Walmart is pulling all confederate flag merch..

[Sea Six]

Sanchez, I'm promoting you to Senior Troll.




















Wait.

Make that Señor Troll.

[Aerovette]

Originally Posted by DukeAllen

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/sales-...153357290.html

Yeap, wal mart is only looking at the bottom line.

Wow, I just last night posted that ebay had FOUR for under $18.00 and now they are as mush as $44.00.

I bought 3 at $9.99 each before they yank them down.

Fuggin nuts.

I never actually called them confederate. I always called them rebel flags.

[DukeAllen]

Originally Posted by Sea Six

Señor Troll.

*Señor Trololo

[Sea Six]

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[sanchez]

Originally Posted by Sea Six

Sanchez, I'm promoting you to Senior Troll.

After studying you for years I've gotten it down.

Walmart is a left wing arm of the DNC and 9/11 an inside job.

[Aerovette]

The bottom line (pun intended) is that WalMart is a POS company that is politically correct when they can afford it. This excerpt is a couple years old but it tells you their political correctness is also available at mark down prices.



TIMEBusiness

After initially declining to discuss gun policy with the White House, representatives from Walmart met with Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday as part of the Obama Administration’s ongoing talks on guns and gun control. Walmart’s apparent reluctance may reflect the extent to which gun sales have become an important part of the retailer’s bottom line. But just how important are they?

The U.S.’s largest retailer has what you might call an on-again, off-again relationship with guns. Back in 2006, Walmart stopped selling guns at a third of its stores, citing a lack of demand and “diminished customer relevancy.” Instead, it replaced firearms with other sporting goods like home fitness and exercise products. According to a 2006 New York Times article, this move coincided with Walmart’s shift away from rural areas and toward cities and suburbs.

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But when the recession hit in 2009, even “everyday low prices” couldn’t keep sales from slumping. Walmart experienced seven straight quarters of same-store sales declines in the U.S., triggering the retailer to expand its product selection. Among the additions: fishing rods, craft and sewing supplies, and guns.
Selections of rifles, shotguns and ammunition previously sold at Walmart were back as the retailer tried once again to target customers in more rural parts of the country. Today, guns are sold at between 1,700 and 1,800 of the 4,000 outlets across the U.S., says Walmart spokesperson Kory Lundberg. At about a third of its stores, the offerings include “modern sporting rifles,” a term that refers to the type of semiautomatic rifle used in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December.

Walmart doesn’t release specific gun-sales figures, so it’s difficult to determine what share of total U.S. gun sales are made at the country’s largest retailer. But given its broad, national reach, Walmart is likely the single biggest firearms seller in the U.S. And lately business has been good: even before reports that Walmart had sold out of semiautomatic rifles following Sandy Hook, chief merchandising officer Duncan MacNaughton said in October that revenue from gun sales increased 76% in the first half of the most recent fiscal year, while ammunition sales increased 30%

[Sea Six]

After studying you for years I've gotten it down.

Walmart is a left wing arm of the DNC and 9/11 an inside job.

Oh, no, no, no.

YOU'VE taken it to a new level. A whole 'nother level, my friend.


10/10
would read again




Folks, this is how quality trolling is done.

Usually, you have to use kind of a light touch. Like a safecracker. Or a pickpocket.

Sanchez, here, has managed to skillfully (and, dare I say it? Rather artfully) get us all to the point where he can brazenly and openly sling a bunch of Alinsky-styled insults and it almost doesn't look like he's trolling at all. Not many of us can claim that status.

Certainly not I.


Sanchez, I salute you.

[Aerovette]

Originally Posted by sanchez

After studying you for years I've gotten it down.

Walmart is a left wing arm of the DNC and 9/11 an inside job.

Taking the argument to an absurd extreme does not make the argument absurd.

[sanchez]

Originally Posted by Sea Six

Oh, no, no, no.

YOU'VE taken it to a new level. A whole 'nother level, my friend.


10/10
would read again




Folks, this is how quality trolling is done.

Usually, you have to use kind of a light touch. Like a safecracker. Or a pickpocket.

Sanchez, here, has managed to skillfully (and, dare I say it? Rather artfully) get us all to the point where he can brazenly and openly sling a bunch of Alinsky-styled insults and it almost doesn't look like he's trolling at all. Not many of us can claim that status.

Certainly not I.


Sanchez, I salute you.

You have yet to do anything other than deflect and make wild assed accusations. It's fine sea. I get it. This is your circle jerk.

[sanchez]

Originally Posted by DukeAllen

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/sales-...153357290.html

Yeap, wal mart is only looking at the bottom line.

A small retailer sold <300 flags!?!?? Holy shit.

[DukeAllen]

Originally Posted by sanchez

After studying you for years I've gotten it down.

Walmart is a left wing arm of the DNC and 9/11 an inside job.

That's closer to the truth than anything I'd bet that you believe.

[C5SilverBullet]

eBay is now removing it from their site.

[sanchez]

Originally Posted by DukeAllen

That's closer to the truth than anything I'd bet that you believe.

That's it.

I'm tapping out.

You guys win.

Year of practical experience inside major corporations and graduate school have failed me.

You win.

[ApexOversteer]

Originally Posted by DukeAllen

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/sales-...153357290.html

Yeap, wal mart is only looking at the bottom line.

I already mentioned it to my buddy and I'm making up an order of Confederate flag stuff now.

[DukeAllen]

Originally Posted by sanchez

That's it.

I'm tapping out.

You guys win.

Year of practical experience inside major corporations and graduate school have failed me.

You win.

OK guys, Sanchez knows better than us. We better stop arguing with an expert. He knows what an effective leader Barry is too. Let's all get out the kool aid now.

[Aerovette]

Originally Posted by ApexOversteer

I already mentioned it to my buddy and I'm making up an order of Confederate flag stuff now.

I drove around Atlanta with the back seat of my Charger draped with a rebel flag in the late 70s and no one thought anything about it. It has the negative connotation that people allow it to have.

Truth is, I could take or leave buying another one...until I am told I will no longer be allowed and then it pushes me off the fence.

It will be displayed in my backyard so as to not offend anyone, but it will fly.

That governor is weak.

[sanchez]

Originally Posted by DukeAllen

OK guys, Sanchez knows better than us. We better stop arguing with an expert. He knows what an effective leader Barry is too. Let's all get out the kool aid now.

No, you are right. It's all a massive left wing conspiracy.

It's all a big exec secret. We all love high taxes and social spending.

Jesus.

[LATB]

Originally Posted by Iron Chef

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.

but some need to save the 8-bux so they can afford a smidgeon of righteous indignation.

[LATB]

Originally Posted by sanchez

No, you are right. It's all a massive left wing conspiracy.

It's all a big exec secret. We all love high taxes and social spending.

Jesus.

The Nazarene? Or the Landscaper?

[DukeAllen]

Originally Posted by sanchez

No, you are right. It's all a massive left wing conspiracy.

It's all a big exec secret. We all love high taxes and social spending.

Jesus.

Jesus? Is he your brother, Sanchez?

Don't you have a company to dismember while prepping your golden parachute, Mr. Expert?