Just trying to get rich. WalMart, the mall, the county, and the PD weren't the ones who killed the guy.
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Just trying to get rich. WalMart, the mall, the county, and the PD weren't the ones who killed the guy.
Overpaid Union Thug
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Why not go ahead and include the mayor, the governor, the surrounding states, the United States, or President Bush (he's blamed for everything else so why not), Canada, etc., on that list of all the people that didn't even cause his death? This is pathetic. Just one more sign of the times I guess.
stringerman85
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What times? people were sueing over coffee being too hot back in the 90's (mc'donalds)....
unless that's considered the times to youstringerman85
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WalMart employs a predatory business strategy.
They move into a community and sell items at a loss, temporarily sacrificing profits in order to undercut prices to the point where the local competition cannot compete and is driven out of business.
Once the small, local businesses are driven under, the prices go back up.
Often, WalMarts will "consolidate". They will open a new store in an adjacent community and close down the old one, leaving behind the bleached carcass of a dead storefront....as well as the small businesses it destroyed.... and forcing customers into their cars for a long drive to the new one.
Walmart's "health plan" is simple---they hand out forms to their employees to obtain state-funded health coverage. Many Walmart employees also qualify for food stamps. WalMarts definition of "full time" employment is 32 hrs a week. WalMart is a net drain on social services for the communities that it occupies.
Walmart doesnt support local charities, little league teams or other community activities. Money spent at WalMart is siphoned out of the community and sent straight to Bentonville Arkansas, and from there to China. WalMart doesnt bank locally...it doesnt buy supplies locally...and it doesnt hire services locally. It is nothing more than a gigantic parasite that sucks the lifeblood out of the community that it infests.
WalMart is a great place to go... if you are willing to trample one of their minimum-wage employees to death in order to save $50 on a piece of plastic, Chinese-made crap.
Can you tell I have an attitude about WalMart?
Everything you stated is actually very true...And I agree with it all, Couldn't have nailed it more
stringerman85
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Definately agree...For being the wealthiest company in the country you would think they would have a more responsible way of handling these type of shopping days....If people were hanging outside this store at 9pm the night before you should expect they're going to be rowdy by the time the store opens, And you can't tell me the mob of people weren't showing signs of danger moments before they opened, Banging on the door and what not, I would have never opened that door
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stringerman85
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fire hoses and whips come to mind.
Haha that would be funny thing to see on the news, Suppose to be the most wonderful shopping day of the year and here we got a riot of people getting sprayed and whipped by police lol
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Failure to provide a safe work environment--sounds like enough basis for me.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Good point as well. I guess the above named defendants were easier to identify.
That's exactly right. But I think you have to have no morals, no honor to go for the money wherever you can get it, regardless of if your defendents actually had anything to do with the act.
I couldn't do it. I wouldn't be able to live with myself.
Overpaid Union Thug
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Moral decay.....that's what brought Rome down. Looks like we are headed in that direction as well.
govols019
You smell that?
The articles I saw never said that. The stampede happened at the time of the stores opening, did it not?
Wal*Mart put the situation that caused the mans death in place. They SHOULD be sued.
Moral decay? A man is dead and you're upset with his family. I have to wonder about your morals.
govols019
You smell that?
Broke through doors and broke through locked doors are two completely different things. From what I remember, wasn't it the weight of the crowd pressing against the doors trying to get in at opening time that caused them to break?
Not every store in America put their employees in a position of danger. What happened at that store was no accident. It was a foreseeable event. Wal Mart, and any other place of employment, has a responsibility to protect their workers. The management at that store saw the crowd massing outside and failed to act.
Hell yeah the mob is responsible but so is Wal Mart. You can't blame one while washing the hands of the other clean.
I missed the quote where the family said they wanted to "get rich" from this. They lost a family member and they're pissed. I don't blame them.
Not every store in America put their employees in a position of danger. What happened at that store was no accident. It was a foreseeable event. Wal Mart, and any other place of employment, has a responsibility to protect their workers. The management at that store saw the crowd massing outside and failed to act.
Hell yeah the mob is responsible but so is Wal Mart. You can't blame one while washing the hands of the other clean.
I missed the quote where the family said they wanted to "get rich" from this. They lost a family member and they're pissed. I don't blame them.
All I'm saying is blame the responsible party. It's much easier to assign blame to a faceless entity.
But it was PEOPLE who did this. It's hard to make oneself believe that PEOPLE are responsible. WalMart, the Police Dept, and the County did not do this.
We won't believe that our neighbor, our friend, our family member broke down that door and trampled that man until he was dead, and then wiped the blood off their shoes and continued to shop. It's easier to blame WalMart.
All I'm saying is for me, I wouldn't hold a faceless entity responsible for the actions of a lawless mob just to make some easy money.
But it was PEOPLE who did this. It's hard to make oneself believe that PEOPLE are responsible. WalMart, the Police Dept, and the County did not do this.
We won't believe that our neighbor, our friend, our family member broke down that door and trampled that man until he was dead, and then wiped the blood off their shoes and continued to shop. It's easier to blame WalMart.
All I'm saying is for me, I wouldn't hold a faceless entity responsible for the actions of a lawless mob just to make some easy money.
govols019
You smell that?
I am. All of them and not just one side.
I don't call losing a loved one "easy money".
And I don't believe anyone should make money for losing a loved one.
We'll have to agree to disagree on this one, Govols!
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