People are dumb

So there’s this article on Digg about how walmart is expanding into urban areas.

I left a comment saying that people in urban areas don’t need walmarts because there are plenty of places to shop.

Some asshole commented after me and proceded to explain to me how there are no places to buy veggies or ingrediants anywhere in poor urban neighborhoods.

I proceded to school his ignorant ass on the fact that I was raised in a poor urban neighborhood and was within walking distance to at least 5 supermarkets, and plenty of shopping districts.

Fuck that guy, and fuck walmart.

So I’m from Inglewood, and a Walmart tried to move into to our neighborhood maybe about 5 or 6 years ago. They did some pretty shady things to try and convince the community that they were essential to “poor urban neighborhoods”. Here’s some info:

http://money.cnn.com/2004/04/07/news/fortune500/walmart_inglewood/

http://www.walmartmovie.com/

http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jan/10/business/fi-walmart10

The bottom line is that we have enough targets, sam’s clubs, and other retailers sucking our communities dry and providing poor quality products and services without walmart’s help. Not only that, but they aren’t above bribing community leaders to get what they want. Not cool.

1 month ago