Ten Things I hate about Wal Mart

#10- Wal Mart moves in, the little Mom and Pop stores move out. The same can be said for Meijers, Lowes, Home Depot, Staples, etc

#9- If I wanted to go the the freak show, I would go back to the county fair

#8- They have a million items in the store, but almost never what I am looking for

#7- In order to keep the prices down, the help seems to be barely literate and semi sentient. I could swear that the girl that rang up my purchase tonight could barely put two words together in a sentence

#6- Wal Mart substitutes quantity for quality. You won't find a lot of high end stuff there, but you certainly can walk out with a cart load of junk

#5- Wal Mart forces their pricing philosophy on to their suppliers. Of course being the biggest in the world has its privileges, but I never liked a bully

#4- For whatever reason, I always feel dirty when I leave. The store does not feel clean. Call me crazy.

#3 - I watched a program that told " the story of Wal Mart". A company that has its own cheer ( at least in the US) creeps me out. The forced excitement and rah rah crap that went on at their stock holders meeting reminded me an awful lot of a cult. Hope they didn't serve Kool Aid....

#2 - I really don't think that they truly have the customer's interest in a high priority. That same show that I watched had a vignette with a woman demonstrating how if she gave away only a thumbs width more cloth with each sale, how much it cost the store in "shrinkage". The mom and pops store that I mentioned above never worried about that. So what if they cost a little more. The service and attention that I got, always made me feel as if we both profited from a sale.

#1- I think in general that the company has a great dead of hypocrisy in its treatment of its employees. I don't want to comment on the whole union, non union deal. That's an entire blog of its own. What bothers me is (again from the show), how the company purposely schedules events early in the morning, and purposely forces management to work weekends and go out of town a lot. I was under the impression that Wal Mart strove to be a family oriented company. IF that is that the case, then the managers should be home with their kids, not at a managers meeting that starts at 6:00 AM with the company cheer.

Lastly, I really feel that Wal Mart is the next variation/flavor of communism/Welfare/Big government. Think about it. Wal Mart dictates how much profit that its suppliers can make, going as far as demanding access to the suppliers books. Wal Mart uses its world wide distribution ability to bring in cheap knock off items into its stores, and by doing that, I feel they fleece the less sophisticated people out of their money. Wal Mart offers banking, doctor, groceries, auto care, etc. The next thing you know they will have wedding chapels and funeral parlors.

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