Walmart should be BANNED from selling fish
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Depends on the Walmart. There are very few that actually take care of their fish, and there's no way you can say that any of them are a good place to buy fish, because they all lie to people to get them to buy their fish, so they are indirectly killing them anyway. My Walmart used to keep their fish in horrible conditions, but for whatever reason, they stopped selling them years ago.Reptilesfishbirdsmammals;4360853; said:
carpenter547;4396149; said:a few quick notes about your reply
note you and your wife got nasty with them. that is counter productive.
secondly did you buy the water or just open up store stock?
and as far as the misinformation goes they aren't fish experts ask about putting up some info packets that you made.
unrelated topic i think some one should donate and maintain some aquariums in the librarys especially with odd balls
Getting nasty wasn't counterproductive. She wanted us to stop.
We used the dechlorinator that they had. I was surprised they used it.
As far as putting up info packets, I don't go there anymore and my wife doesn't go much.
.carpenter547;4396149; said:a few quick notes about your reply
note you and your wife got nasty with them. that is counter productive. Not really, this is Walmart, not some local business, one person being a bit rude will not change anything (nor would talking to them in a polite manner).
secondly did you buy the water or just open up store stock?
and as far as the misinformation goes they aren't fish experts ask about putting up some info packets that you made. I seriously doubt they would agree to that. Again, their goal is to make money. I f people see that they cannot take care of the fish they will be less likely to buy them, which means Walmart would be losing business (and not just one person). And also, people who completely lack fish keeping knowledge have no business selling fish anyway.
and i agree again about not shoping some where where conditions aren't right but that means all bussness not just don't buy fish.
if you really wanted to make in impact at least think you are don't even drop in to buy tp. The idea is not to make them go out of business, that would be a completely hopeless cause, so refusing to buy anything from them isn't going to change anything (which also goes along with what I said about the value of a single customer in their eyes).
there was a local lfs slacidos here that kept fish in horrible conditions and same with all of them. people walked in wrinkled thier noses and walked out. they folded. how ever that only really works on a local level.
most managers at chains don't have alot of say in what happens in thier store so if you add cost with out giving money they it won't work.
in the 80's we had a store vogels hardware they sold pets. used to sell siamese fighting fish. some one complained that the fish were being kepts wrong *in frosted cubes like cabinets* the manager didn't care so a few people donated some 10 and 20 gallon tanks with dividers in them put about half the bettas in the donated set up. after about 3 months of the manager noticing the happy ones lived while the shoe boxer died he reduced the number of bettas in stock and then set up his own 50 gallon divided tank to sell them.
money walks **** talks
he who has the gold makes the rules
and it's all about dollars and cents.
unrelated topic i think some one should donate and maintain some aquariums in the librarys especially with odd balls
It makes me angry that large corporations put monetary value over an animal's well being. My condolences to you, I've lost quite a few fish to diseases.
i was out of town a few weeks ago and saw an old wal mart that had recently been remodeled...wow oh wow, nicest fish center i'd seen. Way better then any local fish stores i have here in town. ALL of the tanks were crispy. no dead fish. stock looked healthy. all tanks had backgrounds, not the typical blue. i was impressed
kevinfleming21;4535578; said:
i can't withold the truth! This wal mart's fish center was futuristic. i bet if all people saw this center instead of the ones you typically find, their opinion would change.
