Letter to Wal-Mart CEO

[Oddball]

I voted option 3.

I don't care for their husbandry of their livestock. I don't buy my fish from them since they don't carry the monsters I prefer. Once I bought 2 cichla that arrived as contaminants with common koi. I couldn't pass up a pair of tems for $6 each. They didn't even make it into their tanks. I brought them home in the suppliers steel-banded bag.

 

[lucy42083]

I have seen many Walmarts that don't sell fish at all (it's not state law, because I've seen some in the same state sell fish, it is the choice of that store), Walmarts whose fish look to be healthier than any fish at Petsmart/Petco/my crappy local mom&pop LFS, and also seen Walmart's whose fish conditions are deplorable. Personally I've never bought fish there because I've never seen anything that caught my eye, and I don't really go to Walmart much at all because I HATE IT THERE - I have the same sentiment as someone else on this thread, I literally feel like dirty when I walk out. Give me KMart or Target any day, I'll pay a couple more bucks to not have a hellish and gross shopping experience.

However the VAST difference in the fish depts. at different Walmarts I have been to makes me think there's a problem with the whole idea of this poll. I'm sure that there are people whose local Walmarts have fish depts. just as good if not better than any other local option. I'm sure there are more whose Walmart fish are in crappy condition compared to other local options. Just like any other chain -- the Petco I've been to had a hundred times better looking, bigger, more interesting stock than the PetSmart, which literally ONLY had livebearers, a few plecos, and goldfish, at least half the fish in each tank dead. Yet generally, I've seen that most people tend to think that PetSmart is a better place to get fish than Petco. I don't doubt this at all, but individual stores of the same chain may be vastly different, and what is true about one person's Walmart, or Petsmart, or whatever, is not necessarily going to be the case with another location of that store.

 

[MN_Rebel]

I have seen many Walmarts that don't sell fish at all (it's not state law, because I've seen some in the same state sell fish, it is the choice of that store), Walmarts whose fish look to be healthier than any fish at Petsmart/Petco/my crappy local mom&pop LFS, and also seen Walmart's whose fish conditions are deplorable. Personally I've never bought fish there because I've never seen anything that caught my eye, and I don't really go to Walmart much at all because I HATE IT THERE - I have the same sentiment as someone else on this thread, I literally feel like dirty when I walk out. Give me KMart or Target any day, I'll pay a couple more bucks to not have a hellish and gross shopping experience.

However the VAST difference in the fish depts. at different Walmarts I have been to makes me think there's a problem with the whole idea of this poll. I'm sure that there are people whose local Walmarts have fish depts. just as good if not better than any other local option. I'm sure there are more whose Walmart fish are in crappy condition compared to other local options. Just like any other chain -- the Petco I've been to had a hundred times better looking, bigger, more interesting stock than the PetSmart, which literally ONLY had livebearers, a few plecos, and goldfish, at least half the fish in each tank dead. Yet generally, I've seen that most people tend to think that PetSmart is a better place to get fish than Petco. I don't doubt this at all, but individual stores of the same chain may be vastly different, and what is true about one person's Walmart, or Petsmart, or whatever, is not necessarily going to be the case with another location of that store.

She's right on different locations of WM, not all of them are bad...i sensed that this thread will get locked soon.

 

[krzr3000]

I stopped buying things from wal mart a while ago. Cheap products come at a cost, usually of the human rights variety. Something about the concept of the poorest supplying the poor doesn't seem right to me.

I do find it funny that a department store can be the, or one of the richest corporations in the world though.

 

[JD7.62]

You had to be poor to shop at walmart? Thats new to me!

 

[PATSFAN69]

I didn't start a poll to "get people behind me". I started a poll to see if people on this site are willing to do something actionable to improve the level of care that Wal-Mart provides for the animals that it keeps and sells....

Now define "getting people behind me" in your coherent mind!!!!!

"I started a poll to see if people on this site are willing to do something actionable to improve the level of care that Wal-Mart provides for the animals that it keeps and sells" This statment is a text book definition of "getting people behind you"!!!.......you have 55 people behind you on this one, out of 44,000. Not bad, keep up the good fight.

 

[Chaitika]

I hate Walmart for the way they do business, but the local walmart here has a spotless fish dept. I was impressed with how well kept the fish were. Actually better than most of the LFS in town.

 

[Nic]

you seem to be missing the point

Try to stay with us here.

YOU are accusing us of supporting the bad fishkeeping of Wal-Mart.
WE are telling you that we do not support it just because we shop there.

missed this...agree.. but i could care less about there fish..

i give up. his thinking is too naive to understand this

yuppers...

maybe ill get a giftcard!!! like i say, where else can you go to buy some spray paint, a hammer, lawn fertilizer, pack of socks, toilet paper, detergent, nightcrawlers, gun ammo, loaf of bread, toothpaste, a fishnet, a new DVD movie, batteries, lamp, a set of tires, and a pillow? only at walmart

"However I dont expect a company, well use Walmart and their fish as the example, to change because of how I FEEL."

That's the point: Wal-Mart doesn't care about how I feel...or how anyone feels...unless they actually stop shopping there. Then they care.

Being emotional is "rescuing" half-dead fish by giving Wal-Mart money. Tanks empty, order more...and teh cycle continues

Letting the CEO of the company know that 50 people have committed to NOT SHOPPING there until they clean up their act is purely rational.

How would you suggest to influence Wal-Mart's behavior? Or are you happy with the status quo?

I'm not sure what your obsession with PETA is. I eat meat, I keep pets, I like fish, I'm not rich. Just tired of a company that has the resources to properly care for the animals that it sells choosing to keep them in deplorable conditions.

out of the millions of people who shop there those 55 people are really gonna make a difference

You had to be poor to shop at walmart? Thats new to me!

you didnt know... its not about saving a few bucks on everyday items you have to be poor

Now define "getting people behind me" in your coherent mind!!!!!

"I started a poll to see if people on this site are willing to do something actionable to improve the level of care that Wal-Mart provides for the animals that it keeps and sells" This statment is a text book definition of "getting people behind you"!!!.......you have 55 people behind you on this one, out of 44,000. Not bad, keep up the good fight.

 

[krzr3000]

 

[oddballer]

i read halfway through a skipped ahead....... my .02 for what its worth

Walmart=$$$ lots of $$$ two years ago they were the #1 chain store fish buyer in the nation...... bigger than Petco and Petsmart combined......

$$$= people/companies competing in this market

Competition= inovation and advancment of the market

Good market= happy MFK.......

i know is overly simplistic but im just trying to show the other side of the fence....... we need corporate giants like Walmart, petco, petsmart etc..... they are the ones that spend $$$ to promote the industry therefore bringing in new hobbyist and more $$$ to the advancement of the hobby....... i can go on about this forever but i got work to do........