The Buy Nothing Day holiday (BND) has caught on somewhat and may very well be one of the best vehicles we have in terms of getting to a healthier, happier, saner, sustainable way of life. With that in mind the following is a collection of ideas about what we can do to make BND more effective by bringing it to America's largest corporate retailer known as WalMart. If you are down with these ideas (and want to make them more effective) please repost and forward this article by email and/or conventional post.
The day after Thanksgiving...
Show up at your local Wal-Mart, bright and early with your friends, and start filling carts with the most desired consumer "goods" (small toys and expensive trinkets are ideal since all this stuff will have to be re-shelved) -- try not to break anything. If you don's simply abandon the carts before moving on to the next store, you might realize that you forgot your wallet after everything has been rung up (ideally at the busiest hours -- say at 11am and 5pm). Do not piss in the dressing rooms or leave anti-consumerism agitprop around the stores. Whatever you do, do not try to monopolize employee time on the sale floor or on the phone (time is money and employees are a consumer convenience) and certainly don't bring a stopwatch to make a game of that activity. Breaking glass or leaving nails in the parking lot would be going too far. Try to have fun on BND but don't try to create as much of an inconvenient hassle as is humanly/heavenly possible. Remember, your not trying to change the world with collective effort. Don't repeat these activities throughout the holiday shopping season after the BND holiday and, whatever you do, don't get caught if you break any of these rules. Take care and have fun.
"Shimmy Shammy" <shimshammaam@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1131400325.787450.212690@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > Buy Nothing Day ~ TARGET WAL-MART > > The Buy Nothing Day holiday (BND) has caught on somewhat and may very > well be one of the best vehicles we have in terms of getting to a > healthier, happier, saner, sustainable way of life. With that in mind > the following is a collection of ideas about what we can do to make > BND more effective by bringing it to America's largest corporate > retailer known as WalMart. If you are down with these ideas (and want > to make them more effective) please repost and forward this article by > email and/or conventional post. > > The day after Thanksgiving... > > Show up at your local Wal-Mart, bright and early with your friends, > and start filling carts with the most desired consumer "goods" (small > toys and expensive trinkets are ideal since all this stuff will have > to be re-shelved) -- try not to break anything. If you don's simply > abandon the carts before moving on to the next store, you might > realize that you forgot your wallet after everything has been rung up > (ideally at the busiest hours -- say at 11am and 5pm). > Do not piss in the dressing rooms
Really, this is all a good idea, but pissing in the dressing rooms isn't cool. Some poor slob, already reduced to working at Walmart (can you get much lower?) will have to clean it up. If we could piss in the orange juice of the chairman of the board, that would be cool.
or leave anti-consumerism agitprop > around the stores. Whatever you do, do not try to monopolize employee > time on the sale floor or on the phone (time is money and employees > are a consumer convenience) and certainly don't bring a stopwatch to > make a game of that activity. Breaking glass or leaving nails in the > parking lot would be going too far. Try to have fun on BND but don't > try to create as much of an inconvenient hassle as is humanly/heavenly > possible. Remember, your not trying to change the world with > collective effort. Don't repeat these activities throughout the > holiday shopping season after the BND holiday and, whatever you do, > don't get caught if you break any of these rules. Take care and have > fun. > > www.adbusters.org/metas/eco/bnd/ > www.buynothingday.co.uk/ > http://comp.uark.edu/~scummin/psa/walmart.html > www.walmartwatch.com >
Ike
2005-11-08 01:58:03 EST
"Shimmy Shammy" <shimshammaam@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1131400325.787450.212690@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > Buy Nothing Day ~ TARGET WAL-MART > The subject line looks like Target is also a target. I already never shop at Wal-Mart, and also Giant Foods because when it was taken over Royal Ahold they have been hiring part-time clerks at low wages to avoid paying benefits. Quality and sefvice have suffered as a result. Many of their employees have to accept help from the public sector at the expense of the taxpayers, as with Wal-Mart..
Shimmy Shammy
2005-11-08 02:59:23 EST
Now that you mention it... the same tactics COULD be used at Target.
Thunderbird
2005-11-08 22:56:41 EST
That has to be the most foolish thing I've heard. Walmart employs thousands of people here and in other countries giving them jobs and income they wouldn't otherwise have. Give yourself a re-think and support business.
Bulba!
2005-11-09 08:50:35 EST
On 8 Nov 2005 19:56:41 -0800, "thunderbird" <netsurf1@coolgoose.com> wrote:
>That has to be the most foolish thing I've heard. Walmart employs >thousands of people here and in other countries giving them jobs and >income they wouldn't otherwise have. Give yourself a re-think and >support business.
I think the revenues on Walmart on that day will not be very much different from those on other days. Probably the good old consumer selfishness will not suffer much of a dent by actions like that.
-- Two years after ''the day America changed forever,'' the culture is in thrall to the same dopey self-delusion it held on Sept. 10, 2001: There are no enemies, just friends we haven't yet apologized to. (Mark Steyn)
Corollary: There's a lot of enemies, not just friends we haven't yet apologized to.
Rico X. Partay
2005-11-09 18:03:02 EST
thunderbird wrote:
> Walmart employs thousands of people here and in other > countries[,] giving them jobs and income they wouldn't > otherwise have.
Not entirely correct. If WM wasn't in the market and exploiting people, other companies would pick up the slack. If those companies didn't also exploit people, then your conclusion is incorrect.
Zztop8970
2005-11-09 19:50:22 EST
Rico X. Partay wrote: > thunderbird wrote: > > > Walmart employs thousands of people here and in other > > countries[,] giving them jobs and income they wouldn't > > otherwise have. > > > Not entirely correct. If WM wasn't in the market and > exploiting people, other companies would pick up the slack.
US unemployment is currently runnign at about 5%, or more than 8 million peopel. Why aren't these "other companies" picking up the slack?
Shimmy Shammy
2005-11-09 20:33:11 EST
You have to remember that Wal-Mart also closed down a lot of US factories by making deals to get cheap labor from communist nations like China.