I felt the title of the thread was misleading. Being a cold, calus, heartless, 'economic hurricaine' does not automaticly equate to "Satanism", I
appreciate the OP for the information put forth to communicate their disapproval of Walmart, but why are you calling it "Satanism"??? I have to
admit when I clicked on this thread I was kind of expecting some sort of evidence that the founders of walmart were proven to follow the church of
Satan, or possibly the current CEO was caught performing some ritual that uneducated psuedo-christians would term as "satanic". All I got was
basically a heart-felt rant about how Walmart is an unethical corporation. Well...Corporations being unethical in their pursuit of capital is nothing
new. Furthermore, it definetly doesn't prompt me to immediatly relate Walmart with Satanism. I ask you: "What exactly do you think Satanism is?"
Secondly, what exactly is the 'proof' you allude to. I respectfully reccommend you change the title of the thread to something along the lines of
"Walmart is economicly evil IMHO" because I truly feel you have failed on all levels to provide "Proof Walmart is Satanic"...now a little off
topic, but I read a very intersting story about Dark Occult Rituals taking place in a Woolworths, it was a good read...I enjoyed reading this thread
regardless of the misleading title and I feel you have provided some great information. Thank you. And I also wanted to add that I hate the exoerience
of shopping at Walmart, but it really does offer the best prices in my area, so because of the prices, I suffer through the shopping experience so
that I may survive!
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I'm stopping at Walmart on my way home from work to get some chicken for the grill. I hope the Satan worshipers at Wally World didn't put a curse on
it.
I 'll look at the Missing Children bulletin and see what it says.
[edit on 2-6-2008 by Sparky63]
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Instead of spending money saving those 6666 children they could have spent it on dropping there prices a minuscule amount, which would have been a
better use of it.
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reply to post by thefreepatriot
 Many small towns across the U.S are now Ghost Towns because of Wal-Mart.. they come in knock out the local economy and they don't realize or
care that most people there are business owners that somehow compete with Wal-mart... Then they knock out the competition and there consumers...in one
shot... sales go down (because theres no money or people have moved) and Wal-Mart then closes shop and leaves the town.. Leaving it devastated like a
Hurricane would.. 
I'm no fan of Walmart, but do you mind naming one town where this happened? (where the opening of a Walmart caused a ghost town)
It seems strange that WalMart would set up shop, only to close a few years later. I assume they do market studies before spending millions on opening
a store. If the retail market is not big enough to sustain Walmart's operations, I doubt they would even open there.
Originally posted by jamie83
From what I've seen, most of the materials put out bashing Wal-Mart lead directly back to unions who were pissed off that Wal-Mart employees CHOOSE
not to be part of their outdated unions.
Got to love these union-bashers. Tell me jamie, would you say the Rockefellers went to far in
Ludlow?
Oh, those darn evil unions! Union bashing is the Capitalists' favorite pass time.
[edit on 3/6/08 by ConspiracyNut23]
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We have occasionally shopped our local WalMart in the past --not anymore tho. Has anyone else noticed how inferior the quality of their food is???
The last straw came for us when my husband was eating a bowl of soup we had purchased at WalMart and found what, at first glance, looked like a finger
-- upon closer inspection it was just a big ol' bone, but convinced us to NEVER shop WalMart again, combined with all the other obvious reasons not
to do so. Who wants to save 5 cents to eat garbage?
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I remember when barcodes came out, all the Ultra Religious jumped on the bandwagon claiming that barcodes were the mark of the beast and that soon we
would have them tattoed to our arms, foreheads etc. Now I see it is the time for the RFID chip to be villified. I guess in another few years, there
will be something else.
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reply to post by jamie83
wal-mart is no different than any other business, other than uits size of course.
the reason "mom and pop" stores fail isn't because of wal-mart, it's because most small businesses that aren't catering to a specialized market
can't compete. small businesses that try to sell a large variety of items are no longer a viable business model. times change, the world is one giant
market, big box stores are more able to sell large varieties to large volumes. small businesses simply need to adapt.
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Originally posted by thefreepatriot
reply to post by jamie83
666 is the mark of the beast.. My post wasn't just about the coincidence that Wal-mart would posted 6,666 children recovered especially when there
are so many Christian consumers shopping in its stores...... it was about the damage that Wal-mart is doing to American communities and how evil this
is..If you don't think having 6,666 is a coincidence or if you don't think 666 is the mark of the beast and is satanic.. then may god help you.
[edit on 31-5-2008 by thefreepatriot]
what does 666 being the mark of the beast have to do with 6,666? they are not the same number. they do not mathematically corellate in any way. they
cannot be manipulated with some cool trick to make each other, add up to each other, whatever. ok so 666 is the number of the beast....and???? 6,666
is not.
yes walmart is evil
666 is not 6,666
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When I was a kid, about 35 years ago, my family and I would go out for supper in the evening and always ate at small, locally owned restaurants, our
medicine was from a local pharmacy and our food from a local grocery store. Now the restaurants have been replaced with name brand feed bags, the
pharmacies are now corporate giants and the grocery stores replaced with foreign conglomerates. Why?...that's progress.
After finishing school, I worked for one corporate business and 3 "mom and pop" stores. At the "evil" corporation for full time work I was
"forced" to endure two 15 minute breaks, 30 minutes+ for lunch, my birthday off, several paid personal days off a year as well as paid sick days and
10 days paid vacation and paid healthcare. If I started at 9:00 I had to be there at 9:00 and when I quit at 5:00 I was done at 5:00. At the
independent stores I got, for the same amount of work, 30 minutes for lunch, a birthday day(not on my birthday), unpaid vacation, sick days were not
given and NO health coverage. I had to start a half hour early and leave a half hour later. Currently, I've owned my own business, retail, for over
15 years. I get NO vacation days, NO sick pay, NO personal days, I make less than the minimum wage I got when I first began to work ($3.25hr) and I
can't even think about getting mediocre health care. Even with all this, I wouldn't trade it for anything.
As far as Wal-Mart being evil, I'm curious how anyone can percieve this. Wal-Mart employees are abused and are made to take low pay for demanding
work...SO WHAT!!! If they don't like it, they can quit and get a "real" job at another place. I don't think the managers at Wal-Mart have a gun
pointed at you forcing you to stay. When I was harrassed by my manager at a record store I had worked, I didn't like the situation so I quit.
Somehow, I managed to survive a few days without being employedwhich meant I did without until I worked again. If you don't like shopping the "Evil
Beast" then don't go to Kmart, Costco, Sears(sorry, that's Kmart), CVS, Wegman's, Giant, TGI Friday's, McDonalds, CVS, Rite Aid, Burger King,
Wendy's, Big Lots, Victoria's Secrret, etc. They're all corporations, they all buy and sell goods from foreign countries that employ sweatshops
and prison labor. Hell, America uses its prisoners for labor on all kinds of goods and services. Maybe we should look at all the unnecessary crap we
buy and ask if we really need to spend money on these things.
Things we need we want; things we want we don't need.
Unless Wal-Mart is markedly different from other businesses, I think they give their workers some sort of salary. If the workers don't get paid
enough they can either ask for a raise or quit and find something better. I know...an absurd idea since, after reading this thread, it is apparent
that you WM bashers think that anybody employed at Wal-Mart is a brain dead automaton incapable of self-detemination.
There has been a Wal-Mart in my community for well over 10 years. Yes, we have business that have gone under, but businesses went under before. The
town where I live and work has a thriving business community, a hardware store, health food store, drugstore, clothing store, jewelry store and my
favorite, an art supply store. Businesses come and go, that's the nature of retail. It's easy to blame failure on anything but ourselves.
I DO NOT LIKE Wal-Mart and chastise my wife for shopping there. Is the economic stability of our community failing? Hell, no! Not because of
Wal-Mart and not in spite of it, just because we have an economically viable community. Businesses fail due to many reasons: owner's incompetence,
location, product or just bad luck. Communities fail due to severe economic shifts, major employers fail, or a shift as people move to other
areas.
good=employed & stable evil=jobless & homeless
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