Wal-Mart Goes Left: Why Is It Pandering To Blue State America?

Capital Research Center ^ | August 2007 | Kirk MacDonald

[Let's Roll]

I LIKE the red for the GOP.

Red is for energy and action. Blue is for depression, apathy etc. Quite fitting.

[showme_the_Glory]

I don’t even buy ammo there anymore.

[JZelle]

Does anyone remember the run up to this election. What were they saying about Mondale’s chances? Was it anything like today where so many are sure a dem’s going to take the white house?

[Biblebelter]

Presently, the foundation of Walmarts profits are not built on American hard work or ingenuity but slave labor in global sweatshops.

[crazyhorse691]

Yet it generates anger – outright hatred, at times— among left-wing Americans.

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Around Portland, the activists say they are against all the big box retailers, but, everytime they hold a media event the AntiWalMart signs outnumber the AntiBig Box signs 3 to 1...even our socialist City Council talks openly about their dislike of Wal Mar and their failure to pay a SUSTAINABLE wage...and yet, Wal Mart thinks they can deal with these people on a rational basis.

[Mr. Mojo]

but the quality of the stuff there is crap and really not cheap.

I went to a WM store a couple years ago to buy some ammo and on the way out noticed a rack of flannel shirts at incredibly low prices ($9 per shirt). So I thought what the heck and bought a few. Within a year every last one of them fell apart -- buttons, fabric, color ....everything. Lesson learned.

[mnehring]

I generally try to shop local stores as much as possible, but I do some grocery shopping at Wal because their produce is fresher, a lot more turnover (one of our Supercenters has moved to the 'upscale' grocery formats.).. they also have some items you can’t get in local groceries.. plus, the 24 hour thing is nice sometimes..

But overall, I agree, the people are rude, the stores are dirty, and I would never touch most of their products.

[RC2]

As some have said.......this outfit sells junk. They want socialized medicine? Why are their prescription drugs higher in cost than other stores? Try owning a small business and attempt to deal with Walmart. They will bury you in a matter of 3-4 years. If you want to sell to them, they want all of your financial records so they can see if they can cut your prices as low as possible. We told them to take a hike.

[cripplecreek]

Because greed really isn’t a conservative ideal.

[rom]

I avoid Walmarts in general. Now this makes me feel even better.

Their stuff is junk, the stores out here are dominated by those who cannot speak English (at all!). Unruly kids running through the aisles over dropped merchandise.

When I enter our local store, it feels like I have left the US and am in some 3rd world hell hole.

Oh, and the store smells.

I *despise* Walmart and all that it stands for: Terrible Customer Support, Apathetic Employees, products with shoddy workmanship, and so on.

Everything we’ve ever bought from our Walmart has fallen apart. Sometimes you really do get what you pay for!

[SengirV]

By the time the tagline “Fritz&Tits” hit the wild, everyone pretty much knew it was over. I didn’t know too many people who thought Mondale actually had a shot. It was very similar to Dole vs Clinton, you knew what was going to happen LONG before the election. But it was also akin to the Kerry campaign, guarded optimism from the left, then lambasting him the next day and saying what a sorry excuse for a candidate he was.

[xp38]

The colour thing was never set in stone but from what I read the general practice was to give blue to the party of the incumbant and red to the challenger. The trouble is the 2000 election is seared into the minds of the dims and seems to have made the colours permanent now.

[ElkGroveDan]

I hate the whole "Blue State - Red State" thing. It vastly over simplifies a very complex nation. The national county map is a more accurate way to look at this nation politically. Moreover these things change over time.

[upchuck]

eeevil Wally ping.

[metmom]

I wonder how diverse are the Red Chinese workplaces where so many of Wallmart’s products are manufactured?

Pretty diverse, I would imagine. They have political dissedents, religious prisoners, common crooks, falsely accused slave labor, child slave labor, adult slave labor,....

[Mr. Mojo]

from what I read the general practice was to give blue to the party of the incumbant and red to the challenger.

Not true. In fact, a lie calculated to take the heat off the MSM for the switch.

[metmom]

Looking at NY, you can see that it is even mostly red. The blue spots coincide EXACTLY with the cities, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse (and the res), Albany, NYC, and Watertown and Plattsburg in the North Country.

[xp38]

Are you saying the pubs prior to the 2000 election were always represented by blue?

[Mr. Jazzy]

What happened to Alaska?

Oh, a snow storm! Never mind.

[ElkGroveDan]

The other thing it doesn’t show is the counties/states where the votes were within one half of a percent - the totally split regions (such as my county). It seems pretty silly to call such a region red or blue in expectation of predicting how they think, act, or will vote in the future.