Do you shop at Wal-Mart?

[Blue in a Red State]

Poll question: Do you shop at Wal-Mart?

Alyssa, my Balinese princess from the shelter

[xmas74]

1. I don't pick up groceries there

but I do have to use them for prescriptions-they are the only ones in the area on the insurance. I wish there was something else around here.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. That sucks...

to have to depend on them like that! Can you complain to your insurance company?

[xmas74]

7. They don't give a crap.

I would rather use the locally-owned pharmacy like I used to in the past.
My daughter's prescriptions run about $200.00 per month (severe allergies).
Oh well, my full-time job cut down my hours to 32 a week-meaning that I will no longer qualify for the insurance program. I have to go to DFS tomorrow to beg them to cover my daughter on Medicaid. I know that the local pharmacy does take that.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

8. You sure have your plate full, xmas74.

I hope things get better and I'm hoping they do!

[xmas74]

10. Thanks.

It has to get better sooner or later.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. I'm so sorry...

Sounds like they're running you through the mill!

Are you a member of a union? Sometimes they offer prescription coverage. Mine does, anyway.

I hope things look up for you soon! :hug:

[xmas74]

11. No union around here.

Not at least for dispatch.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

2. My mom got a gift card from there.

I took her there yesterday and it was tempting (haven't shopped there for years) because of the low, low prices. Then I thought of all the competition they destroyed, the children they hired, the workers they locked up in-store overnight, the promises broken, and the lawsuits for discrimination.
The community and working class pay the price for those few bucks off on the merchandise. No thanks.

[Ladyhawk]

3. I haven't shopped there in a long time.

But I might have to in order to afford a bookcase, soon. There's nowhere else in the area that has what I need. I even checked Salvation Army.

[alittlelark]

4. Almost 3 years Wal-Mart free

I will never return.

[guitar man]

5. VERY rarely

I hate the very thought of entering one of those cesspools, but we are covered up in them here. The ONLY time I ever buy anything there is when it's like 3 a.m. and I'm out of blank CDRs at the studio or something. I usually take some SEIU literature to scatter around the store while I'm in there. :evilgrin:

[3lefts]

12. I used to, but don't anymore...

because the lines were always too long.

This poll is running 3 to 1 against so I wonder...who is shopping at walmart because the place was always crowded. Maybe I should go back and see if that's still so. Used to go every now and then to buy quantities of papertowels, toiletries, etc...so I always had them on hand but stopped because the place was always packed.

[sinkingfeeling]

13. Haven't been in a Wal-Mart in almost 3 years!

[GiovanniC]

14. I Go There From Time to Time

And I sure do see a lot of Kerry/Edwards stickers there. Probably the same amount as Bush/Cheney stickers.

[LDS Jock]

15. I stopped after they closed the store in Quebec

which thought about going union. Just the risk of it lead it to being shut down.

[Padraig18]

16. I'll drive to another state, before I'll spend a dime at Wally World.

I'm an independent businessman, and Wal-mart is the poster child for everything I despise.

[Dukkha]

17. I sympathize with those who are forced to without a choice

But if you live in an area like mine where you have a mass plethora of choices like Meijer, Target, Kroger, Big Bear, Giant Eagle, CVS, etc... and you still support the great Satan Wal Mart, then you are guilty of supporting the enemy.

[jswordy]

18. I live in a small town, they ran out the chain groceries...

...except for two very small mom and pops. I do buy from the mom and pops, but most of the food I buy comes from Wal-Mart.

Shrug. The next nearest major chain grocery store is 20 miles away AND has prices higher than Wal-Mart. Gotta do what ya gotta do.

When the big chains figure out how to compete and come back to my town, I will shop there again. I hated to lose the last one, it is where we were shopping just on GP til they closed the doors. Oh well. We do buy our produce in the big city 25 miles away, cuz my wife likes it so much better than WM's produce (which has sucked in my small town store ever since the competition went away...you go in the WMs in the big city, they have beautiful produce!)

I do all my own oil changes and mechanical work, and my oil, hand cleaner and auto chemicals all come from Wal-Mart. Filters and such I buy at auto parts stores, cuz WM doesn't handle the brands I like.

But since my wife and I are not conspicuous consumers, the range of what we buy at WM is very limited.

BTW, I was the owner of a small department store in town who saw the writing on the wall when the Supercenter was announced, and closed the business. It was a proactive, and correct, move. You cannot stop the business cycle, just adapt to it.

I work hard for someone else for my money, and I strive to keep as much of it as I can when shopping for stuff. That's why I wait for the major department store in the big city to to their season-ender sales, so I can wear $90 dress pants to work that I paid $15 for. I can dress like a prince on a pauper's outlay if I am only willing to wait for the final markdowns!