Andrew Young steps down from Wal-Mart post

ap on Riverside Press Enterprise ^ | 8/17/06 | Bernard McGhee - ap

[Graybeard58]

Thanks for that link.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I'm making a Wal-Mart run today, too. I'll post my "Everything I Buy is Made in America" purchase list later. ;)

What an @ss this guy is! Hopefully this is a sign from Wal-Mart that they're going to stand and fight against the 'Rat infiltraters (infil-traitors?), as we've seen them start to do in a few other posts this week. :)

[bert]

Ha Ha....

He should return all the money from this venture as well. He has very dirty hands......

[flying Elvis]

Young should be ashamed of himself. American jews played significant roles in the civil rights movement.

[R.W.Ratikal]

I'm sure Wal-Mart will be able to struggle along without Andy Young. Meanwhile you can be sure that the leftist establishment will find another lucrative affirmative action job for Ambassador Young.

[GovernmentShrinker]

From the NYT version:

In the interview, published yesterday in The Los Angeles Sentinel . . . . Mr. Young . . . apologized for the comments and retracted them in an interview last night. Less than an hour later, he resigned as chairman of Working Families for Wal-Mart, a group created and financed by the company to trumpet its accomplishments.

Wal-Mart management once again demonstrates its efficiency. Senior employee's major f-up comes to light in the morning, and he is canned before sundown. Not surprising, from the private company that put all local, state, and federal agencies to shame in the aftermath of Katrina.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Should somebody tell them there are MORE Wal-Mart shoppers than voters in the US?

Yikes, is that true, or just an alarmingly plausible throwaway line that you made up?

[DCPatriot]

Andrew Young adds his name to the list of stupid a$$ed racist bigots.

[MinuteGal]

He was probably getting death threats warning him to get off the Wal-Mart board.

Or......he was warned if he stayed with Wal-Mart he wouldn't get the usual lucrative speaking engagements any more and he would be shunned or blacklisted by black/labor special interests groups.

Most directors are hired for their names and for a special purpose. No way do most of these big names resign from highly-paid, no-work, cushy jobs inherent in being a director of a large corporation.

They either get the axe for some reason or other.....or they resign to hang onto the possibility of future highly-paid, no-work, cushy jobs.

Leni

[Gabz]

I'm making a Wal-Mart run today, too. I'll post my "Everything I Buy is Made in America" purchase list later. ;)

I did mine shortly after my posting this morning. the only thing of questionable origin I purchased is the Lexmark ink cartridge for my printer...it says "assembled" in Mexico.

I did notice something in there this morning that I had never noticed before.......the flags hanging inside the entrances. As I've told you, I have to cross the state line into Maryland to shop at WalMart.....well the flags hanging from the ceiling are not only the US and Maryland flags, but also the Virginia flag.......that's so cool.

But I wonder if they will keep it up after they open their new store in this county next year...probably, because people like me will still drive to Maryland.....it's only 14 miles as opposed ot over 30 for the location of the proposed store in my county.

[NormsRevenge]

It's a shame how Wal-Mart is now the target and a democRat one at that, maybe Target is behind, lol.. just kidding.

No , it is just noodleheaded politicos mining votes from malcontents who don't have a clue about economies and choices afforded customers in robust ones..

[msnimje]

Yikes, is that true, or just an alarmingly plausible throwaway line that you made up?

Dude, do you work for Zogby?

Anyway, to answer this question, I have heard just that about a half a dozen times from as many sources. I just spent 5 minutes looking for a primary source on the Internet and can not find the exact number for American Shoppers but I did find that 176 million customers visit Wal-Mart each week, globally. (http://www.walmartfacts.com/FactSheets/7262006_Merchandising.pdf)

IIRC, there were about 120 Million voters in the last US Presidential election. So it is entirely possible and even probable that more than 120 million Americans visit a Wal-Mart store within the the time span of a year. Moreover, many American's only vote once every 4 years so it seems even more probable that some number over 120 million Americans shop at a Wal-Mart every 4 years.

While perusing the Wal-Mart site looking for the exact number of American Wal-Mart shoppers, I found that the company has 52,623 "associates" in the state of Georgia alone and 1.3 million nationally.

Oh, I just found the number! "More than 127,000 Million customers shop at Wal-Mart NATIONWIDE every week."

http://www.walmartfacts.com/FactSheets/7262006_Economic_Benefits.pdf

Please feel free to ignore everything I wrote before the last paragraph. :~)

[GovernmentShrinker]

It would actually be 176 million customer VISITS, rather than 176 million CUSTOMERS, with people who go more than once being counted multiple times (no store of that type has any way to track individual customers, when many are making small purchases with cash). But it's still entirely possible that the number who shop at Wal-Mart and the number who vote are neck-and-neck. I said "Yikes", but I'm not sure I really meant it. Given Wal-Mart's performance in the aftermath of Katrina, which was head and shoulders above that of any government agency (local, state, or federal), I had already suggested elsewhere that FEMA's responsibilities should just be contracted out to Wal-Mart. Perhaps the entire federal government's operations should be.