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Originally Posted by jojapeach
We definitely heard the story here in Atlanta, but I was wondering how the man had a mugshot without one single scratch or bruise. Thanks for posting with that last sentence. Now it all makes sense - except the AJC later publishing an article where his neighbors kinda called him a harmless loner - who slaps 2 year olds.
And go Target! Great shopping experience and decent labor practices.
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I saw it and heard about it too. I REALLY want to know what that guy's deal is. Who thinks they can go around slapping other people's kids? I was trying to figure out if he was actually mentally ill or just a huge attention sponge who wanted to end up on the news.
I will say that I'm constantly amazed at how little attention my generation seems to give to making sure their kids act right in public, but I don't go to Walmart for the awesomely relaxing atmosphere anyway. AND I'd never dream of slapping someone else's kid. Just craziness.
And I'll say it: I don't think Walmart is obligated to have great labor policies. I think a lot of people hate them simply because they've been really effective at keeping unions out. I don't think every shop needs to be a union shop. Sure, there are areas and accusations that they could clearly do better, but they also employ a lot of people who otherwise wouldn't have jobs at all.
I think it's fun to be smug and hate Walmart, but I think a lot of people just kind of jumped on the bandwagon and don't really give the labor practices of most business and industries any thought at all. (I don't mean the people in this thread or their well-informed colleagues obviously.) These other folks cruise though life believe that they are doing something meaningful avoiding Walmart in favor of Target while they continuing to frequent restaurants, nail salons, landscaping companies with illegal employees not even making minimum wage AND/OR pay zero attention to the labor conditions of the people making the products they buy.
I'm not saying that it's wrong to simply decide that it's better to spend money at people's employers rather than not spending money; I'm just saying that singling out one business for all your righteous indignation while blissfully ignoring others might not be quite as cool as you think.