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Curves
01/07/09

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A voice from the other side....the area I live in lost all its Mom and Pop local shops years ago (due to econoclimate, not unionization) so when Walmart came to the area, it gave people someplace to go that isnt the closest mall, 30 minutes away. The only business closed here recently are hardware stores and that due to Lowes and Home Depot, not Walmart. Its your money, spend it where you damn well please.
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Curves
01/07/09

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Scary how Planned Parenthood made its way into a post on Walmart, but a reminder that PP provides a variety of health care services, as well as family planning. Without PP, some women would have no health care at all. PP is not just for abortions, in fact, they stress family planning and pregnancy prevention.

Choice: Keep it safe and legal but choose LIFE!
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chauncy that billups
01/07/09

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Whatever. a 3M air filter at the local hardware store: $18. At walmart for the same filter: $8. Walmart is not as 'classy' as some stores, but the prices can't be beat. For that, I'll keep going back to it.
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Kaiser-Machead
01/07/09

@bilups: I just avoid WAL*MARTs of any sort around the holiday season. Seriously, big box stores may be great for deals, but they really are a PITA Clusterfuck when prime shopping season rolls around.
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scarbrtj
01/07/09

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Wal-Mart just causes HUGE problems. I don't know what the problems are, but this company is indisputably evil. The details re: the depths of their evilness, I'm a little sketchy on, but I can tell, from the preceding comments, Wal-Mart is to be avoided. Which I now will endeavor to do. I have a Nike golf glove and 50' non-kink water hose I bought there last week that I am SERIOUSLY considering returning. You hear that, Wal-Mart?! This aggression will not stand!
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Kaiser-Machead
01/07/09

@scarbrtj: You do know that the execs of WAL*MART bbq kittens on their gas grills at night right?

Studies have shown that all neighborhoods within a few miles of WAL*MART are infested with cheap junk, Yugos on front lawns, cats and dogs living together, Dr. Laura getting laid and FM radio stations that play nothing but advertisements 24/7. The biggest issue with WAL*MART is the fact that their smiley face logo lacks a spot of blood on the top in homage to Alan Moore's graphic novel. I mean, c'mon. A smiley face isn't a smiley face unless it has blood on it.

Also, that Nike golf glove was weaved by orphan amputees fed nothing but onion soup, and that non kink water hose...well...let's just say you don't want to know how that hose came to be.
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scarbrtj
01/07/09

@Kaiser-Machead: I tried not to laugh. Really! Alas, I failed.
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frigg
01/07/09

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Love it or hate it, it really does look like the pattern of disease spread. Does the CDC know about this?
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Kaiser-Machead
01/07/09

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How's about a Duane Reade map for NYC?
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OMG! Ponies!
01/07/09

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Face it people - we Americans don't like unions anymore.

Wal*Mart is an easy target. But how about Toyota and Honda - both of which are as staunchly anti-union as Wal*Mart.

Fair is fair - you can't bitch about Wal*Mart's union-busting practices from the comfort of a Japanese car.
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mikeness
01/07/09

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Clearly designed to provoke fear and dread. You can apply this to any large nationwide company that you're politically and ideologically motivated against and achieve similar results, albeit not quite as many locations.

Let's see one for the planned parenthood clinics as they popped up across the country... each little dot that popped up on the map actually WOULD represent something sinister.
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Monty
01/07/09

@mikeness: I suspect the spread of Walmart stores and the spread of Planned Parenthood might look somewhat similar. And, yes, I do believe that completely unconnected events can be connected to strike fear into the population.

Let's get the troops ready to invade Walmart!
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GadgetPlayPissedSomebodyOff
01/07/09

@Monty: But not Planned Parenthood? Typical. You have a choice of fighting Infanticide or Capitalism, and YOU choose Capitalism. Nice.
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92BuickLeSabre
01/07/09

@mikeness: Don't worry, in most places community pressure has made it virtually impossible for clinics or doctors to actually provide abortions.

So you may have lost the legal battle, but you've managed to win the intimidation wars.
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ZombieRace
01/07/09

@GadgetPlayPissedSomebodyOff:

Nothing like injecting an abortion debate into a story about Wal-Mart!

Stay Classy, GadgetPlay, stay classy...
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GadgetPlayPissedSomebodyOff
01/07/09

@ZombieRace: I didn't inject it, I commented on someone else's injection. Nice reading comprehension, ZombieFace, nice reading comprehension...

P. S. Don't miss the school bus, you know how Mom hates having to come pick you up.
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ZombieRace
01/07/09

@GadgetPlayPissedSomebodyOff: Whoops guess I clicked on the wrong name. Pardon my mistake.

So what's this business about my mother? How is it relevant? Does it make you feel clever? Is that all you could come up with?
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92BuickLeSabre
01/07/09

@ZombieRace: If you would like to maintain what dignity you have left, walk away now. You're threatening to bring a cheese-cutter to a knife fight here kid.
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ZombieRace
01/07/09

@92BuickLeSabre: Also, I prefer to think of it as bringing a waffle iron to a george foreman grill fight.
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92BuickLeSabre
01/07/09

@ZombieRace: You mean bringing something leaden and less effective but succeeding nonetheless by simply hammering away with heavy blunt force again and again and again?

In that case, I guess you're in the right place after all.
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weatherman
01/07/09

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There's a reason it looks like a plague; more stores open in areas of higher population density (just as disease spreads in those areas) and stores open around the distribution centers (vectors) that are so important to WalMart's business plan.

I'm sure if you did a map of nationwide chains they'd all spread like that. Look at Starbucks for instance; more than 10,000 stores (owned and franchised) in the US, though with only 1/10th the number of employees.
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king_of_fools
01/07/09

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wow ... first of all what does this have to do with technology? Secondly, out of curiosity, exactly what political view sees the growth of a healthy business and sees it as a problem or "epidemic"; that is such backward thinking, especially in the financial climate we have today.
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Jesus Diaz
01/07/09

@king_of_fools: We often feature Walmart in Gizmodo. They are one of the biggest retailers of electronics and entertainment goods in the planet.
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nachobel
01/07/09

@king_of_fools: If you don't see what a black map of the US with green dots popping up all over it has to do with technology, then I'm afraid we can't help you.
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Monty
01/07/09

@nachobel: His handle is "king_of_fools", so I can see why he would be confused.
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JohnDeere
01/07/09

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if you played a video of th the plague that is killing the earth it would be much much worse. the human plague.
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closhedbb
01/07/09

@JohnDeere: Anyone who honestly believes that humans are a plague on the Earth but hasn't killed himself/herself yet is a hypocrite.
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Monty
01/07/09

@closhedbb: Careful with what you say there, tough guy. Chances are that someone who believes humans are a plague would want to take out as many humans before taking themselves out.

I do think that a significant number of people believe that humans are not exactly helpful to the health of the planet, and the way they are addressing it is by having less children. Unfortunately, that in no way makes up for the other areas of the world that are impoverished and having more children.

It is a vicious world. But, let's keep the talk of killing ourselves to, er -- our self.
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Gann
01/07/09

@closhedbb: JohnDeere killing himself wouldn't make dent in the world's population growth. To not be a "hypocrite", he would have to kill many, many more people. Or at least sterilize them.
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MrFresh
01/07/09

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I'm One of those 1.6 million employees..
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Monty
01/07/09

@MrFresh: And how's that treating ya?
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stryder100
01/07/09

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I don't shop there. Their labor practices are f*cked. And they minimize health care so the taxpayer gets stuck with the bill (medicare). See the film WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price. It seems biased, sure, but it's full of indisputable and disturbing facts.

As Krusty the Klown says, "Hey, hey, Krusty Show T-shirts are made for kids, by kids, and we pass the slavings on to you."
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OMG! Ponies!
01/07/09

@stryder100: What kind of car do you drive? Honda and Toyota are just as bad when it comes to the unions.
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B1663R
01/07/09

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well, that whole map is inaccurate, there are tons of Walmart's in Canada. its like Canada doesn't exist!

I know, its so hard to miss Canada all tucked away down there.
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Monty
01/07/09

@B1663R: You are correct -- we just need to add your provinces as states and get this deal done so we no longer forget our frigid neighbors.

What? You don't want to be part of the United States? Oh. Then QUIT YOUR BITCHIN WHEN WE LEAVE YOU OUT.

Okay, I am joking. A little.
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92BuickLeSabre
01/07/09

@B1663R: Just like a Canadian to ignore all the Wal-Marts in Mexico.

What's wrong with you people?
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Curves
01/07/09

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Like them or not, if people werent spending money there, they wouldnt be spreading like they are. In the current econoclimate they will spread even faster.
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