Wal-Mart the ongoing, deformed, evil, poster child for corporate capital punishment.

Wal-Mart is the ultimate corruption and conclusion of capitalism,
on its face a manifest injustice to society and a stench in the
nostrils of any man with an ounce of integrity.

Just look at the newly vacated small stores around all the recently
opened Wal-Mart Super Stores, just mention the need for
Wal-Mart to have a union when talking to one of their minimum
wage “Associate” slaves and see how long it takes for security
to usher you off the property.

For Wal-Mart is an open-air prison for employees and if you
work a third shift on cleanup duty, they lock you in and nothing
short of a fire can open a door until 7 am.

America would be a far better place without Wal-Mart. Main streets coming
back, broader tax bases, American jobs, less consumption of needless crap,
local food production. Just ask the simple question; What does Wal-Mart
sell that you absolutely need that you can't get from a local shop???
Anything??? I didn't think so.

This has to give pause for thought in nations where so many people believe sexual discrimination a thing of the past.

There no Job Grade or activity I can conceive of at a Wal Mart wherein one can make any sort of claim that a Male has better qualifications or aptitude for the work then a female yet the "promotions and higher pay rates go to males" seems standard operating procedure.

If it happens at Wal Mart it happens elsewhere. WHY?

I worked for Wal-Mart (Sam's Club) for my final eight years before retirement. Perhaps the store I worked in was other than the usual but I was payed, as a meat cutter, a higher salary than most of the other meat cutters in my town.

Many of the team leaders in different sections of the store were women and I never heard them complain of low wages. The manager of the meat department in which I worked was a woman and was both capable and appropriately compensated. The general manager of the store was also a woman, a very capable and well compensated black woman.

I continue shopping at Wal-Mart and Sam's for the simple reason that I shop at places I can afford. If I were extremely wealthy and could afford to shop anywhere I would probably still visit my friends at Sam's and support them with my purchases.

Walmart has little to fear. After dragging through the courts for another few years the SCOTUS will slap this suit down if any award is large enough to actually be noticed by the Walton family or this sort of thing seems to be catching on.

Sprawllyworld

I miss the local hardware stores, the lumber yards, clothe stores, shoe stores, the mom and pop grocery stores and gas stations with bays.

Don't get me started on the blue plastic bags caught on fences and hanging from trees.

What politicians that we know are on, or were on, the Wal-Mart Board of Directors? Google it.

This class action lawsuit makes much too much sense. There's no way the Supremes will let it stand.

I have never crossed the threshold of any wal-mart, and I never will. The whole business is a cancerous blight, for the entire country and the small business owner. ( Do the tea partiers know this yet?)

I do like flipping letters around...so aha! Their real name is MAL WART.....a .bad, wart growth virus on the people and the economy.

If a full cart sat in an empty walmart, would anyone notice?

If an imaginary cart came in to a real walmart, would it still have political purchasing power?

Is walmart any different than capitol hill?

Then why can't i leave my cart full of unwanted military entitlements and a global empire?

And as you checkout, it will all seem so natural, payment, smiles, bagging and customer fleecing.

So in the back shed, we keep huge bags of fleeces, one from
each customer.

And from the data footprint of the products bought, and their
frequency, we know whether the person is single, married, and all of these things compel them to need some products, like baby food, beer and dog food.

And it always seems odd that your favorite beer is always easy to find, as our computers guide you to your food pellet, rat in a maze.

My attorney is one of the attorneys on this suit.

Go, Steve, go!

I remember when Wal-Mart first opened they advertised clothes made in the U.S.. I went there, before I knew their reputation, and looked at every coat section, trying to find something made in America. I did not find one coat made in the U.S. They were smart tricking people into coming into there store then changing their policy or were they lying? I have not shopped there since.

First of all, I do not understand this "Don't shop at Walmart because ... " radical hatred.

Bear with me, please.

How do you think Family Dollar, Dollar General, K-Mart, etc., manage to sell you things so cheap, as well?

They do the same things Walmart does, only because they're not as big as Walmart, no one brings it up.

That said, to avoid the issue about supporting the overworked underprivileged foreign workers, China, etc., and "buy American," is almost impossible.

Do you realize that NOT ONE television is made in the USA, at all? No one brings THAT up, ever, while they're out buying their new flat TV, but it's true.

Lastly, many of us have fallen on hard times (me: disabled/oxygen) and are financially stressed. We cannot afford to NOT shop at Walmart, or their competitors.

Having laid that groundwork in what I want to say, I don't see the big victory in any of this, in this article.

There WAS a time it WOULD have been a major victory, that we could have counted on courts throughout the land following a judgment like this, and something like this changing policies nationally in other corporations.

Those days seem to be long gone, and I do not know why.

Is Wal-Mart too big and self-important to sue?

Sue the hell out of Walmart, they support vigilante gang stalking freak show, and have their own private army of torture freaks that try to intimidate and harass their employees and citizens in their community's.

They earn billions in profits and pay their employees poorly, shame on them,

class action suits only help the corporations who are sued, and the lawyers doing the suing

they never help the class they are supposed to be helping

I am proud to say I am an ex Walmart employee and am loving it. Working there was the most stressful job I have ever had to endure. Constant nit-picking, belittling,and made to always know I was replaceable. I hated it as it made me an ugly person inside. I vow to never enter another Walmart and to do all in my power to let others know the mental abuse and stress that comes with this low paying job. I even started school and was punished for 2 months by having my hours cut from 38+ to 21 as if being forced to quit. I'm a single mom with 3 kids and was forced to live like a pauper and have my utilities shut off just because I wanted to better myself. I was told that I needed to reevaluate my priorities. Walmart is evil and I would love to see it fail in my life time.

Don't you know, shopping is soooo last century? Less is more is the new mantra.

Thanks to WalMart, KMart and all those other big box stores that sold their souls and loyalty for money and pushed "free trade" (read "free ride" for the wealthy international exploiters), the manufacturing base in the USA has been pretty much destroyed. We are turning into a third world country with a tiny percentage earning and owning most of the wealth and the vast majority struggling to pay the bills.

As for me, I never shop at Walmart, try to avoid Big Box stores, and limit my shopping to the bare essentials, or I shop at second hand stores. I read labels and put back as much as possible any and all items "made in China."

If more people did the same and stopped supporting businesses that rake in corporate welfare while outsourcing precious jobs, maybe, just maybe, we could begin to turn things around.