One of the many reasons to NOT shop at Wal-Mart http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/25/walmart.insurance.battle/index.html What a sad story.
It's not Wal-mart's fault that her family (and her highly paid lawyers that are making out on this deal regardless of her situation) didn't read the fine print. If the lawyer was a good person he would have read the fine print and told her family, "You stand to lose more than you stand to gain." It sucks but it's not Wal-Mart's fault.
It will probably take a wal-mart employee stabbing me in the heart to stop me from shopping there, wal-mart ****ing rules.
You know, the lady has brain damage and constantly asks how her son is, and then gets told time and time again that he is dead, and it breaks her heart. Every. Time. WTF. Tell the poor lady he's alive and doing well, maybe it will make her feel better??? In this case, it is OK to lie, because the lady will most likely not remember that she asked about her son 10 minutes ago, and it's probably ok that she won't get to see him - keep him alive in her spirit you EFFING IDIOTS. IAGKLSJFl I hate people.
No it's not Wal-Mart's fault, nor did I say it was. They do have the option of not stripping every penny that she received to pay her medical bills for the rest of her disabled life. It is such a huge corporation, what is $400,000 going to do for Wal-Mart? What would $400,000 do for this disabled woman?
No, they informed Wal-Mart of the situation and "assumed" that Wal-Mart would do the 'right' thing. Funny thing about contracts and assumptions...
Wal-Mart is still built with Satan's flesh. Also, Aegis is right: WHY KEEP TELLING HER HE'S DEAD?? SHE'S NEVER GOING TO REMEMBER!
If it was your company and you were paying huge insurance premiums to cover your employee's medical expenses would you so benevolently give away $400,000? What about $4 million? Contracts. We make them and we stick by them. Otherwise everything turns to anarchy. Let's say Wally World did pay out. What happens the next time? What happens in the bad years when China stops selling cheap goods to America and Wal-Mart has a precedent of breaking contracts to pay out? "Wal-Mart, in their beneficence, has paid out too much in claims this year and is forced to close its doors." Dumb. Crappy lawyers failed to read a contract and now someone suffers because they hired a crappy lawyer. Crappy lawyer still gets paid. NOT WAL-MART'S PROBLEM. Lesson that should be taken from this: Win the war (court battle) before going to war (court). Assume nothing and fire any lawyer that does.
I would still shop there if I got stabbed by a worker. Whenever I make my way to wal-mart, it's like a life or death kinda situation. I'm just prepared for anything.
Wal-Mart has nothing to do with the insurance policy, except in name only. Last I heard, they didn't have their own property/casualty company. With that said, it's up to the insurance company that has underwritten the wal-mart's policy to decide whether or not to pay out. Go after the real bad guys - the insurance companies - leave the middle-man out of it.
But if you do that you can't write a story that brings in elements of an unpopular war, tragedy heaped upon tragedy, AND dragging the name of an obviously evil empire such as Wally World through the mud. That's a goldmine of emotion and potential rancor that you're peeing away by not attacking Wally World. How are you supposed to sell advertising space on CNN.com and ads on CNN? Oh, Aegis, I agree about the stupid people and the dead son. I'm also absolutely incensed with the writer and editor of that story for starting it off with that stupid dead soldier story.
Yeah Wal mart is an evil super corporation but this is the type of thing that happens when you allow profit hungry insurance companies run your healthcare.
Wal-Mart owns a lot of the background companies that work with/for them. Do we actually know that this insurance company is not a Wal-Mart subsidiary? I don't know and I ask this seriously as it seems to be a delineation we are drawing in this discussion.
There was a discussion before about wal-mart acquiring banking privliges think of it this way: there are thousands and thousands of regulations surrounding the insurance industry if they crap out on their healthcare providers, do you really think they're going to go through all the steps to sell insurance, or have an insurance affiliate? They could be in the process of doing such things, but I don't think the insurance co is a subsidiary of wal-mart. YET. (I have insurance licenses ... hee hee)
I bought socks from a person on a street corner, once. Once. I used to buy Mobil 1 from Walmart. Now none of my cars use Mobil 1 so I avoid Wally World like the plague. We live in Plymouth. We shop at Target.
Walmart still owes me money from Meineke but we still shop there... ha haah everytime I say to myself stick it to the Walmart... as if that would hurt them..ha
walmart smells like broken soul, thus, i dont shop there. its kind of like walking into a pawn shop, you can smell the disappointment and dried tears.
Thanks, Aegis. Like I said, I had no idea if they owned the Insurer but it seemed relevant. And as far as a strike goes, the employees would have to manage to form a union first. And so far that has not happened. I suppose they could picket as former employees...
It would if everyone decided to stick it to 'em. What we need to understand is that sometimes, if the bus is going the wrong direction, it is time to get of the ....ing bus.
Yeah ... lets go shop at Jim's Drugs instead!!! *everyone* YEAH!!! YEAH!!! http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/809/
lets go shop at Jim's Drugs instead!!! Okay, here is my bias, but I can't pass it up: You'll more than likely get a better product from the guy on the corner than what Wal-Mart offers.
what the hell does her son's death in Iraq have to do with anything? I mean honestly, it wasn't his fault she was in the accident, wasn't his fault they won the lawsuit and lost some money back to the insurance. I mean ****, if anything his death tossed another $400,000 into his mother's bank account. Maybe we should hook her up on 40 dates with Adam Sandler. [/inappropriate post]
how cna you say scooters at Walmart is a worse product then scooters at target or Cub??? same bloody thing!!!
This is a great way to say it. I hate that place and wont spend a thin dime there. If that means I will have to pay .05 cents more a roll for toilet paper I can live with that. When Target reaches the same level of corporate depravity - I'll stop shopping there as well
Don't worry Mekhem, Target is still white trash .. just not as trashy as wal-mart in the grand scheme of things. I can still shop there without feeling like I need pull my hair out. We'll see what happens in a few years, though.
I only go to Walmart when absolutely necessary. As in when it midnight, and I need a 12pt socket to get a motor apart. I have to give them some props. They are the ultimate capitalist. They play the game better than anyone else does. I wonder how they sleep at night though. For many that work there, its a vicous cycle. You are paid diddly, and only can afford to shop there and have their crappy insurance.
