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2016-01-16 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
White shoppers call for boycott after black Sam's Club CEO Rosalind Brewer rips lack of diversity with company's top suppliers
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Posted by Fred 2016-01-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 Maybe the battering ram is a pendulum.
Posted by Skidmark 2016-01-16 07:16||   2016-01-16 07:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Isn't Walmart set to close a couple hundred stores?
Posted by CrazyFool 2016-01-16 08:40||   2016-01-16 08:40|| Front Page Top

#3 We made an effort to check out Costco, last week, with a neighbor who is a Costco member -- just because I was rather annoyed with MS Brewer's ill-considered blatherings regarding diversity at the suppliers she deals with. (As if it is any of her business) We've had a membership at Sam's for a good few years, mostly because the nearest one is closer than the nearest Costco ... but we were sold. (They offered the neighbor a $10 gift card for the referral, and me the same for signing up ...) We'll likely let the Sam's Club lapse.
As Insty keeps reminding us -- the wonderful thing about the Obama Administration is all the racial healing.
Posted by Sgt. Mom  2016-01-16 09:40|| http://www.celiahayes.com  2016-01-16 09:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Has everyone forgotten her comments that she actively doesn't allow white males to advance?
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2016-01-16 10:04||   2016-01-16 10:04|| Front Page Top

#5 I take it Sams Club doesn't carry Alaskan Crab. Those boats on 'Deadliest Catch' are mighty pale.

[Ever notice the hubbub about diversity is usually around warm office jobs with noticeable salaries and not the grubby, dirty and sometimes deadly jobs? Privilege]
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-01-16 10:05||   2016-01-16 10:05|| Front Page Top

#6 I wonder if Rosalind's mama ever read her a story about a pitcher who went to the well too many times?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-01-16 11:54||   2016-01-16 11:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Years ago a story like this had a devastating impact on K-Mart. 60 Minutes found evidence that K-Mart would routinely lay off or fire store managers after they got into their forties because their salaries and benefits were getting too expensive. It seemed to be a clear cut case of age discrimination. I don't see too many K-Marts anymore. Whatever happened to them?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-01-16 12:38||   2016-01-16 12:38|| Front Page Top

#8 @#2: Full List of 115 USA WalMart Closings Including Dates of Closure — Many Closing TOMORROW! ALL by the End of January.
Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-01-16 12:46||   2016-01-16 12:46|| Front Page Top

#9 Tough for me to boycott the place since I've never been in a Sam's Club, so I guess that problem's solved!
Posted by Raj 2016-01-16 12:51||   2016-01-16 12:51|| Front Page Top

#10 Another reason to continue not to shop there.
Posted by DarthVader 2016-01-16 13:08||   2016-01-16 13:08|| Front Page Top

#11 Reminds me of when Michael Jordon was asked why he wasn't more outspoken in his politics, his answer was "...because Republicans buy athletic shoes too".
Posted by Capsu 78 2016-01-16 14:02||   2016-01-16 14:02|| Front Page Top

#12 Hard to get through to these people, but losing her job might get her to listen.
Posted by Iblis 2016-01-16 15:41||   2016-01-16 15:41|| Front Page Top

#13 A pillow! A daughter is haltin'
The breath of the dad she's still faultin':
"Goodnight, little Sammy!"
"Good--mpph, mmph-mphh--Mammy!"
Sleep tight, you old racist, Sam Walton.
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2016-01-16 16:50||   2016-01-16 16:50|| Front Page Top

#14 (clears throat) You didn't build that!
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-01-16 17:24||   2016-01-16 17:24|| Front Page Top

#15 the list of walmart stores closing in feb 2016 is here

four sam's club stores are on the list
Posted by lord garth 2016-01-16 19:57||   2016-01-16 19:57|| Front Page Top

#16 I've never at foot in a Walmart because of the way they treat their supply chain and drive them offshore. These big stores pay low wages and give nothing back to the local community - everything comes in from away, and the community doesn't share in the economic flow.
Posted by KBK 2016-01-16 21:35||   2016-01-16 21:35|| Front Page Top

#17 s/at/set/
Posted by KBK 2016-01-16 21:37||   2016-01-16 21:37|| Front Page Top

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