View Full Version : why don't we just boycott wal-mart?
fishcatch22
09-12-2006, 11:07 PM
hey,all. i'm sick and tired of seeing wal-mart and there horrible tanks of disease and suffering. why doesn't anyone start a boycott or a protest of something? why doesn't anyone try taking legal action? as a citizen, animal lover, and anti-cruelty of any kind person, I want to take action. we managed to stop the sale of those dam "water babies" things, now we must take this horror down. who's with me!?
Mgamer20o0
09-13-2006, 12:48 AM
if you havent figured it out after all this time is they dont care. get over it. they will not change.
DormDweller
09-13-2006, 12:51 AM
So many people depend on walmart now that it has depleted the number of mom and pop stores. For most places, it's the primary grocery and it's just easier to get stuff while you are out. Even if this WHOLE forum boycotted walmart, they wouldn't notice because the size of their income.
plah831
09-13-2006, 12:58 AM
i agree. besides, even if AC members boycotted the live fish, there are plenty of idiots out there who don't know or dont' care for better who will keep buying up Walmart fish because they think "fish don't live more than a week." but you know those people will never be on a forum like this because they just don't care.
jm1212
09-13-2006, 4:51 PM
we dont go there anyway. my mom hates the place because they have junky producs and dispicable service, not to mention their store is a complete dump. their fishtanks are cespools full of fungus, ich and dropsy. its a darn cry to get shut down.
i wouldnt be caught dead in a store like that anyway
fish_freak
09-13-2006, 5:56 PM
Wal-mart isnt all that bad. I buy a lot of goods there. Ya they shouldnt sell fish but some LFS shouldnt either. Theres one near me with awefull tanks. Also I have seen some upstanding wal-mart fish departments as well. Also belive me if enough people do not purchase fish at wal-mart they will take out the tanks it just takes a large number of people on a local level to do it. They took them out of our wal-mart cause there is a petco next door who's tanks always looked 200x's better so no one bought fish from them when they could go next door.
Mgamer20o0
09-13-2006, 8:30 PM
so your saying get petco or petsmart to build a store next to each walmart. lol
FreddytheFish
09-13-2006, 8:33 PM
hey,all. i'm sick and tired of seeing wal-mart and there horrible tanks of disease and suffering. why doesn't anyone start a boycott or a protest of something? why doesn't anyone try taking legal action? as a citizen, animal lover, and anti-cruelty of any kind person, I want to take action. we managed to stop the sale of those dam "water babies" things, now we must take this horror down. who's with me!?
1. They wouldn't care; losing 500 customers is nothing to them.
2. Many people on the forum have no other choice but WalMart to buy their fish
MeatWagon
09-13-2006, 9:33 PM
MY local Walmarts fish arent bad, just as good as the chain pet stores.
fishcatch22
09-15-2006, 7:08 PM
well, i guess it also depends on which employees they have in there on that day. some seem to know something, others like to put a lone tiger barb in a tank full of angels. one more reason they shouldn't sell fish....
bigscout
09-15-2006, 8:01 PM
What I don't understand is why you keep going back. I don't shop at Wal-mart, and if I do I definately never go to the pet section. They don't bother me one bit, I already boycotted them years ago, so I have nothing to worry about.
fishcatch22
09-15-2006, 8:09 PM
What I don't understand is why you keep going back. I don't shop at Wal-mart, and if I do I definately never go to the pet section. They don't bother me one bit, I already boycotted them years ago, so I have nothing to worry about.I don't, and i'm slowly getting my mother on my side. and I was just mad..... I wasn't actually asking you all to boycott. i know it will do nothing. you can just disregard this thread....
gst4life
09-15-2006, 8:41 PM
Just cause they have a bad fish department doesnt mean their stores a dump. Get over it, they are a good store with low prices. Its just they dont know fish. Big deal. :mad:
Must4ng s4lly
09-18-2006, 1:29 PM
I think Boycotting is a great idea. You get the word out! I defeated a WAL mart in my city by starting a grassroots organization that blew into a huge movement. WE got rid of that stupid Big Box store the size of the Astrodome....
I shop at Target, Costco, Kroger and Petsmart. These places treat their people better and are much cleaner and nicer.
Since I quit shopping at WM my life has been a lot freer! No more nasty stores!
Wow! that is no small feat mustang- good for you. I haven't shopped there in probably six years or so- they don't notice of course, but I feel better.
Red Tailed Wonder
09-19-2006, 3:51 PM
Walmart is called Asda in uk lol.
daniel364
09-19-2006, 4:28 PM
lol flagfish. yeah and doesnt have a fish place at all.
oh and my mum works there. :) there, i think ive given you enough random fact today
jm1212
09-19-2006, 4:31 PM
Walmart is called Asda in uk lol.
in my school, ASDA= Alternative School Day Assingnment.
in other words, if you do something bad that needs something worse than a detention, then you go to a class room where you stay all day, get no passing periods except for one where you get to go to the bathroom, and you have to eat your lunch in the room too, and you cant talk AT ALL
neither one are good...