Walmart Appealing Directly To People With Catty Ads

Earlier this month, Walmart representatives refused to attend City Council hearings on their planned invasion of East New York, citing how unfair it was that everyone was ganging up on them while giving other chains an easy time. Now on the eve of another public hearing this Thursday, Walmart has decided to go on the offensive, with a series of radio, newspaper and mailer ads to try to appeal to people directly, while ignoring the Council and other politicians/critics. And they're kind of bitchy ads.

One such mailer reads: "You don't ask the special interests or the political insiders for permission to use the bathroom. So why should they decide where you're allowed to shop?" The tone of the mailers makes it seem like Walmart has been indulging its critics thus far, and has had enough of playing nice. "The key message here is that New Yorkers should decide where they shop and work. Some of the louder voices in the debate don't represent the interests of New Yorkers," said Walmart spokesman Steven Restivo. Council Speaker Christine Quinn said the ads reveal Walmart's desperation: "People can run whatever ads they want. It really speaks volumes that they're not willing to show up in front of government and answer questions."

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By Ben Yakas in News on January 30, 2011 3:55 PM

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SanDiegoView

The WalMart store on College Avenue at 94 in San Diego was subsidized with $9 million in taxpayers monies.

WalMart hired Edelman as their online troll group that works out of the WalMart 'war room' in Bentonville. Nobody goes online to glorify a retail store as a worker. WalMart has serious image problems because of what they really are, low wage low benefit Chinese retailers that illegally prohibit unions from developing the workforce.

WalMart has a private force of union busting employees that use a private jet out of Bentonville to infiltrate any store where they monitored employee's private conversations to see if anyone was talking about a union or has any sympathy to unionization.

“Jon Lehman, a former Wal-Mart store manager, told Bloomberg news in February 2004 that Wal-Mart has a 60×60-foot room in Bentonville in which two dozen people with headsets conduct surveillance on calls and emails from stores, to see whether anyone is talking about union organizing.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

WalMart is well known to have a huge crime problem that is 400% greater than Target on a store for store comparison basis.

The Black Friday stampede that killed J. Damour in a New York WalMart store was lead to the store by a jacked up WalMart advertising frenzy that included a "Blitz Line" sign culture from management. Damour a temp employee at 6'5" was sent to open the front door because the cowardly management knew the likelihood of injury and would not do it themselves.

The Walton family did not make >$100 billion in personal wealth by paying decent wages and offering genuine benefits. They got it through substandard wages against the American workforce and by dumping their 'associates' onto the states for health care to be paid for by the taxpayer suckers.

WalMart- We are funding the PLA (People's Liberation Army) and the new Chinese stealth fighter/bomber since Sam Walton got us into funding communist China 25 years ago. Walmartization is global labor arbitraging your neighbor into not being able to pay his/her mortgage by sending their good paying jobs overseas.

xXxMExXx

Gotta love when the anti-WalMart loons argue that big-unions are unfairly intimidated. Thanks for helping put a smile on my face on such an ugly day in NYC.
BTW, look up "just in time inventory." You might just learn something.

SanDiegoView

Ya gotta love inventory fanaticism-

At least 6 people are dead. Charges were never filed against these people for suspected petty theft by a local District Attorney and yet they were killed. No charges were filed by local District Attorneys against WalMart managers or the store personnel who killed these other people.

Names and locations of persons 'suspected' as shoplifters killed by WalMart Stores Inc. personnel-

Russell S. Palmer, 38- Kansas City, Missouri Dec. 2008

Patrick Donovan, 53- North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Stacy Driver, 30- Atascocita, Texas Aug. 2005 at about 2 p.m. Death ruled a homicide- WalMart paid $750,000 to the family.

Floyd Watson- Tulsa, Oklahoma

Jan M. Burstein, 29- Las Vegas, Nevada Sept. 2001 Death ruled a homicide
http://forums.securityinfowatc...

Marty Bridges 2009-12-22
Dunwoody, GA. Another Suspected Shoplifter Suspect Dies in WalMart Parking Lot

WalMart- Where people get killed.

Walmartsycophantpsychophobia- The strange, obsessive and abnormal fear of WalMart being disliked by other people.

FU Boy

Oh Wal-Mart, you fools disgust me. The image of New York is one of opulence and splendid wealth. Gala balls where parents spend millions for a coming-of-age party! Casual lunches with $50 hot dogs!

Bringing your "But we're cheap!" argument to this city is like trying to offer a feudal lord stale bread. New Yorkers will always look down on you and your peasant-luring wiles.

Now be ashamed you thought of bringing your common wares here and flog yourself for good measure.

robingee

Every store sells stuff made in China. Because it's cheaper. Wal-Mart did not invent this.

luke_1

They only revolutionized it.

John Bryans Fontaine

Discounting Rights
Wal-Mart's Violation of US Workers' Right to Freedom of Association

http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/...

EMPLOYEE RIGHTS
UNDER THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT

http://www.dol.gov/olms/regs/c...

xXxMExXx

You don't become the world's largest retailer without providing a very compelling reason to shop there.

Politburo

Sounds like someone's never been to a Walmart.

gothamcity

Price is the only compelling reason to shop there. And once you do your homework and understand who they step on and strong arm to get those low low prices, if you have even a shred of a soul you'll understand why so many in this city are against wal mart.

LazyNanny

BRING IT! Just leave bushels of cash for Charles Barron and some for $helly, and all the permits will be granted!

Rocknrope

Wal-mart must think the people of New York are as retarded as the rest of the country where they erect their business-killing monstrosi-stores.

crabbbapple

Wal-Fart can do whatever, I already have local stores to shop at for great prices, so I wouldn`t ever go there. What gets under my skin is that they send me mass amounts of junk mail telling me that I should really want to shop there. Bugger off already!

dept54321

Ha-ha! Wal-Fart. Instead of Wal-Mart, right? Fart. Ha! Priceless.

crabbbapple

missed the point?

Rocknrope

I don't get it.

AndySydor

In community after community across the US, when Walmart opens, small businesses close. That's a fact. Then that community loses a large portion of their tax base. As unemployment rises (thanks to the overall effect on Walmart coming in) wages go down, and social costs go up. Please note how Walmart has been caught deliberately underpaying their employees, so that they end up on welfare, medicaid, and other programs, because they can't afford to live on what Walmart pays them. Walmart has been a plague on our economy.

We use to have laws preventing chains from forming such oversized monopolies from forming in the first place. Such laws what allowed Walmart to get started in the first place. But once Walmart got big enough, they lobbied the government to get rid of those very laws. Now, no one can compete with Walmart.

Scout14

Don't forget that its also a fact that once the other stores are gone, walmarts prices start jumping up, as they are by default the lowest priced since theres no one to compete against.
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Mordicai

Ah yes, Big Small Business. Poor Wal-Mart, struggling under the thumb of Big Mom & Pop. Oh, the wicked lobbies of Nobody. However does Wal-Mart do it, the poor martyrs.

richcreamerybutter

On every other block in the 5 boroughs, you can find a mom & pop or local chain discount store. Not only are they just as competitively-priced (or better), but they usually carry other weird and wonderful staples from around the world (unlike Walmart).