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"Mark K. Bilbo" |
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03 Sep 2005 09:02:11 PM |
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OT: Why Wal-Mart is evil |
The day before I evacuated, before Katrina grew to such power that I
decided I wasn't staying after all, I was stocking up on canned goods,
bottled water, the usual.
By 6 in the evening, Saturday, when everybody in town was trying to get
their last minute supplies, Wal-Mart shut down and turned us all away.
Today, while I was waiting in line to get into the pharmacy to pick up a
prescription (they're only letting about a half dozen in at a time), a
Wal-Mart employee told me they are STILL CLOSED.
The Winn-Dixie had *three* 18 wheelers pull up while I was in line (and it
wasn't all *that long a wait) to stock up on food and supplies for our
community. Wal-Mart is shut up tight.
I want them out of my town. They turned their backs on us in a crisis, I
want them out. At the very least, I will ***NEVER*** set foot in a
Wal-Mart again.
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Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet
is NOTHING like Shakespeare!" -- Blair Houghton
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| User: "Doc Smartass" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Why Wal-Mart is evil |
04 Sep 2005 05:01:17 AM |
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"Mark K. Bilbo" <alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote in
news:I8-dnVZdgpLPkofeRVn-1Q@megapath.net:
The day before I evacuated, before Katrina grew to such power that I
decided I wasn't staying after all, I was stocking up on canned goods,
bottled water, the usual.
By 6 in the evening, Saturday, when everybody in town was trying to
get their last minute supplies, Wal-Mart shut down and turned us all
away.
Today, while I was waiting in line to get into the pharmacy to pick up
a prescription (they're only letting about a half dozen in at a time),
a Wal-Mart employee told me they are STILL CLOSED.
The Winn-Dixie had *three* 18 wheelers pull up while I was in line
(and it wasn't all *that long a wait) to stock up on food and supplies
for our community. Wal-Mart is shut up tight.
I want them out of my town. They turned their backs on us in a crisis,
I want them out. At the very least, I will ***NEVER*** set foot in a
Wal-Mart again.
HUZZAH!
--
Dr. Smartass -- BAAWA Knight of Heckling -- a.a. #1939
My president is incompetenter than your prime minister.
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| User: "Don Kresch" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Why Wal-Mart is evil |
04 Sep 2005 08:40:01 PM |
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In alt.atheism On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 16:02:11 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> let us all know that:
The day before I evacuated, before Katrina grew to such power that I
decided I wasn't staying after all, I was stocking up on canned goods,
bottled water, the usual.
By 6 in the evening, Saturday, when everybody in town was trying to get
their last minute supplies, Wal-Mart shut down and turned us all away.
Today, while I was waiting in line to get into the pharmacy to pick up a
prescription (they're only letting about a half dozen in at a time), a
Wal-Mart employee told me they are STILL CLOSED.
The Winn-Dixie had *three* 18 wheelers pull up while I was in line (and it
wasn't all *that long a wait) to stock up on food and supplies for our
community. Wal-Mart is shut up tight.
I want them out of my town. They turned their backs on us in a crisis, I
want them out. At the very least, I will ***NEVER*** set foot in a
Wal-Mart again.
That's your right as an individual, but to call what they did
evil is to presume that they have to be open. They don't.
But if they want to make the customers happy, they should
attempt to do so.
Don
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Why Wal-Mart is evil |
04 Sep 2005 09:04:31 PM |
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In episode <cqmmh1hneuhhqs3o3dgd5akd5q1u4pmqld@4ax.com>, Don Kresch burst
into the room and exclaimed:
In alt.atheism On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 16:02:11 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> let us all know that:
The day before I evacuated, before Katrina grew to such power that I
decided I wasn't staying after all, I was stocking up on canned goods,
bottled water, the usual.
By 6 in the evening, Saturday, when everybody in town was trying to get
their last minute supplies, Wal-Mart shut down and turned us all away.
Today, while I was waiting in line to get into the pharmacy to pick up a
prescription (they're only letting about a half dozen in at a time), a
Wal-Mart employee told me they are STILL CLOSED.
The Winn-Dixie had *three* 18 wheelers pull up while I was in line (and
it wasn't all *that long a wait) to stock up on food and supplies for our
community. Wal-Mart is shut up tight.
I want them out of my town. They turned their backs on us in a crisis, I
want them out. At the very least, I will ***NEVER*** set foot in a
Wal-Mart again.
That's your right as an individual, but to call what they did
evil is to presume that they have to be open. They don't.
But if they want to make the customers happy, they should
attempt to do so.
Don
If they don't want to be part of our community, they can damn well *leave.
--
Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
--------------------------------------------------
"Come to think of it, there are already a million
monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet
is NOTHING like Shakespeare!" -- Blair Houghton
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| User: "erikc" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Why Wal-Mart is evil |
05 Sep 2005 06:06:20 PM |
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On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 16:02:11 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
The day before I evacuated, before Katrina grew to such power that I
decided I wasn't staying after all, I was stocking up on canned goods,
bottled water, the usual.
By 6 in the evening, Saturday, when everybody in town was trying to get
their last minute supplies, Wal-Mart shut down and turned us all away.
Today, while I was waiting in line to get into the pharmacy to pick up a
prescription (they're only letting about a half dozen in at a time), a
Wal-Mart employee told me they are STILL CLOSED.
The Winn-Dixie had *three* 18 wheelers pull up while I was in line (and it
wasn't all *that long a wait) to stock up on food and supplies for our
community. Wal-Mart is shut up tight.
I want them out of my town. They turned their backs on us in a crisis, I
want them out. At the very least, I will ***NEVER*** set foot in a
Wal-Mart again.
Every small town that WalMart has ever invaded has had its local economy
gutted.
erikc
Erikc (alt.atheist #002) | "An Fhirinne in aghaidh an tSaoil."
BAAWA Knight (retired) | "The Truth against the World."
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| User: "atheist@home" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Why Wal-Mart is evil |
06 Sep 2005 10:20:04 PM |
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On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 16:02:11 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
The day before I evacuated, before Katrina grew to such power that I
decided I wasn't staying after all, I was stocking up on canned goods,
bottled water, the usual.
By 6 in the evening, Saturday, when everybody in town was trying to get
their last minute supplies, Wal-Mart shut down and turned us all away.
Today, while I was waiting in line to get into the pharmacy to pick up a
prescription (they're only letting about a half dozen in at a time), a
Wal-Mart employee told me they are STILL CLOSED.
The Winn-Dixie had *three* 18 wheelers pull up while I was in line (and it
wasn't all *that long a wait) to stock up on food and supplies for our
community. Wal-Mart is shut up tight.
I want them out of my town. They turned their backs on us in a crisis, I
want them out. At the very least, I will ***NEVER*** set foot in a
Wal-Mart again.
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/6/164525.shtml
"Barnard said media coverage wasn't the focus for Wal-Mart, though the
company drew a prominent mention when it sent trailerloads of goods to
New Orleans that were turned away early on by Federal Emergency
Management Agency officials."
atheist@home#1554
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