Filthy Liars

[kyburg]

You know I hate Wal-Mart.

I hate the generally low-quality of the merchandise in their stores, their lack of customer service (sorry greggo4randy, but you've never been in any Wal-Mart I've visited), the general level of squalor and filth in their stores - and the complete lack of consideration for either their employees or their customers.

You've heard about the pharmacies, right? They won't discipline pharmacists who wish to refuse to do their jobs if they don't like what they're asked to do. It's that simple - I don't care what they're refusing to fill as a prescription, if they don't want to do it - they should find another job.

I plan to get the licensing body for pharmacists involved, don't you worry. Lose your license, you can lose your job - just let me find it. Dad was a pharmacist - I know he had to stay current on licensure.

Want a mainline into Wal-Mart? Seems there are plenty of other things to object to.

Wal-Mart breeds a dependence on public services. Period. I don't care what it is you're objecting to - poverty, abortion, taxes - if you attack the cause, you find a way to end the need for these things to exist.

I can't think of a better place to set up a MoveOn table than that outside the brand-new monstrosity they're putting in up the street.

Comments

[yendi]

If you haven't seen the Frontline on Walmart (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/ for clips and other info), it's worth watcing. Suffice to say, I've got plenty of issues with them.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

And the list just grows and grows. It's incredible.

[nsingman.livejournal.com]

I read their fact sheet, and there wasn't a single fact about Wal-Mart that I found offensive. I doubt they'd bother any other libertarian or capitalist, either.

[djstatick.livejournal.com]

I worked at Wal-mart for a while. Scary thing... I was forced to spend 3 hours listening to why unions are evil, yet only was allowed 20 minutes for the safety video.

[pseudicide.livejournal.com]

I agree. My friend is a manager at a canadian wal-mart, and she hates the corporation, but stays mainly for the medical benefits, and the fact her son is young... But after 10 years there, and more then 7 of them as a departmental manager she makes $14/hour, and that's high. That so not acceptable! and considering what the people who work there and are just average clerks. It's creating a shockingly dependent lower class.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

*points at icon*

Yaup.

[washuotaku.livejournal.com]

Bah! Wal-Mart isn't the only company that doesn't discipline Pharmacists. I use to work for Eckerd's as an Assistant Manager, I had to hear complaints from plenty of people who got angry at Pharmacists in general. The reality is that there are so few Pharmacists in the market, they can literly demand there own salary and do what they please, a company can't do much to them because they would be even more short than they are now. It really isn't Wal-Mart's fault in the end, it's the market... you will see this at every chain company that has a pharmacy.

Wal-Mart itself is a good/bad thing. Good because goods are cheap, bad because goods are cheap because they get from cheap labor. But if people really gave a rats ass, they wouldn't shop there. I don't care, I shop there at times, they are the only ones that carry a particular brand of Cambell Soup I like. :)

Stay away from MoveOn, they are a group of people that are out-of-touch with the rest of America!

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I've got to get in touch with the licensing body that certifies pharmacists to work as pharmacists...instead of retail clerks or the like.

No, they're in short supply, like any other medical profession (go figure) - but I'm sorry. You don't want to do your job, you should be disciplined in an appropriate manner. Just like anyone else. Abandon a patient (if you're a licensed nurse) and you'll loose your licensure, bucko. No problem.

MoveOn as an organization does a lot to put a lot of like-minded people together - if they appear to be out of touch with your own views, that's a valid opinion. But I seriously doubt they're out of touch with the rest of America. Really really. Why? Getting IN touch is what made them in the first place.

[studiogaijin.livejournal.com]

Some of us actually do give a rat's ass. I don't shop there at all.

That Frontline video did make me wonder how bad some other places I buy from might be though, even if they're not as bad as walmart...I guess I have some more research to do. :\

[bigbigtruck.livejournal.com]

I got e-mail from them this morning that amounted roughly to, "our pharmacists don't have to fill birth control prescriptions if they don't wanna, so nyeah!"

FUCK YOU WALMART, RIGHT UP YOUR SYPHILIS-SORE-ENCRUSTED ASSHOLE

[caitlin.livejournal.com]

I don't shop at Wal-Mart.

I refuse to.

Target is where I prefer if I have to go in some place similar.

C.

[silvercatmon.livejournal.com]

I stopped going to Walmart because I just didn't like how grimy it felt while I shop there, later did I learn about other stuff, that puts it on my blacklist.
Blockbuster also is EVIL! I turned those videos in on time and it may have been YEARS ago that this happened, but I won't forget and when Blockbuster dies, I will laugh and laugh. err. Anyway <_<; ... I refuse to shop at Walmart.

Same here

[turandot.livejournal.com]

I refuse to shop at Walmart. I've only ever made one purchase there, and it was an emergency (literally... I needed to replace a gas cap on my car while on a roadtrip). People look at me like I'm insane when I tell them, especially around here (down in the South, which has always traditionally been Walmart country): "What, why don't you like Walmart?". And then I get started on their business practices and more often than not the persons in question are like "Why, I had no idea they did that" (and yes, I have to refrain from the urge of saying "what, have you just crawled out of a rock?")

[riverheart.livejournal.com]

I buy one thing, and one thing only, at Wal-Mart: canning jars. They are good Ball or Kerr jars, made in the U.S., and Wal-Mart has them all year round, over a dollar less per dozen than anyplace else in town. So I buy them there. I don't buy *anything* else there.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I use a number of services where I know the owner - farmer's markets, CSA programs, small businesses....

I use Costco over Sam's Club, Target over Wal-Mart, Vons over Albertsons...the list grows.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Talked to Mom about this last night, and she couldn't believe it. Tried to give her the poop, but she really wanted to know if I had been refused at a pharmacy. She didn't believe it.

Crap. Everything I do, I do by mail order. Have you had a refusal?

The one thing I can honestly say at this point - the hormonal courses used in contraceptive pills aren't going to be prescribed to me. Mom was on Premarin for years after her hysterectomy, but my cycles have been dead reliable and comparatively pain-free since I was 15.

No, this is not likely to happen to me directly - and Mom, being my Mom and a Republican, isn't terribly interested in something she has no direct involvement in.

Re: Same here

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Sign up for purplecheck.org, guys - they're a nice bunch and the feeds aren't spammish at all.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Blockbuster. Die,die,die!

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* We ought to get a co-op going up there to buy your own stuff from Ball directly. You guys use enough of it!

Me? I have Stater Brother's markets. They rock on stuff like that.

[silvercatmon.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm not the only one who thinks Blockbuster is evil.