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Friday, December 06, 2002

Walmart is apparently trying to get rid of customers. They already have a mildly tarnished image, but they're going the extra mile to make sure that I avoid shopping there at all costs. A Walmart store in Sterling, Colorado, had a Toys for Tots box where people could buy gifts and then donate them by dropping them in the box. A few days into the program, this thought occured to a brilliant store manager: "Since store officials didn't know if the gifts had been bought or not -- and no video camera was trained on the box -- [the manager] said he decided to place all the toys back on the shelves for resale." (See this article). While we're at it, why not recover the day's cash losses by taking money from the charity jars? After all, there's no way of knowing that the cash in those jars wasn't stolen from the registers...

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