Posted on 11/28/2008 7:02:13 AM PST by GQuagmire
And you must be in middle school.
Walmart may well need something to help it rethink its policies, it sounds like. Some sort of a system that keeps people calm and waiting their turn instead of stampeding like a herd of wild buffalo when they have a “sale” on some piece of junk or the other would be a start.
Once several years ago, my mother was shopping at Walmart. A storm came up and the lights went out in the store. They began herding the people in the store out into the air-lock space out front and LOCKED THE DOORS BEHIND THEM. There was a tornado in process outside that blew roofs off many businesses in town, so the crowd couldn’t brave the lightning strikes and high winds outside and were stuck in the front with no shelter from all that glass in the lobby. Fortunately, the glass didn’t break, but many people could have been injured or killed if it had. Walmart’s worry seemed to be POTENTIAL SHOPLIFTING and nothing else. My poor old momma never stole anything in her life.
My mother managed to avoid going out the door in the first place and pulled back inside the store, refusing to be herded, before they could trap her inside the air lock. It was poor planning and distrust of their customers. I’ll bet, too, that most of their shoplifting occurs in the light right under their noses.
Most frightening.
Very nice. What do you do when economic times are tough? You go down to Wal-Mart with 8000 other people at 4:00 AM and kill each other over $200 big-screen TVs and $50 dashboard GPS systems. Very nice.
“When did people start acting like farm animals?”
November 4th.
The brain-dead crowd took the hinges off the doors and stormed the store. What law enforcement personnel or Wal-mart could have stopped them? A metal portion of one door was crumpled like an accordian. Wal-mart is not responsible for people behaving like Neaderthals after the hunt.
You assume much sir/madam. I said “One must consider [the] KINDS of people.” Plural. You write well so I assume you understand the meaning of the word “kinds.” I also assume you know what the meaning of “a lot” is (i.e. it does not mean “all”.)
I think most of these people don’t need the stuff they are buying and, yes, a lot of them are not the kind of people I would wish to socialize with. Here’s a clue since you apparently don’t get it - I have no problem with poor people ; I was quite poor once upon a time and who knows where life will take me again - hubby could lose his job - we could be hit with a catastrophic illness, destruction of our home - who knows. I just have a problem with people who think the “f” bomb is a noun, verb and adjective; or think the Lotto is a high form of entertainment; and have never read anything that wasn’t illustrated.
As for Wal-Mart - I don’t shop there, but that is because I am trying to avoid Chinese products as much as possible due to their political policies and persecution of Christians, among other things.
Frankly, I wouldn’t want to be caught dead in Wal-Mart or anywhere right now - I’m enjoying life too much right now. Of course, the way things are going lately, it appears that one’s chances for death increases slightly at places where the lowlifes gather...
Again, no thank you.
Quix, “the barbarians are upon us” ping.
The article states that the reports of the woman miscarrying are untrue.
The man who was killed was 34, he was a temporary seasonal employee. May God rest his soul in peace.
Lord, send revival!
Seriously, go back to the original post that both of us were responding to.
Parents cleaned out a ton that the kids no longer touched.
Kids had a hissy fit and wouldn't give it up.
Parents ditched the crap anyway and kids had a bigger fit.
So parents replaced with 100.00 of new stuff.
The point being that the kids didn't play with it and the parents swept it. There should be no argument and no replacement.
I agree that there should be a share lesson in it, but the parents didn't seem to get it anyway.
Teaching children that a parent can't get rid of old toys is an entitlement attitude. If any kid of mine doesn't like that I am “bigger than her” and can do what I want, she hasn't learned yet that I am not Dr. Spock. I am her mother. I provide her with a roof over her head, food in her tummy and clothes for her back. Everything in the house is mine. If she doesn't like that, get a job. She didn't earn a THING in that house and therefore owns nothing.
Dear Nufsaid,
You seem top have won the Non-Sequetor Award - hand down, too.
Waly World is NOT responsible for the urban savages and their nasty behaviors. Note carefully yhat the urban schools are deeply socialist, have done no effective education or acculturation for at least two generations.
As you sound like a lawyer (paralegal, anyway) I suggest you decide which group has the deepest pockets. Hint; It’s not WallyWorld.
So are you saying that I don’t teach my kids to share?
What are you basing that on?
And btw, do you have kids?
WalMart has had problems on this day the last four years or so. Today someone got killed and another person miscarried because of the gross negligence of the store which failed to provide crowd control for a crowd the store generated with it's special sale.
The fact that you don't understand this basic concept of liability and responsibility and I do doesn't make me a lawyer. It just makes you a shill for the company.
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