Would a Walmart blog do more than a war room?
Shel Israel says that if Walmart just launched a blog, that’d draw the love of all the blue-collar towns fighting its spread. If he just suggested a blog as part of a full friendly outreach, I wouldn’t call him out. But he said:
What are they preparing to battle [with a war room]? The fact that most everyone hates them.
Personally, if they had asked me, I would have advised them to just start a blog. It would have been a lot cheaper and more effective to create a conduit in which their customers, impacted towns and neighborhoods, employees, vendors and free speech advocates could have talked back to them.
Does Israel really think the bubble’s expanded to Walmart’s target customers yet?
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on November 1, 2005 at 4:54 pm 8Bit Jake wrote:
Given the revolting internal memos that have been leaked out of Wal-Mart a official company blog would be just about suicidal. They pay hundreds of millions each year to hide the real face of the monster with that damned yellow smile-face.
on November 2, 2005 at 10:39 am Luke wrote:
If they limit it to approved feedback, they might be able to keep a happy face on it while still giving the appearance of an open forum of discussion. He who runs the blog determines the content. What real point would there be to having a blog for a big corporation that sells merchandise made by other companies? Blogs allow an insight into the personality behind the public face, and since Wal-mart wants to hide that, what point would there be to it. Just because blogs are “in” doesn’t mean they’re necessary to maintaine legitimacy. Find a good blog by someone who works at Wal-mart and link to it. Tell everyone about it, and make an impact that way. Don’t expect the company to make themselves a target.
on November 5, 2005 at 2:41 am Robb wrote:
Never would they let an open Blog run to the employees or general public. They just have to keep LOW prices and the 21,000 odd mom and pop and small chains that have closed stores in the last 15 years will just be forgotten as will the over 6000 factories and mills in the US in the same time period.
Walmart didn’t start this, Sam was pushing MADE IN USA when everyone else was moving in the other direction. They didn’t start it, but THEY FINISHED IT!
Robb
http://www.OffTheWallMart.com
on January 24, 2006 at 12:17 pm neil wrote:
“most everyone hates them”??? - no, that’s just the perception of a few deluded, brain-washed simpletons who were weak-minded enough to join the anti-walmart mob when the union comrades encouraged it. Most Americans like walmart and shop there regularly. That’s why it’s doing so well
on February 8, 2006 at 9:23 pm Curtis Johnson wrote:
Hillary Clinton was on Wal-Mart’s board of directors
WARD HARKAVY, VILLAGE VOICE, 2000 - Twice in three days last week, Hillary
Rodham Clinton basked in the adulation of cheering union members. Her
record
of supporting collective bargaining, however, is considerably worse than
wobbly. Pity the thousands of unionists at last Tuesday’s state Democratic
convention who chanted her name, and the hundreds of retired Teamsters at
Thursday’s luncheon in midtown who had interrupted their Founder’s Day meal
to hear the corporate litigator turned union-loving Democrat deliver a
campaign speech.
They would have dropped their forks if they had heard that Hillary served
for six years on the board of the dreaded Wal-Mart, a union-busting
behemoth. If they had learned the details of her friendship with Wal-Mart,
they might have lost their lunches. . . In 1986, when Hillary was first
lady
of Arkansas, she was put on the board of Wal-Mart. Officials at the time
said she wasn’t filling a vacancy. In May 1992, as Hubby’s presidential
campaign heated up, she resigned from the board of Wal-Mart. Company
officials said at the time that they weren’t going to fill her vacancy.
So what the hell was she doing on the Wal-Mart board? According to press
accounts at the time, she was a show horse at the company’s annual meetings
when founder Sam Walton bused in cheering throngs to celebrate his
non-union
empire, which is headquartered in Arkansas, one of the country’s poorest
states. According to published reports, she was placed in charge of the
company’s “green” program to protect the environment. But nobody got
greener
than Sam Walton and his family. For several years in the ’80s, he was
judged
the richest man in America by Forbes magazine. . .
Was Hillary the voice of conscience on the board for American and foreign
workers? Contemporary accounts make no mention of that. They do describe
her
as a “corporate litigator” in those days, and they mention, speaking of
environmental matters, that she also served on the board of Lafarge, a
company that, according to a press account, once burned hazardous fuels to
run its cement plants. . .
The Clintons depended on Wal-Mart’s largesse not only for Hillary’s regular
payments as a board member but for travel expenses on Wal-Mart planes and
for heavy campaign contributions to Bill’s campaigns there and nationally.
.
.
Meanwhile, Wal-Mart’s first lady, who also benefited from Wal-Mart stock,
solicits support from union workers. Which makes her words to the elderly
Teamsters last week especially poignant: “You can count on me to stand up
for the right to collectively bargain!” Right on, sister!
on February 26, 2006 at 4:32 pm red wrote:
You people are pathetic - you all think you’re some sort of “working class heroes” for jumping on this bandwagon.
No one put a gun to the heads of all those people who chose to shop at walmart while “mom and pop” stores were going under - they all did it by choice - so why don’t you blame them???
on August 19, 2007 at 8:55 pm Marshall Nelsen wrote:
Sure we are to blame for shopping at walmart. Maybe many are ignorant for doing so. Maybe that is why everybody needs to know about walmart and how they are paving the way for a dull future in america. Do I personally blame them, Yes, they are misleading. They hire welfare reform and handicap to try and make it look like they care. I am not jumping on an anti walmart bandwagon I did my research as a student in phoenix university college and I asure everyone the conclusions of my research is that walmart is raising the bar and setting the worst example for business ethics and morality. They are hiring illegal third world companies to manufacture products sold at unbeatable prices here. Not good as it takes away jobs from us, closes down mom and pop stores and developes funds used to attain automatic weapons that are being used against our troops in the middle east.