Stan, what's a "Teamster" doing shopping at Wallmart?
Chris, you've brought up quite a serious issue. This may be totally off-topic but your question, although I know is said in humor, is quite a problem with some of the moral and ethical issues that I wrestle with everyday now. I apologize to the rest of the members for my getting on my political soap box but here goes.
Back home (Boston), the anti-Walmart climate is HUGE. And I do mean huge. As a Teamster, we morally chose to shop only at non anti-union companies.
We even refused to receive packages from FedEx. If we were seen shopping at Walmart, we were shunned by our coworkers and reprimanded by our Local.
This worked extremely well in the Boston area where Walmart had no respect and we had plenty of alternatives. They were just basically another store.
Down here in Fum-buck County, there is nowhere else to go. Walmart, down here, literally is a horizontal funnel where goods flow in through the back door and straight out the front door into your trunk. They might as well set up a conveyor belt rather than stock the shelves. My "boys" back home understand my situation as they are not living in a cocoon and don't realize the what a walmart world the U.S. is now and how, as Teamsters, we are dynosaurs in our death throes.
I'm being 100% honest when I say I have to hold back on my wanting to upchuck every time I pull into their parking lot.
Again, my apologies, but if it wasn't for my Teamsters pension, I'd be dumpster diving rather than shopping at Walmart. It's the lesser of two horrible evils.
Sorry for the interruption, we now return to our regular C-body programming.
BTW, if this leads into a union/anti-union dialog, I'm out of here. OK? :angry3: