Reason: Too many to list
This
boycott happened in two phases. The first phase started when
Wal-Mart
started eating cans of spinach and expanding
into the controversial “super Wal-Mart” we all
know and hate.
Like
the rest of the herd, I started buying my groceries at Wal-Mart
simply because it was more convenient. “Wow,
I can get everything I need in one place, that’s great,” I
said.
Wrong.
First
off, Wal-Mart has been criticized for its extensive foreign
product sourcing, low rates of employee health insurance
enrollment, resistance to union representation, and alleged
sexism. In the beginning I was blind, or simply ignorant of
these facts. But I soon learned.
What
lit my fuse was, I eat a lot of produce, and I noticed the
stuff
I was buying from Wal-mart just didn’t last
as long as the stuff I bought from the local grocery store
or at the farmers stand.
Stuff
that would normally last at least a week would be going bad
in just 1 or 2 days. I’ve heard various rumors as
to why this happens, but no hardcore facts. The two most popular
reasons are that Wal-Mart ships their food to the states
from overseas and freezes it / stores it at too low of a temperature
during transit. Thus, causing the cell structure of the fruit/vegetable
to expand, rupture, and decompose faster when thawed; another
explanation I’ve heard is that Wal-Mart is cloning their
produce in secret underground facilities, and since the cloning
process is yet a mastered witchcraft, the cells of the foods
become unstable and begin decomposition sooner than naturally
grown foods. These are all mere hearsay rumors, but they sure
sound plausible to me. Phase one was now complete, I would
never buy food from Wal-Mart again.
Phase
two came naturally and rapidly with knowledge. I learned
of the extensive foreign product sourcing, low rates of employee
health insurance enrollment, resistance to union representation,
and alleged sexism. I also noticed how there was pretty much
nowhere else in town to get the products I need. Wal-Mart
had forced every mom & pop business that catered to the
same audience to go out of business because they did not have
the buying power of the corporate giant; they could not
compete with Wal-Marts prices.
And
for destroying the little guy on the way to the top is how
Wal-Mart made it onto my shit-list of boycotts against
evil empires and corporate corruption.
Re-Educate
with Wal-Mart:
the high cost of low prices.
