F*CKING WALMART!!!!!
When will they care about poor people.
As you have probably seen on TV and elsewhere, in September 2006, Wal-Mart launched its $4 prescription program. Now, 18 months later, it reports that it has saved consumers over $1 billion (yes, billion) as a result of that program. That’s $1 billion that poorer consumers have to spend elsewhere on the things they need (or that is reducing insurance costs and premiums), not to mention they can now buy prescriptions they might not have been able to afford before or not have to cut pills in half to save money. Moreover, that program prompted Wal-Mart’s competition to create similar programs, the benefits of which can be placed on top of that $1 billion. For some strange reason, the major media didn’t cover this story when Wal-Mart’s press release went out last Friday.
It’s because of their monopoly that they can so callously ignore the pain and suffering they cause the poor by saving them money. Thank god there are affluent liberals that would never stoop to shopping at Walmart eager to take up the cause of regulating increased costs on all the goods as means to helping the poor by making things less affordable.
March 25th, 2008 at 10:07 am
I am getting so sick of Wall Mart. Why wont MSM or movie makers put something together talking about all the negative things Wal Mart does? I only hear positive stuff about them and I know that cannot be true. They exploit the poor and somebody needs to stand up for those poor fools who blindly shop their.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
This is refeshing to hear. Now the 57% of WalMart workers without health insurance might be able to get the drugs they need. I feel better.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
I’m ambivalent about WalMart. On the one hand, they run an efficient operation and bring the lowest prices to the consumer.
On the other hand (and this happened in my home town), they come in with their low prices, put most other retailers out of business, then people have little choice but to work for WalMart, which as Jamie pointed out is a pretty crappy proposition when it comes to pay or benefits.
Now I know you’re thinking, “They don’t have to work for walmart, it’s a free labor market.” Well yes, it’s true, I just can’t be a WalMart cheerleader for that reason. And yes I know that paying their workers shit allows them to offer goods at lower prices. Thus my ambivalence.
March 25th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Good thing they do their business in the old fashioned way… without government subsidies… I’d hate it if the gov somehow were involved in their success…