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“Wal-Mart Chief Writes Off New York”: that is freaking redonkulous. Labor leader: “We don’t need Wal-Mart.” People who would have shopped there: “Fuck you.”
3/29/2007
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March 29th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
“freaking redonkulous” that someone would finally make a stand at a megamart selling cheap garbage and under paying their employees??? Hardly. If anything it’s too little, too late.
March 29th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
The proper response if you view them like that is to not patronize them. If the residents of New York City do not want Wal-Mart, then let Wal-Mart waste its money building stores that no one frequents. Oh, except people will frequent them. That’s what the labor leader and every other snobby New Yorker who presumes to speak for everyone else are afraid of. And why will people shop at Wal-Mart? Because they like “cheap garbage” or because they support the “underpaid” labor? (And, incidentally, last time I checked, no one was forced to work at Wal-Mart. If someone works there, it’s a voluntary thing and you shouldn’t second-guess their decision.)
As I’ve said elsewhere, Wal-Mart is the incredible business it is because people vote with their dollars. The American people like Wal-Mart. You and your elitist cohort don’t, but you shouldn’t take away everyone else’s ability to shop or work there because you prefer higher-end goods and higher-paying establishments.