I would go to Meijer's or Target who are more employee friendly and don't contribute to causes I disagree with (though I am pretty miffed at target right now over their support of anti-gay groups...so I haven't been there for a while either) or even some of the discount stores in the area...even Goodwill type stores carry clothes even cheaper and that goes to a good cause even. I also go to farmer's markets to get local produce to reduce what I am buying at the stores and once we get caught up on the bills, I'll be getting my meat and produce (or most of it anyway) via a CSA (check out localharvest.org).
To go on Sam and Jerry's logic...they can always go find a job somewhere else. In fact, I would encourage them to. Isn't that supporting a free market? Let's let the market take care of the bad guys. Isn't that a libertarian's wet dream? Besides, I wouldn't work at Wal-mart if it was the last job on the planet. -----Original Message----- From: Scott Stroz [mailto:boyz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 6:54 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: why ceo's can't stand obama On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Eric Roberts <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > I would say yes because your money is not going to Walmart and you would not > be rewarding bad behavior nor would your money be going to corporatist > candidates. By going to walmart you are only making it worse. I haven't > shopped there in 10 years regardless of my financial situation. I have > found other ways to save money without fucking over my fellow humans. How else would you save money? Where I am, its Wal-Mart, Martin's or Food Lion (Martin's and Food Lion are supermarket chains), or convenience stores. Tell me, where would you buy, say, a sweatshirt or pair of pants if those were you only options? (Unless, of course, you wanted to drive 30 miles - which brings on added costs, adds to pollution, etc) Like I said, I usually support local businesses, but when it gets to be crunch time, you have to make some changes. At that point in time, you need to do what you think is best for your family. And in my opinion, its best if we can get the most bang for our buck. And, around here, we can get the most bang for our buck at Wal-Mart. On a side note - what about the people who work at Wal-Mart? Don't you care about them? By not giving your business to Wal-Mart, you may be hurting them as well. I know at least 6 people who work at Wal-Mart part-time (on top of their full-time jobs) to make ends meet. By not giving some business to Wal-Mart, those people could lose there jobs. -- Scott Stroz --------------- You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can wonder what the f*&k happened. - Cpt. Phil Harris http://xkcd.com/3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:328037 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
