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Walmart founder Sam Walton approved shooting cats for hunting [GRAPHIC]

post #1 of 21
2/27/11 at 9:46pm
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One more reason i stopped shopping Walmart years ago..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XXZ6Y_5D8s
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post #2 of 21
2/27/11 at 10:04pm
Why am I not surprised
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post #3 of 21
2/28/11 at 1:17am
I think he said it in jest, but yes he definitely hates cats thats for sure.
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post #4 of 21
2/28/11 at 1:47am
Walmart are the owners of our large ASDA supermarkets. Am i please i shop at Tesco!
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post #5 of 21
2/28/11 at 2:28am
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Originally Posted by Rosiemac View Post
Walmart are the owners of our large ASDA supermarkets. Am i please i shop at Tesco!
I have found when talking to people recently they really don't like cats and it saddens me
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post #6 of 21
2/28/11 at 2:45am
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I have found when talking to people recently they really don't like cats and it saddens me
Some such Sith can be TURNED from the dark side though! My dad is a dog person used to always rag on cats, but when visiting you can catch him trying to schmoozle w/ the cute kitties.

Just helps to show em positive experiences. My neighbor's cat every night jumps on my Chevy SS's roof w/ paw prints all over, and I already noticed scratch marks on the side near the roof, I predict from inadvertently slipping while jumping up there. If thats all I knew and perhaps cats were attacking the birds at my feeder or a feral hissed and chased me or something, I might not like cats out of ignorance too.

Some people are super scared of even harmless beneficial snakes and think they are slimy and what not which isn't true. There's hope!
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post #7 of 21
2/28/11 at 2:54am
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Some such Sith can be TURNED from the dark side though! My dad is a dog person used to always rag on cats, but when visiting you can catch him trying to schmoozle w/ the cute kitties
I know some can be turned and there's a lot that can't I won't even go into what some have said about what they have done or would do to a cat, nothing surprises me about how little people like this Walmart guy says
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post #8 of 21
2/28/11 at 3:15am
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perhaps cats were attacking the birds at my feeder or a feral hissed and chased me or something, I might not like cats out of ignorance too.
Your right, that is ignorance.. There's more scarier and bigger things in the world than cats, but because their small their easier to target.

Theres a few humans l would like to see off the face of the earth but l wouldn't pull a trigger on them, l leave it to karma
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post #9 of 21
2/28/11 at 3:54am
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Walmart are the owners of our large ASDA supermarkets. Am i please i shop at Tesco!
I don't really shop at asda, I love tesco too much, that man's just sick really. My dh doesn't particuarly like cats but he'd never harm one, he just leaves the kitties to me, (if he did I'd do the same to him)Some people don't like particular animals but that's no excuse for harming one, I hate spiders but if dh hurts one I rant away at him for ages.x
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post #10 of 21
2/28/11 at 4:00am
If we're going to make decisions on whether people like cats, I guess we can't vote for Bill Clinton or Barack Obama, right? But we can vote for George W. Bush...

I learned a long time ago that one common characteristic of "A Type" personalities is a dislike of cats, since they are uncontrollable.
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post #11 of 21
2/28/11 at 8:06am
Meh, he sounds like the typical guy from rural Oklahoma. Either they hate cats or won't admit to liking them because friends or family hate cats. (note: My DH loves cats and openly admits it, but his parents dislike/hate them and pick at him because of it) Nothing new to me since I'm surrounded by this.

But you know what? He's dead and in his grave so what he thought doesn't really matter, does it?

If people really have a problem with this, step up and help put a stop to the bills being proposed in some states that would allow feral (or cats people think may be feral) to be hunted and killed. That's now and it's far more important than what some dead businessman thought.
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post #12 of 21
2/28/11 at 11:31am
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Originally Posted by strange_wings View Post
But you know what? He's dead and in his grave so what he thought doesn't really matter, does it?
Eaten by a bobcat if I'm not mistaken.

Now Walmart is run by the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China.
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post #13 of 21
2/28/11 at 12:25pm
Wow, I think it should be a crime to threaten the life of any animal in such an abusive way, but that's just me.
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post #14 of 21
2/28/11 at 3:45pm
Keep in mind that to most farmers, the feral domestic cat is a problem. It breeds constantly, kills poultry, poops in feed bins, attacks the farm's dogs, and attracts coyotes. It doesn't really have a ecological niche in the U.S. Many farmers will tolerate a couple of cats in the outhouses, but will kill any offspring they can.

And Sam was definitely a farmer at heart. In fact, I remember when there were less than 15 Wal-Mart stores in the country, and their headquarters was a farmhouse over in Bentonville, AR.

All that said, Sam would have a cow if he saw how his kids are running the company now. And he'd be right; if you follow Wal-Mart stock, you know it hasn't done anything for almost 10 years, now, when it used to be a dependable growth stock.
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post #15 of 21
2/28/11 at 7:45pm
Actually,Mr. Sam died of leukemia.I miss him at the helm,running the company.
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post #16 of 21
3/1/11 at 2:58am
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Originally Posted by strange_wings View Post
Meh, he sounds like the typical guy from rural Oklahoma. Either they hate cats or won't admit to liking them because friends or family hate cats. (note: My DH loves cats and openly admits it, but his parents dislike/hate them and pick at him because of it)
I know an Okie now living in NYC who likes cats and has 2 But he's gay His ex-roommate (also male and an Okie) liked cats too but in his case, he could live without pets easily. He was gay too.

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Your right, that is ignorance.. There's more scarier and bigger things in the world than cats, but because their small their easier to target.
That's what makes me so angry

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I learned a long time ago that one common characteristic of "A Type" personalities is a dislike of cats, since they are uncontrollable.
You're very perceptive, Mr. Blanche. I find this very very interesting.
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post #17 of 21
3/1/11 at 9:36am
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Actually,Mr. Sam died of leukemia.I miss him at the helm,running the company.
He would have CATalyptic fit if he saw how his kids are handling check-out, for example. Checkout problems are one of the main things that killed K-Mart. Sam's motto was, "You're next in line!" He required that the store open another checkout lane if there were more than 2 people in all the available checkouts, until either all the lanes had two people or less, or all the lanes were open. Go into a Wal-Mart now, and you're likely to see 10+ people in each open lane, and only 10 of 40 lanes open.

He also had a strong program called "Bringing it back to the USA." He actively encouraged US vendors to bid on items that they were currently buying overseas, and he didn't award contracts strictly on price.
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post #18 of 21
3/2/11 at 4:42am
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Go into a Wal-Mart now, and you're likely to see 10+ people in each open lane, and only 10 of 40 lanes open.
And 3 of them are for 10 items and under.
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post #19 of 21
3/2/11 at 8:04am
Fry's did the same thing. They were popular for having virtually no checkout waits and the Houston store has about a hundred checkout counters.

Unfortunately, they only man about eight of them now during most hours, and so a line forms.

I know you don't want to have to pay employees to stand idle, but there should be cross-trained "flex" employees that can stop other tasks and jump on a register if need be. Thats what I used to do when I worked retail. Its not like registers are all that complicated, I just had to ask a couple times about codes and what not.
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post #20 of 21
3/2/11 at 10:27am
The Wal-Marts here never have lines. . .and there's always a guy monitoring the lines so if they do have more than 2 carts waiting at each checkout, they call more cashiers to the front .

Sam's Club, on the other hand, always has terrible lines. Even when every checkout is manned, and they have managers going around with pre-scanners.

As for the original topic (we do get so charmingly off-topic frequently, don't we? ), I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a farmer who doesn't shoot (or otherwise kill) cats on a regular basis.
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post #21 of 21
3/2/11 at 10:48pm
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Originally Posted by Willowy View Post

As for the original topic (we do get so charmingly off-topic frequently, don't we? ), I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a farmer who doesn't shoot (or otherwise kill) cats on a regular basis.
But as bad as that is, it's not nearly as bad as glorifying it and joking about it like Sam Walton did in that video
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