Black Friday ... It's On!

Yes, we can ... do this! Gotta shop? Suggestions, anyone? 

BZB's Gift Show is back at Shiloh Family Life Center, with a slew of independent, African-American vendors from all over the country. 

They won't have aluminum foil, dish detergent, and bread, true. Hmmmm...

I'd pick Giant and Safeway over the Wal-Martons any day. Employees have a voice, through their union. Giant gets a good salary report, too. 
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Employer=Giant_Food_Stores/Hourly_Rate

For grown-ups not getting full support from their parents, Target isn't a choice employer. It has a great look and fantastic marketing (and neat stuff), but its labor practices are no better than Wal-Mart's. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ralph-nader/target-walmart_b_4254981.html

Costco has a conscientious attitude toward paying people salaries that are appropriate for  ... people! http://www.businessinsider.com/costcos-simple-strategy-2014-9

The change we seek in our society has to start not within our collective conscience, but within each individual conscience. Thinking ....

http://www.thenation.com/blog/191193/decoding-demonization-marion-barry#

Wal-Mart Workers' Push-back: As American As It Gets

Wal-Mart's Walton family, the Wal-Martons, is a monument to greed and inhumanity, the personification of "selfish." There are those who are scoffing at these protests. Why scoff? Pushing back is just as American (more American?) as corporate greed. 

Some people say the Wal-Martons have earned their right to be filthy rich and detached, to control their wealth any way they want. "Their right" ... an overused and misused expression. A throwaway term. Who granted the Wal-Martons this right? No, they did not earn it all by themselves.

I view the Wal-Martons as thieves no less conniving than Dick Cheney. Americans become gullible in matters of wealth and fame, other people's wealth and fame, that is. These workers are smart and bold, and not fooled in the least by wolves claiming to be sheep.

See this story from Bloomberg -- "How Wal-Mart's Waltons Maintain Their Billionaire Fortune"  

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-12/how-wal-mart-s-waltons-maintain-their-billionaire-fortune-taxes.html