Who refuses to shop at Walmart for social/political reasons?  Where do you shop instead?
97068
I donot know anyone personally who doesnot shop there, but I do know the people who donot shop there, dosenot for the reason that Walmart makes billions of dollars and have, really, no health benefits at all. They work for a company that makes so much but literally pay their employees NOTHING. You have a better plan working for Target or K-Mart. That is why a lot of little towns don't want a Walmart coming to their neighborhoods. That and because they are crushing the little Mom and Pop shops, causing more unemployment. Especially if you live somewhere that has about 3 of them with in a 5 mile radius of each other.
929042
I "avoid" Wal-Mart because I don't like their business practices.  I don't boycott it completely, simply because I can't (where I live).  But I did use to live in a larger city, and I never stepped foot in it there.
880751
I prefer Target over Walmart because customer service at walmart does not exist. Big lots actually has really stepped up and are putting out better products.
264515
Been to Walmart lately?  The vast majority of their items are made there.  Bunch of junk if you ask me.  They buy for pennies and sell for dollars, not to mention that they routinely put american manufacturers out of business and switch to a foreign suppliers.  Great for Walmart, but at the expense of product quality loss of US jobs.  How do they expect us to buy their products if we don't have jobs to earn money to purchase those products?
127938
I don't shop at Walmart. They pay low wages, treat their employees poorly in America and in their factories in China. Also most of their products are made overseas which means outsourcing of American jobs. Walmart is bad news for the American Economy. Yeah you get low prices because employees get low wages, poor or no health care, Chinese labors get a scant wage. The phrase "Walmartization of America" or "Walmartizing America" is being used to tell of the negative effects Walmart is having on our economy. Check out the internet. This is one bad company.
610940
Why dont people go after the companies that hire them and use these illegals???\n\nDo you shop at Wal-mart or Target??
592322
Lots of people love Wal-Mart because it's cheap, lots of people hate Wal-Mart because it mucks up the economy really bad. \n\nI like watching the cheapies shop there because I know so many pointyheads who wouldn't be caught dead there or at Starbucks or anything else publicly traded or that employs more than 10 people.  The cheapies shopping at Wal-Mart don't really seem happy either though, but I think that's just how they are.\n\nThe one thing that people ignore about Wal-Mart is: sure the stuff's cheap but unless it's a brand you trust, 60 % of what you buy is bound be of substandard, dollarstore, quality.  I never really experienced "you get what you pay for" until I shopped at Wal-Mart.  For pointyheaded elitists like myself Wal-Mart is like the best possible zoo, but I won't shop there because I'm hoity-toity enough to understand what 'quality' means.  \n\nA story?  Well when I was a cab driver, it was readily assumed that anyone going to or from Wal-Mart wasn't going to tip well or at all and that was better than 95% true.
775846
Walmart and Toys R Us.\n\nLast year I went to Toys R Us when they opened (I think it was 6am) and it was mobbed - but definitely great prices. And I heard Walmart is going to have big sales also. And Walmart is a zoo no matter when you go.\n\nBe prepared to battle :)
549004
I shop there because there for food because none of the other supermarkets in town can beat their prices.  I try to buy things like toilet paper, paper towels, laundry detergent and other household cleaning items from the local dollar stores.  If there was a supermarket in town that could compete with Wal-Mart's prices on food, I would definitely shop there instead!!  I hate going into Wal-Mart because it is always so crowded and because the workers are not very friendly.  Of course, it would be hard to be friendly for what they get paid, but that's a whole different topic!
1441
Yes, that's why this year I'm on strike with the retailers.  I refuse to buy in to a commercial holiday.  All of our purchasing power should be put back in to our charities.  Katrina, Tsnami in India and other countries affected, Homeless in US, Make-a-Wish Foundation, and etc.  I could keep going...
596634
Good- MAJOR employer, good wages, good diversity hiring policy for minorities, American success story, great low prices, open 24 hrs, one stop shopping. Very respectable employee discount.\n\nBad- recently sued by ppl trying to keep them from gobbling up and destroying their neighborhoods by their saturation scheme of "wal-marts everywhere". Recently sued by women as a class-action suit for their "glass ceiling" of limited advancement and lower wages compared to males in exact same jobs. \nThey throw away books, by tearing off the covers, turning the covers in as "remainders" for credit from the publishers, and just throwing away the bodies of the books.\nThe throw away more in a single day than most people could eat or use in a lifetime. \nTheir price "rollbacks" are hiding the costs by moving them around- raising prices on some items to reduce them on others.\nThey micromanage- having too many assistant managers, dept managers, etc. In some cases 2 different managers will tell you to do opposite things. "manager" is a title thrown around that has little meaning, it's purpose is to get employees to care about their job, but they don't really have any voice or say in it.\nPromised bonus of $200 for making an inventory goal was reduced to $93.15 by the time it reached employee hands.\n\nUGLY- the Waltons (owners) are among the top 20 richest people in the United States, making the Forbes Richie list every year. And they've left Sam Walton's dream far behind.\n\nThey are now using their own TV channel for advertising, to bombard shoppers WHO ARE ALREADY IN THE STORE with constant ads. \nWal-Mart has gone corporate in the worst way, and moved from caring about the American Worker to exploiting the American consumer. They say "no one puts a gun to your head and forces you to shop there." But what would you call it if a major chain like Wal-Mart can move into an area and run all the mom-&-pop operations out of business because they can't compete with the juggernaut?\n\nWalmart is the American Dream turned dark, ugly, and sour.
888708
I wouldn't necessarily say that only liberals hate Wal-Mart but I would agree that a lot of us are very concerned about their business practices... with good reason.\n\nFor one, Wal Mart is owned by the wealthiest family in the world consisting of 4 brothers and sisters each worth over 20 billion dollars, the Waltons.\n\nNot saying wealth is bad but I am saying it is hard to contemplate how a family can gain so much profit while exploiting cheap labor, sweat shops in China and purposely using tactics to put small businesses in America out of business.\n\nIE, Wal Mart was convicted of price gauging in the 90s and has been charged in 3 different countries with violating monopoly laws.\n\nBut, with all that said, the #1 thing that bothers me about Wal Mart is their little known evolvement in manipulating trade tariffs between us and China. They have so much power that they literally are dictating what the trade tariffs will or won't be.
155167
I can't say that I actually hate walmart, however, I don't like some of the policies they have. It's convenient for me to shop there, because in my town, we don't have very many department stores to choose from. Trust me, if another large chain would happen to come here, I'd shop there. We do have a Meijer Store, but their prices are higher on many things.
633292
I completely agree.  Wal-Mart and Sam's Club will never get a single red cent from me.  I despise them and their complete lack of ethics.
1176023
I hate Wal-Mart! I never shop there unless I have to I absolutely cannot find the item anywhere else. \nI boycotted them for several reason:\n1) Have you seen the episode of Frontline about it? (If not check out the site at the bottom---you can see the full show online.There is another documentary available on DVD about it too, which I have not seen entitled " Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" by Edith Arana, Red Esry, Rev. Altagracia Perez, and Donna Payton. Supposedly Wal-Mart attempted to have it stopped but was not able to. I do know people that work there that were instructed not to watch it.) \n\n2) extremely poor service. If you go in there looking for something, you can never find it & if you ask someone that works there they send you on a wild goose-chase before you find out they do not even carry it! Last time I was in there, I went for two items, it took forty-five minutes & I was not able to get either one of them! One of the items [Scotchgard] they did not even know what it was! Then I lost money in the soda machine, but the line for customer service was wrapped all the way around to the corner of the store, filled with people wanting to make returns. I asked a manager if they could help me & they said waiting in that line was the only way to get my money back. They only had one of three counters open, but there were several employees just standing around gossiping. The manager could have at least sent people over to open the two other counters so people did not have to wait so long. I have had several similar instances when the employees are unhelpful. I work in customer service & it just makes me so mad that I bend over backwards to help my customers but that it is extremely difficult to get good service when I go somewhere. Like, when you ask their employees if there are any in back---they do not even check. They just say the do not. Or when you ask where something is and they say "If it's not over there I don't know where it is" . \n3) Lack of selection. In most cases they only carry one name brand & their housebrand & the namebrand carried is not the one I use.\n4) Some items (especially the clothes) are low quality. We used to call them "Wal-Mart-fall-a-parts growing up.\n5) I can almost always find stuff cheaper somewhere else. I do not know why everyone thinks they are so cheap!\n\n(Sorry for any typos, spell check was not working.I do not think it likes long answers.)
30917
Try being handicapped and going through that!  I have had to use the motorized chairs a few times and even when I honk the horn they just stand there.  This isnt at just Wal Mart either.  Its most any place you go.  My fiance has physically moved their carts so I could get through and shoot them a dirty look just dareing them to say something.  They dont look down and are completely oblivious to the fact that other people want to shop there as well.  I used to walk on my crutches there until I got run into a few too many times.  Thats when I switched to the chairs for my own safety.  So I completely agree with you.  If they truely get in your way, simply yell out "MAKE A HOLE!"  I guarantee you, they move FAST.  Then they look really stupid to the other customers that wanted to say the exact same thing.
727299
I went to K-Mart and Target also. There are so many families who depend on lay-away to be able to buy Christmas. I hope Wal-Mart loses money this year -  bigtime!\n\nThat's just an examply of a huge multi million dollar company thinking only of themself - no concern for their customers!!! I hope everyone remembers this not just at Christmas time, but all throughout the year!