Reply #17: walmart destroys your towns economy and helps to KEEP your wages...

[mike_c]

...low. Shopping at Walmart does nothing to build good will with merchants in your own community. Patronizing Walmart is shooting yourself in the foot- it's rewarding the pigs who keep their employees IN YOUR COMMUNITY on the verge of destitution. Shopping at Walmart is an affirmation that you can live with the destruction of working peoples' rights.

Condemning Walmart and the people who shop there isn't about classism-- it's about workers' rights and human dignity. A child goes to bed hungry somewhere in the world everytime you spend a dollar at Walmart. Someones grandmother goes without heat in the winter time or takes her meds every third day to make them last for every dollar spent at Walmart.

If you want to be exploited-- and if you think that selling you cheap stuff so that you'll betray your own community isn't exploiting you-- then more power to you. Just don't lie to yourself about who's attacking your "class."

on edit-- Walmart tried to sow that sort of divisiveness in my community, and we rejected them with a public referendum. As a consequence the closest Walmart is three hours drive away. We like it that way.