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Originally posted by Hopechest
So what is your alternative?
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The world’s largest retailer was fined for dumping hazardous chemicals in city trash bins and sewer systems in cases filed by the Los Angeles and San Francisco municipalities.
In addition, the US Justice Department said Wal-Mart Stores had mishandled pesticides it had sent as damaged products to a Missouri recycling facility that resulted in them being mixed together and put on sale again in a process that violated federal laws regulating pesticide processing.
Originally posted by Hopechest
So what is your alternative?
Well Corporations are people are'nt they? So my solution would be to send wal-mart to prison...well you can't send a building to prison you say? bring the prison to the building... Chain the doors of every wal-mart for a year or ten years, whatever a normal person would be sentenced to for dumping that many toxins into the enviroment.
Corporations wanted to be classified as people for political donations and they got it, well "people" can go to jail. Can't really have it both ways can they???
The world’s largest retailer was fined for dumping hazardous chemicals in city trash bins and sewer systems in cases filed by the Los Angeles and San Francisco municipalities.
Originally posted by Hopechest
So what is your alternative?
Have the government break up Wal-mart?
Considering the size of their corporation you can expect some misdeeds to happen somewhere. Obviously they are not doing this everywhere and this was an isolated incident.
But what the heck...break them up....
Sad
Originally posted by ANNED
if they are doing this in Los Angeles and San Francisco they are doing it at every store in every state.
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
You know, I got to thinking on this a bit and this whole call for fines seems silly and really counterproductive. It's a tax by a different name and don't our corrupt politicians already get a wee TOO much money to waste as it is? Why not make the penalty fit AND hit Walmart where it hurts?
If they can't handle Chemicals within Missouri and California state laws? Fine...but no fines. Simply prohibit Walmart from selling any similar products or chemicals within those state markets for a set period. 1yr? 2yrs? Whatever for the level of offense.
It would give locals a bump with a time to plan as a bonus, for taking back the market on the given item type. It also punishes Walmart in customers lost to those who haven't shown criminal levels of irresponsibility with handling it. They lose the money and probably far more of it ...but not into the pockets of the corrupt. They just flat lose it, period ...and other stores benefit.
Originally posted by SheopleNation
reply to post by TheCrimsonGhost
Ummm no, how about it going to the environment?
Course, If the State collects the fines, I doubt it will go to neither. ~$heopleNation
Originally posted by TheCrimsonGhost
Well in order to get to the "environment" it would have to go to some non-profit and be handled correctly, so we are suggesting the same thing.... the idea is keeping the money out of government hands where it will feed the cycle.
Originally posted by Lysergic
Originally posted by Hopechest
reply to post by boncho
I really don't understand this hate on Wal-mart.
What bad customer service did you get?
You taking back that ten dollar vegetable steamer you grandma bought you and you had to wait in line for 20 minutes?
Its a fricken grocery store for pete's sake.
I hope for your own sake you are not buying grocerys at walmart.