Is shopping at Walmart a sin?

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cwmzzm:
I was wondering if anyone knew of a website where I could find this kind of information.
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Asking myself the same kind of questions, I found this website - an article/interview that appears to have been printed in “a major business magazine”. Even though it does state an involvement with PP, it also gives a whole lot of the positive effects, influence, and charitable causes the Walton’s contribute to the world, which makes it pretty hard to justify putting Wal-Mart on our “do not shop” list.

At the same time, if a current, reliable report were to indicate that they are still financially contributing to PP, I would be compelled to send them an informational package (if it hasn’t already been done by some on-the-ball Catholics) on all the negative effects that they may not be aware of, and let them consider if what they think to be the positive points of PP are seriously outweighed by the negative. Maybe they have never been presented with the facts they need to see.

Also, maybe we Catholics need to send a nice, friendly letter/petition to those in the critical, decision making circles of groups and businesses, letting them know exactly what we think are serious offenses against God’s commandments, and the natural laws, and that we would greatly appreciate the money we invest in their business to NOT be used for such things, or we may need to consider other options. Maybe they just need to consider their options more seriously, as we do.
 
I steer clear of Wal-Mart, parking lot and all.

They package products, a shampoo with a conditioner, and sell it for more than the two would cost separately.

Absolute fire hazard. With the isles just jammed with stuff, you can’t even pass a person without bumping into them. There are two new ones in my area and I was disappointed when they opened. There was an immediate parking problem when before there weren’t any. The parking lots are riddled with carts. Not enough of those underpaid employees to collect their abundance of carts.
 
Emily Watson:
Not enough of those underpaid employees to collect their abundance of carts.
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Why don’t you let the employees decide if they’re underpaid?

I can tell you that, from experience, a job at Walmart saved this family from bankruptcy earlier this year.
 
The majority of big corporations are EXTREMLY morally bankrupt…and thats THEIR sin to contend with…not some poor shopper who needs to utilize them for their services when it comes to cheap retail appliances and clothing…especially when its a big family…this is an unnecessary mental burden to impose upon a family or anyone who already struggles to make ends meet…the Church doesnt say its a sin to shop at these places so dont impose additional restrictions upon your life if ya dont have to.

As for REAL SIN…I find I sin NOT by GOING to Walmart but by being in there with so many people crowding and pushing…I dont have many nice things to say when I mutter under my breath. 😛
 
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Timidity:
Why don’t you let the employees decide if they’re underpaid?

I can tell you that, from experience, a job at Walmart saved this family from bankruptcy earlier this year.
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Good for them. A job at Walmart with the salary they provide would not save a family from the same fate in San Diego.
 
Emily Watson:
Good for them. A job at Walmart with the salary they provide would not save a family from the same fate in San Diego.
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The cost of living in San Diego is inflated, but is that Walmart’s fault? If they have people applying, then someone must think it is OK to work there. I would not avoid Walmart for any of the reasons stated here. I have boycotted other things, but I don’t think it is a sin to shop at Walmart.
 
Take a look at the beginning of the thread folks. I am not the first to mention the underpayment of Wal-Mart employees, although I do agree. Go ahead and pay more for your packaged shampoo and conditioner. My grief with Wal-Mart is the fire hazard they present with the clutter they put in the isle.

I was actually in a Wal-Mart (Target didn’t have what I needed) when an earthquake struck. Thank God I didn’t have my kids with me. The tops of the shelves are stacked so high with things that should be back in the warehouse area that tons of things came crashing down. They are lucky that no one was seriously hurt.

And, yes, San Diego is inflated. However companies recognize that cost of living variance and confiscate for it. Wal-Mart, who could, doesn’t. The heirs of Walton received millions and millions, where is the revest back into the company and those who work for it?
 
I have a sister that lives far out of a town or city. She loves Walmart in her area because it brings in more goods than any other local store. Of course if she needs specialty items she goes to another store, but I think that the complaints here are trumpted up. I don’t think big corporations are evil. They bring us goods, and we buy. People apply for the jobs so I have to imagine that they get paid. I don’t think they need to pay people in San Diego more, but then I am not a socialist or one that thinks everything needs to be adjusted. Difference of opinion here!

I am a teacher, and my wages are what they are. I can’t complain because when I went into it I knew the scoop. I figure that some of the jobs are stepping stone jobs, and that is OK. Why should Walmart pay higher wages than is called for. I think that if these violations exist, then the fire dept. or city inspectors are the ones turning their heads and not doing their jobs.
 
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Sola:
Fred Meyer supports pornography? In what way? I love Fred Meyer and can’t imagine not shopping there. One stop shopping, good selection, and usually good prices.

I think you have to make up your own mind about whether you want to support a company or not, not just follow the “shoulds” of the world (not addressing you specifically, cwmzzm, just generally speaking). I don’t shop at Wal-Mart, but it’s because I have my own moral reason. I don’t know what their connection is with Planned Parenthood, if any.
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Fre Meyer is owned by Kroger Inc, out of Cinncinatti Ohio. My husband works for Kroger and I have never heard of them supporting pornography. If anyone has evidence otherwise, please supply me with the link.
Thanks

Sid
 
A sin? I don’t know.
A poor choice, IMO, yes. The merchandise is of poor quality, the majority of salespeople are rude (my experience), it’s merchandised so poorly you can’t find anything and they are on almost every corner, like Walgreen’s,. (read plague) at least here in the valley of the sun. They drive the mom and pop stores out of business and when they move to a bigger box, they leave the “smaller” box to sit empty and boarded up looking like a blight on the neighborhood they’ve fled. (like some other big box stores also do - see Target, Home Depot, and a few others.) Yeah, I realllly don’t like wally-world and will not shop there. My own small rebellion. 😛
 
Exactly what kind of pornography? Especially on this board, pornography can have many meanings…some here think The Simpsons and/or watching day time talk shows hosted by gay people, or even OWNING a TV can classify as porn or borderlining on porn… :rolleyes:

Pornography basically is gratuitus sexual acting out for others to view…whether in movies or book form…does this person donate to Hustler Magazine, own adult bookstores…do they fund gay pride parades? What is the porn in question? :confused:
 
I boycotted Target for the longest time when I found out they gave money to the school system. big surprise?
 
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FairyMagdelaine:
We don’t shop at Walmart because we find it offensive that their ad campaigns proudly tout “Family Values” when their company exercises anything but. Plus, they sell guns and bullets.
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I shop at WalMart only because they sell guns and bullets.
 
Adam Costanzo:
I boycotted Target for the longest time when I found out they gave money to the school system. big surprise?
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As a teacher in a large public school system (who went to 12 years of Catholic school) I think I resent the tone of that comment, Adam.

John
 
John Higgins:
As a teacher in a large public school system (who went to 12 years of Catholic school) I think I resent the tone of that comment, Adam.

John
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***I have nothing against teachers… In fact part of the problem I have with the schools is they’ve got buckets of money and they don’t seem to want to dish it out to the teachers who obviously deserve it more than the superintendant does. ***
And then Target gives them all that money, and brags about it besides. It’s not like they’re going to do anything useful with it anyway. Every time they pass a budget here it does NOTHING but raise our taxes. We’ve passed every school budget here for years and the only place our schools have gone is DOWN. At this point, budgets and donations are just contributing to a bad system. What we need is reform.
 
don’t know about shopping there, but the way people behave in the parking lot is truly sin on a grand scale
 
Adam Costanzo said:
I boycotted Target for the longest time when I found out they gave money to the school system. big surprise?
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This is actually a program that you sign up for. A portion of your purchase total goes to a school of your choice, at least in my Target.
 
Emily Watson:
This is actually a program that you sign up for. A portion of your purchase total goes to a school of your choice, at least in my Target.
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It’s the fact that they’re offering the program. They’re donating money to, essentially, satan’s most powerful tool. Corrupt them while they’re young, while they don’t know better. And Target supports that? They’re not getting any of my money, not for themselves nor for any school. Well, they were’nt anyway. It’s so hard to hold a boycott in my situation, and I avoided Target well, but sooner or later, it came to the point where I had no choice.
 
Adam Costanzo:
They’re donating money to, essentially, satan’s most powerful tool.
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Ah, I get it, teachers are okay, but we’re working for “Satan’s most powerful tool”. While I will acknowledge that there are problems in quite a few public schools (and some Catholic ones as well), you are in grave error about the Satan’s tool bit.

John
 
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