Say NO NO NO to Wal-Mart!!!

Say NO NO NO to Wal-Mart!!!

Walmart has gotten too big and it uses its power to exert over us. No
one can blame Wal-Mart for being abusive afterall, it's us, the
consumers, who gave the power to them! We are irresponsible and greedy
because we want the cheapest prices! I have to admit that I am guilty
as well as I do shop occasionally at you know where! (but that's to
change from now on)

After reading this article "The Wal-Mart You Don't Know" by Charles
Fishman (Fast Company) Dec 2003.
(http://go.jitbot.com/no-to-wal-mart), you'll know that:

- Jobs are lost everyday because of Wal-Mart
- Factories / companies die because of Wal-Mart.
- Too much power is given to a single entity, Wal-Mart.

let's stop this madness for a change. Be responsible!

- As a consumer, be reasonable, there is no need to shop everything at
Wal-Mart. Don't go for cheap...Look for value. Are you getting the
service you want from Wal-mart? Last time I went, I waited a long line
to pay at the cash. When I had to return an item...the waiting was
longer!

- As a supplier, be rational! Increasing short-term sales and profits
by supplying to Wal-Mart, while squeezing your margins and destroying
your brands is the quickest way to brankruptcy court. If price is the
only way you can think of competing, then, you already lost the war to
the Chineses!

- As an Investor, stop buying the stock of WMT if believe that the
long-term effects will bear negative consequences to the whole
economy. There is no pleasure to make money in the stock market, to
find out how many jobs have lost because of you.

Don't get me wrong, I am a champion of the free-markets. I believe we
have our responsibilities to take. We don't need the government to
step in one day like they did to Microsoft. Let's be responsible for a
change.

By the way, a little more about me, I am a Canadian Chinese, a
business owner (tech-related company and in no way, a supplier of
Wal-mart) and I don't own WMT stocks.

Please spread this word around, it's for our own good.

Cheers!
Jeff