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Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Should WalMart be Held to Different Standards Than Other Businesses?
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Unless we have already become the Union of Socialist States of America, there is absolutely no reason for Walmart to be held to any standard other than what all other retailers are held to.
Walmart simply sells what buyers want, like other retailers. If buyers in every community did not like them, they could not have reached the stature they have.
Start your own retail buiness, with your own money and compete with them if you wish, just like Sam Walton did.
It's a free country and everyone that wishes to market their mousetrap is able to.
Who cares if Sammy Boy is anti-WalMart, but using his power to keep them out? Somebody, please, get us a lawyer and BF the Lords of Portland nice and hard. The entire council needs to wind up living in Dignity Village.
tromatic:
In terms of distasteful comments, yours is among the more distasteful I have read. I hope I will not be labored with many more such outbursts.
As to WalMart being held to a different standard, WalMart is, by the sheer size of its operation, a different sort of business. What is wrong with holding this different sort of business to standards appropriate to it? .
David, what about other large companies? Is Walmart the only company that should subjected to different standards?
What over smaller companies? Do they get exempted from current standards for the workplace because they aren't large?
A business is a business is a business. All businesses should be held to equal standards, especially in matters of carrying health insurance for their employees. The only possible exceptions could be those businesses employing less than say 50 people. The very small business are likely operating with a very low profit margin, if they have one at all, that simply cannot allow them to carry health insurance for their people with out forcing them into a deficit condition, or, even out of business.
Why should Walmart be held to a different standard than General Motors or McDonalds or Ford or K-Mart/Sears or Chrysler? These, and many more, are multi-jillion dollar companies and all should be held to the same standards as all the other multi-jillion dollar companies or there should be no standards for any of them. What is good for the goose should also be good for the gander (to use a very old cliche), should it not?
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