I grew up shopping at Wal-Mart.  Their “made in the USA” and family friendly ideals were very appealing to this very patriotic, Bible-believin' family.  I'd say that we've spent tens of thousands of dollars at their stores over the years.

In the past several years, I've been pulling away from Wal-mart a bit more each year.  I have family employed by them and I've been informed about how they treat their employees.  Yes, this bothered me and so I distanced a bit.  Then my husband and I watched a documentary on how Wal-mart is affecting the US economy, how the company creates it's own customers by putting smaller businesses out of business and how they are moving more and more jobs overseas to make their profit margins even larger.  After seeing that documentary we distanced ourselves even more from them.

And now, in recent months we've pulled our support entirely, content to drive out of our way to their competitors and pay higher prices to keep from handing our hard earned money over to that chain.  I do not agree with their recent move to not remain nuetral on the “marriage” issue.  Yes, Wal-mart has every right to support homosexual marriage with their monetary donations.  However, I am not in favor of legalizing homosexual marriage and like my stance with Ford and Starbucks, Wal-mart will not recieve financial support from me.  I did the math and not including Christmas shopping, Wal-mart was getting over $10K a year from my family alone just for grocery-type purchases.  I don't know what my parents' annual average spending at Wal-mart was but they've stopped shopping there as well.  It was the last straw for us.

Yes, I still have family working for them.  Maybe I should send them the employment listing for Target and/or Costco?

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