Jon’s too hot for Wal-Mart
Store chain yanks ‘Daily Show’ host best-seller over nude pix
Full story here
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/244286p-209278c.html
This is worse than outside terrorists!!
MarkB
Wal-Marts makes me feel claustrophobic and repelled. I avoid them.
I saw that on Fark. Great flame war.
How so? Wal-Mart is a private company; they can sell or not sell anything they want (well, not exactly, but I suspect you catch my drift). I suspect they don’t sell Playboy, Penthouse, etc. – do you have a problem with that? If you don’t like it, you don’t have to shop there.
If a public library didn’t circulate it because of the picture, I’d agree with you.
I definately agree that Wal-Mart, or any other privately owned institution has the right to do whatever they want on this kind of issue…
Just for the general principle of dropping my $.02 in though I have to say that it’s kind of odd really when you think about it really.
I mean, you have a book with ONE PAGE that has humorously displayed nudity, and you yank it from the store… so we’re basing this on the fact that some or most of our customers 'might be offended. Ok then… well take a few more steps further into the store and find the GUN department with many rifles, some stores have handguns too, plenty of ammo to go along with them. Now, I certainly don’t have anything against guns, I grew up with them. However, there is certainly a large population that don’t.
So I just think it’s kind of funny when you think about how a company will suddenly worry about one aspect of their public image and ignore another. It’s all based on someone’s opinion in the company and that’s that! 
So say I… an insignificant individual with no voice in the matter whatsoever!! AND I MEAN IT!!! 
I think it’s pretty stupid to be worried about a picture buried inside a book (which people shouldn’t be reading in there anyway).
But then, it’s Wal-Mart. Enough said.
Mee too!! I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one…I get in a really bad mood when I’m forced to visit a Wal Mart.
-Brett
I despise Walmart (and the whole “Walmart mentality”). When I do have to go there, it’s so loud and obnoxious (they have televisions suspended from the ceiling in ours, and they are EVERYWHERE!) and I end up with a headache when I go. I would much prefer to patronize local small businesses rather than contribute to Walmart. 
It’s unfortunate that “Mom and Pop” shops are becoming increasingly rare these days.
Well, there is at least one Wal-Mart that won’t sell guns. I can’t recall where it is, but I saw it on the news 2-3 months ago. The town did not want the sale of guns so Wal-Mart agreed to not sell them at that location.
Otherwise I agree. I think it’s silly to pull the book, but they have a right to do so if they want, and we have a right to avoid their stores, if we want.
All the Best,
Tom
Walmart also once banned a Sheryl Crow CD.
Walmart is a huge corporation, pays next to nothing to its employees, hires non-citizen immigrants to clean the floors so they can pay them $1 an hour, discriminates against women, and runs small mom-and-pop stores out of business, but like many red-blooded Americans, I shop there all the time.
Ah yes, the American way!! :roll: 
All the Best, Tom
There are a lot of things good about America, and some great (hypothetically), but Wal-mart is the physical manifestation of much that is bad about us.
You can simply start with rampant commercial consumerism, and it’s ugly step-sister: waste.
Not to mention you can’t even get into the goll-dang parking lot on a Saturday afternoon!
I don’t see what the big deal is. Most retailers make choices about what they will and will not carry. There’s a video store here in town that refuses to stock Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” because they find it “too violent.” Now I can tell you, based on the number of slasher films this store stocks, that the real reason they won’t stock this movie is because they’re pretty sure their clientele won’t go for it…and, frankly, that’s OK. It’s their business, their clientele, their decision. I won’t stop shopping at that store because they won’t stock this particular movie, but I’m glad there are other places where I can get it. Another example: My local natural foods store won’t stock Worthington’s vegetarian products because they may contain artificial ingredients, and that’s against the store’s charter. I happen to like Worthington products, and am willing to go to another store on the other side of town to get them…but I still shop at the local store, and I respect their right not to stock things that contradict their values. Why is that a problem? Freedom of expression applies on the corporate level as well as on the individual level, and if a company believes that a) a product violates the ideals on which the company rests or b) will offend its customers, said company both can and SHOULD refuse to stock that product.
Redwolf
Yep, you said it. I think that’s what most people are saying.
Another crappy Wal-mart story…
Both my daughter and my daughter in law had to work there for a period of time. In both instances, they promised part-time with the availability of getting health insurance availability. When schedules were made, surprise…they were habitually 1 hour short of getting health insurance priviledges! This occured for a period of 2 years at different times.
I don’t shop there…it sucks the life right out of you!!! Plus, it does not help America (except monetary Rich America) one iota. They are especially discriminatory to women too…they have soo many suits against them…they are making their lawyers rich!!
It is my choice…just like it is their choice to be hypocrits!
Nancy
In my case, there are no other stores besides Walmart to get many items that I need such as soy milk and other vegetarian foods (because there are no other stores in Sealand, of course).
Walmart also is the only place that I can find hoards of other things, not just food. If there were more stores, I would shop at them most probably.
Cran: I wasn’t giving you a hard time. I think your comment on Wal-Mart is perfect for the times. My “American way” comment was more about …corporation, pay nothing,… I don’t blame you for shopping there.
No offense intended.
All the Best, Tom
I agree with you Tom…I don’t blame ANYONE from shopping there…whether it’s your only option or not. It’s just my personal preference to not shop there! How can anyone want to push their own beliefs or options on to another! That’s what makes this country great! Of coarse there are too many people who believe that THEIR belief should be followed by everyone…but that comment is more for the political/religious thread!
I have a hard time getting health foods where I live too. I have to travel 100 miles to get any! ICK!! What are ya gonna do!!
Nancy
Understood, Sugar.
Cran: I guess that means that you still like me
Tom