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 "TC"  wrote: 
 "> Got to love those Walmart greeters. Walmart loves you and your business, 
 "> that is why they have to rifle through your bags and tape them shut 
 before 
 "> you enter their store. What percentage of Walmart customers are 
 theives... 
 "> 1% maybe? Yet all have to be treated as under suspicion. 
  
 Same thing Real Canadian StupidStore has been doing for YEARS!!! 
  
 I won't go in there for that and other reasons. 
  
 Their excuse for sealing your bags? "it helps reduce shoplifting so we can 
 have 
 lower prices." 
  
 My response: "then why the hell can Cave-On Foods have the same low prices 
 and 
 NOT call me a thief as soon as I walk in?" 
  
 "> I don't like how Walmart operates. It is a monopoly capitalist operation 
 a 
  
 What monopoly? 
 Haven't you heard of Zellers, Saans, Fields, etc.? 
 And, in the USA, where they began, Target? 
  
 "> I am strictly opposed to it. I decided that I wasn't going to spend there 
 "> anymore. I told the greeter that too one time. (you'll notice I am not 
 abo 
 "> to force YOU not to shop there - go ahead if you want - just don't tell 
 me 
 "> have to.) 
  
 Strawman -- who the hell is telling you you "have" to? 
  
 "> I went up to her and held out my wallet. 
 "> 
 "> She asked what that was for. 
 "> 
 "> I told her that this was my "ballot" and I vote with my wallet. 
 "> 
 "> I told her to put that Walmart security tape over it, because I wasn't 
 goi 
 "> to be spending my money in there anymore. 
  
 *LOL* I like that one! 
  
 Because I care, 
  
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