I may be a little behind the times, but after sharing my thoughts about FHM magazine with a male coworker, it came to my attention that Walmart is forcing it's morals on others by refusing to sell some men's periodicals because they were too racy. I searched it out on Google and found this entry on blogcritics. One may simply say that you could just go somewhere else to buy the mags but this is more than that.
Walmart has a large consumer group attached to it and it could really hurt sales of these magazines. Personally, I do not shop at this store or Costco or any of the others because of personal reasons. These mega-stores where you can get everything have greatly contributed to the disappearance of the local businesses that kept the money in the regions and provided local service. Unfortunately, these small businesses cannot compete with the low, bulk buying prices of the larger multinationals. They encourage people to pay "discounted" prices for inferior goods thus creating this "buy cheap even though it will break down and then you'll just have to buy a new one"-mentality instead of encouraging people to buy quality goods that aren't so disposable. What kind of morality encourages people to ignore the good of the planet and just buy the stuff that ends up polluting the world we live in?
With that said, I want to say that if you like the magazines (or anything else that they won't sell for moral reasons) go to the local level and buy them. Help out those people who are concerned with the community that they live in!
Late addition! I know I have appeared to be rather annoyed by the whole media-inflamed SARS thing lately, but here is yet another thing that makes me angry. Reuters has printed this article based on the WHO comment about traffic death. It seems to me that car accidents cause so much more death than SARS will and, yet, we do little about it! Why aren't we looking into ways of preventing these deaths? Why aren't we lowering our dependence on automobiles? When will we learn?
Walmart has a large consumer group attached to it and it could really hurt sales of these magazines. Personally, I do not shop at this store or Costco or any of the others because of personal reasons. These mega-stores where you can get everything have greatly contributed to the disappearance of the local businesses that kept the money in the regions and provided local service. Unfortunately, these small businesses cannot compete with the low, bulk buying prices of the larger multinationals. They encourage people to pay "discounted" prices for inferior goods thus creating this "buy cheap even though it will break down and then you'll just have to buy a new one"-mentality instead of encouraging people to buy quality goods that aren't so disposable. What kind of morality encourages people to ignore the good of the planet and just buy the stuff that ends up polluting the world we live in?
With that said, I want to say that if you like the magazines (or anything else that they won't sell for moral reasons) go to the local level and buy them. Help out those people who are concerned with the community that they live in!
Late addition! I know I have appeared to be rather annoyed by the whole media-inflamed SARS thing lately, but here is yet another thing that makes me angry. Reuters has printed this article based on the WHO comment about traffic death. It seems to me that car accidents cause so much more death than SARS will and, yet, we do little about it! Why aren't we looking into ways of preventing these deaths? Why aren't we lowering our dependence on automobiles? When will we learn?
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