primitives discuss Wal-Mart closing

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025661713

Oh my.

Live and Learn (3,352 posts)    Mon Oct 13, 2014, 08:45 PM

Ferguson - WalMarts' fear of black people resulted in their closing today.

Protestors had planned a brief flash mob event but WalMart panicked when they saw some people congregating outside, barricaded the doors and called police. The result was a long stand off, lots of supporters honking in approval, the shut down of WalMart for the night and calls for a boycott on WalMart.
 
Good going WalMart, you screwed yourself.

840high (3,565 posts)    Mon Oct 13, 2014, 11:20 PM

18. What? You approve of stealing?

RichGirl (3,742 posts)    Mon Oct 13, 2014, 11:56 PM

41. Oh you're worried about stealing from Walmart!!!!! Now that's a joke!

It's Walmart that is stealing from us. They pay full time employees minimum wage. These people have families to support and make so little money that they qualify for SNAP, housing supplements, etc. And who do you think pays for that?? WE DO!! They make three billion a year profit and a billion of it is our money. By all rights... if you are a tax payer and your taxes are helping Walmart pay their employees...you should be entitled to take some of their cheap crap every now and then!
 
Walmart heirs worth as much as bottom 41.5% of American families

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/18/business/la-fi-mo-walmart-heirs-20120718

DrDan (16,107 posts)    Tue Oct 14, 2014, 08:30 AM

68. ridiculous

are they breaking laws? I do not shop there by the way. I don't like their practices. BUT, that does not give ANYONE the right to steal - regardless of how cheap the crap is that was stolen.
 
How about going after the legislators that are willing to set these wages so low. They are the ones to blame - not those that are greedy enough to profit from these laws. Greed is not against the law.

Live and Learn (3,352 posts)    Tue Oct 14, 2014, 09:26 AM

78. Really,? You can't see the huge difference between a person

stealing out of necessity and those stealing from greed? In fact, you think greed is an okay reason to steal? Funny, I think the opposite.

RichGirl (3,742 posts)    Tue Oct 14, 2014, 12:07 AM

42. Honestly....I don't understand attitudes here.

Anyone with a fraction of a heart would be on the side of the protesters in this case. If I were manager of Walmart or any other business I'd haul out drinks and snacks for the crowd. Even when tension rises...it can be soothed with kindness.
 
Their was a flash mob in a concert hall. They weren't happy with it but didn't run like scared rats either.

TexasMommaWithAHat (250 posts)    Tue Oct 14, 2014, 09:41 AM

84. These so-called "flash mobs"

can get out of control. Besides stealing a few cookies, they sometimes start throwing stuff off the shelves and generally wreck the place creating more work for the employees. Youtube it if you doubt it.
 
I would have locked the doors, as well. I'm pretty sure that none of those employees wanted to clean up after that mob if it hadn't gotten out of control.

GP6971 (1,451 posts)    Mon Oct 13, 2014, 10:35 PM

10. Would they close the store

if it was a white crowd?

LeftyMom (47,042 posts)    Mon Oct 13, 2014, 11:03 PM

13. It's really sad (and by sad I mean probably racist) that DUers assume a protest means looting.

This place sometimes. *shakes head sadly*

morningfog (9,311 posts)    Mon Oct 13, 2014, 11:18 PM

17. Walmart is as much a symbol of the state as the cops.

So they were looted last time? So they fear a flash mob of angry black people will loot again? Awww.
 
Watch how quick the cops come to walmart's protection.

TeeYiYi (6,343 posts)    Tue Oct 14, 2014, 12:33 AM

45. Mother****ers!!!...

I HATE Walmart but I've been giving them my business in a small central Utah town for the past 3 years; after moving to a small farming town that's 10 miles from its closest neighbor.
 
My teensy town has no grocery stores. The next town over has two food options; one of them being Walmart.
 
Between prescriptions, groceries and other bullshit, Walmart has received literally THOUSANDS; well over $5000+ per/yr. since I relocated, 3 years ago.
 
**** THEM!... **** you, Walmart! I have options! I can shop in northern Utah for the bulk of my food and pick up stray items from one of the other regional grocery stores. It's easy to move my prescriptions.
 
I am so mother****ing SICK and TIRED of the militarized police state that the United States has become. I am so heartsick, watching the asshole, militarized thug police... murder and disenfranchise my black brothers and sisters with impunity. I am thoroughly disgusted with the continued baton beating, white asshat, mace spraying, tear gas cannister throwing cowards in riot gear that are 'serving and protecting' the citizens of St. Louis, Missouri.
 
They lie! They obfuscate! They plant evidence! They reinvent history! They tell me that my 'lying eyes' are not seeing what I thought I saw... They're murdering young black boys in Missouri and killing the souls of African American children for generations to come.
 
The world is watching, St. Louis!... Ferguson!... Shaw!!!... We're watching and you're not as clever as you may have thought you once were,... once upon a time. You can't hide your racist bullshit any longer. THE WORLD IS WATCHING! The world is recording you and social media is just the disinfectant that your kabuki theatre requires.
 
I'M SICK OF IT! I've been sleep deprived, watching the live streams from St. Louis all weekend. The level of my disgust in the recent months but especially this weekend, has been steadily rising to a boiling point. I wanted to do something but, besides solidarity, I didn't know what I could do to put my money where my mouth is.
 
I wasn't home today, so this is the first I'm hearing about what happened at Walmart today... Well, boycotting Walmart is a boycott where I can make a huge difference; a boycott that will actually hurt the company I'm boycotting.
 
Walmart, you should've stood with the citizens of Missouri. ALL OF THE CITIZENS! Not just the white, 'corporations are people too' citizens. You're now, officially, so ****ing transparent! Well, thank you for peeling the scales from my eyes...
 
**** you Walmart! There are parents burying their children in Ferguson and Shaw, and you locked your doors!...and call the PO..LEECE!!! ... **** you, you chickenshit, racist, narrow minded, tunnel vision, piece of shit, mother****ing sons of bitches! You just lost my business!... I'm done with you! I'm taking my money, over $5000/yr. and moving it elsewhere.
 
You made your choice...

I'm making mine!

Yeah, yeah, sure, sure you are.

[BlueStateSaint]

This is all they're doing in that thread:

[FaC]

TeeYiYi (6,343 posts)    Tue Oct 14, 2014, 12:33 AM

45. Mother****ers!!!...

I HATE Walmart but I've been giving them my bu...

Wow - somebody needs to get back on their med schedule.

Why wouldn't WalMart close their doors when they see a mob coming, especially considering the behavior of these particulat mobs over the last couple of months.

Mark my words, in a couple of years we will be seeing stories about how large swaths of the St. Louis metro area are food and retail deserts. When we see this we need to remember back to today to figure out why that is so.

[JakeStyle]

They're just friendly black folk, they don't really mean it when they say "**** the police", or "kill the white devils".  They just want some cookies.

[Carl]

This is why leftism always ends in violence.
The ends justifies the means to them.

[Wineslob]

So, tell me DUmmies, what does this have to do with a fat-ass "teenager' that stole, attacked a cop and ended up dead in the street?

[JakeStyle]

Some of the sane ones are asking that question, but they are being drowned out by the horde.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ambeIQB6AGk

[Dori]

Walmart has an obligation toward the safety of it's employees to shut the store.  How stupid can this dummy get?

The store had already been looted before since the Brown shooting.

That mob smashed windows, glass cabinets, stole electronics, including all the televisions, etc. 

[67 Rover]

Walmart has an obligation toward the safety of it's employees to shut the store.  How stupid can this dummy get?

The store had already been looted before since the Brown shooting.

That mob smashed windows, glass cabinets, stole electronics, including all the televisions, etc.

Walmart proactively closing the doors probably saved lives, maybe even some of the obamasons lives.

[JohnnyReb]

Lets flash mob the DUmmie's places and take everything they have and see how they like it. I'm sure they will leave the door open and serve refreshments and snacks.

[txradioguy]

Lets flash mob the DUmmie's places and take everything they have and see how they like it. I'm sure they will leave the door open and serve refreshments and snacks.

May as well do that.  Our tax dollars paid for it anyway.

[Wineslob]

Walmart has an obligation toward the safety of it's employees to shut the store.  How stupid can this dummy get?

 

[delilahmused]

So considering how upset they are at the overt racism exhibited by Walmart there are no black people that work there? Damn! Next time I'm in there I'm heading straight for the customer service desk because that man who showed me where the fertilizer was, obviously stole a vest from an associate and was trying to be helpful. The nerve!

Cindie

[thundley4]

Walmart proactively closing the doors probably saved lives, maybe even some of the obamasons lives.

Exactly. The DUmmies would be blaming Walmart if they didn't close and some ObamaSons ended up injured or dead.  They blamed Walmart a couple of years ago when some people were injured and one killed during the Black Friday mess after Thanksgiving.

[Wineslob]

Exactly. The DUmmies would be blaming Walmart if they didn't close and some ObamaSons ended up injured or dead.  They blamed Walmart a couple of years ago when some people were injured and one killed during the Black Friday mess after Thanksgiving.

 


 

[Dori]

So considering how upset they are at the overt racism exhibited by Walmart there are no black people that work there? Damn!

Ferguson is 70% black.  I think it's safe to assume that number is reflected in the racial make-up of the employees and customers, or maybe it's even higher, depending upon the neighborhood it's in.

[Delmar]

Response to Live and Learn (Reply #99)Tue Oct 14, 2014, 11:27 AM
joeglow3 (5,490 posts)
108. Seriously, one has to TRY to be that obtuse

I have yet to see a DU user (who is not a mole) claim the police have not overstepped their bounds. However, for some reason, there are some who seem unable to acknowledge poor behavior that has taken place by a small number of protesters. We all saw what happened to a lot of businesses and I did not see the police tearing those places up.

Ferguson, the new home of "mostly peaceful" protests where the violent troublemakers are from the "fringe."

Today, the LA Times described a Los Angeles protest from Monday night as "peaceful," before it became "violent." The authors, Robert J. Lopez, Andrew Blankstein and Ruben Vives reported that the violence occurred, "after youths broke away from the main demonstration in Leimert Park, stomped on cars, broke windows, set fires and attacked several people."

The "mostly peaceful" protesters also attacked two journalists, sending one to the hospital and "stormed a Wal-Mart."

During the height of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests, the media regularly sought to diminish the damage inflicted by the thugs of the movement by referring to the oftentimes violent protests as "mostly peaceful," or portrayed the protesters as peaceful, but with some non-peaceful infiltrators.

This trend has repeated itself in the coverage of the Zimmerman verdict protests, which consist of many of the same players.

http://www.examiner.com/article/zimmerman-verdict-protests-the-return-of-mostly-peaceful