http://eastcountymagazine.org/node/11785
NATIONAL WALMART PROTEST REACHES EAST COUNTY AS LEAFLETTERS TARGET SHOPPERS AT GROSSMONT CENTER AND COLLEGE GROVE
I personally won't shop at any retailers open on Thanksgiving.
On November 24th, 2012 miriamg says:
If none of us went there on Thanksgiving night, this would stop.
Both my kids work jobs where they're forced to be at work on major holidays. I hate it. It's dsetructive of family life - it's impossible for our family to all be together even on Christmas Day or Thanksgiving most years. We should have some consideration for the employees. With a 4-day holiday weekend, there is no reason why people can't go shopping on Friday, Saturday or Sunday, and let workers have a day off with family on Thanksgiving.
While I can see a need for gas stations to be open to accommodate people traveling on Thanksgiving Day, there is absolutely no justification for employees to have to miss family time on holidays jsut to accommodate shopping mania. Let's get back to what holidays are all about, not the shop-til-you-drop craziness. Same with places like tourism attractions, movie thaeters, etc. You have 3 other days for all of that --let workers have the holiday, too.
As for Walmart, the issues are worse than just the holiday hours. Other retailers allow workers the dignity of working full time and provide them with healthcare. Walmart doesn't and taxpayers are stuck with the tab through MediCal, foodstamps and whatever other public assistance its employees need to survive. That's just wrong in my book, which is why I personally do not shop at Walmart
Isn't this DU misfit Miriam one of the editors of this rag? Way to go on full disclosure Miriam with noting that in your extremely biased response to this article.
As for the article:
It is also of note that at no time did any of these volunteers stop anybody from going into the store. They gave shoppers leaflets and many also wore “I support Walmart workers†green stickers.
Walmart posted security at every entrance, from their management teams. They also had an hourly employee ask people to throw the flyers into the trash as they walked in. Some shoppers did, some did not and went on to buy their merchandise wearing these green stickers.
Hey Nads of Arc - Walmart, and every other store, hires police details and posts security at the door on every single black friday. It had nothing to do with the fear of 15 misfit protestors (when hundreds of shoppers line up to shop).
I would also like to know how you know that some threw the flyers into the trash and some didn't? Also would like to know how you learned that an "hourly employee" (and aren't they all?) was stationed there to ask shoppers to throw the flyers away? You do know that Walmart has official greeters at every store, every single day of the year right?
I agree with Frank. Nads didn't even go did she? There are no pictures of the line of shoppers waiting to get in - you know, at opening when there are doorbuster sales. This pictures looks like it was taken at noon. Maybe it's a Northeast thang, but the stores around these here parts open up when it is dark and really really scary out. What's the matter Nads? no trolley service at midnight?
She is a phony wannabe hack. I have seen high school newspapers with better articles.
