"Don't be Related to Walmart" flash mob in Time Warner Center, NYC

[ShowtimeWeb]

If the job is that bad, discontinue the employment. I shop at WalMart and I see employees with a "10+ years of service" badge, complaining about their job. After a decade you dont have enough sense to leave? WalMart treats its employees much better than most service sector jobs. There is no reason for a cashier to make $15/hr or a janitor to pull $20/hr to scrub floors AND have full benefits with a pension. Thats what the guvment, car companies, USPS etc has done and they're BANKRUPT! No Union!

[krue1234]

I work at walmart they treat there employees fine!!

[TheDeathflows]

its just a fucking store this vid is fucking stupid hahaha

[yanksrulemetssuck27]

DON'T BE RELATED TO WALMART!!!!

[VIPBJ21]

IM from NYC and I also don't want Walmart stores here. I don't like the way they treats their employees and I never ever even bother to buy things from there. FUCK walmart!

[rjdc1991]

Boycott Walmart!!! They treat their employees like garbage and encourage their very low-paid workers to use Medicaid for health coverage so Walmart doesn't foot the bill. Walmart is costing American taxpayers billions!

[ElchananBenAvraham]

I work for Walmart. In the bakery. I'm not management in any way. I have health insurance, paid vacation... my bills get paid (sure, there's nothing left over, but I get by), paid personal time, quarterly bonuses....

Or I can go work for some ma and pa store making minimum wage and zero benefits.

Hmmmm......

[despotism444]

Gee if Walmart comes to NYC, how would you expect honest convenience store owners to sell Coke for $10 a bottle?

[anageorgina]

I'd like New Yorkers and all Americans would stop consuming the products of south-of-the-border most bloody industry, but they just don't think on the consequences of their consumption. Instead, the campaign for workers rights, and other rights...which is good, but contradictory.

[bigjohnson9687]

‎"If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists..."

[4lifeGOP]

fucken hippies, Walmart has created over 2 million jobs in america and provides cheaper goods for everyone.

[KatKMeanders]

@4lifeGOP WOW! A whole 2 million jobs! Out of how many citizens in this nation alone? That's a drop in the bucket! Areas that WalMart invades actually end up WORSE off than they were before. Speciality stores (like the local art supply store here that would special order) and other locally owned businesses end up closing, not only that, but things like LAWYERS fall on harder times, because with the local businesses closing, THEY LOSE CLIENTS! That's more local income lost, and less taxes.

[KatKMeanders]

Not only that, but nationwide, the biggest consumers of things like food stamps and other welfare benefits are WalMart workers! I am watching the fallout from WM here. We've lost many of our locally owned businesses, (and WM does NOT have better selection than they did) we used to have a really IGA that would specially cut the meat for you, but that got run out of business, and now all we have is WM and a not so good grocery store.

[KatKMeanders]

"now all we have is WM and a not so good grocery store" Oh, and dollar stores, which most people go to because that is all they can afford, due to the fact that they are out of work or they work at WM.

[KatKMeanders]

WM has built TWO supercenters in 2 small podunk towns twenty minutes apart just to make sure to get that last nickel out of their potential customers. BUT, all it is doing is stealing business from itself, and causing the older store to decline. The older WM supercenter's sales aren't as good, because the people in this town that used to go there to shop don't now. Over saturation, due to GREED! I suggest a visit to the WalMart Watch blog, research for yourself.

[KatKMeanders]

Their predatory practices are notable enough some nations are resisting WM's proposals to set up shop in their country. More than one country, because of the impact on the communities it comes to, the impact on the suppliers, the environment, and its workers.

[KatKMeanders]

@KatKMeanders To make the picture clearer, 2 Super Centers in Kansas, with nothing but little bitty Kansas towns nearby?! ONE was enough, and it was causing the decline of the normal, non-Super WalMart that had come into this town. Now, there are 2 Super WalMarts, and the older one is losing business from this town. And more and more local businesses in both towns and surrounding towns are going under. That's more jobs lost than gained, for the record.

[KatKMeanders]

@KatKMeanders Sorry, this "Now, there are 2 Super WalMarts, and the older one is losing business from this town." should read "and the older one has lost business from this town". So the numbers that the corporate folks saw as far as customers at the older Super center, were already comprised of the citizens of the town twenty minutes away, and they actually didn't gain any new customers with the newer Super Center...

[4lifeGOP]

@KatKMeanders actually walmart itself pays 7 billion dollars a year and is the largest private employer in america. And also if walmart moves in and creates 400 jobs and takes out a mom and pop store with 10 employees, I'm pretty sure walmart is much better for that town.

[XXXMoodiboyXXX]

@4lifeGOP Read 'The Walmart Effect'.

[redroveredgestapo]

DID YOU HEAR THE NEWS????!!! Walmart was so embarrassed that some people that nobody knows made up this awesome song, that the whole company shut down! Yes, it's true, they've decided to listen to these whining people and stop making billions and play nice! WOW!

Give it up, nobody cares.

[b017ni3]

I live in San Francisco and we successfully stopped them from infiltrating our city...unfortunately, they continue to thrive in the east bay, but I've never walked into a walmart and I never will...awesome job New York!!

[fussybunny888]

I SOOOO miss New York!!

[leftoverbacon]

I wish we had this kind of creative opposition to Wally World when they set their crosshairs on Chicago. We now have 1, it's destroying local businesses & the minority-owned general contractor who built it has filed for bankruptcy because they lost money on the deal. 2 more large ones are under construction, and dozens more are planned. Walmart should be be broken up as a trust. Where is our modern Teddy Roosevelt.

[KatKMeanders]

@leftoverbacon Heed this person!

[almostcrimes12]

@syntox

so you would say commercial development is more beneficial to communities than community development?

our neighborhoods obviously are in need, but i don't see how that by default becomes commercial need

@gatorhoy

the only thing that has ever pushed society and quality of life forward in major strides is direct action

[rstrell]

ONLY IN NYC Can a song have a line where "here" rhymes with "idea". But I love it!

Sometime I'll have to post my anti Walmart song we used to the tune of Jambalaya. I like to think my song helped stop and win the battle against the Goliath retailer. We pushed them out of San Marcos California 7 years ago.. Yay!

[methenyk]

1) toothpaste is out of the tube: chipotle, starbucks, 5 Guys, subway, blah blah blah

2) lousy execution of interesting idea

[LikMyFace]

Great job :D

[merlelynn]

New York is a city of neighborhoods, of people who shop in their neighborhoods, meet their neighbors at their local fruit and vegetable market, or the local hardware store. Every time a small grocer or a small hardware store, closes down the neighborhood looses.

[GatorHoy]

I love the video, but unless you can put more money on the table than Wal-Mart, the deal's gonna go to where the profits are. Don't kid yourself. They don't give a damn about what people on the street think.

Geez, especially if they have plans for over 100 stores. Pen has definitely already touched paper in that case.

[NYCommunities4Change]

Hilarious. From a pure-bred Brooklynite of 30 years, thank you to all who participated. East New York doesn't need a Walmart, Brooklyn doesn't need a Walmart, and NYC doesn't need a Walmart!

[Syntox]

@NYCommunities4Change - East New York DOES need SUPERMARKETS. The ghetto is severely under served when it comes to places where people can buy fresh food. If Pathmark / A&P / Key food ect. don't think those neighborhoods are worth the time, what's to stop Walmart from coming in? I identify with the labor issues at hand and the "strip mall-ization" of New York is a big concern...but there's another angle on this that people aren't seeing. East New York NEEDS commercial development.

[KatKMeanders]

@Syntox But they DO NOT need commmercial predation! Which is EXACTLY what WM would do! It would push out most, if not all of the other businesses that could possibly compete in the area, so more jobs would be lost than gained by the store opening. That's more poeple in the area out of work. In the end, it would be dollar stores the people would be visiting. This company is willing to steal business from itself for pity's sake! No kidding, 2 Super centers 20 mins apart in podunkvilles.