I went to Target, KMart and Costco last night to shop

[Midlodemocrat]

and then we ate at Outback.

Are these approved DU stores? I want to know prior to unpacking the items. I know I can't return the ahi tuna from the Outback, but I still have all the receipts.

:shrug:

[arcadian]

1. You could return the ahi

But it would be messy. That would make quite a statement. Scene: Outback lobby/hostess podium. Action! "Fuck Outback and it's globalist business practices! :puke:

Ahi has large concentrations of mercury by the way.

[flvegan]

2. Did you drive to those places?

:popcorn:

[Midlodemocrat]

5. Yup. However, I did it in an environmentally friendly manner.

I drove so that I was only turning right. :thumbsup:

[flvegan]

6. I've noticed that you turn right a lot, Limbaugh.

"Right" being a certain WING, that is.

I'm watching you.

[Midlodemocrat]

9. Nice one, Idi!

:thumbsup:

How's the pregnancy progressing? Any morning sickness?

[flvegan]

14. Troublemaker.

You're lucky you aren't DTM.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

45. J. Edgar Hoover was so nuts,

and so afraid of having his chauffeur-driven Government car hit, his driver could only make right turns. Three of them made one left turn.

Figures, doesn't it?

[hobbit709]

3. Owner of Outback is big repuke

[Midlodemocrat]

4. Not the proprietor here. And, I don't care anyway.

I don't choose my stores based on politics.

[hobbit709]

7. He was one of the clowns that lobbied against raising minimum wage

Along with being a Bush Pioneer.

[Midlodemocrat]

8. Not the guy here. He's a neighbor and a friend and a die hard Dem.

Corporate politics don't often translate into local ones.

[hobbit709]

13. I know good people that work at Dell or WalMart

but I don't patronize the businesses. And I know some "Blue" stores that are run by complete assholes.

[hippywife]

10. You might try choosing them

based on the way they treat their employees and how many jobs they drive overseas. I know you make a big joke about shopping at WalMart but the cheap goods available come with a trade-off at someone else's expense.

I know they aren't all good and pure but I just feel that doing any little thing I can do to not let the greedy profit is all to the good.

Don't let the attitudes in GD push you off from doing the right thing.

:hi:

[Midlodemocrat]

11. I didn't go to WalMart.

And, in all honesty, the WalMart here treats its employees very well.

[SoxFan]

12. Unclean! Unclean!

The only DU-approved stores are:

Independently owned bookstores that are utterly useless if your taste in reading involves anything less obscure than Michel Focault and 17th century persian poetry.

Groceries that refuse to sell anything processed or flavored, and offer a fine selection of fair trade, organic, free range tofu.

Arts cooperatives run by aging hippies that employee patchouli scented slave labor, I mean, twentysomethings.

[Midlodemocrat]

15. I have to tell you, the KMart was awful.

I haven't been in one for probably well over 15 years. Boy, did they go into the shitter.

I did get a nice tree, though. A Martha one for 1/2 off.

[crispini]

16. KMarts really are horrible.

Of all the big boxes, I tend to stick with Target just because generally the stores are clean and well organized and they do have cute stuff.

[Midlodemocrat]

17. I was shocked. The KMart I used to shop in was next to

TM's ballet studio when she was little and it was pretty nice as big boxes go.

This one is closer to me, and wow. What a shit hole. If it weren't for the big sale on the tree, I wouldn't have gone near it.

[TZ]

18. Since KMart was bought out by Sears they seem to have gone downhill

There's a KMart near me that I used to go to..Now..can't stand the place. I'll take Target over the other two anyday.

[Midlodemocrat]

19. The Target here is a vastly superior store.

Clean, well maintained, decent prices.

A friend of mine is the assistant manager and his wife is a shift manager and they have nothing but good things to say about working there.

Although, the employees at the WalMart here say they really like it as well. :shrug:

[malta blue]

20. What kind of prizes do they have

:rofl:

How cute....

Actually, the Walmart near me is way better than the Kmart, but yes, Target is the store of choice.

[TZ]

21. Thw Walmart here reminds me of the KMart

A disaster area. Thats why I don't shop there...dirty AND horrible service. There are so many big box stores in this area, thats its easy to be picky.....

[yellowdogintexas]

22. Costco trumps everything else nt

[Midlodemocrat]

27. Costco is the best. Just not on a Friday night during the Holidays.

:rofl:

[TZ]

33. Costco scares me...

Really...I don't have a membership but family members do and just going in there on the weekends is nuts..I don't even want to think about what that place is like on a holiday weekend.....:scared:

[Midlodemocrat]

34. I usually go during my lunch hour and snack my way

through the samples. Kills two birds with one stone. :rofl:

[but siriusly folks]

36. What is this "clean" crap about Target vs. Walmart?

I have never seen a dirty Walmart and the one near me has actually gone upscale in the last year. They put in hardwood floors and the lighting looks warmer. I don't know if they were trying to imitate Target, but it certainly was always a clean, organized store. Also, for those who claim that Target has trendier clothing or whatever, let me assure you that I have gotten many compliments for my Walmart clothes. It's your taste that determines how cool you look anyhow. I go for the stuff made in India, which has a Bohemian flare. Now, if we were talking Kmart, then I would say that they have a tendency to have clothes which are pretty frumpy.

[Midlodemocrat]

38. People are voicing their own experiences.

[Midlodemocrat]

39. Well that was a waste of a post. See ya'!! Wouldn't wanna be ya!!!

[JackBeck]

41. How dare you insult Jaclyn Smith with your dirty rhetoric!

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[JVS]

23. Outback has totally inauthentic Australian food. You might as well have eaten feces!

:puke:

;-)

[TZ]

25. Well.....

Apparantly there is no such thing as a "steakhouse" in Australia...Just pubs.......(according to my Aussie ex-boss)--He was always puzzled by Outback....

[JVS]

35. Vegimite shrimp on the bar-B and beer till ya chunder, mate!

[Midlodemocrat]

28. Their Ahi Tuna is delicious

and the blue cheese chopped salad. OMG!!!

BabyM had cheese fries. :eyes:

[Pithlet]

40. The blue cheese chopped salad is the best thing ever.

I go just for that.

[TZ]

24. Did any place make you show your receipt?

That of course, is the deciding factor.....:D

[Midlodemocrat]

30. Some old bat at Costco, but I hit her with my umbrella and made

a break for the parking lot. :thumbsup:

[JackBeck]

29. We only buy American.

Which is why we bought the new tires for our Honda Accord at Costco.

[leftofthedial]

31. shopping!! NOOOO!!!

Don't you realize you can hand make everything you need from hemp?

What are you, some kind of closet Obama supporter?

First you shop at KMart, next thing you know you're on junkets with AIG execs.

[Midlodemocrat]

32. Hey, Martha Jailbird Stewart has a good thing going on there.

Her stuff is nice and actually shockingly inexpensive.

[leftofthedial]

37. have you tried the Jack Abramoff cigar shop at Wal*Mart?

to die for.

[Deja Q]

42. I tried that, but the hemp television set did not work. I know who might be able to help,

but he is said to only know how coconuts work.

:shrug:

[leftofthedial]

43. you have to know two things:

1. how to adjust the rabbit ears,

and

2. how to make coconuts out of hemp.

[ohiosmith]

44. kick