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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (7044)	1/18/2012 6:12:22 PM
From: Murrey Walker	5 Recommendations Respond to of 85487

When I walk through WalMart - which I admit is very seldom - all I see is fat Americans buying cheap crap made in China that they don't need. Everyone in that food chain has no health care; not many of the employees, not many of the suppliers that are endlessly squeezed by WalMart and not the fat buyers of that China crap. I'm going to have to take issue with the stereotype you're portraying here, Steve. While I don't know for a fact that I was banned from VFC for posting a similar comment on PfP made by the smarmy princess (when the subject was brought up), there are enough similarities to give me the impression the stereotype you mention is cut from the generalizing liberal fabric. FACT: I live in a tourist town that has a Super WalMart less than three minutes away. My wife and ALL of her friends shop there. AND yes there's a demographic that loosely fits your defined stereotype, its small, but its there. I can't tell you the number of times my wife has come back from the store (and yes she shops other grocery/department stores) telling me about the huge discrepancy in prices from store to store. Believe me, when my wife sees a savings, she jumps on it, but she also drives a Mercedes convertible. FACT: My next door neighbor and his brother own amusement parks (approx 30 at last count) across the country. AND they shop there. I could post anecdotal snippets on and on, but you get my drift. You do yourself no favor by buying into the anti WalMart propaganda. Trust me!

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (7044)	1/18/2012 8:07:09 PM
From: Brumar89	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

When I walk through WalMart - which I admit is very seldom - all I see is fat Americans buying cheap crap made in China that they don't need. That deserves a prize for the most stereotypes in one sentence. That it was composed by an admitted Walmart shopper is a nice layer of irony on top. How could you know the fat Americans filling your Walmart don't need that cheap Chinese crap anyway? I mean, you must think you need the cheap Chinese crap you go there to buy. Otherwise you wouldn't be there. You could go shop somewhere else where the children of working women aren't condemned to suffer through life with no health care.