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06-23-2015, 11:34am | #121 | ||||||
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The problem is this is nanny state bullshit. That's the problem.
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I have to believe that this was not done for profit I have to agree with LARS. I don't believe that their customers give one ioda if they sell a confederate flag in some obscure corner in their store. Their black customers will shop there no matter what why because they have cheap prices. Most of there stuff is Chinese imported made crap from the people who hate us if we were true Americans the Chinese would go broke selling their stuff here because we would not buy it no matter how cheap it is. Don't get me wrong I go there for the same reason cheap prices. They sell Malcolm X hats and this guy was a white hating racist. They sell white cop killing rap records, I still would shop there why because prices are cheap. I think if they would have been asked why they sell Confederate flags and the CEO had balls they would state that we have a customer base in certain stores and we will continue to sell them there until they don't sell and make us a profit. Guns and rifles also I would have stated until they make guns illegal we will continue to sell them in stores that make us a profit selling them. If the walmarts in Detroit want to sell Muslim rag head sheets and it makes them a profit good for them. This is a spur of the moment PC correctness idea from some suit upstairs nothing else.
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You guys see the autotrader dukes of hazard commercial? The did everything they could not to show the roof of the car. It's shot from low angles. I honestly don't think the flag is even on the roof of the car. It's just the 01 on the side. Then when they trade the RT in for the viper, that car doesn't even have the flag on the roof. Just the 01 on the side. Public opinion means a lot to big corps. |
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Lots of companies show an obvious liberal bent. Lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of them. Walmart is just another one.
These companies make all kinds of decisions that promote an overtly obvious liberal agenda. Things like pulling books of a conservative nature while leaving liberal ones. Big-time donations to liberal politicians and liberal outfits while ignoring conservative ones. Etc. etc. etc. Why do any of these companies do these things, Sanchez??! It makes no sense!! Clearly, all they should be interested in is a bottom line! |
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I'm happy to spend a bit more for my purchases and avoid the human carnival and Draconian business practices that Wal-Mart embraces. It's just not worth it to me to have a miserable experience mingling with the dregs of society so that I can save $8.
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The flag is not there in the ads, but is on the actual car. It was photoshopped out. |
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What would it profit a store like Wal mart to make a political stand ? The same people would shop there-they would just receive LOADS of bad publicity. In this area, bad publicity is not better than no publicity at all.
Much like the internet chat rooms-a flag in your truck window says something about your beliefs. |
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How far does the conspiracy go? Are the audit firms that report on the fiscal health and overall strength of the management team in on it? When they discontinue a product line do they just tell them that it is done for "PC"? Or is a semi-plausible reason given and everyone really knows it's cause they are gotdang liberals! Wtf? I've spent my entire adult life working for for-profit companies. This angle is something I've never been privy too. Please, enlighten me. |
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Why does any liberal do anything to promote the liberal agenda?
Beats me. The entirety of liberalism makes no sense to me, so it is beyond me why anyone would promote it. But I do recognize it when I see it. Why does MSNBC continue with hardcore Marxist and socialist commentary when their ratings continue to spiral into the toilet? Beats me. And the last time I checked they were a for-profit corporation. |
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because their view of what society should be out weighs their need to turn a profit.
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MSNBC is a sliver of NBC as a whole and they are owned by GE. mSNBc is irrelevant and for the most pat their move left, right. Or wrong, was strategically aimed at countering Fox.
So, do the audit committees know about the master liberal agenda? Quote:
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Why anyone would promote such politics is simply dumbfounding to me. |
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You are.
I'm saying that the board of any publicly traded company's utilizing any action that was not in the best interest of the fiscal health of the company is highly unlikely. You are the one saying their actions are to promote their liberal agenda. I'm curious to see how far down the rabbit hole you have thought this through. Retail is a cut throat space. It's almost as bad as telecom. They don't have margin to play games. Someone else is out their to eat their lunch. Again, I clearly don't have the insight you do to the inner working of large publicly traded companies. |
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How about this. A product promoting a liberal agenda gets different shelf placement, or gets its pricing marked down with a big yellow smiley face. "Wow look how this is outselling that conservative product that we marked up an extra 10% and stuck on the bottom left corner. I guess people don't want that conservative stuff so fiscally, we have an obligation to dump it". See this provides the "appearance of balance" initially and the justification to make the adjustment to the left. So easy a cave man could do it. |
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So how many people are in on this on Walmart's end? None of them have ever talked or written a book about it? Really? This seems plausible to you. Really. |
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