Wal-Mart - yet another nutty story...

[iwannadie]

If choosing not to sell something can be considered a form of censorship then I guess all businesses are guilty of censorship.

its their right to censor or not sell what they want. But they have no room to complain when a community bands together and votes them out of an area they compare that to party book burnings. walmart gets very upset when they are told they can not open a store because the people around say they cant. yet walmart sees fit to censor its products.

also theres a difference with not selling and censoring. they do both of course. simple not selling something is one thing, to censor it out and make it 'accetable' on their terms then sell it is just greedy. if they were serious about their desire to provide censored safe material to the people then why are some forms of media censored and others not? the same words with the content for music and movies yet movies are sold as is music is censored. its greed no question. if they were serious about providing only clean material they wouldnt allow uncensored movies to be sold.

[Loonette]

I don't know what their current policies are on much of anything because I simply don't shop there and don't care, however...

A while back they quit selling birth control pills because some higher-up heard that birth control pills can be trippled up and used as a "morning after" remedy for supected pregnancy. They still sell condoms though. Oh yeah, and they treat their women employees like dirt.

Like our president, the leaders of WalMart use their religion to rule. That's okay in private industry. Again - if you don't like them, don't line their pockets with your good money.

Cheers,
Loonette

[iwannadie]

I don't know what their current policies are on much of anything because I simply don't shop there and don't care, however...

A while back they quit selling birth control pills because some higher-up heard that birth control pills can be trippled up and used as a "morning after" remedy for supected pregnancy. They still sell condoms though. Oh yeah, and they treat their women employees like dirt.

Like our president, the leaders of WalMart use their religion to rule. That's okay in private industry. Again - if you don't like them, don't line their pockets with your good money.

Cheers,
Loonette

my gf works for walmart and their health insurance doesnt cover birth controll pills. it covers every other kind of prescription expect birth controll.

they do sell it however. the pharmecy in the stores isnt owned by walmart its a sub contracted company so they can(well unless walmart tells them not to) sell birth controll pills.

its hard not to shop there, im broke and everything their is half the price of the grocery stores near by, i can see paying a little more. but i cant double my grocery bill just to avoid walmart