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Wal-Mart is dressing up for the Bay Area (In Drag?)
San Francisco Business Times via Biz Journals ^
| June 23, 2006
| Sarah Duxbury
Posted on 06/29/2006 1:12:47 AM PDT by Nextrush
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It gives us a picture of what Wal-Mart is doing in lockstep with other major companies. Diversity is in with training internally and an effort to reach out. This includes Wal-Mart support of La Raza, the Congressional Black Caucus, LULAC and as mentioned in this article, a gay and lesbian group (LGBT).
Environmental issues are also being stressed by the company.
Word is already out that gun sales will be stopping at one thousand of the company's stores.
My comments here about the situation including the organizations I mentioned above are based on internal company information being provided to associates. No kidding.
If you can't beat your critics, join em?
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posted on
06/29/2006 1:12:52 AM PDT
by
Nextrush
To: Nextrush
....which has been decried for driving mon and pop under while promoting a new class of working poor, is on a charm offensive........
First, this is bullsh*t. Mom and Pop are doing just fine, along with a host of other small shops that share a parking lot with virtually every Wal-Mart in the nation (such as the Dollar Store).
They'll get what they deserve for sleeping with the devil. It's a damned shame.
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posted on
06/29/2006 1:20:09 AM PDT
by
Jaysun
(I'm from a little place called Smithereens. It ain't pretty out here.)
To: Nextrush
LOL I don't really think Wal-Mart has a problem getting Hispanic customers into their stores...
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posted on
06/29/2006 1:20:43 AM PDT
by
sakka
To: Jaysun
They'll get what they deserve for sleeping with the devil. It's a damned shame.I disagree. Wal-Mart will do just fine. Actually, this makes good business sense.
Diversity and adaptability is the wave of the future. (For any business, not just Wal-Mart)
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posted on
06/29/2006 2:04:19 AM PDT
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
To: RadioAstronomer
Diversity and adaptability is the wave of the future. (For any business, not just Wal-Mart)
I agree, I don't have a problem with whoever they want to sponsor. But why doesn't that 'diversity' include gun sales at some Wal-Mart stores? Surely, they are not giving in to the anti-gun lobby?
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posted on
06/29/2006 2:51:49 AM PDT
by
AntiGovernment
(A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.)
To: AntiGovernment
Honestly, I don't know. Fortunately, there are many gun stores out there.
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posted on
06/29/2006 3:04:17 AM PDT
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
To: Nextrush
To: sakka
If we secure our borders and send back the illegals they will have to expand their customer base - They're only looking to the future.
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posted on
06/29/2006 4:10:46 AM PDT
by
smartymarty
(If you know why you believe what you believe leadership is inevitable.)
To: RadioAstronomer
I think that you may have missed the irony in Jay's retort. And your 'plenty of gun stores' is simply a POV error. I am a bit surprised but then 'net handles are like CB handles, merely epithets. The thing is not its name. Wal Mart can't go to hell fast enough. We have one family (literally mom & pop) that operates the grocery (102+ years now) and the mercantile/hardware store.
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posted on
06/29/2006 4:11:21 AM PDT
by
dhuffman@awod.com
(The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.)
To: dhuffman@awod.com
Why is everyone upset with this? Maybe I am missing something but isn't this in San Francisco? If a store in SF wants to carter to there clients which so happens to be the gays, why not? Now if they are going nation wide then I would have a problem. It must be something I missed because you guys normally don't get made about this with SF just make fun of them. lol.
To: RadioAstronomer
"Diversity and adaptability is the wave of the future."
So is a "one world government", but I sure as hell won't accept,support or be a cheerleader for it.
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posted on
06/29/2006 4:18:07 AM PDT
by
loboinok
(Gun control is, hitting what you aim at!)
To: NewHampshireDuo
For a moment I thought Home Depot was pandering to the gay community
In my area half the people who work at Home Depot and many of the clientel are homosexual or lesbian. They DO like to decorate!
Some say that it is a homo cruise spot.
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posted on
06/29/2006 4:20:07 AM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(The water in the pot is getting warmer, froggies.The water in the pot is getting warmer, froggies.)
To: sakka
LOL I don't really think Wal-Mart has a problem getting Hispanic customers into their stores...Yep, Sunday is what I call " UN day " at the local Wal Mart. They show up by the van load.
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posted on
06/29/2006 4:21:37 AM PDT
by
csvset
("It was like the hand of G_d slapping down and smashing everything." ~ JDAM strikes Taliban)
To: RadioAstronomer
Diversity and adaptability is the wave of the future. (For any business, not just Wal-Mart)
Yeah, except that Wal-Mart has built its reputation and customer base on "lotsa cheap Chinese stuff dirt cheap" to fly-over States. Can they cater to a market that regularly spends half an hour discussing tannics in wine or Cynthia Rowley ?
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posted on
06/29/2006 4:28:43 AM PDT
by
durasell
(!)
To: Jaysun
Sam Walton is surely spinning in his grave. All of the principles he stood for - American Made, God and Country, the American Way - are out the window.
The current bunch of administrative pencil pushers in control of Wally World are in league with Chicom gangsters, slave traders, and, now, are teaming up with the anti-culture crowd of perverts and racist miscreants.
There will be a price to pay.
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posted on
06/29/2006 6:07:53 AM PDT
by
Louis Foxwell
(Here come I, gravitas in tow.)
To: napscoordinator
Which 'this?' WalMart or 'in drag'? I think that WalMart should/does pander to the demotic middle. Just not use corrupt dollars to buy into my neighborhood/market.
Here we're all each other's Golden Egg but we know it. WalMart is from-off Island. WalMart is foreign. WalMart is corporate bully. WalMart panders to the demotic masses, the d'masses.
Democracy is the rule of fools by fools but we don't need to be any bigger fools than neccessary. Tagline...
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posted on
06/29/2006 6:18:01 AM PDT
by
dhuffman@awod.com
(The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.)
To: Nextrush
I'm only surprised they didn't already have a "gay" store in SF. If I was going to do business there, I'd be crazy not to pander. Thing is, I will never, ever do business there.
To: dhuffman@awod.com
Pardon?
Not sure what you are trying to tell me.
BTW, I was honest in my reply "I do not know".
Also, what does this comment about "net handles" mean?
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posted on
06/29/2006 8:43:21 AM PDT
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
To: RadioAstronomer
Diversity and adaptability is the wave of the future. (For any business, not just Wal-Mart) The article entails promotion of homosexual activity and falsely conflates it with innate characteristics such as race. As such, your statement regarding "diversity" is nothing but parroting bizarre leftist propaganda... How is promoting an unhealthy disordered sexual activity good for anything?
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posted on
06/29/2006 10:46:48 AM PDT
by
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06/29/2006 10:47:19 AM PDT
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