Down with Wal-Mart

Sap its power!! Don't shop there! Do you submit to forever be a slave to the almightly dollar? Leave that beast alone, to push out all its competitors and die alone. Pay more and buy less stuff, SOMEWHERE ELSE. Start now.
This morning I was getting on the elevator and a woman I work with was telling me about how much she loooved Wal-Mart and I held my tongue. I didn't say what I normally would have said, those things I reserve for my near and dear.

"Wal-mart sucks. The products they shlep are ugly, crappy and poorly
made, never mind all the human right violations they have stacked aginst them. Screw Wal-mart."

As you can see I am having wavering self-confidence when voicing my less-than-popular opinions. It's new for me. I don't know how to tone down or sugarcoat these kinds of feelings and I really don't see the point of saying anything at all if it's just going to come out a withered, compromised version of what I really intended to comunicate.

Get a load of this... Wal-mart is pushing Kraft around.. (member K-Mart?)

...Since 2004, Kraft has announced plans to shut down thirty-nice plants, to let go 13,500 workers, and to eliminate a quarter of its products (egads). Most reports blame soaring prices of energy and raw materials, but in a truely free market Kraft could have pushed at least some of these higher costs to the consumer. This, however, is no longer possible. Even as costs rise, Wal-Mart and other discounters contine too demand that Kraft lower its prices further. Kraft has found itself with no other choice that to swallow the costs, and hence to tear itself to pieces.
-from Breaking the Chain -The Antitrust case against Wal-mart by Barry C. Lynn.
Harper's Magazine/July 2006

This article is scary. Not that I grieve for Kraft. My life won't really be effected if their products disappear. My grandfather actually boycotted their products (so my parents tell me). Something to do with how they produce(d) weapons.