Anonymous wrote:They like to turn up their noses at Walmart but then they go to Target, which operates pretty much the same way except with commercials that portray it as hip. And they shop at Trader Joe's, which is relentless in cutting supplier costs but looks folksy, even though it has been owned for over 30 years by the founder of the Aldi discount grocery chain.

It's all image. Don't give in to snobbery. These people shop at discount stores. They need the illusion that they are doing something else in order to feel good about themselves.

This is partially true, about the image. Because the image of Walmart that i have is dirty, stuff not where it should be, and an annoying experience. Target is clean, things are easy to find, and it doesn't make me want to kill myself. So I almost always to go Target, except when I need new Geranimals for my son.

I used to HATE wal-mart with a passion, for all of the reasons that have been listed here. But I also know that they are working very hard to change that image people have of them, as a store that kills the little guys and is wrecking the global economy. Maybe they still are, but they at least have better PR about it now.

Why would American kids want to enter engineering? The pay's worse than marketing/big biz/big law and the chicks are fewer and less hot.

You know what is unbelievable? How many people making six-figure salaries who feel they have the God-given right to buy $2 PJs for their kids. You are making a CHOICE to give your business to a company with a long history of stepping all over their employees, and that makes value judgments (by requiring artists to sell censored music) at their stores. You like hosting a Walton sword fight in your mouth? Fine. But don't think you can be a little corporate-loving bitch and not be called out as an asshole. Because I think you are, and evidently, a lot of others here do to.

Anonymous wrote:If you don't want to shop at Walmart then don't. You have the freedom to shop wherever you choose and those who are price insensitive will shop at higher end stores. The truth is Walmart is good for all of us and for those people who don't live in your gilded world that helps put more food on the table for a better price.

To the other poster who wanted HD or Office Depot to give their workers the day off, all the workers need to do is to quit the job and they can get any day they want off.

It's funny how and "they have the freedom to work wherever they want" arguments always get made in this context. When laws enforcing this freedom get enforced, the same people decry anti-discrimination statutes as unfair, talk about how bad white men have it, and start talking about a socialist state.

They like to turn up their noses at Walmart but then they go to Target, which operates pretty much the same way except with commercials that portray it as hip. And they shop at Trader Joe's, which is relentless in cutting supplier costs but looks folksy, even though it has been owned for over 30 years by the founder of the Aldi discount grocery chain.

It's all image. Don't give in to snobbery. These people shop at discount stores. They need the illusion that they are doing something else in order to feel good about themselves.

Unless Walmart carries unknown brands, most electronics (at least the lovely flatscreens we pay a butt load of money for) come from the same manufacturer and have a different label slapped on it.

Just like the $400 designer sunglasses that we buy. Most major designers are all made at the same place and cost no more than $50 to produce.

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Anonymous wrote:Really, we don't necesarily want low paying manufacturing jobs. We should prefer to have R&D here.

And yet we won't give visas to all the foreign engineering students who would die to work here and create new things. And our own kids won't go into engineering.

Totally agree!

Anonymous wrote:Who knows why the particular people you hang out with don't like it...ask them. Or if you're so worried, go to Target or order stuff from Amazon...see problem solved.

The point is: I didn't know some people thought less of Walmart shoppers until I came to this forum...

Who knows why the particular people you hang out with don't like it...ask them. Or if you're so worried, go to Target or order stuff from Amazon...see problem solved.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here, after all this talk I still can't understand what's the "demographics" of Walmart and why the "mommies" around think of me as a lower human being for being a WM shopper.

OP this is why some people think less of walmart shoppers. http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

But once again, why do you care what they think? You will obviously disagree.

For the same reason why I won't leave the house wearing the clothes I wear in my country, for the same reason I want to correct my accent, for the same reason I brush my hair before leaving the house.
Do you like to be teased by others and to be talked behind your back? I don't.

I would think you blend in well in large metro areas like DC since there are people from all over the world here. I could see wanting to correct your accent but only so that others can better understand what you are saying, if that is a problem. And the hair thing, that's everywhere, not just here.

PP I guess you missed the point. I meant that I don't like to be talked behind my back or teased that's why I care about knowing what's wrong with shopping at Walmart. I don't want the other mothers in the group talking about me behind my back. I will try to learn what they think about it so I can act fast in case I need new friends...

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Anonymous wrote:OP here, after all this talk I still can't understand what's the "demographics" of Walmart and why the "mommies" around think of me as a lower human being for being a WM shopper.

OP this is why some people think less of walmart shoppers. http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

But once again, why do you care what they think? You will obviously disagree.

For the same reason why I won't leave the house wearing the clothes I wear in my country, for the same reason I want to correct my accent, for the same reason I brush my hair before leaving the house.
Do you like to be teased by others and to be talked behind your back? I don't.

I would think you blend in well in large metro areas like DC since there are people from all over the world here. I could see wanting to correct your accent but only so that others can better understand what you are saying, if that is a problem. And the hair thing, that's everywhere, not just here.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here, after all this talk I still can't understand what's the "demographics" of Walmart and why the "mommies" around think of me as a lower human being for being a WM shopper.

OP this is why some people think less of walmart shoppers. http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

But once again, why do you care what they think? You will obviously disagree.

For the same reason why I won't leave the house wearing the clothes I wear in my country, for the same reason I want to correct my accent, for the same reason I brush my hair before leaving the house.
Do you like to be teased by others and to be talked behind your back? I don't.

Anonymous wrote:OP here, after all this talk I still can't understand what's the "demographics" of Walmart and why the "mommies" around think of me as a lower human being for being a WM shopper.

OP this is why some people think less of walmart shoppers. http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

But once again, why do you care what they think? You will obviously disagree.

Walmart is bad because rich white liberals say it is.

OP here, after all this talk I still can't understand what's the "demographics" of Walmart and why the "mommies" around think of me as a lower human being for being a WM shopper.