Monday, January 30, 2006

No New Wal-Mart for Bend


Come on, people - say it with me: WOOOHOOO!

Sanity for once has prevailed and the proliferation of the Evil Empire of Retail has been stopped in Bend (for now anyway) - Bend city hearings officer denies Wal-Mart’s proposed 217,000-square-foot Supercenter.

I refuse to shop there, and have signed petitions supporting a citizen action to stop the new Wal-Mart. I'm certainly not rich (is a freelancer ever?), but I refuse to support an empire who treats their employees like crap in exchange for saving 20 cents on a bottle of shampoo.

You might be saving a buck by shopping at Walmart, but you're also helping proliferate poverty by supporting a retailer who is so greedy, it doesn't see fit to pay a living wage to the very people on who's back it has built its empire. The only way to truly stop them (and their continued abuse of their employees) is to STOP SHOPPING THERE.

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