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On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 01:08:51 GMT, Dee D. Flint wrote:
OTOH, there are several "successful" enterprises that we just wouldn't patronize - Wal-Mart leads that list. I would go if they had a product I wanted but see no reason to do so if they are not selling the products that I want. We do not shop there because we do not like their business attitudes in specific areas - hiring folks desperate for a job but only for 19 hours a week not to exceed two years' tenure, thereby avoiding paying much above minimum wage and granting no employee benefits, certain shenanigans about forced unpaid hours (subject of several lawsuits across the country), and trashing the local merchants and moving on whenever they pleased, leaving disaster in their wake. Our choice. -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon |
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Phil Kane wrote:
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 01:08:51 GMT, Dee D. Flint wrote: OTOH, there are several "successful" enterprises that we just wouldn't patronize - Wal-Mart leads that list. I would go if they had a product I wanted but see no reason to do so if they are not selling the products that I want. We do not shop there because we do not like their business attitudes in specific areas - hiring folks desperate for a job but only for 19 hours a week not to exceed two years' tenure, thereby avoiding paying much above minimum wage and granting no employee benefits, certain shenanigans about forced unpaid hours (subject of several lawsuits across the country), and trashing the local merchants and moving on whenever they pleased, leaving disaster in their wake. Our choice. Don't forget they hire illegal aliens to do some of the work..... Oh hey! that ws one of the original OT parts of this thread. Here we go full circle! - Mike KB3EIA - |
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In article , "Phil Kane"
writes: On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 01:08:51 GMT, Dee D. Flint wrote: OTOH, there are several "successful" enterprises that we just wouldn't patronize - Wal-Mart leads that list. I would go if they had a product I wanted but see no reason to do so if they are not selling the products that I want. We do not shop there because we do not like their business attitudes in specific areas - hiring folks desperate for a job but only for 19 hours a week not to exceed two years' tenure, thereby avoiding paying much above minimum wage and granting no employee benefits, certain shenanigans about forced unpaid hours (subject of several lawsuits across the country), and trashing the local merchants and moving on whenever they pleased, leaving disaster in their wake. Our choice. Exactly. That's what I call behaving like a "customer" rather than a "consumer". 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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