There's a lot of Walmarts around where I live, and guess what?

I hate Walmart.

Originally posted by xuenchen

The more Wal-Mart stores a county has, the more likely it is to have active hate groups in the area, according to Penn State economists.

The more poverty in an area, the more Walmart provides the lower-cost option (though it kills towns).

And the more people living in poverty, the more need for a scapegoat. "The Other" serves that need.

Am I the only one to not understand this at all?

I don't get how they correlated walmarts to hate groups. The article has so little information in it and the study costs money if you want to read it.

Wal-Mart hasn't broken a community, it's broken a nation. It sold out every good aspect on which it was founded.

What resulted is a ware-house of cheap imported goods, customer service that doesn't give a damn (for good reason), the death of every mom and pop business, and reluctant patronage.

I hate Wal-mart. I agree with the second poster. My wife worked for them for five years. It is the most parasitic, screwed up company ever allowed here. What kind of worthless inhuman dung considers all absences inexcusable?

If every Wal-mart in the United States burned to the ground, I would not shed a tear. I would rejoice to the point of suspicion.

They created the business model of the NWO, in name only. It is an absolute dictatorship within the borders of the United States. But aren't most global corporations?

The correlation of hate groups could have something to do with wakeupwalmart.com, a hate group dedicated to hating Wal-mart, (of which I am a proud member).

Originally posted by RealSpoke
Am I the only one to not understand this at all?

I don't get how they correlated walmarts to hate groups. The article has so little information in it and the study costs money if you want to read it.

edit on 11-4-2012 by RealSpoke because: (no reason given)

Bingo !

It's all about $$$

This is the SPLC after all, the people who give you opinions and call them "social sciences".
Not that I'm any fan of Wallly world, I hate them and won't shop there.
I miss the mom and pop stores, there used to be more variety and character.
They are why main street USA is lined with abandoned stores.

Hate groups come in all colors people, as do Walmart shoppers.
So this means all of America is filled with hate groups, right?

My husband can't find a job anywhere, even though his last one he worked for nearly 26 years with a great record- so he thought he'd start growing plants to sell.

It's a passion of his so I want to help him, but I found out that Walmart sells plants at or below cost- they do it to get people in to buy the dirt and chemicals.

How can you compete with that?

Then I also found out that they don't even always PAY the supplying nursery if the plants don't sell. A guy was in there complaining about walmart not watering the plants- it's HIS JOB that suffers if walmart doesn't water the plants, because then his employer doesn't get paid.

Home Depot does the same thing. How do they get by with that? In the meantime, all the really good local nurseries and gardening/farming centers have went under.

I think JohnnyCanuck has it right- Walmart is just bad for communities then they suffer and people need a scapegoat.

Originally posted by xuenchen
Has Wal-Mart broken down YOUR community ??

Actually, yes, it has. I've lived in my area of FL my entire life, living in a few of the cities neighboring each other. Over 20+ years, I've seen the area shops go from mom & pop stores to predominant big box (overwhelmingly Walmarts) Which in itself isn't bad, it's the fallout that isn't worth the "rollbacks". I've seen picturesque family neighborhoods housing Hellmarts crumble into slums years before the Big Recession could be blamed. I've seen upper-middle class neighborhoods have a sharp rise in violent crime when Hellmart sets foot. I wouldn't say hate groups per se are the result, but gangs definitely are. The neighborhood one Walmart is in now used to be very safe when I was a kid. Now, people are robbed, carjacked, shot in the parking lot. Nearby businesses are held up often, grand theft auto is common, etc. The vast majority of the crimes are gang-related. The city I live in now used to be one of the favored suburbs between 2 major cities. Right now, it's a veritable slum with mom & pop shops long-closed up, and the neighborhoods in the worst shape are the ones with Walmarts.

Down the road, I lived in a very impoverished neighborhood in another city for several years, and guess what they are building in the middle of that still-impoverished neighborhood? A Walmart that no one wanted there (so much for listening to the citizens) As far as the poor folk are concerned, lower prices be damned, Walmarts bring nothing but crime. They don't want it, but the company is building it anyway. The citizens are beyond angry. Whether or not they stick to their feelings & boycott is uncertain, Walmart has an undeniable way of sucking the poor in the doors.

Don't expect me to believe, after witnessing my area fall apart, that Walmart has no negative outcome when they set up shop. To exploit the desire everyone has to save a buck or two by way of running other businesses into the ground drives up the number of unemployed. That big box store only employs so many people, and they darn sure can't take in everyone they put out of business. Then you are left with pockets of people in the neighborhood going broke & sinking in to poverty, empty buildings gathering dust & becoming tagging spots, drug labs, squatter lots, etc. This is a big, fat neon "take advantage of this!" sign for dealers and gangs to flood in. Hello, turf wars, hello violence. And then you have the fallout of when they decide to abandon an area store. A LOT of people suddenly without jobs, a huge empty building, what do you think is going to happen then?
Screw you, Walmart, you do a fine job at sucking the life & livelihoods out of the places you touch.

I really hate all the stupid anti-walmart propaganda, stupid people eat it up.
What i don't get is that when you look at it objectively Walmart, K-mart and Target are really the same exact store. The only difference is Target paid to have their image redone a few years back. But for some reason it is only Walmart that is the root of all evil.

Originally posted by DavidWillts
I really hate all the stupid anti-walmart propaganda, stupid people eat it up.

It's a phenomenon that is well documented, it wipes out small merchants, and watch who you're calling stupid. This site doesn't work that way.

Capiche?

I remember in the one nearby Walmart, I used to see all the time many different items priced at $14.88. I recognized this as a white supremacist number - 1488; the 14 representing the "14 words", and the 88 representing "Heil Hitler". It seemed to be far too often to be a coincidence, so I mentioned this to an acquaintance of mine who was active in a particular group and he told me there are white supremacists within the company. It's also worth noting that Walmart did at one time sell shirts with the Totenkopf skull printed on the front.
It does seem that Walmart is in some way associated with white supremacists.

Originally posted by JohnnyCanuck

Originally posted by DavidWillts
I really hate all the stupid anti-walmart propaganda, stupid people eat it up.

It's a phenomenon that is well documented, it wipes out small merchants, and watch who you're calling stupid. This site doesn't work that way.

Capiche?

I didn't call anyone stupid specifically I called the propaganda stupid, so i guess the site does kinda work that way...