what are your thoughts on censorship in walmart?
99833
Walmart is a private business, they have the right to sell or not sell the items they want. Unless laws dictate them one way or another.  I feel it is great that they are concerned about what they do sell.  And since there are other choices of stores to shop at, if one doesn't like it, they can shop somewhere else.  Just like I have the option of not shopping at stores selling things I don't agree with
808462
I think Walmart will lose business.  This is how my mother always purchased gifts and school clothes.  Their idea is that most people have credit cards but I don't think they are a good idea.\n\nWalmart does a lot of things I don't agree with but I still shop there.\n\nI would love to boycot the place but I can't afford to.
1115476
they removed one of mine yesterday.  it isn't prejudice but it is censorship.  they have vulgar questions and answers yet the removed ours.   we could boycott but then what would i do at work all day?  work-lol!
643179
I am an admitted consumer of Walmart.  I got nothing bad to say about them, they save me money and that is okay with me. They are a retailer that truly tries to accommodate the consumer.  They show that they are considerate not only by selling products at reasonable prices but they have great hours to fit anyone's schedule.  They have layaway and a great on line site for making purchases.
579342
I do agree with you about the employee's attitudes at some of the Wal Mart stores...but this is also happening at other places of business...People are more rude today than years ago. Not that there were not rude people years ago but when an employee was reported to the store manager as being rude to a customer action was taken because the customer was always right even if wrong we never argued or was rude to a customer. \nI do know that Wal Mart has cut back on their employees and this makes it difficult for the ones working to keep up with the customers and also to do their work. (no excuse get another job). I find that sense Mr. Sam Walton passed away that things have changed at Wally World. (that's what I call Wal Mart because it is like a circus)\nBack to the subject...Every time an employee is rude get their name (ask them if you don't see their name tag) and report them right then and there. (ask to see the manager)
1176023
I hate Wal-Mart! I never shop there unless I have to I absolutely cannot find the item anywhere else. \nI boycotted them for several reason:\n1) Have you seen the episode of Frontline about it? (If not check out the site at the bottom---you can see the full show online.There is another documentary available on DVD about it too, which I have not seen entitled " Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" by Edith Arana, Red Esry, Rev. Altagracia Perez, and Donna Payton. Supposedly Wal-Mart attempted to have it stopped but was not able to. I do know people that work there that were instructed not to watch it.) \n\n2) extremely poor service. If you go in there looking for something, you can never find it & if you ask someone that works there they send you on a wild goose-chase before you find out they do not even carry it! Last time I was in there, I went for two items, it took forty-five minutes & I was not able to get either one of them! One of the items [Scotchgard] they did not even know what it was! Then I lost money in the soda machine, but the line for customer service was wrapped all the way around to the corner of the store, filled with people wanting to make returns. I asked a manager if they could help me & they said waiting in that line was the only way to get my money back. They only had one of three counters open, but there were several employees just standing around gossiping. The manager could have at least sent people over to open the two other counters so people did not have to wait so long. I have had several similar instances when the employees are unhelpful. I work in customer service & it just makes me so mad that I bend over backwards to help my customers but that it is extremely difficult to get good service when I go somewhere. Like, when you ask their employees if there are any in back---they do not even check. They just say the do not. Or when you ask where something is and they say "If it's not over there I don't know where it is" . \n3) Lack of selection. In most cases they only carry one name brand & their housebrand & the namebrand carried is not the one I use.\n4) Some items (especially the clothes) are low quality. We used to call them "Wal-Mart-fall-a-parts growing up.\n5) I can almost always find stuff cheaper somewhere else. I do not know why everyone thinks they are so cheap!\n\n(Sorry for any typos, spell check was not working.I do not think it likes long answers.)
1003368
Banned? Absolutely. They cause dangerous situations that are way out of reasonable expectations. I realilze that they have no expectation of privacy as they walk around, but it becomes harrassment when a celeb gets mobbed trying to buy a gallon of milk!
592322
Lots of people love Wal-Mart because it's cheap, lots of people hate Wal-Mart because it mucks up the economy really bad. \n\nI like watching the cheapies shop there because I know so many pointyheads who wouldn't be caught dead there or at Starbucks or anything else publicly traded or that employs more than 10 people.  The cheapies shopping at Wal-Mart don't really seem happy either though, but I think that's just how they are.\n\nThe one thing that people ignore about Wal-Mart is: sure the stuff's cheap but unless it's a brand you trust, 60 % of what you buy is bound be of substandard, dollarstore, quality.  I never really experienced "you get what you pay for" until I shopped at Wal-Mart.  For pointyheaded elitists like myself Wal-Mart is like the best possible zoo, but I won't shop there because I'm hoity-toity enough to understand what 'quality' means.  \n\nA story?  Well when I was a cab driver, it was readily assumed that anyone going to or from Wal-Mart wasn't going to tip well or at all and that was better than 95% true.
39710
Of Course!  \n\nThe documentary you seen seems quite accurate.  I stopped shopping there years ago with no desire to return.  The links below will direct you to more articles relating to the company.  Good or bad, their history speaks for them.\n\nI believe most of us now understand the crimes of Walmart.  I wish the focus would turn more towards investigating McDonald's, Coka Cola and other fast food/soft drink giants for poisioning the world with drugs that addict children and adults.  Not to mention the unethical way these companies do business as well. \n  \nAs far as the car question, I stopped driving over a year ago due to the rediculious gas prices.  I don't wish to support the current administration (which by the way SUPPORTS Wal-mart).  I have found biking and walking to be the best way to go.  Public transportation only when needed for extreme long distances.  Of all the 10+ cars I owned over the years, only one was foreign which was old and used.    \n\n:)\nPeace
653872
Wal-Mart has a couple of marketing strategies right now:\n1)  using employees to dispel the negative campaign against wal-mart by showing that it is a place of diversity and opportunity\n2)  feature their high-end products to show that they aren't just a low-end discount store\n3)  showing families shopping to show how wal-mart meets the needs of everyday families
462678
as i understand it,it is going to be an attempt by the wetbacks to boycott primarily buying merchandise.maybe work too.i don't see how it will affect your kids.
846414
Wal Mart gave a one time donation to a gay organization concerned with equity in the workplace.  They had given similar donations to dozens of other organizations at the same time to dampen some of the furor over WalMart's employment practices in general.  Bowing to pressure from a conservative group, Wal Mart severed ties with the gay group.  \n\nYou EMail was of course a gross exagerration (like most emails advocatting boycotts, little truth to them).\n\nNo percent of profits were going to any groups, gay or straight.  These were one time gifts.  And the organizations involved who did receive the gift were only involved with workplace issues, and NOT the gay "movement" per se.\n\nChristian right wing groups will make little effort to stop Emails from being circulated, no will those who send them.  They stand to gain if the "untruth" still circulates, keeping their base agitated is the name of the game, not the truth.
601184
It has shades of Grey is my answer,nothing solid to protect it sadly. There is a difference in something being censored because of basic human dignity, and something being ruled inappropriate behavior for a human being. This freedom of everything has taken away my right not to view pornography,not to be subjected to profanity and violence. Not to have prayer in my school because it offends someone! When it was a right and part of my freedom and my kids. My being offended by gross sexual content on regular televison,billboards,...who cares. The right to protect my children from pedophiles (that has been argued as freedom too, and still to this day.) Whos freedoms am I hurting here?Should your neighbor be able to build his house so high yours was obstructed,your gardens died, what if and no small if,it was ruled it was his freedom of expression and need for a tower, would you not want some rules? Something,someone to help keep the peace of your space? Should he be able to have rock concerts every Friday on his yard?,that could very well cover some of the "freedoms", this kind of "freedom"would not be so nice. Nor the freedom to say terrible things about you or your family. Successful society has agreed on rules or we all best find an island, in short supply I might add.
561956
I'm a former Wal Mart employee. I think the company needs to more for its workers. For example, they don't offer vision insurance, yet the newer stores have optomitrists in them. They also need to make the overall insurance cheaper. I found that most people who work there for the insurance can't afford anything else. Finally, they need to offer a bigger discount, like 25%.
1108085
Everytime they have tried, the threat of firings has quickly stopped them from proceeding.\n\nRead this: Walmart is notorious for union busting. They've taken measures to keep all unions out of their stores. Today, I heard on the radio that there had been a union finally formed in a Canadian Walmart, but that Walmart would be closed rather than allow a union to form.\n\nEven more at: http://www.ufcw227.org/organizing/walmart.htm
1012554
There is nothing patriotic about destroying local community business.\n\nThere is nothing patriotic about WalMart forcing people into bankruptcy.\n\nThere is nothing patriotic about a family dynasty who have given away only a fraction of their massive family fortune when Bill Gates (aka the former devil by most software companies) plans to give it all away in ten to twenty years.\n\nBuying from China and Mexico... I'm not surprised. WalMart is no friend of America. When things get tough, they'll simply take their loot and leave.
96184
I think when things offend people it makes them think, it makes them question, and it makes them reflect.  There is nothing negative about forcing people to engage in the above mentioned activities.  I think that Clear Channel was a little extreme with their censoring.  I think songs that provoke thought are important and worth while especially during turbulent times.