Engadget recently commented on the possibility that Wal-Mart threatened to order fewer DVDs if movie studios partnered with the iTunes movie store. Although this story isn’t very interesting, what caught my attention were the comments against Wal-Mart:
“Wal-Mart, lol. These corporations are so pathetic. I am so thankful that I have never spent a dime in a Wal-Mart. I went into one once and was so dismayed at what I saw that I have never gone back. Too bad some people only care about one thing and that is saving every single penny they can cause its those people that keep these people in business.”
“I wish walmart would die. Their stores just make me depressed, with all the grime and towering shelves and cheapo products. And the toothless mother beating her child in aisle three. I would muuuuuch rather pay a little more and escape all that crap. Come to think of it I would gnaw my own limbs off and drag myslef out with my teeth to escape all that crap.”
“I’ll take mine [DVDs] from a store, a non-WalMart store. A non-cheapo, non-white-trash, non-screaming baby store.”
Is this what the majority of anti-Wal-Mart crusaders think? These comments are some of the most elitist, hateful, arrogant, aristocratic things I’ve heard. And this indignity from people who probably claim to fight poverty, abolish social stratification and promote tolerance?
If you don’t like Wal-Mart, don’t shop there. Just like any other store or place or thing in the world, if you don’t like it, don’t do it. Why must you try to force others to do what you want? The people who made these comments disgust me. I hope they are the few, but I fear they are the many.
Matt, I agree with you in principle, but “disgust?” That’s a little like K-Mart calling the Big-Lots cheap. ;-) Anyway, check this out for a fairly articulate, if pointless critique of Wal-Mart.
Ah I can’t find a way of saying this that doesn’t sound sarcastic. This post was an emotional reaction, with no content. I believe the same day I wrote an unfortunate comment with some heavy arrogant overtones on Junk Charts. I’m not quite sure what was wrong yesterday… =/
This is my semester of experimentation, so my sole refuge is knowing that things can’t go right all the time. (or my sole excuse perhaps)
Actually, I agree, it is disgusting. How could people be so callous in their elitism? Are they so desperate to escape their own class, or so insecure, that they must resort to this anti-Wal-Mart lunacy?