How do I stop the walmart?

Cornflake · Jun 28, 2005

There\'s a walmart trying to move into our town. How can I stop the blue menace from invading. The only thing that\'s come to mind so far is organizing a bunch of people to rob them blind.

Spooner · Jun 28, 2005

Good luck. That place will be a huge success, it seems like they all are.

fAKdded · Jun 28, 2005

You have to find the heart of the wal-mart, and break the mirror in the back.

Cornflake · Jun 28, 2005

well we got rid of the blockbuster. it moved in right across from a local videostore and has gone out of business twice since.

that was a great episode of south park.

threesixstoner · Jun 28, 2005

the son of the founder of wal mart died in a plane crash the other day, he was like a green beret medic and got the silver star medal

BlackNasty · Jun 28, 2005

i get high anxiety every damn time i go in one those places. but to tell you the truth man, you\'re screwed. best of luck to you though

astro · Jun 28, 2005

Why do you hate walmart? I mean yeah they treat their employees like shit, but welcome to about half the jobs out there. The solution is just not to work there.

Anyway, you probably can\'t stop it. So get a job in the security department and steal.

420420420 · Jun 28, 2005

walmarts are going to take over america

they move into these small towns that have a shop for clothes, a shop for grocerys, a shop for beds whatever

and walmart has all of those things in one store, and they can sell it for cheaper because they buy in such bulk
so the little stores all run out of business and walmart controls the city, thats how it is in the south atleast

TheHempress · Jun 28, 2005

Go to your town meetings. I bet there are already people in your town trying to stop Wal*Mart. You can join up with them.

Ars moriendi · Jun 28, 2005

\"astro\" said:

Why do you hate walmart? I mean yeah they treat their employees like shit, but welcome to about half the jobs out there. The solution is just not to work there.

Anyway, you probably can\'t stop it. So get a job in the security department and steal.
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That advice makes no sense...

Treating someone like shit kinda means you don\'t trust them at all so I\'m sure they have upper level security reviewing the tapes too. He\'d get busted and Walmart would win.

Why fight it? You really can\'t win a battle of government\'s open hand and big biz\'s upside down wallet.

Besides that theres always some semi-decent white trash tail in those places...lol it\'s not like you\'ll be finding someone to bang on the side just amusing trend watching I suppose.

I\'ve seen more kitty/porn star sweatpants then I care to remember in that place.

Another great thing about that place is the crazy old dudes blatantly looking at highschool jailbait ass without a care in the world. You creep up on them and say something smart assed like \"get a good look\" and they usually go into a big attention drawing fit at which point you leave the area fast. lol

astro · Jun 28, 2005

\"Ars moriendi\" said:

That advice makes no sense...

Treating someone like shit kinda means you don\'t trust them at all so I\'m sure they have upper level security reviewing the tapes too. He\'d get busted and Walmart would win.
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Nah dude, I\'ve worked at stores like walmart (Meijer, etc) and when I say treat you like shit, I don\'t mean watch your back all the time. I mean like \"asking\" you to work double shifts, low pay, few benifits, etc. Whether or not your boss is a dick just depends on the boss. And stealing from those places is really easy IF you\'re an employee, and who better than a security guard?

Frank White · Jun 28, 2005

^ey?

stoned_soldier · Jun 29, 2005

why do people hate walmart so much? they have a right to do business like everyone else.. if you don\'t like it, don\'t shop there, end of story.. doesn\'t mean you can just bar the rest of the town from wanting to shop there.. if they want economical resources for their homes where\'s the harm in that? geez.. just conitue to shop in the little stores if they bother you so much.. it\'s not like they killed your family..

Higgy · Jun 29, 2005

i\'ll tell you why i despise wal-mart and personally refuse to shop there. I found they take out insurance policies on all their employees. I.e. why they hire the elderly, because when they die...thats right, wal-mart makes money. They make bank on the lives of other humans!

dirtybongwater · Jun 29, 2005

Austin Texas has a program about keeping mom & pop companies in business by keeping huge corporation/conglomerations out. Granted you can go to a suburb and shop at Walmart or any other huge national chain, but you can\'t inside the city limits. I can\'t remember what they call the program but everyone has the logo on their bumpers. I\'m actually still working on a project for my work tonight or I would go research it for you. If you read up on what the program is in Austin and how they got the idea accepted, I would go with The Hempress\' town meeting suggestion and your new found knowledge.

TheHempress · Jun 29, 2005

\"stoned_soldier\" said:

why do people hate walmart so much? they have a right to do business like everyone else.. if you don\'t like it, don\'t shop there, end of story.. doesn\'t mean you can just bar the rest of the town from wanting to shop there.. if they want economical resources for their homes where\'s the harm in that? geez.. just conitue to shop in the little stores if they bother you so much.. it\'s not like they killed your family..
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Wal-Mart Stores has been criticized for:
Corporate Influence In May, 2004, Good Jobs First showed that Wal-Mart has received more than $1 billion in economic development subsidies from states for its stores. The subsidies have come as many states are forced by White House tax cuts and reductions in federal grants to make tough budget decisions. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities shows states are cutting subsidies for publicly funded health insurance, child care, federal employment, both higher and lower education, and programs aimed at public safety and people with disabilities. Taxpayer dollars continue to subsidize Wal-Mart, who took in more than $200 billion in revenue and netted nearly $9 billion in profits last year, while paying worker near-poverty wages, and violating environmental regulations Source: The Progress Report, May 28, 2004

Cultural Impact In May 2004, the National Trust for Historic Preservation released its list of endangered historic sites, which included the entire state of Vermont. According to the trust, the primary reason for this designation was Wal-Mart\'s aggressive plans for expansion in the state, which would threaten its unique small-town character. They further contend that the arrival of new Wal-Marts would decimate small businesses and town centers, create poverty-level jobs, and have severe negative environmental impact. Source: The Associated Press, May 25, 2004

Discrimination In June, 2004 a federal judge approved class-action status for a sex-discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart that could represent as many as 1.6 million current and former female employees of the company. The suit assert that female employees of Wal-Mart have been assigned to the lowest paying positions, which, in turn, provide the least opportunity for advancement. Wal-Mart is accused of habitually denying women the chance for promotion by not informing them of openings and by not giving them the necessary support to advance. The company is further being accused of offering better pay to males, and of assigning women to certain areas of the store based on their sex, such as baby clothes instead of hardware. Source: New York Times, June 22, 2001/AP, Jun 22, 2004

Sweatshop Labor Wal-Mart has been Criticized for its Involvement in Sweatshops:

* On March 22, 2004 workers at King Yong, a large Taiwanese owned garment export factory in Nicaragua producing clothing for export to Wal-Mart and Kohl\'s, organized a legal union. Shortly after, the facility started firing scores of workers, including several of the newly elected union leaders. King Yong continues to defy repeated demands by the government of Nicaragua to immediately reinstate the over 400 workers fired, end excessive mandatory overtime, pay the legal overtime wage, and to correct numerous health and safety violations including inadequate lighting, excessive noise, poor ventilation and failure to conduct health and safety trainings.
* Lee Kil-Soo, owner of the Daewoosa factory in American Samoa, was convicted in February 2003 of human trafficking for illegally confining workers in \"involuntary servitude,\" holding their passports, and threatening deportation in retaliation for any acts of non-compliance. A US Department of Labor (DOL) investigation reported that workers at Daewoosa were often beaten, deprived of food, and forced to work without pay. Clothing produced by the Daewoosa factory was sold with the \"Made in the USA\" label, because American Samoa is a US territory. Before Mr. Lee\'s arrest and the closing of the factory, Daewoosa supplied clothing to J.C. Penney, Kohl\'s, Sears, Target, and Wal-Mart. According to the Manchester Guardian Weekly , only J.C. Penney has paid back wages to the Daewoosa workers.
* In January 2003 workers at the WINS facilities of California were paid $337,000 of the more than $900,000 owed them in back wages. In July 2001, Wins was prohibited from shipping goods because of labor violations, including the failure to pay its workers promptly. By August, however, Wins was permitted to resume shipping goods, although all proceeds were paid into the special \"lock box\" fund to be distributed to the unpaid workers. Efforts to pay the workers with the funds were thwarted when Wins filed for bankruptcy, prompting creditors to lay claim to the lock box money. The release of those funds has been delayed by bankruptcy court proceedings. WINs made clothing for Wal-Mart, Kmart, Sears and JC Penney.
* According to CorpWatch, Wal-Mart is one of several U.S. corporations employing 40 thousand factory workers in Jordan\"s Qualified Industrial Zones. Jordanians own almost none of the factories. Most are owned and operated by entrepreneurs from China, Taiwan, Korea, India, Pakistan or the Philippines who import workers from over-seas. Posited as a product of Jordan\"s 1994 peace agreement with Israel, which permitted Jordan to export products duty free to the United States, provided at least eight percent of their industrial inputs come from Israel, these newly established factories have yet to establish standards for treatment of workers. Of the 40 thousand workers in the Qualified Industrial Zones,fewer than half are Jordanian. Ninety percent are women under the age of 22, and almost all of them are paid the minimum wage, about $3.50 a day.
* Workers at the Beximco Factory in Bangladesh which makes shirts and pants sold in Wal-Mart stores work 12 hour days seven days a week and are paid wages ranging from 9 to 20 cents an hour.
* In April 2001, Nicaraguan court ordered Chentex-a Taiwanese-owned maquila that was making jeans for Kohl\'s, J.C. Penney, Kmart, and Wal-Mart-to rehire nine illegally fired union leaders. Chentex had been targeted by the National Labor Committee for its union-busting activity, while workers earned just 18 cents for each $24 pair of pants they sewed.
* In December 2003, the nonprofit Human Rights Watch reported that US retailers J.C. Penney, Wal-Mart, and Kmart did business with the Confecciones Ninos factory before it closed in March 2002. Workers at the plant reported being denied overtime wages, drinking water, bathroom visits, and sick days, in addition to being threatened with termination for union activity.

Source: National Labor Committee, Human Rights Watch,et al

Worker Rights Wal-Mart has been Criticized for its Involvement in Legal Disputes over Workers\' Rights:

* In January 2005 a lawsuit filed in Alameda County, California alleges that Wal-Mart stores in that region violated labor law as store managers deleted overtime hours from employee pay records and erased timecard entries. The plaintiffs, who are seeking back wages and damages, claim that the store managers were pressured to \"shave time\" from employee records in order to minimize labor costs and maintain the chain\'s low prices.
* In February 2002 two former Wal-Mart employees in Oklahoma filed a lawsuit against Wal-Mart on behalf of workers in 85 of the company\'s stores in that state claiming the company forced them to work overtime without compensation. The suit alleges Wal-Mart managers assigned tasks they knew couldn\'t be completed within a shift and then forced employees to work off the clock and during breaks to complete the jobs.
* In December 2002 a federal jury in Oregon found Wal-Mart guilty of violating federal and state wage laws by forcing employees to work unpaid overtime between 1994 and 1999. Over 400 employees from 24 Wal-Mart stores in Oregon sued the company. It was the first of several similar suits across the country to come to trial. The lawsuit claimed managers got employees to work off the clock by asking them to clean up the store after they\'d clocked out and by deleting hours from time records. The suit also said Wal-Mart reprimanded employees who claimed overtime. An attorney for Wal-Mart had no comment on the verdict.
* As of June 2002, Wal-Mart employees and former employees in 28 states had filed a series of class-action and individual lawsuits against the company for forcing or pressuring them to work unpaid overtime. The employees say that they are forced or pressuring into working off-the clock despite the fact that the company\'s own policy prohibits such actions. In the suits the workers claim that overtime practices helped Wal-Mart undersell its competition and push up profits. The company paid $50 million to settle a class-action suit filed by 69,000 current and former Wal-Mart employees in Colorado in 2000 that alleged Wal-Mart pressured them to work off the clock. However, the company denies that the problem is more than a few isolated incidences. According to a Wal-Mart spokesperson, \"Off-the-clock work is an infrequent and isolated problem, which we correct whenever we become aware of it.\"
* On October 23, 2003, 250 illegal workers were arrested outside of 61 Wal-Mart stores in 21 states. Immigration officers also took boxes of documents from Wal-Mart\'s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, in an effort to determine whether or not Wal-Mart should be charged with knowingly employing contractors who were using illegal workers. Nine of the employees arrested during the raids have filed a lawsuit claiming Wal-Mart was aware they were illegal immigrants and violated federal racketeering laws by conspiring with cleaning contractors to pay them low wages.
* In August 2001, a New York Wal-Mart worker filed a class-action suit against Wal-Mart on behalf of 20,000 workers in the state claiming that the company forced them to work overtime without pay, sometimes by locking them inside the store after they had clocked out. The lawsuit also claims that the retailer required employees to work through meals and rest breaks. The plaintiffs are asking for unpaid overtime wages, attorneys\' fees and the costs of the action. Lawyers for the plaintiff say employees would be intimidated into working the extra hours by being given fewer hours to work or by not getting promotions.
* In August 2001 an appeal court held up a verdict against Wal-Mart in a lawsuit filed by a former employee who said that the company did not take enough action in stopping her supervisor from sexually harassing her. The company claimed that the employee only complained twice about the harassment, however the judges concluded that there was evidence of repeated complaints by the plaintiff. The employee had been awarded $43,750 in damages and $20,000 in court costs and attorney\'s fees.
Source: Associated Press, Feb. 24, 2002, et al.

Child Labor In January 2005 Wal-Mart paid $135,540 to settle charges it violated child labor laws in three states. The settlement covered 24 violations mainly involving workers under the age of 18 operating dangerous machinery including cardboard balers and chain saws in Connecticut, Arkansas and New Hampshire. Wal-Mart agreed in the settlement not to employee any worker under the age of 14 and will not allow any worker under age 18 to operate cardboard balers. The company denied any wrongdoing in the settlement with the Labor Department. Source: Reuters, Feb. 12, 2005

Corporate Influence In the first decade after Wal-Mart arrived in Iowa, the state lost 555 grocery stores, 298 hardware stores, 293 building supply stores, 161 variety stores, 158 women\'s apparel stores, 153 shoe stores, 116 drugstores, and 111 men\'s and boys\' apparel stores. Source: Iowa State University Study

Discrimination Wal-Mart has been Criticized for its Discrimination Practices:

* Wal-Mart achieved a score of 43 on the Human Rights Campaign 2005 Corporate Equality Index which rates large corporations on policies that affect their gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees, consumers and investors. The 2005 HRC Corporate Equality Index rated companies on a scale of 0 percent to 100 percent on seven factors. The company achieved a score of 43 on the organization\'s 2004 Corporate Equality Index.
* In February 2005 Wal-Mart was ordered to pay $7.5 million to a former employee with cerebral palsy and who claimed he was reassigned from a job in the company\'s pharmacy department to garbage duty. A Wal-Mart spokesperson stated, \"Wal-Mart does not tolerate discrimination of any kind. We are optimistic that the award will be substantially reduced or eliminated altogether.\"
* In September 2003 lawyers for Wal-Mart asked a federal judge to break up a sexual discrimination lawsuit seeking to represent 1.6 million current and former women workers. The lawyers requested that the suit be dismantled into separate class actions against each of Wal-Mart\'s 3,473 nationwide stores. The suit alleged that the company set up a system of frequently paying its female workers less than their male counterparts for comparable jobs and bypassing women for key promotions. Claiming that the suit ignored the thousands of women who earn more than their male counterparts, Wal-Mart denied the allegations and stated that they didn\'t consider additional factors: some jobs require a gun license to sell firearms carried in some Wal-Mart stores while others pay a premium for workers skilled in handling live crickets sold for fishing. Without the muscle provided by a class action suit, Wal-Mart\'s female workers who believe they have been discriminated against expressed doubt that they would be awarded punitive damages, as well as back pay.
* In February 2004, the UFCW mobilized a class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart, alleging the company \"denied women promotions, paid them less than men and forced them to visit strip clubs on business \" This class action suit was first mobiled in September 2003, when a federal judge in San Francisco began considering whether or not the 1.6 million women employed by Wal-Mart since late 1998 should be represented in what would be one of the largest class action suits in history.
* The National Organization for Women (NOW) declared September 28 2002 a National Day of Action Against Wal-Mart. NOW also declared Wal-Mart a Merchant of Shame. Among the complaints against the company are charges of unequal pay and promotion for female employees, the exclusion of contraception coverage in the employee\'s health benefits, and the fact that the retail chain does not sell Preven, commonly known as \"morning-after pill\" for women, but it does carry Viagra.
* According to Business Week, \"Based on filings Wal-Mart made to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, ...72 percent of the company\'s sales staff are women but only one-third of them make it into management, despite Wal-Mart\'s promote-from-within policy. That means, according to EEOC data, that Wal-Mart doesn\'t just rank below its current retailing peers, which have an average of 56 percent women managers, but it also ranks below rivals\' levels of 25 years ago.\"
* In November 2001, the Mexican-American Political Association (MAPA) called for a boycott of all California Wal-Marts and Sam\'s Clubs in California claiming a Fresno Wal-Mart mistreated employees and store officials regularly used racial slurs. The company had been in discussions with MAPA over the allegations but halted them after Wal-Mart claimed that MAPA was demanding access to personnel records.
* In August 2001, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued its 17th lawsuit against Wal-Mart for allegedly discriminating against a job applicant who used a wheelchair.The lawsuit alleges that a Wal-Mart in Clinton, Missouri refused to hire or accept an application from a man because of his disability. A Wal-Mart spokesperson stated, \'\'...we employ a large number of handicapped people and we do not have policies that would discriminate against them in any way.\'\'
* In June 2001, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed its 16th federal lawsuit against Wal-Mart. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a Wal-Mart \"greeter\" who said she was fired after the company refused to let her sit occasionally while working due to her knee problems, violating the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). Earlier in the month, Wal-Mart was ordered by a federal judge to air commercials in Arizona admitting it violated the Americans With Disabilities Act after a the judge ruled it didn\'t fulfill terms of a settlement of a suit filed by the EEOC over the company\'s refusal to hire two deaf men.
* In February 2001, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) accused Wal-Mart of violating the American with Disabilities Act by failing to provide qualified interpreters for deaf applicants and employees. The EEOC is seeking an order that would force the company to offer equal job opportunities to disabled applicants, as well as compensation, including punitive damages and legal fees, to deaf employees.
Source: Business First, et al.

Legal Disputes In February 2005 Wal-Mart won an appeal on a 1995 lawsuit which argued that the company should pay millions of dollars in overtime to company pharmacists which the company had classified as salaried employees, which was against federal law. A three-judge appelate panel said federal labor regulations allow employers to adjust salaries based on economic conditions but if those changes are made too frequently, the salary could be declared a \"sham\" and allow employees to be reclassified as hourly employees. Source: The Associated Press, February 2, 2005

Unionization Walmart has been Criticized for its Resistance to Unionization:

* In August 2001, the National Labor Relations Board started an investigation into allegations that a Texas Wal-Mart harassed employees who tried to start a union. The United Food & Commercial Workers Union claimed that the store\'s managers told employees they would lose profit-sharing bonuses for signing union cards and restricted employees from soliciting for the union during their breaks.
* In February of 2004, a cut-cost model Wal-Mart spokeswoman warned unionization would threaten Wal-Mart\"s trademark low prices by raising employee wages. \"Changing that model would make our business less successful, our jobs less secure,\" she said.
* A supervisor at Wal-Mart store 589 in Hillview, Kentucky reported he was required to report staff members who mentioned trade unions to his manager.
* According to an internal Wal-Mart document, \"Wal-Mart is opposed to the unionization of its associates. Any suggestion that the company is neutral on the subject or that it encourages associates to join labor organizations is not true
* A coalition of labor groups organized November 21, 2002 as a national \"day of action\" against Wal-Mart to encourage the company to provide higher wages and lower-cost health care benefits for its more than 1 million American workers. The groups claim Wal-Mart, which owns more than 3,300 stores across the country, has opposed its efforts to unionize Wal-Mart employees.

Source: Reuters, November 18, 2002, et al.

Unionization In February 2005 Wal-Mart announced it planned to close a Canadian store whose workers were on the verge of becoming the first ever to win a union contract from the company. Wal-Mart said it would close the store in response to unreasonable demands from union negotiators, that would make it impossible for the store to sustain its business. The United Food & Commercial Workers Canada had previously asked Quebec labor officials to appoint a mediator, saying that negotiations had reached an impasse. The store became the first unionized Wal-Mart store in North America in September of 2004, after the bargaining unit was certified by provincial labor officials. Shortly afterwards another Canadian Wal-Mart become certified. Neither store reached a contract. (see related Alert item.) Source: Associated Press, Feb. 9, 2005

Worker Benefits Wal-Mart\'s health care policies have come under attack as critics say employees are unable to meet the company\'s eligibility requirements or because they cannot afford monthly premiums as high as $264 a month for family coverage. Source: New York Times, Nov. 1, 2004

Cultural Impact In September 2004 residents of Teotihuacan, near Mexico City, protested over the construction of a warehouse-style Bodega Aurrera, a unit of Wal-Mart, on the edge of archaeological ruins. The construction site is less than a mile from the gated tourist park housing the main ruins and is visible from the top of the Pyramid of the Sun, a structure that has stood on the site for more than 2,000 years. Opponents are taking legal action to stop construction Source: Ethical Corporation

Ethics Wal-Mart has been accused by a Galveston, Texas judge of inappropriate behavior during a number of lawsuits filed against the company. In a lawsuit involving a girl who was burnt after her clothes purchased at Wal-Mart caught fire, the judge found that the company had \"repeatedly concealed documents and witnesses.\" The judge acknowledged nine additional cases in where Wal-Mart was found of noncompliance of court rules. Source: The AP State & Local Wire, February 14, 2001

Health and Safety Walmart has been Criticized for its involvement in Legal Disputes over Health and Safety:

* In June 2004 Wal-Mart was one of 13 major retailers named in a lawsuit filed in California claiming that the companies failed to inform customers that some of the costume jewelry they sell contains lead. In the suit, state Attorney General Bill Lockyer alleged that state tests showed high levels of lead in both metal and nonmetal parts of the costume jewelry, which retailers have been marketing primarily to teenagers and young children. The levels were \"well above\" that which requires a warning to consumers under California law, according to Lockyer.
* In April 2003 California announced Wal-Mart would temporarily halt firearms sales within the state after justice officials found nearly 500 violations of gun laws by just six stores in one month. Investigators found the stores guilty of illegal sales to felons, releasing firearms to buyers before the 10-day waiting period and background checks were completed, and failures to identify purchasers through thumbprints and a driver\'s license - as required by state law.
* In April 2003 Wal-Mart agreed to pay a $750,000 penalty to settle a government lawsuit that said the company failed to report safety hazards from defective exercise \"glider\" machines. In May 2001, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Justice Department accused Wal-Mart of failing to report hazards with Weider and Weslo brand exercise gliders, despite knowing of at least 29 consumers who were injured while trying the equipment in Wal-Mart stores. Injuries included fractured vertebrae, herniated discs and a compression injury to a woman\'s spine.
* Wal-Mart reported 17,000 cases of falling merchandise resulting in injury to customers between 1989 and 1994. Of those cases, 45 percent to 50 percent resulted in injuries to the head, neck, shoulders and/or upper torso.

Source: USAToday, April 11, 2003, et al.

Legal Disputes In August 2001 Wal-Mart announced it had agreed to comply with Wisconsin\'s fair pricing law as a settlement to a complaint filed by the state in 2000 alleging the retail giant was selling some items below cost to drive out competitors. The retailer will also donate $15,000 to a high school consumer education contest. Wal-Mart did not admit any wrongdoing in the settlement. Source: Associated Press, Aug. 13, 2001

Legal Disputes In November 2004 Wal-Mart was ordered to pay $765,000 in fines for violating state petroleum storage tank laws at its automobile service centers in Florida. According to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection the company failed to register with the state the above ground fuel tanks at all 75 of its Tire & Lube Express service centers in Florida and didn\'t install devices that prevent overflows, among other problems. Source: AP, Nov. 18, 2004

Legal Disputes In October 2001 Wal-Mart was ordered to pay $13 million to the family of a woman the company had falsely accused of shoplifting, The woman, who had spent a month in jail in 1994 after the store accused her of taking part in a shoplifting ring, died in 2000. The shoplifting charges were dropped after prosecutors discovered there was no evidence to support them, according to a lawyer for the plaintiffs. Source: Associated Press, Oct. 10, 2001

Toxic Emissions or Discharges In May 2004 Wal-Mart was fined $3.1 million for violations of the Clean Water Act at 24 construction sites. The violations involved excessive storm water runoff, which carries sediment, pesticides, chemicals, solvents and other toxic substances into waterways. The settlement covered allegations that the company failed to get permits before construction, had not developed plans to control polluted runoff water and did not install required controls to prevent discharges.The company had been fined $1 million for violations of the Clean Water Act at different construction sites in 2001. (See realted Alert item.) Source: Ethical Corporation

Toxic Emissions or Discharges In June 2001, Wal-Mart announced it would pay $1 million in fines to settle charges that it violated environmental laws while building stores in four states. The company, which builds more than 300 stores a year, was accused by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of violating Clean Water Act regulations and illegally discharging dirt from 17 construction sites in Massachusetts, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Wal-Mart also agreed to better monitor future construction. (See related Alert item.) Source: Associated Press, June 7, 2001

Unionization In February 2005 workers at a Colorado Wal-Mart voted not to unionize. In January employees won approval to hold the election, which would have made the workers at the store the first union workers at the Wal-Mart\'s. However, in a secret-ballot election 18 workers voted against representation by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. The negative vote came shortly after Wal-Mart decided to close a store in Quebec where workers were close to reaching a union contract. (See related item.) Source: CNN, Feb. 25, 2005
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smokyey3z · Jun 29, 2005

haha this seems just like that southpark episode

seeofgreen · Jun 29, 2005

\"fAKdded\" said:

You have to find the heart of the wal-mart, and break the mirror in the back.
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I was thinking that when i started to read
funny
i saw that some time back...

POTSTYLZ · Jun 29, 2005

*clears throat, looks down* Im banned from wal mart........for life. Apperently the manager didnt like being called a facist *sp* Asshole......In front of a huge attention drawing crowd

IndianaToker · Jun 29, 2005

29jun05

JOHN Walton, the billionaire second son of Sam Walton, founder of the international retail giant Wal-Mart, was killed when his homemade, ultralight plane crashed.

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The unregistered plane had an aluminium frame and a small petrol-powered engine.

Its wings were wrapped in a fabric similar to heavy duty sail cloth.

\"It was so lightweight it looked like a giant model airplane,\" said Joan Anzelmo, a national park spokeswoman.

In March, Forbes Magazine listed Walton as the 11th-richest person in the world. It estimated his net worth at $23.7 billion.

He had been on the Wal-Mart board of directors. He and the rest of the Walton family own about 40 per cent of Wal-Mart shares.

Ms Anzelmo said officials notified the US Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board.

\"Because this is a homemade, non-registered, experimental aircraft . . . they told us there was not going to be an investigation,\" she said. Grand Teton rangers would conduct their own probe, as with any major accident in the park, she said.

Walton had been a US army veteran who served with the elite Green Berets as a medic during the Vietnam War. He was awarded the Silver Star medal for saving the lives of members of his unit while under enemy fire.

Walton is survived by wife Christy, son Luke, mother Helen, brothers Rob and Jim and sister Alice. â€“ AGENCIES

Link to article: http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,15761732%5E663,00.html

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