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    Wal-Mart Still Running Christmas Shopping Ad With Unfortunate Overtones
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    Image of Dickens_Ghost Dickens_Ghost
    12/02/08

    In reply to Wal-Mart Still Running Christmas Shopping Ad With Unfortunate Overtones
    I first saw this ad last Friday at the movie theater across from Lincoln Center.


    There were audible gasps and much chattering after it ran.


    Also, I hate having to watch commercials at the movies.

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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    12/01/08

    In reply to Wal-Mart Still Running Christmas Shopping Ad With Unfortunate Overtones
    Every time those bells ring, a Wal-Mart employee gets his wings. R.I.P.
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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    12/01/08

    In reply to Wal-Mart Still Running Christmas Shopping Ad With Unfortunate Overtones
    Meanwhile, he was a temp./ So he probably wasn't even paid for those hours leading up to his death since he didn't even get to hand in the time.


    There's really so many layers of what have you in all of this. Just take a quick shot, turn over a little hour glass and scribble them down on a piece of paper...

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    Image of Astroblack Astroblack
    12/01/08

    In reply to Wal-Mart Still Running Christmas Shopping Ad With Unfortunate Overtones
    So one measly human life was lost. Think of the bargains for consumers! And all the money the Walton billionaires give to charity! That makes it all better, right? Right?
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    Image of gawksFromaRock gawksFromaRock
    12/01/08

    @Astroblack: Who knows how many Chinese people died making the crap Walmart sells.
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    Image of Cheap Shot Cheap Shot
    12/01/08

    In reply to Wal-Mart Still Running Christmas Shopping Ad With Unfortunate Overtones
    When I heard that the Walmart STOMPEDE happened in Long Island I wasn't surprised.


    Long Island: Where Culture Ends.

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    Image of dailyplanet dailyplanet
    12/01/08

    In reply to Wal-Mart Still Running Christmas Shopping Ad With Unfortunate Overtones
    With more "lanes" open they're just highlighting the convenience of a more "orderly" stampede. This will also facilitate emergency response by pin-pointing exact location of fallen bodies.


    "Woman with infant in carrier down in Aisle 6."

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    Image of it takes a lot to laugh it takes a lot to laugh
    12/01/08

    @dailyplanet: No, the victims are shipped to China and their hair used in parka hoods.
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    Image of it takes a lot to laugh it takes a lot to laugh
    12/01/08

    In reply to Wal-Mart Still Running Christmas Shopping Ad With Unfortunate Overtones
    The Year We All Finally Vomited Over Over-Consumption.


    I hope.

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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    12/01/08

    In reply to Wal-Mart Still Running Christmas Shopping Ad With Unfortunate Overtones
    I'm sure the makers of Twizzlers, AirHeads, Skittles and Starburst are equally happy with the guilt by association.
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    12/01/08

    In reply to Wal-Mart Still Running Christmas Shopping Ad With Unfortunate Overtones
    New carol: "All I Want for Christmas is an Iron-Clad Tort"
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    Image of DrGirlfriend DrGirlfriend
    12/01/08

    In reply to Wal-Mart Still Running Christmas Shopping Ad With Unfortunate Overtones
    I saw this ad this weekend and actually cringed. I don't know if it's insensitive or careless or stupid or what, but I do think it should have been pulled.
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    Image of graceless graceless
    12/01/08

    In reply to Wal-Mart Still Running Christmas Shopping Ad With Unfortunate Overtones
    I was so into Christmas, until I heard the Wal Mart stampede. Seriously people, WTF?


    Nobody who was at that store deserves to have a Christmas this year. Go spend it with the dead guy's family. Unbelievable.

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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    12/01/08

    In reply to Wal-Mart Still Running Christmas Shopping Ad With Unfortunate Overtones
    Their ads are effective. I haven't set foot in a Wal-Mart in 10 years.
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    Image of meechybee meechybee
    12/01/08

    @Banjo Kitten: Good point. The soulless-fluorescent-grayness of the whole spot doesn't scream "holiday" to me.


    Feels more like purgatory.

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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    12/01/08

    @Cheap Shot: but this misses the point and blames the victim. We're all that crowd. If you know you're going to have a run on some gizmo then make sure your customer isn't treated like so much chattle. We can be judgmental about consumerism, but you ever had an 11 year old boy who will die without a certain something and you're bringing home a crappy paycheck and slogging through each endless day and you want to make someone in your tired little family happy so you trundle over to Wal-Mart to buy something to ease the pain a bit?


    I make choices every day and they aren't always easy ones and I have to work hard at it. Not everyone understands this, and I don't begrudge those people.


    The onus is on the corporate "responsible" citizen who rakes in billions a year. It's their fault.

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