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thx997303 wrote:
I believe that all gun owners need to boycott Wal-mart. This is not the first time that they have taken stances like this, and it seems that they are either lying in that e-mail, or they are lying to others who have been told that their policy is to follow local and state laws.
And to anyone who is going to tell me that a boycott would not be effective, bull.
Look what happened to Blockbuster.
It would take a serious effort of will by ahuge percentage of gun-owners toboycott Walmart effectively. And even then, Walmart has such ahuge world-widebase of customers who are not gun-owners,they'd just shrug-off the minor loss of revenue. The corporation has many other sources of profit (Sams Club, Walmart Realty(!));in Japan alone there's Seiyu Supermarkets, LIVIN Department Stores,Seiyu Supercenters,Seiyu GMS (food & apparel),& Seiyu GM (general merchandise), and major store assets in Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, Germany, China,and Brazil.
American Walmart storeslocated in smallrural/semi-rural towns with alarge number of gun-ownerswould be the hardest hit by a gun-owner boycott. And I'd put money on a bet that Walmart would punish theboycottinglocalsby promptly cutting employee hours, vacation/sick days,pay-raises, and whateverothertiny benefits Walmart employees get. In addition, for many of those small towns, Walmart has become the onlyoption for buying food & dry-goods, sinceit had long ago put the mom-n'-pop grocers & general stores out of business.
So like I said, it'd take a serious committment for many gun-owners to stop spending their money at Walmart as it's likely the only place within 30 miles where they can buy steaks, bulk dog-chow, a pair of Dockers, a fuzzy bean-bag for their kid, a 3000pc. Eifel Tower puzzle, and a couple boxes of .30-30 to take care of those marauding wild hogs that've been tearing up the sweet potatoes.
As much as I hate Walmart, and have beenavoiding it by myself for years, it'd take a lot more than my being joined by a few thousandothers to make Walmart change their policies on customers carrying guns in their stores.
The boycott of Blockbustercouldn't have been that much of an inconvenience, what with alternatives like Hollywood Video, movie-rentals at the corner party-store, and most especially Netflix.
But don't get me wrong, I wholeheartedly encourage everyone to cease & desist giving their hard-earned dollars to that bloated, corrupt sweatshop.
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And speaking of......there may be
one less reason for gun-owners to shop at aWalmart store because of this lady and others like her. What I read is so completely ignorant and insane as to be nearly beyond comprehension. I sincerely wish these people would shut-up, leave the country, orleave with California when it breaks off and goes to hang out with Hawaii.
