ahead. If it’s going to be presented as a reason for a government coercion solution, then I’ll repeat, I’ll stick with ‘made up’, as far as being substantive in that context.

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