Wal-mart Shoppers Stunned As Tannoy Announcement Orders Black People To Leave

I will go on and agree that using a product name in the headline really was not necessary but I don't get how that in itself is offensive?

How does one hold the entire company responsible for some unknown MC? It was not like Sam Walton wrote into the employee handbook to periodically weed the customers out. It is a business, they want everyone to shop! Plus, they employ 1.8 million people so before you wish bankruptcy at least think of all the people that rely on that company!

There will be a new company(ies) to take Wal-Mart's place....other stores have went bankrupt and new ones are created...and people are employed....Wal-Mart does not have "eternal" status...no more than any other bank or business that alienates it customers.

#3.1: if it really truly offends you

Oh, dear, please don't delete the article. You haven't offended me, and the article is about an offensive act, and it should be left up for all the world to see and to sneer at. You are just the messenger, and I sure as heck wouldn't want to shoot you!

You didn't write the headline. And I think that the offensiveness of the headline is just as important as the offensive act it bespeaks. No, leave it as-is. Some things simply need to be offensive if they are to have an impact, and I think this is one of those instances. I hope you understand what I mean, because it has nothing to do with you (I like you).

Actually, you're one of the real sweeties in this world. We need more of you, and more KJoys, too.

#3.3: There will be a new company(ies) to take Wal-Mart's place..

Actually, someday WalMart will piss off enough people that it will begin to decline, and about the time that happens, another entrepreneur will have come up with something better than WalMart, so the employment will shift gradually to the new enterprise as the old one fails. I've seen it over and over and over in my lifetime alone, and there's no reason to think anything is sacred in retail.

Does anyone remember Gimbels? Woolworths? Caldor? There's a huge laundry list of retailers whose heyday came and went and which were replaced by bigger and better (or maybe just bigger)...

The fact is, if it weren't for overall low prices (although in some things, I've seen lower prices elsewhere), I think most people would happily shift from WalMart to another store. I really believe WalMart is living on borrowed time. It has lousy PR, for many, many reasons, and people will eventually find that they can live without it. The good thing is that it will be a gradual decline, allowing its employees to gradually find work elsewhere. And, let's face it, very few people look at WalMart as a career. It's a first job, or a job for people who simply can't find work elsewhere, but very few people make a career out of it.

bitemore #5 - Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:26 PM CDT

Okee-dokee... I get it... they use it t'annoy folks like me.

I thought about that, too, but I didn't want to bring it up without a source to verify it.

Tee hee... I am so glad that I wasn't the only one to think that.

Yeah, I would probably be in a lot of trouble if my son ever did something like that.