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Wednesday, August 11, 2004
I Shop, Therefore I Vote
Slate: Shop the Vote - Wal-Mart = Bush. Costco = Kerry. Costco's Winning.
I'm a member of Costco, oddly enough.
ntodd
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I'm a member of BJ's Wholesale Club. Does that make me a Clinton supporter?
Posted by: digamma | Aug 11, 2004 10:04:04 AM
WalMart is a major NPR underwriter. Yes, we get lots of email about it; no, the local affiliate stations have no control over the national advertising.
But this gets into an interesting area of where the public perceives the NPR news bias to be...
Posted by: Stefanie | Aug 11, 2004 10:37:34 AM
Wal-Mart subsidizes its payroll with the public dole. Yep, there's a conservative's reason to hate Wal-Mart: in a recent study, it appears that Wal-Mart employees in some places are paid so little that they have to apply for public assistance at a much higher rate than the local population at large. Xan of corrente has more.
Posted by: Steve Bates | Aug 11, 2004 10:53:46 AM
I'm a member of BJ's Wholesale Club.
They sell BJs wholesale now?! Damn, what will they think of next?
WalMart is a major NPR underwriter.
Boo!
Posted by: NTodd | Aug 11, 2004 10:55:25 AM
Weird. I decided to boycott WalMart as much as possible after reading Five and Dimed in America, seeing how they treat women employees, and their attitudes towards unions.
I think I'm going to join Costco.
Posted by: ellroon | Aug 11, 2004 11:58:24 AM
Ellroon, I boycott them too for the same reasons. That was a disturbing but excellent book.
Posted by: Stefanie | Aug 11, 2004 1:02:38 PM
Buy me stuff off my 
