Wal-mart got what was coming to them

[i_h8_evil_stuff]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4088757.stm
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[Neo]

It's not up to the retailer to design the package. It's the job of the artists and recording company.

And 75,000 for a swear word? Bullshit.
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[Dread Pirate Westley]

Neo, my lawyers will be contacting you shortly. I fully expect our lawsuit to reach class-action status.

While I have nothing but contempt for Wal-Mart, this lawsuit is ridiculous. If someone wanted to sue them for selling an edited version of the CD with the "offensive" word removed, then we'd be getting somewhere.
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[Travis*]

I h8 is being sarcastic with the thread title. Another ridiculous mass tort that the consumer eventually pays for. It ends up costing everyone but the attorneys involved. Ih8tohear about this kind of stuff.

[i_h8_evil_stuff]

Actually, I was serious. They refuse to sell items that could possibly offend anybody because it's "family values" that matter. Well, that and the fact that they can do anything. After all, they stopped selling anything by Sheryl Crow simply because she said "Watch our children as they kill each other with a gun they bought at Wal-Mart discount stores." And I know that a store can refuse to sell whatever to whomever they want, but the fact that they find the word "shit" more dangerous then the guns in the hunting section just blows my mind. They're so contradictory that they deserve this.

And that's my opinion.
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[Travis]

Sorry to jump to conclusions, h.

[Neo]

[Travis]

It didn't work! I followed the steps you guys told me and the thread did not move to Off Topic. But now my desktop is gone and I've lost all my music files.

[Neo]

Picked up a third job for winter break. Taking care of books, movies, and music at wal-mart (via a third-party vendor).

Guess what I found while doing music? Sheryl Crow. Lots of it.
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[Guest]

Do they sell that specific song? Looooove is a goood thing

[Neo]

I don't know. What IS that specific song?
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[Guest]

Love is a Good Thing, by sheryl crow, released somewhere around 96 or 97? Watch out sister, watch out brother, watch our children while they kill eachother, with a gun they bought at waaal-mart discount stores...

[Chuck]

Montana to levy tax on Wal-Mart?

[Chuck]

Wal-Mart Sovereignty

By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL

Published: December 12, 2004

Americans claim they favor leaders who understand their wants, have a track record of creating jobs and can be ruthless when required. Sounds like Wal-Mart! Maybe that's why, last spring, the Arkansas-based retail behemoth asked the citizens of Inglewood, Calif., to hand it the reins of government.

When the Inglewood City Council rejected Wal-Mart's bid to open a 130,000-square-foot superstore, company executives did not sulk. They disparaged the council as the captive of outside special interests, particularly organized labor. And with the help of election professionals, they collected more than 10,000 signatures to sponsor a ballot referendum to reverse the decision. In the ensuing referendum campaign, the company spent more than $1 million to convey the idea that it would create hundreds of jobs and pump up the local tax base. Opponents emphasized what they saw as the company's legacy of blighted downtowns and falling wages.

Ultimately, though, voters were most upset by something else: Wal-Mart's initiative would have exempted the company from Inglewood's zoning, planning and environmental laws and established a provision whereby the deal could be altered only by a two-thirds vote of the public. By the time voters rejected the initiative at the ballot box in April, this strategy had acquired a name: Wal-Mart Sovereignty.

There's nothing new about the urge to turn economic power into political power (and vice versa). Misgivings about it aren't new, either. But in times of economic transformation, when society renegotiates what is public and what is private, the questions that arise get really nettlesome. Should inmates pay their debt to society through the middleman of a for-profit prison company? Would you say no even if it meant more criminals on the street? Should sports moguls pocket fortunes from publicly financed stadiums? Would you say no even if it meant your city lost its baseball team?

For a long time, Wal-Mart steered clear of such quarrels. It was out of sight, out of mind, building retail space mostly on the ahistorical, apolitical exurban frontier. But more and more, it is encroaching on communities that are more settled -- Inglewood is part of Los Angeles County -- more ideological or snobbier. The Inglewood referendum won't be the last time voters are invited to trade citizen rights for consumer rights -- and no one should make any glib assumptions about which of those rights Americans hold more dear.

[Pablo]

Wal-Mart is not unique. They are the biggest and most identifiable of a number of American companies which have adopted a new "business model" in recent years.

Businesses used to compete based on either having a better product, offering a better service, being more convenient, or being better at forming personal relationships... or a combination. Now they compete by offering a lower price. The only way they can consistently do that is to gain enough market share that they can "bully" their suppliers. Their supplierss cannot afford to say no to their unreasonable demands. As "nice" as Wal-Mart is to their customers, they are hell on their vendors. Home Depot is the same, as is Lowe's, although both are probably amateurs compared with Wal-Mart.

This "business model" is not good for our economy, nor is it good for our society. Wal-Mart is gaining too much power and it's unhealthy for everyone, except Wal-Mart. I don't know if they will ultimately "collapse under their own weight", or whether they will continue to grow until they are the only retail option in the country, but until they are my only option, I do not shop there and encourage others not to shop there. You can see how effective my little campaign is.

I still don't want the government to "help" with this problem. We'll work it out somehow.

[Samadhi]

If it's actually not good for the economy as you say, then yeah, it will work itself as long as the government doesn't interfere. I'm not sure I agree with your claim though, but then I haven't looked into it in depth.

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Nothing is bad for the economy, it's just that with some people there is a failure to appreciate certain economic circumstances. Like poverty, for instance.

[Samadhi]

Or theft...

[Pablo]

[shylshela]

Is Wal Mart discriminationg against white people and not hiring them in some of their stores? My neighborhood Wal Mart has very few if any caucasian people working there. I have seen one, in the deli and I have been shopping there for a while. What is going on? I know white people who are out of work and have tried to apply there with no luck.
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[MNOWAX]

Excellent first post!

Tat being said, I think Walmart is satan's asshole. I hope I don't get sued over saying that.
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[Zag]

I can see the lawsuit now: Satan v. MNOWAX, suing for libel and slander. Don't worry, though, I don't think he can show any damages.

[MatthewV]

If you win a lawsuit against Satan, do you get your own place in hell?

[Dread Pirate Westley]

Well, if I were asking damages from Satan, I'd have him enjoined against ever gaining claim to my soul. Not that it matters; he has all the lawyers.

[Death Mage]

Wait, I thought all these spammers were from China or Taiwan or Timbuktu. They have Wal*Marts there?
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[Lepton*]

Mainland China, yes, but not in Taiwan, which is an already-saturated market. As for Mali: not yet.

[Death Mage]

Well, I for one am shocked, SHOCKED, to hear that Wal*Marts in China are not hiring enough "whites".
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[Poisonium]

Whenever I go to stores like Wal-Mart, I always buy a giftcard so I have an excuse to wave at acquaintances who spot me.
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