do you shop at walmart?

Question

this applys only to vegetarians and vegans and fruitarians

grrrr i can't pick the best answer
it tied between
lilyian
and greenghost

Answer 1

I refuse to go to Walmart on moral principle. They very intentionally put small businesses under.

If they move next to a mom&pops hardware store, they will lower the prices on thier tools to where they are losing money and the little shop can not compete, and they raise them after destroying the family store. But don't wory the grandma and grandpa who put their lives into the store can be greeters.
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I swear, all of America is going to become a giant Wallmart.... and McDonalds.

Answer 2

I have lived in the same location for seven years.
Most of my stuff I buy from online closeout stores, or I occassionally hit a Burlington coat factory, or a Modell's for some intricate sporting goods.

I have yet to step into the mall, three miles away.

Four years ago, Walmart tricked me once. I needed an oil change in December, and do not have a garage, I was being wimpy. So I drove by Jiffy Lube, line was huge, and went on to Walmart. It took them 45 minutes, in that time I spent like 30 dollars on a comforter and a DVD.

I haven't been back, gave the comforter to my dogs, and kept the DVD - which is just messed up anyway. I need to turn it over half way through the movie to finish watching it.

Those of you who shop there should watch the PBS documentary Frontline on Walmart's practices. It is online at PBS.org - Frontline - and browse the available shows.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/view/

I make my students watch it, and write a paper on it for my Sociology classes. Walmart is hurting society, and the owners are some of the richest people in the world. I think it is about time they buy every American a pizza, they could afford it. And they would just get that money back.

Answer 3

No, not anymore. I did for a while when one first came to the area, I mean I can't deny their prices are cheaper than pretty much anywhere, but that company has so many negative business practices, that I just can't stand to contribute to it anymore.

There are reasons why their prices are so ridiculously low. They're wiping out small business across the country, screw over their employees in the states, and treat the people in their factories overseas like indentured servants. I mean why manufacture their clothing, etc here when they can go to Indonesia and have 70 employees for the same that they would have to pay one US factory worker. These people are lucky if they make even 20 cents an hour, and often are physically disciplined if not working fast enough.

Then there's the whole enviromental issue of it. How could I feel good about my vegetarian lifestyle doing a small part to help conserve our rescources, if I was handing my money over to a corporate powerhouse like Wal Mart? They have been cited countless times for their enviromental practices, have false "recycling" programs,and produce 250 million tons of green houses gasses annually.

I love to save money as much as anyone else, but not when it's attached to so many things that I just cannot support.

Answer 4

Vegan or not, hell no. I try to avoid companies that are evil, especially blatantly evil.

Did you hear? They are now getting into food now? Food and even organic food. They are one of the top sellers of organic milk. Not a good thing. Why? Walmart (and other big companies wanting in on the organic market) are trying to lower the standards for organic certification just so they can produce cheaper products and make more profits. I'm sure they are planning to start their own organic certification organization which will have lower standards, others are already doing this -- even seen a product that say it's certified by some organization you've never heard of or can't even find any information about on the Internet? I have. Very suspicious.

I try to avoid Whole Foods, Wild Oats, and Capers markets too. Look into it, they are all a bunch of evil bastards trying to make themselves look very friendly. They put people out of business the same way Wal-Mart does just not on as a big scale as Wal-Mart does. The Wild Oats (in Canada called Capers) has put a lot of organic farmers out of business. The local organic farmer I get my honey from has was nearly put out of business by them and has had to stop growing vegetables and focus on honey and pumpkins for Halloween. He said that they hook you with large initial orders, then later on when you are only supplying them exclusively, they start demanding lower prices, then they demand packaging, then he said that they were making negative money -- paying Capers to take their vegetables!!

My wife is in horticulture and she says that Home Depot, Cost Co, etc, all do the same thing to growers of non-edible crops (flowers etc.). They just go from business to business taking advantage of them, them moving on the next.

There are also local Canadian companies that are trying to follow in the footsteps of these overbearing huge American companies -- Plant Organics market clearly states in their mandate to investors that it's all about money and profit and they'll do whatever it takes to make money for their shareholders. Basically, whenever there are faceless shareholders involved and the owners of the company are not actually there in the store to talk with me face-to-face -- no thanks!! I'll go to the locally owned business or the co-op, OK? What's next, the Wal-Mart Co-Op?? ha ha!

Answer 5

Very grudgingly! I don't like to give them my money but being way out in the country means my choices are either ordering something locally (and waiting days for delivery), hitting an e-tailer and blowing big bux on next day delivery, driving (one way) 50 miles to wallys world of wonders or 100 miles to wallys super world of wonders. The nearest SuperTarget is 400 miles from here! I'll go out of my way to avoid 'big box' retailers any chance I get but sometimes it's just not practical.

Anyone traveling through west Texas can see first hand evidence of wallys destructive nature. Ft.Stockton is a good example; the town and K-mart co-existed for almost 30 years. In less than 10 years after wally showed up most of the local stores and the K-mart closed. Wally is now your only real choice for local shopping now and you bet their prices shot up once everyone else closed! It took less than 20 years for Pecos to become a ghost town after wally showed up! Drive past the town on I-20 and you'll see the (now) shuttered wallyworld to the east of the highway and all the shuttered stores to the west. T&C (a gas/convience store) is your local shopping option now. Go down to Alpine (a town that blocked wally) and you'll see the difference!

wally world is evil!!

Answer 6

sometimes, but I spend too much money there, because I get distracted by the "too many items"...they are fairly far away so gasoline is a factor...I know they don't treat employees right and we are all paying for Walmart employees healthcare that they can't afford..unfortunately until we get national healthcare in the U.S, this will be more and more frequent as companies fight for the almighty dollar and the employees are left in the dust (esp. older employees who survived cancer or acquired a health problem such as diabetes)...

Answer 7

The local Super Wal-Mart is the only place near me that stocks tofu and organic veggies. It also carries soy ice-cream and tofutti soy slices, so I don't have much of a choice!

Answer 8

No, I dont. Walmart is notorious for mislabeling things as organic or natural, when they in fact are not. I don't trust them to do the right thing. They started marketing eggs from "open air" chickens-turns out all they had done was to cut a small window into the regular battery shed. Too deceptive for me. If they will do that for one product, they will do it for all.

Answer 9

Yes. I live on the backside of nowhere and its Walmart or starve.

Answer 10

Yes I've shopped there for years. But now after
reading V&P's answer I'm reconsidering.
I've only been buying frozen vegetables
and mock meats there anyway so maybe
I should stop.