Shawn Kemp Shops at Wal-Mart
Former Athletes October 13th. 2009, 5:15pm
Here’s former dunking machine and habitual inseminator Shawn Kemp, shopping at Wal-mart. Remember that one time we bashed Wal-mart and said we only shop at Costco? You’d be surprised how much hate mail we received. We still feel that way, and if possible, we’ll avoid Wal-mart at all costs for the rest of our life. [People of Wal-Mart]
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October 13th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
I feel bad for all the people that have been on Pros vs. Joes. Kemp included.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
/12 kids’d
October 13th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
GSG you live in KY, I believe that Walmarts here are like no other….
your thoughts
October 13th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Wal Mart is shit. Anyone that defends it also doesn’t understand the economy.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
epic fail
October 13th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
I thought the same thing down here. I used to live right around one and it was always packed. Late night is when all the crazies come out wearing pajamas shopping for baby supplies. I haven’t been to a walmart in about 3-4 years. I’m afraid to go back.
Also, when I was in NY there’s a subway station platform (R? M?) in Queens that’s right next to a Walmart/K-Mart. That’s all I’m going to say.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
/it’s killing the small businesses! mom and pop stores!’d
October 13th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
He probably impregnated that chick after the picture.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
I hate shopping there, mostly for who you have to stand behind in the checkout line, but def not the evil empire most would have you believe
October 13th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Also, Wal-Mart is THE shit. I love that place.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
It’s difficult for me to get fired up about any debate surrounding Walmart and what they allegedly do to the economy and their employees. There’s a Target and a grocery store right by where I live. I go there because of location and nothing else. If it was a Walmart I’d probably still go there. It’s all about location for me.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
that everything we buy there is from overseas and they put american companies out of business?
October 13th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
lowers prices for everyone, not just the ones who happen to work/own mom and pops
October 13th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
/just checking
October 13th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/
Enjoy.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
I buy most of my groceries at Wal Mart. Cheap prices and since nobody else understands the self checkout lane, I never have to wait in line. I’d never buy a piece of clothing there though.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
I couldn’t give a shit about mom and pop stores. They can burst into flames for all I care. The big business that Wal-Mart buys from get caught up on the volume that Wal-mart can offer t. So Walmart becomes it’s biggest supplier. Then walmart starts to think it can sell it for cheaper. So then the supplier has to cut back, because it doesn’t want to lose walmart. After a while Wal Mart can still think it can sell it for cheaper. Then the supplier has to cut back on quality or cut back on something else, because Walmart won’t cover the costs it takes to cheapen an item. After a while the companies only customer is Wal-mart and it turns into shit.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Remember that one time we bashed Wal-mart and said we only shop at Costco? TBL
Yes. And Wal-Mart is still not an apt comparrison to Costco. Think Sam’s Club.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
i worked at a walmart distribution center once. fuck corporations
October 13th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
doing their little queer chants and shit
October 13th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
makes zero sense.. walmart buys from the business in the 1st section, then supplies it in the second
October 13th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Also, the whole argument that walmart adds jobs in a community is a double edged sword. Sure it does add jobs for the construction and staff, but studies have been done that it closes other smaller stores, so then those people lose jobs.
I actually don’t care all that much about it, I just haven’t ranted in a good three days.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
I hate shopping there, but it does force the Targets of the world to compete….
basic economic principle when firms compete, consumers win
October 13th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Sorry, Walmart becomes it’s biggest distributor, not supplier.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
isnt target owned by a country in europe? i forgot where..
October 13th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Very true. Like I said, I hate Walmart, but people will keep shopping there because, really, where else are you going to get deals?
October 13th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
I couldn’t give a shit about mom and pop stores. They can burst into flames for all I care. The big business that Wal-Mart buys from get caught up on the volume that Wal-mart can offer t. So Walmart becomes it’s biggest supplier. Then walmart starts to think it can sell it for cheaper. So then the supplier has to cut back, because it doesn’t want to lose walmart. After a while Wal Mart can still think it can sell it for cheaper. Then the supplier has to cut back on quality or cut back on something else, because Walmart won’t cover the costs it takes to cheapen an item. After a while the companies only customer is Wal-mart and it turns into shit.
There was a NY Times article about this 4 or 5 years ago. Walmart, from what I’ve read, is a pretty demanding company with its suppliers. And they know they can jerk them around because Walmart does such immense volume, the suppliers get in a position where they can’t afford not to have the Walmart contract.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
there is a mom and pop meat store that is killing wal mart when it comes to selling things like steak,ribs ect. they are cheaper and their cuts of meat kills walmart and any other super market around here out of the water.they are constantly packed too. and i also have a dollar store i go to for all my hygiene needs. i havent been to wal-mart in almost 6 months. if a small place has great service i will go out of my way to go there.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
possibly but that doesn’t mean that shopping there is bad….Toyota owned by japanese firms, yet many of the jobs they creat are here in good ol US of A
October 13th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
shatner: It’s the ultimate chicken or the egg hypothesis. Walmart’s low prices also allows people to afford to buy shit at about 10% to 40% less than their local Publix, Piggly Wiggly, Best Buy or Macy’s.
This is another “Rush Limbaugh is the boogeyman” issues. People will protest to keep a Walmart out of their town, but allow a Whole Paycheck supermarket in to sell $6.99 gallons of milk and $13.99/lb Turkey that 99% of the people can’t afford to pay, but it’s “better for you”.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
I can’t stand WalMart because its always dirty. I feel like I need to take a shower when I leave. Target on the other hand. Always there.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
I love that Wal Mart stands up to the union thugs. For that reason alone, I’ll shop there.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
hey can we have a week long ban on saying R#$% Limb@#$%&’s name? seriously tired of hearing his fat name.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
Agreed. I’m not going to protest a Wal Mart being in my town (I, you know, have a job) but I don’t approve of it’s business. I just wont shop there, and I don’t think i should tell others how to live their lives.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
We don’t want to awake the sleeping giant, anyway.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
GSG
+1
off topic do you think you lose anything without Hartline? My view he is garbage and keeping the job warm for one of the FRosh QB’s
October 13th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Union thugs. Whoa. Yeah. How dare they try and organize so they aren’t locked in the store at night like chattel.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
hey can we have a week long ban on saying R#$% Limb@#$%&’s name? seriously tired of hearing his fat name.
This is another “Al Sharpton/Glenn Beck/Louis Farrakhan/Sean Hannity is the boogeyman” issues. People will protest to keep a Walmart out of their town, but allow a Whole Paycheck supermarket in to sell $6.99 gallons of milk and $13.99/lb Turkey that 99% of the people can’t afford to pay, but it’s “better for you”.
/fixed
October 13th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Target is owned by a French company. Walmart’s great now. It’s not gonna be so great once it gets done killing all of it’s competition and has little incentive to keep those prices low low low.
If by “stand up to union thugs” you mean “Fire an employee for saying the word union but claiming it was because he ate a banana HE WAS IN LINE TO PAY FOR” then yeah, kudos to the Walmart. Also, and as always, I despise when workers have bargaining power.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Walmart isn’t good for you but it’s one of those prisoner dilemma deals, not enough people are ever going to fight it so you’re only harming yourself by not shopping there.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Wal-Mart was once a Mom and Pop shop. If Alco or Duckwalls could have figured out how to be huge, they’d of done it. There was a market and it was filled.
/Just saying.
//I don’t really care. I hate shopping at Wal-Mart.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
I saw an alco once. It was purple and sad.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Unions want to increase membership to consolidate their power. Let’s not act like Wal Mart is running a sweat shop with slave labor.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Hartline was a so-so QB, but I’ve heard some great things about Fidler. The fans are really behind him, if that matters, and Brooks might take the Red Shirt off of Newton. We have a pretty easy schedule after Auburn, but I think the true reason we lost last week was because we were without both Lindley and Warford.
Newton is an amazing prospect, and I still can’t believe we got a 4 star QB.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
one of the arguments for why we are fucked economically is because we threw a lot of stimulus money at the unions and they dont make jobs or anything for that matter. plus they are partly responsible for GM and Chrysler going bankrupt. they held too much power and sucked the company dry
/just what i heard
October 13th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Maybe they had a place without a competitive labor market…nowadays, either learn a trade or suffer in the easiest one you can find
October 13th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
unions are funny. they can do a lot of good but they can also cause a dude to lose the $35 an hour job because they want to go on strike. $35 an hour may not be a lot to all you ballers the frequent this site but around here it is pretty fucking good.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Unions are the devil.
Wal-Mart is an american owned company. And Sam Walton founded a single store and grew it into the largest company in the world, right here in our backyards. Show some respect for a man who epitomized the capitalist dream….
October 13th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
@ GSG
I agree you lose nothing with fidler over hartline….yo have too much talent at the skillpoisition to let it languish with hartline…. You are headed for 6-6 anyway unless you can beat UT
October 13th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
GSG, remember this thread next time you write something like “who are the conservatives on this site, three people, who are the liberals, three people, everybody else.”
October 13th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
That family is so filthy rich.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
TexansFan – You’re pretty accurate, although if GM and Chrysler built cars that people would want to buy, than they would’ve been in better shape.
GM and Chrysler have to pay retirees half pay and full benefits after 20 or 25 years of service, it’s like hitting the lotto. Something around 25% is taken out, when a car is purchased, to go towards the union. Toyota has been killing the US domestically because they hire a lot of workers (especially down here) and they don’t have to deal with the retirees yet. GM had people getting full everything until the day they died, so you’re paying three generations worth of workers.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Here’s a scenario for you union supporters.
Wal Mart has low prices which allow their customers, who tend to have low incomes, more buying power and a bigger bang for their buck. If unions busted their way in and forced Wal Mart to pay $30 an hour to the guy who stocks shelves, what 2 things happen? OK, I’ll tell you. Wal Mart employes fewer people and raises their prices hurting the two groups of people who benefit from Wal Mart’s existance. This isn’t rocket science.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Funnny in a non haha way $35/hour is good money to almost anyone…however their labor is typically not worth that amount. If it was then they wouldn’t need a union to secure that wage for them
October 13th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
that pours a lot of money in to foreign economies because almost all of their products are made in china or other countries therefore not really helping our economy.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
non unionized so legacy costs won’t hit them nearly as
hard
October 13th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Actually, Sam Walton wasn’t filthy rich. His whole corporation is ran relatively conservatively. They all have Wal Mart furniture at their offices.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Score one for the Mom and Pops.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
dont know how true this is but isnt it almost impossible to be fired if you part of a union?
October 13th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
@ Wea – Agreed. As long as the opposing team doesn’t figure out Cobb we should be ok. Locke is a beast when he actually has room to roam.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
There are always at least 4 or 5 Waltons in the top 15 or so list of the richest people in the U.S.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
you understand what people were paid/how they were treated at the turn of the century before unions right?
October 13th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
i think we can all agree that the unions outlived their usefulness? maybe?
October 13th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
You’re right, Ruck. My mistake. Wal-mart is ran conservatively, though.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
/before unions gained too much power I should say (which I would agree with) though I note nobody here seems all that saddened by corporations gaining too much power.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
it is worth whatever someone is willing to pay. the problem occurs when unions get that $35 an hour job and then get brave and try to get more money out of the person paying that wage and the person paying tells them to go fuck themselves and hires a “scab” for $10.00 an hour or just decides to move the company to mexico.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Anyone read “The Wal-Mart Effect” before?
October 13th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Also, Walmarts’ “cheap labor” costs you money.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
Score one for the Mom and Pops.I’m originally from a town of 4,000 people. When Wal Mart announced their plans to build a superstore in town, one of the most vocal opponents was the owner of the local pharmacy. He wrote a long editorial in the local paper saying how important it is to support the local mom and pop businesses like his. His words might have carried more weight if the two vehicles he owned weren’t a Jaguar and a Hummer. Of the 3 local car dealerships, none of them sold either type of vehicle. Hypocracy at it’s finest.
October 13th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
I actually do please list for me the number of things that are the same as they were at turn of the century
October 13th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
yep. Good read.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
@ tst see comment #46
October 13th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
This can also be spelled hypocricy. Fuck.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
The Committee on Education and the Workforce estimated in 2004 that a single 200 employee Wal-Mart costs you adn your fellow taxpayers half a million a year:
36,000 for free and reduced lunches for just fifty qualifying walmart families.
42000 a year for section 8 housing assistance, assuming 3 percent of the store employees qualify
125000 for federal tax credits and deductions for low income families
100000 a year for additional title 1 expenses
108000 a year for the additional federal health care cost of moving into state childrens health insurance programs
9750 a year for additional costs for low income energy assistance.
By creatng jobs that don’t pay a living wage your just creating more expense on the government. I get the impression conservatives just wish poor people would die, but unfortunately we don’t let them die, we pay for them to live. If they could pay for themselves (like if they got a larger chunk of Walmarts profits) I’m sure they would.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
If it was worth that amount there would be numerous firms willing to pay that wage. THe situation you are refering to about getting additional money has already happened in your example….and moving jobs to mexico is great because the savings generated by that benefits all shoppers, opposed to just those who happen to have union protected jobs
October 13th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
I can tell you what’s not. The Red Sox being dominant.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
A guy who works at the station next to mine just got arrested for child pornography. nice.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Nobody is forced to work there. Get another job that pays more. Like at the mom and pop stor…. oh, wait. Nevermind.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
haha. In the small towns that and McDonalds might be the only jobs that they can get.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
My answer to that would be that if their wages are so low, maybe those who work there should take advantage of the NUMEROUS educational and training opportunities in this country and stop settling for low paying jobs just because they are easy and reuqire little or no effort n the worker’s part, and are subsidized by our gov’t If there were noone who responded they would raise wages/benefit levels. Unfortunately this country has a legion of workers who feel entitled and think they should take no action to improve their own stock in life. Is walmart to blame for this?
October 13th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
+1
October 13th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Nope. They’re just capitalizing on it.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Somebody has to work at Walmart. Apparently ALOT of somebodys. The natural conclusion of your plan, if it worked perfectly, would be that everybody would raise themselves up and go to school and get better jobs (I don’t know precisely where these jobs would be, but say this was possible). Who is working at Walmart then? There aren’t enough teenagers and old people to do it. A portion of the adult work force is going to have to work these jobs. When companies don’t pay them enough for the one bedroom apartment (much less that plus health insurance) they are effectively sticking the government with a bill for its poor person whose labor they are still using. That labor should allow you enough to live.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
FUCK YOU SHAWN KEMP WITH YOUR DISCUSSION WITH NO RIGHT OR WRONG ANSWER STARTING FACE HAVING ASS!!!
October 13th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Which brings me to my second point, kids. Don’t do crack.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Trying dealing with them on a business level. Pure hell.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
The basic point you are missing TST is that if we as a whole improved our marketable skills to the point where we had options, instead of taking what the walmarts of the world decide to give us, then there woudl be competition for those workers. In plainer words If these poor downtrodden workers had choices and could choose to not work at Walmart, than walmart would have to sweeten the pot to entice those workers to work there. That would alleviate the problem of pay and benefit disparities. However since there are enough lazy asses who don’t want to take the time and effort to educate themselves Walmart is the one benefitting from competition in the form of offering these subpar wages and watching the applicants fight over them….
October 13th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
wea, if everyone at Walmart “educated” themselves, where exactly are they going to get jobs? You arent guaranteed employment by getting a degree, lik TST, SOMEONE has to work at Walmart, there simply arent enough jobs to around as it is. Educating yourself isnt going to cause Walmart to compete more for you if there isn’t another job out there for you to get.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
i hear the military i always hiring.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
I saw that portion of the argument, but of course that only really works in a perfect world. The reality is we will never have enough people rise up to make that happen (partly because of lazy asses), and further, the Walmarts buying power precludes others from being financially capable of competing. Walmart functionally reduces the amount of good jobs, marketable skills or no (I guess thats what makes them marketable). Again, what would these people be doing? We don’t have enough jobs for the educated as it is.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
+1 And to Wea’s point, there are a few companies that have had to sweeten the pot quite a bit to get applicants.
Have they made you do the Walmart Cheer? My Father-in-Law works for Pevely Farms, whenevr he meets with Walmart they make him do the Walmart cheer. It sounds fantastic.
October 13th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
cj, there is no guarantee obviously, that getting educated means getting a job automatically. However there is a guarantee that the lack of marketable skills (maybe using education as a synonym was incorrect) leaves many without options. They doom themselves to be at the mercy of employers, and such they can’t complain that Walmart fails to comepnsate them in a manner they desire, when they have no plausible option
October 13th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Surely you agree that if you diminish the labor pool that walmart gets to choose from then you would see some movement on their part to raise wages/working condiditons… not everything is absolute
October 13th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
that example only works if you define the market as retail sales
October 13th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
in conclusion, wal-mart > shawn kemp
October 13th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
This thread needs more boobs.
October 13th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
I, for one, think that website is full of photoshoppery. No way that many people walk around with their full asses showing.
October 13th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
97 comments and I’m the only one who made a subtle reference to Kemp’s legendary impregnating powers??
October 13th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
karma – See comment 2 haha
October 13th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
My WalMart is full of Hasidic Jews. On Saturday it is full of everything else. Pick a day, you can’t win.
October 13th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Some interesting Wal-Mart facts vetted by Snopes:
Wal-Mart
October 13th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Capitalism is wrong.
/Michael Moore
//Please pay to see my new movie
October 13th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
Well surprising all this reading and no one has mentioned that basically — Wal Mart is a racist entity for the most part.
I won’t post any of the lawsuits and egregious acts that led to lawsuits (firing a woman who dated a black guy interracially for instance)…
But they are. I wrote a paper on the crap in college–just to be the defiant big black guy out of boredom but hell…I learned something from it.
Look it up. Book it. Tell your friends
maybe not.
That being said…I boycotted WalMart…
For a month. I’m too apathetic to boycott shit for long
October 14th, 2009 at 8:19 am
Remember that one time we bashed Wal-mart and said we only shop at Costco? You’d be surprised how much hate mail we received
too funny. Target all day