why betsy hates walmart, part nine thousand six hundred and forty two:


Opinion | The Pensacola News Journal:

You can't buy the Pensacola News Journal at Wal-Mart anymore.
The store ordered us off their property, told us to come pick up our newspaper racks and clear out.
So we did.
A few people called last week, some even wrote letters to the editor, and wanted to know why they couldn't buy the newspaper at Wal-Mart in the days after Hurricane Dennis.
Some managers at Wal-Mart didn't appreciate a column Mark O'Brien wrote last month about the downside of the cheap prices that Sam Walton's empire has brought to America.

the gist of the column is the absolute honest truth, that walmart has such low prices because they under pay their employees and do not offer benefits, so we all pay for walmart's employees' medical care, via medical assistance or other sorts of welfare. (almost typed "walfare"; an oddly appropriate typo...)