{"id":8051,"date":"2014-02-10T11:14:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T16:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=8051"},"modified":"2014-02-10T11:14:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T16:14:53","slug":"walmart-still-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=8051","title":{"rendered":"Walmart still sucks.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;one of the things that has been galling about watching the Olympics this time is the commercial that Walmart has been running about how wonderful they are for planning&#8230;remember, only planning to spend 250 billion dollars to &#8216;revive&#8221; American manufacturing&#8230;.and every time I see it, I gag at the audacity of the ad&#8230;the audacity of a company who has spent the past 40 years destroying American manufacturing by their relentless push to cut costs by selling billions and billions of dollars of cheap Chinese crap&#8230;all the while paying their employees so little that most of them qualify for food stamps and other aid that has we taxpayers giving Walmart almost a million dollars a store in subsidies. It reminds me of the old, old joke that has a murderer killing his parents and then throwing himself on the mercy of the court by saying he has an excuse, he is an orphan&#8230;.that is just what this whole campaign smells like&#8230;hollow out the economy with your strategic plans, then make a big deal that you might go back and fix some of the damage that you caused&#8230;what a sorry excuse for a company, and a sorry excuse for Americans these Waltons are&#8230;geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;one of the things that has been galling about watching the Olympics this time is the commercial that Walmart has been running about how wonderful they are for planning&#8230;remember, only planning to spend 250 billion dollars to &#8216;revive&#8221; American manufacturing&#8230;.and every time I see it, I gag at the audacity of the ad&#8230;the audacity of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=8051\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Walmart still sucks..<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1025,733,565],"class_list":["post-8051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-american-manufacturing","tag-olympics","tag-walmart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8052,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8051\/revisions\/8052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}