Mrs Frolic

I just want to point out that a lot of people - myself and Frolic included - boycott Walmart for a lot of reasons, some of which are:

1. They're anti-female; they've refused to sell emergency contraception (this is serious because in many small towns, they're the only pharmacy, so it's the ONLY place women can get it, and it has to be taken within 72 hours of sex and many rural women don't have the option to just go to a big town to get it).

2. They're anti-female for other reasons too; they're currently the target of the largest class-action lawsuit in history because women make up 80% of their workforce but only 10% of management is female. There are actual internal company memos telling management to promote men ahead of women because men "have families to support" - this completely ignores the fact that many of the women that work at Walmart are single mothers.

3. Walmart is infamous for crushing local businesses (they'll deliberately price their products lower, even to the point of losing money, until the local businesses go out of business).

4. Walmart is strongly anti-union and refuses to let their workers unionize. The first Walmart in North America to get a union was in Quebec within the last few months, and Walmart has closed that store under the pretense "it was no longer profitable". With that move, Walmart has sent a very strong message to the other stores not to risk unionizing, because they'll lose their jobs too.

5. Walmart has been found guilty of using illegal laborers, to whom they can pay abysmal wages.

There are more reasons to boycott Walmart but those are the major ones for me. So be aware, before shopping at Walmart, that by doing so you are supporting a company that considers women inferior and destroys the local economies of the areas it moves into. If that isn't a problem for you, by all means shop there, but if it is, there are other places to shop besides Walmart.