WalMart refuses to sell Playboy or Maxim but sells guns

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Didn't you all see this part?

Note: I am not asking about rights here, just what you would do if you ran a WalMart.

[Lunar]

Walmart is trying to keep up a certain image.  If you want to blame something for the hypocrisy, blame society.  A store can sell guns and still be a 'family store,' but not so much with pornography/

[A18]

Walmart is trying to keep up a certain image.  If you want to blame something for the hypocrisy, blame society.  A store can sell guns and still be a 'family store,' but not so much with pornography/

How are guns anti-family?

[Ebowed]

Walmart is trying to keep up a certain image.  If you want to blame something for the hypocrisy, blame society.  A store can sell guns and still be a 'family store,' but not so much with pornography/

How are guns anti-family?

Because you can use them to kill people...

Didn't you all see this part?

Note: I am not asking about rights here, just what you would do if you ran a WalMart.

Fine.  In that case, yes/yes.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

fun fact: there's a total of ONE store in the entire city of Minneapolis that sells guns. A good ratio I must say.

[A18]

I can use knives to kill people. And this would be more of a self protection thing for most people than a "hey, kids, let's get some guns so we can kill people!" kind of event.

[Lunar]

Walmart is trying to keep up a certain image.  If you want to blame something for the hypocrisy, blame society.  A store can sell guns and still be a 'family store,' but not so much with pornography.

How are guns anti-family?

I never said they were.

[John Dibble]

They can sell and not sell whatever legal goods they want.

[PBrunsel]

No/No

There are all sorts of places to buy porn. Heck, ask BRTD then dead, he probabaly knows half a million!

Guns should only be sold at actually gun outlets, I truest there are enough.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

They can sell and not sell whatever legal goods they want.

*sigh*

Note: I am not asking about rights here, just what you would do if you ran a WalMart.

No/No

There are all sorts of places to buy porn. Heck, ask BRTD then dead, he probabaly knows half a million!

Maxim and Playboy are not porn.

[John Dibble]

This hypocrisy is ridiculous.

Note: I am not asking about rights here, just what you would do if you ran a WalMart.

I vote Yes/No.

By the way, where's the "I don't give a rat's ass" option? As I said, they can sell whatever legal goods they want to sell, and not sell any goods they don't want to sell.

Also, I'm not seeing the hypocrisy - gun shops sell guns but not porn, are they hypocrites? Guns and porn are completely unrelated, so selling one and not the other is not even close to hypocrisy.

[opebo]

WalMart is run by a bunch of christian intolerants, and most of the customers are the same type.  Please, everyone, abuse their 90 day return policy - to the max!

lol  You are so full of sh**t.  Hillary Clinton used to be on the board of directors.

Proves my point, eh?

[Richard]

WalMart is run by a bunch of christian intolerants, and most of the customers are the same type.  Please, everyone, abuse their 90 day return policy - to the max!

Do you think that actually hurts the stock holders and owners, or the minimum wage student they have working there that interacts with the annoying customers?

It is impossible to hurt that minimum wage person (she is typically an adult), as she cannot fall any lower.

Heh, obviously you've never worked for minimum wage.  If lots of customers treat you like sh**t and give you trouble, it makes your day so much worse.

What you're advocating doesn't hurt the managers or stockholders.  It hurts those that you "care" about.

[Richard]

Walmart is trying to keep up a certain image.  If you want to blame something for the hypocrisy, blame society.  A store can sell guns and still be a 'family store,' but not so much with pornography/

How are guns anti-family?

Because you can use them to kill people...

So you're saying baseball bats, knives, rat poison, and bricks are all anti-family things?

[David S]

Yes / Yes.
Why would you vote against selling guns in Walmart unless you oppose selling guns anywhere?

[nclib]

Yes / Yes.
Why would you vote againts selling guns in Walmart unless you oppose selling guns anywhere?

Why would anyone oppose selling Playboys at Wal-Mart unless they oppose selling Playboys anywhere?

[Democratic Hawk]

Yes/Yes

Dave

[Richard]

Yes / Yes.
Why would you vote againts selling guns in Walmart unless you oppose selling guns anywhere?

Why would anyone oppose selling Playboys at Wal-Mart unless they oppose selling Playboys anywhere?

Because we want to maintain a level of decency in society.

[David S]

Yes / Yes.
Why would you vote againts selling guns in Walmart unless you oppose selling guns anywhere?

Why would anyone oppose selling Playboys at Wal-Mart unless they oppose selling Playboys anywhere?

No argument from me on that point.

[angus]

This hypocrisy is ridiculous.

Note: I am not asking about rights here, just what you would do if you ran a WalMart.

I vote Yes/No.

they don't sell playboy?!

actually I've never purchased a playboy.  or a gun.  or a maxim (whatever the hell that is).  but I have no intention of selling my walmart stock.  oh, I haven't found a walmart in manhattan yet, by the way.  In fact, this pretty much tops my list of Things I miss about CA/TX/MA/MS/MN/FL when I'm in the city.  No Walmarts!  Ah, well, at least I found the Cheap Red Wine Store pretty quickly.

[Storebought]

I believed that Wal-Mart was in the business of selling the necessities and incidentals of life (food, clothing, hardware, etc.) at bargain basement prices. In some parts, a gun qualifies as a necessity; in others parts, a nice incidental piece of hardware used for sport and recreation. I see no harm in it.

That goes for the sex recreation as well: Wal-Mart sells lubricants and such as well, in addition to condoms.

So I don't see what you're complaining about, unless your imagination is so impoverished that you cannot use the sex items Wal-Mart offers without printed stimulation.

[angus]

I believed that Wal-Mart was in the business of selling the necessities and incidentals of life (food, clothing, hardware, etc.) at bargain basement prices. In some parts, a gun qualifies as a necessity; in others parts, a nice incidental piece of hardware used for sport and recreation. I see no harm in it.

That goes for the sex recreation as well: Wal-Mart sells lubricants and such as well, in addition to condoms.

So I don't see what you're complaining about, unless your imagination is so impoverished that you cannot use the sex items Wal-Mart offers without printed stimulation.

word.

still, if I were a playboy afficionado, I'd be upset too.  If you're a fan of walmart and a fan of playboy, then this must be disappointing.  I'm only a fan of one of those two, so it really doesn't bother me.  Unless, of course, this causes WMT stocks to tank.  As I read it, and I think I read it correctly, stocking guns is a good call.  Bound to be good for business, given the demographic.  As for not stocking nudie mags, well, so long as they still sell Hustler (which has much more entertaining reading and cartoons), then I don't see it's a problem.  Hey, even with a bazillion square feet, you still have to make choices about what you can stock and what you can't, and Playboy always struck me as the sort of higher-end nudie mag that wouldn't be the choice of the Wal-Mart demographic anyway. 

[Beet]

I believed that Wal-Mart was in the business of selling the necessities and incidentals of life (food, clothing, hardware, etc.) at bargain basement prices. In some parts, a gun qualifies as a necessity; in others parts, a nice incidental piece of hardware used for sport and recreation. I see no harm in it.

That goes for the sex recreation as well: Wal-Mart sells lubricants and such as well, in addition to condoms.

So I don't see what you're complaining about, unless your imagination is so impoverished that you cannot use the sex items Wal-Mart offers without printed stimulation.

word.

By the way, I had been under the impression that Wal-mart offers guns through mail order only and not off the shelves. At least this was the case several years ago. Is this no longer the case?

[angus]

I never noticed them in the wal-mart store just north of Revere, Massachusetts, but then I wasn't really looking for them.  I have noticed them in other stores though.  I'm trying to remember if I ever saw them in the SFbay stores or the columbus store I frequented, but honestly I can't remember. 

[Beet]

I never noticed them in the wal-mart store just north of Revere, Massachusetts, but then I wasn't really looking for them.  I have noticed them in other stores though.  I'm trying to remember if I ever saw them in the SFbay stores or the columbus store I frequented, but honestly I can't remember. 

Depends on the store I suppose.