Le sigh

"Supporters of the store say opponents are a small minority, mainly merchants, who fear losing economic clout."

I'm all for Wal-Mart bashing, but this is a story about competition. The David and Goliath argument is moot since if the small business point of view is carried out to it's logical end, large companies would be unjustly held back from expanding their business. We simply create a tyranny of a different sort and people would end up having to pay $80 for a pair of jeans from Mom & Pop union shop.

How about opposing Wal-Mart because of, let's say, their using their market share clout to force suppliers to either move their manufacturering out the country or go out of business. Then you could move on to how this business practice has created a new third world child labor and slave labor industry.

Will Chet Pussy be a greeter?

"American tourists can go from the monuments to the Wal-Mart store and buy a rubber pyramid, made in Beijing."

Multiculturalism.

I wonder where a Mexican Wal-Mart would hire its illegal aliens?

Captured rival retailers will be led to the roof, where their hearts will be cut out with the sacred obsidian knife ($2.99 in housewares,) the fed, still beating, into the cruel mouth of the Sam Walton idol.

Mmmm two great cultures meet.

Is it just me, or does the accompying picture with the article look fake?

Whatever keeps them on their side of the fence.

/pointless graphic related to Wal-Mart

2004-09-04 02:44:34 AM eloreo


I wonder where a Mexican Wal-Mart would hire its illegal aliens?



From El Salvadore of course. Duh.... ;)

There goes the neighborhood.

2004-09-04 02:44:50 AM Chartini

Captured rival retailers will be led to the roof, where their hearts will be cut out with the sacred obsidian knife ($2.99 in housewares,) the fed, still beating, into the cruel mouth of the Sam Walton idol.

I'm sure Tonatiuh is hungry. I hope somebody left a little sacrifice in the foundation of the new WalMart.

" "Wal-Mart energetically objects to these violent acts and reserves the right to go before the proper authorities," it said."

That means the bribes have already been paid.

Alright, seriously, I'm all for free enterprise (well, sort of), and I'll grant that when it comes right down to it, I'm pretty lefty (though I am loathe to admit it for some reason), but doesn't everyone kind of get a little sick to their stomachs when you see this kind of thing? Is it acceptable to expand business even into third world countries to undercut the little bit of an economy they may have going there? And to boot, is it ABSOLUTELY necessary to place it in a location so close to a major piece of history?
This is all getting way out of hand. Come on America, let's get some WalMart taming legislation!

/....I've heard wonderful things about Meijer! ;-)

Sigh........have any of you been to Teotihuacan? The Pyramids of the Sun and of the Moon? Awe inspiring to say the least. I don't want to think about there being a Wal-Mart anywhere near this site.

Some of the greatest architectural/cultural in the world and a Wal-Mart is going in nearby. Sigh, again.

Then again, I didn't read the whole article. So, of to drink a beer or two.

off, not of. D'oh! Maybe I'll skip the beer and have some nice tequila that I brought back from Mexico.

Good times, good times.

Okay . 2 of you get gmail. The Scots Goalie and the Service STation. And the rokc is dead guy.Okay, 3 of you get it.
In my profile- you know wah t to do.

and expect a wait- i am tired.
And ther WILL be a test.

I wonder who in the city is going to drive TWO HOURS just to buy "cheaper" stuff at that Wal Mart when there's plenty of them already in the city (Mexico City). I mean, unless they plan on atracting american tourists as clients, they're going to have to sell stuff dirt cheap just so the people who live close by can afford to shop there.

Beavosaurus Rex I've been there quite a few times, mostly because I usually end up having to take foreign friends who come to visit; the last time I went was New Year's day, people usually celebrate the new year on top of the Pyramid of the Sun, a lot of people believe that being so high up will purify you. Interesting stuff, I'd hate the view from the top of the pyramid to be littered with a Wal Mart sign.

A blood sacrifice should be made to appease the old gods. 1 CEO would be appropriate.

that the Mexicans don't want a Wal-Mart to open, when they make up about 90% of the people who shop there.

"Next to the Wal-Mart site stands the rust-colored Hotel Quinta Sol, a project she and others failed to block. A huge yellow sign for the Elektra electronics store chain and a broken Coca-Cola billboard dot the landscape."

-so how will walmart make that big of a difference

This is terrible and heart breaking. Also, fark off and die to all the racists in this thread.

On the plus side, the pyramid has been vacant for thousands of years, so Wally World can't close it down.

Isn't this one of those events that causes the ghosts of the dead natives to rise up in anger and destroy the building?

The Other

I picked up on your comment. If he was the greeter, I'd go see 'im.

Satanico Pandemonium will be on hand in the pet section...

"As a young father, he planted his newborn son's umbilical cord at the ancient temples for protection. "

As a service to its customers, the new Wal-Mart will have a convenient umbilical cord drop-off kiosk, free of charge, which will help make this truly a one-stop-shopping-and-umbilical-cord-burying destination!

When questioned why the umbilical cord kiosk was located so close to the in-store-taco-restaurant, managers declined comment.

Hernando Cortez would approve.

While they're at it, why don't they open up a walmart in Arlington Cemetary? There are some places that SHOULD be left alone. Wal-Mart is never going to go away. As long as they continue to offer cheap merchandise and crush their competetors out of business, people will go there either for the cost savings, or because there really is almost no place else to go to get certain items. While the federal government sees fit to bail out Chrysler (years ago, I know) and the airlines (considerably more recent), they won't help out the Riches chain of department stores. We're all going to hell, and we'll probably have to purchase our handbaskets at Wal-Mart.

tarvuz

This is terrible and heart breaking. Also, fark off and die to all the racists in this thread.

Yes, and also my personal "Fark You, Biatch!" to Sir Chevron Food Mart

If you farkers weren't shopping at wall mart, they wouldn't be there. SUpport your local retailers and STOP SNIVELING.

Uhhh... it occurs to me that if people don't want a Walmart there, they can just boycott it. Obviously enough people go to these places, even when they're opposed, to make the stores profitable.

If nobody shops there, then Walmart will move out. I doubt they'd just keep it there just to spite the Mexican people.

Oh they are building a wal-mart that's going to help make us money and educate us and it won't effect the ruins according to farking archeologists, but a few mexican spiritual leaders are pissed. Big farking deal. Welcome to the 21st century, where our water doesn't contain Montezumas Revenge...

Why not open up a Burger King next door to Dachau while we are at it? Or put a Krispy Kreme on the Gettysburg fields? I know, let's allow Disney to go ahead with their "Heritage USA" monstrosity(Special points for those of you who can recall that mess).

There are some places that should be respected and protected in this world from the effects of the modern world. Preservation of the look and feel of the places of the past is no joke.

This makes me sick. These corporate F*CKS will do anything to make a dime, and have no respect for anyone or anything.

"a small pre-Hispanic altar was found buried under what will be the store's parking lot"
-They find a goddamn altar under what will be the parking lot and they still continue. A few people DEFINITELY got bribes for this deal. I hope that some ancient Mayan's decide to come back from the other side and torture these bastards until the day they die.

Sigh

I went to Teotihuacan this summer. The fact that they are trying to do this is appalling. I could cry. I sent this to my spanish teacher, and he is going to crap himself when he reads it.

Plus all of what Beavosaurus Rex said

This is disgusting. I hope someone burns it to the ground the day before it opens. And if they rebuild - the same - ad infinatum.

Correction for my precious post before - Disney proposed in 1994 a theme park near(within 1 mile of) the Manassas battlefield in Virginia called "Disney's America" not Heritage USA. Heritage USA was a theme park run by Jim and Tammy Bakker - just as much of an abomination, I guess. Thanks to whoever sent me the IM noticing the error.

9in Pianist - Hah! The "Senior Retail Analyst" is wearing the standard uniform and standing in a Walmart aisle. Is that their new name for "Sales Associate"?

/used to work at Best Buy. Some brainwashing still remains.

MachuPichu - Why is it disgusting? Obviously, if they are building there, they must perceive some sort of public desire for it, otherwise they would make no money. Anyone who burries an umbillical cord for "protection" needs to get a clue anyway.

I'm all for protecting the beauty that is nature, but that place looks like a desert and they are not tearing down the monument, just building near it. Mexicans everywhere can still pay homage to the pyramid right after they get their everyday low values.

Something tells me the wannabe Wal-Mart will be built, people will biatch for a few months, and then it will become the most popular shopping center in the area. Vote with your peso, people. Most folks would rather get a good deal than stand up for their values.

"Man, those bastards built a Wal-Mart on our holy land, but damnit, they do have the lowest price on adobe clay! Awe, fark it - it's not like one person makes a difference anyway, right ese?"

Why is Wal-Mart taking all the heat here? The article mentions other businesses that already exist on adjacent properties. Sounds like any "corruption" was in place before Wal-Mart came around.

AngryKid:ummm, he doesn't work for Wal-Mart, you really should watch The Daily Show. They're just making fun of Wal-Mart....because Wal-Mart sucks ass. Shop at Target folks.

I wish I lived there so I could smear fresh shiat on their walls every day. They have no idea what they are doing erecting their center of materialism over such a sacred place, but they don't care.

This is a sign definitely (the Maya 2012 prophecy started July 25, 2004), the Maya had an understanding unlike anything we know. They realized that a calendar is how we percieve everything. The Maya used about 17 different calendars but their yearly one makes so much more sense than ours its unbelievable. Instead of the irregular 12 month Catholic calendar we use, they realized the moon orbits the Earth 13 times a year, every 28 days. This creates a harmonic calendar that creates peace and love and enables galactic communication through telepathy. After 9-11 our Earth's state - the Technosphere crashed, in a kind of suicide. Then came the four years of the Harrowing of Hell and finally the 52 year cycle came to a close July 25, 2004. Now the calendar has been changed, and slowly we will realize we must make a choice, whether to let franchises take over our planet and let greed and petty competition take over our lives or to unite under a calendar in peace with nature and be free.

http://www.tortuga.com - Planet Art Network - World Thirteen Moon Calendar Change Peace Movement

A Wal-Mart haunted by angry ancient Mayans. that is a beautiful image.

AngryKid

Yeah because the wests rituals are SO more advanced.....why we are the culmination of everything and nothing will get better cause we be the best.....

/ time to grow up and get an edumacation kid

AndryKid

Since when is a desert not a valuable eco-system that other eco-systems may depend on?

Oh right since we humans don't need to worry about pesky eco-systems when we have all this technology....

needed in this thread: more dumb free-market comments about how it wouldn't be there if people didn't want it, etc.

/let's build one on Mt. Rushmore