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Walmart Employees in NC Call Police to Have Veterans Removed on Memorial Day

Elizabethtown Walmart Calls Police to Remove Veterans on Memorial DayAn unfortunate incident unfolded at an Elizabethtown, North Carolina, Walmart when employees called the police on some veterans who were handing out poppies to commemorate Memorial Day on Monday. While many individuals were appalled at the spectacle, employees who alerted authorities to have the veterans removed maintained that they were merely following policy.

WECT.com has more information regarding the showdown between the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and the store and the confusion surrounding it:

According to a spokesperson for Walmart, groups who want to solicit in front of their stores must be approved and scheduled in advance and only one group is allowed to reserve a table at a time.

VFW member Bobby Ludlum thought the organization had booked a space weeks in advance, but the store had no record of it and booked another group.

“Maybe we’re somewhat at fault. Maybe we should have called in after our commander, came in and made the reservation and make absolutely sure that things were good,” said Ludlum.

Elizabethtown Walmart Calls Police to Remove Veterans on Memorial Day

“My understanding of what happened with the members of the VFW local post there in Elizabethtown was that there was a miscommunication or they hadn’t made arrangements with the store to do the poppies that day,” Jason Schoolcraft, North Carolina State Commander for the VFW said in an interview with CBS Charlotte. “To my knowledge, it’s an isolated incident with this store.”

In a statement to WECT, Walmart said that they are happy to work with the veterans’ group to find another weekend where they will be welcome at the store to distribute the items. According to Ludlum, his group is also due to hear from the popular store chain today as well.

“Our company’s appreciation for the military runs deep through our history. As one of the largest private employers of veterans, Walmart is proud to recognize and support those who have served and are serving our country,” Walmart is quoted by WECT.com as saying in its statement.

Currently, no outlets have reported on the reason employees felt compelled to call the police. A call to Schoolcraft has not yet been returned to The Blaze.

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  • moreteaplease
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:42pm

    I stay out of WM’s. I have been to flea markets that were better organized and had better stuff.
    WM’s are like a Chinese thrift store IMO.

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    • Unix
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 4:09pm

      That’s an easy one. It is obvious to me, IMHO, that these particular employees have a problem with the military. Personally, if it were me working there, I’d give them a pass. Let me ask, what other weekend, beside MEMORIAL DAY would be more appropriate. This kind of story makes me sick to my stomach truthfully.

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    • Dr Vel
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 4:28pm

      “Walmart said that they are happy to work with the veterans’ group to find another weekend where they will be welcome at the store to distribute the items.”

      ANOTHER WEEKEND? You are truly sick and un-American Wall mart. There is no other day than Memorial day. My parents were handing out poppies when I was a small child, and in my 58 years my earliest memories of this specific day were helping my parents hand poppies out on this one and only day of the year. Long before you existed in this nation the VFW has had this tradition how dare you call police on them as if you had no idea of this over half century American tradition which is observed on only one single day of the year.

      Keep pushing us loyal constitution loving tradition loving true Americans you liberal fascist dung. Hell hath no fury like an American scorned.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 4:47pm

      Buy mom and pop, local if you can, lets shut these basterds down.

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    • Freedom.Fighter
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:31pm

      They’re a business. It is their property. If you want something done right, you check beforehand to make sure everything is running smoothly. To fault Walmart for this is ludicrous. It doesn’t seem politically motivated, nor does it matter. If you are using someone else’s property, you follow their rules. Otherwise, you might as well be OWS protesters.

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    • subic
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 6:20pm

      WalMart’s allegiance is to the chicoms. Big Daddy Sam Walton is rolling in his grave as to what wally world has done to the american workers & industry

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    • CafeConservative
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 6:28pm

      Whatever your shopping preference, unlike other stores, Wal-Mart has no problem allowing things like bell-ringers at Christmas in support of the Salvation Army, Boy Scouts selling popcorn, firefighters and their fundraisers (the empty fireboot thing), and many other traditional organizations.

      This unfortunate incident is not representative of normal WalMart practices.

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    • roushbj
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 6:47pm

      I agree that this is an easy one. Let’s gather a bunch of the dirty, smelly OWS Wall Street protestors in front of this store and see if any of these employees have the guts to react in the same way. Wallmart policy???? What ever happened to free speech? These people need to be hauled out and horsewhipped!

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    • Snake
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 7:05pm

      @CHIEFGEORGE…..
      What the heck are you talking about????? “Let’s shut them down”???? Who Wal-Mart???
      Wal-Mart currently employs 2.1 million people and I will assume a good majority if not all of them are Americans. Wal-Mart buys a percentage of their goods from a foreign (China) country ONLY because our government hires people with no greater IQ than yours and makes it nearly impossible for American companies to produce goods in our own nation. America invents the impossible and does the impossible, but China knows how to copy stuff cheap and has no rules to follow. Our fine government has no problem allowing a country that has nothing but slave labor sell their products into America.
      Next time you have a thought and want to speak – DON’T!

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    • Dr Vel
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 7:07pm

      Freedom.Fighter “They’re a business. It is their property. If you want something done right, you check beforehand to make sure everything is running smoothly. To fault Walmart for this is ludicrous. It doesn’t seem politically motivated, nor does it matter. If you are using someone else’s property, you follow their rules. Otherwise, you might as well be OWS protesters.”

      What a croc. The VFW has been doing the same thing on the same day for over 50 years, and at places like this store since they first opened. The employees did not just get off a boat with zero awareness of our traditions nor did the managers. As long as every employee in the store has had their job the VFW has done the same thing on the same day. The story states they had done the paperwork it was the employees who rented the space to another entity for that day. Error #1. Calling police on the VFW members is error #2. Wall Mart corporate failing to fire every employee involved in this is error #3. Do they really think they are so big now a boycott nationwide by all Veterans of Foreign Wars and all loyal Americans will not make a dent in their bottom line?

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    • Tyler520
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 7:16pm

      Perhaps the Wal-Mart employees were intimidated to be in the presence of people infinitely better than they are. To know that they will always be crayon-eating morons selling cheap, crappy Chinese-made junk for minimum wage for the rest of their sad lives probably makes them irate.

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    • Magyar
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 7:16pm

      Knock off pi$$ing on Wal-Mart— They’re very pro American unlike Taget! I bet the employees who called LOVE OWEbama and hate the military!

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    • eaglenest
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 7:16pm

      MORETEAPLEASE: I hate all the made in china things at walmart too, but can you tell me what department store doesn’t sell “MADE IN CHINA”? Even the mom and pop stores sell the made in china junk. Seems we can’t get away from it.

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    • coloradoposter
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 7:35pm

      You go ahead and shop anywhere else. I am saving my money. Rules are rules, walmart helps a lot, but follow the rules, you must. Just try and do this at a GOVERMENT building, they will run you off!

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:10pm

      @moreteaplease

      Then I’m sorry for your bad experience. We have one Walmart locally that’s a dump, but it draws a lot people from the inner-city (very low income, predominantly black). There‘s another that’s not such a dump, but the people are really trashy and rude (very low-income, predominantly white).

      There are 2 others, 1 in a lower-middle class area, and one in an upper-middle class area that are very nice. We go often for our shopping needs. I feel comfortable in either of these two stores.

      Like most of life, your experience probably has more to do with the local culture, income, and attitudes of people. Just because it’s a chain, I wouldn’t assume too much. Each store attempts to draw from its own local labor pool.

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    • db321
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 9:05pm

      I went to a High School Ball Game a couple of Weeks ago and we had a moment of Silence instead of the Prayer.

      I KNEW THEN THAT I’M TIRED OF BEING SILENCE – I’M TIRE of this Administration trying to kick GOD OUT OF OUR COUNTY – we are less than a Generation away from losing Memorial Day, Presidents Day, Christmas, Easter and any other Holiday that has what is right about America attached to it!

      I’M NOT GOING TO BE SILENT ANY MORE!

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    • armyofnibiru
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 12:01am

      this wallmart must of had alqiudas kill a vet group first.

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    • Jim AZ
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 2:28am

      Yeah, like the manager couldn’t override the one-table policy for Memorial Day.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 6:34am

      Who was the other group, and why couldn’t they “work with them to pick another weekend” to have their table? Why do Vets always have to give up stuff? They were probably disabled vets to boot. And I agree with the post that said they’ve become a Chinese thrift store. Except for one thing: We have a Chinese store and it’s cheaper than Walmart.

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    • retiredso
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 9:27am

      Seem‘s to me the right choice would’ve been to allow one group to set up on one side then the other group to set up on the other. Problem solved.
      That was just a bad management call, obviously there was some sort of mistake and management could have had a win win out of this

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    • Freedom.Fighter
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 6:05pm

      @DR VEL
      Actually, I think Wal Mart could care less.
      a) Most troops will continue to buy there since their prices are practically unbeatable.
      b) Many don’t care since most soldiers I have served with don;t care much for politics whether it’s for or against the military.
      c) Anyone left who boycotts will be too insignificant a number to matter.

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  • SPOT_OF_TEA
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:41pm

    I dont know what it is about Walmart lately but I kind of get a creepy feeling when I go into a store lately…I’m starting to get the feeling they are working with government to squeeze the independent business people out so when the dust settles there will be a few giants left regulated by the government pretty well controlling everything in the country.

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    • Ghandi was a Republican
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:51pm

      Not a bad observation. this was the purpose of centralizing the banks by destroying the community banks with bailouts to the giants. This is also seen in their strategy to strip communities of their tax base by taxing the citizen to death, pulling the money to Washington and making the community beg for some of it back.
      Centralizing. that is what the progs are all about!

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    • Barbarian
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:29pm

      Kinda’ like in Demolition Man where all the food joints were Taco Bell?
      Walmart (aka: the Evil Empire) and the Gummint, we’re here to help…you conform.

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    • TelepromoterNChief
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:45pm

      Sams Choice will be replaced with “Freedom” products just like 1984.

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    • edmundburk
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 8:57pm

      I don’t know whats going on here, most of the posters here sound like OWS lefty types which I know is’nt right, because I know these people are conservetive. 1.service at ANY store or fast food joint is going to depend on location or the type of managers you have. 2. wallmart used to have made in the USA stuff. but we no longer have a manufacturing base we are now a SERVICE economy! as for me, I always shop at wallmart because of the prices.(I make minuim wage.) I do find the sevice at my local wallmart shoddy, but having worked service jobs for 20 yrs, I try to understand.

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:49am

      I can‘t understand why they couldn’t have worked out the problem without calling the police. It was a civil matter, not a criminal matter. It sounds like there was inflexibility on the part of the manager or possibly employees. I hope the corporate office deals with them regarding this.

      Our local Walmarts have had the Salvation Army crews, two drug rehabilitation groups and various other organizations outside their stores at different times. I’ve got no problem with that.

      I’m not going to advocate closing Walmart stores because they provide employment for thousands of people, many of whom are disabled. They also allow me the opportunity to feed and clothe my family because we support a disabled relative and money is tight.

      Was this handled poorly? Yes. Am I disappointed in how it was handled? Most certainly. Will I stop shopping at Walmart? No.

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  • Tet Vet 1968
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:37pm

    They sure don’t seem to care about the “African American” panhandlers that populate some of the Wal-Mart entrances in Georgia. I went to customer service and that’s an oxymoron if there ever was one, and complained about an overly aggressive one and they told me that there is nothing they can do. But God forbid a group of veterans giving away poppies.

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  • Ghandi was a Republican
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:31pm

    Honest mistake. You get what you pay for and walmart doesn’t pay much to their employees..

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    • little big man
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:46pm

      This is what happens when you pay minimum wage, and hire people who don’t care.

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    • Ghandi was a Republican
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:55pm

      And the solution to better wages is more jobs and opportunity. Early in the 2000s (blame it on Bush) Wendy’s was having to start at $2 over minimum wage because the labor pool was short. Minimum wage is unnecessary and diverts starter/apprentice jobs away from youth, forcing employees to India for labor that wants opportunity. Kids are taught that they should get a Ferrari and 4 months vacation for flipping burgers part time. These are known as ‘occupiers’..

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    • cybernetic59
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 4:17pm

      Excuse me, I’m not here to defend what Wal-Mart did, but as a former employee I can tell you they pay more than minimum wage and anyone who claims other wise does not know what they are talking about and ought to shut up until they know the facts. When I started there – just over 2 years ago, my pay was $8.30/hr and when I left I was making $9.90/hr. There were benefits available to me after my probation that are as good – if not better than other places. They also have profit sharing and as a part-time employee I would get quarterly check of $250.00. Those are the facts folks. I could careless if you don’t like Wal-Mart, but no need to spew crap because you don’t know that FACTS!

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    • That Guy
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:09pm

      Wow Cyber, You got a 1.60 raise over 2 years? Man how do i get a job like that???

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    • proud2bmom
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 5:38pm

      @ThatGuy

      That $1.60/hour you are belittling means that he received an 18% pay increase over two years. Can you say the same?

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    • TrueSoundsOfLiberty
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 6:25pm

      Funny how so many tout the awesomeness of capitalism but when a story like this comes out everyone is so quick to condemn and hate on business. The complaints about how they pay their employees minimum wage then whine about the service, yet so many on the right want to do away with minimum wage laws. You can’t have it both ways.

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    • MEANS2RESIST
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 6:43pm

      walmart sucks dude!

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    • Grey Eagle
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 10:25pm

      This sounds like a particular store. Wal-mart has always been very patriotic. The VFW should have called to confirm the reservation, but the store should have made an exception and I am surprised the store manager didn’t. However, calling the police leaves a bad taste in everyone’s mouth and causes a lot of bad feelings. No another weekend would not have made up for this fiasco.

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    • patriotic pony
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 10:34pm

      Gotta tell you. I know Walmart employees making eighteen dollars an hour. Sure they have worked there a while. I don’t know of any other retail place that pays as well.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 11:50am

      The Walmarts I’ve been to hire people who know absolutely nothing. Don’t ever ask an employee for advice on what to get, where something is, or any other question. Walmart is for getting what you already know you need, as long as you don’t mind made in China. They get so much of their food from China, not knowing how it’s prepared, that even the powdered drink mixes have a wheat warning (from someone who can’t have wheat, oats, barley or rye). If they gave their employees enough to have people who cared about job performance, you wouldn’t get the “falling prices.” It‘s like McDonald’s…have you seen the lack of love put into making those sandwiches lately?

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  • 2smart
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:30pm

    Since Sam died I have noticed a large spike in service and attitude. I hate going there anymore and usually don’t. My local market has the attitude that there prices are so low so more people shop there and they don’t have to be nice or helpful to customers. Just one management person with common sense and a little leeway from district could have prevented this, instead, policy dictates that if the company comes out looking like an a** because they couldn‘t bend a bit then it’s OK to have bad PR and lose a few customers. BTW, have you heard they have low prices! And will honor competitors coupons! Yeah, I really love being behind some woman with six sale papers getting her penny savings from each while I wait seven to eleven minutes for the service. Where do I sign up?

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  • VoteRightDammit
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:24pm

    What a black eye for WM

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    • gperky
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:40pm

      What would cause the employees to call the police? Sounds like an over zealous employee.

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    • CatB
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 10:25pm

      Yes ..and I doubt that it was one of the veterans that they employ .. I know a lot of them work at WalMart.

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  • welovetheUSA
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:18pm

    I know Wal-Mart and those employees were idoits………..

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  • TheCoffinMaker
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:17pm

    Since Walmart sells mostly Chinese stuff, their buildings are granted special privileges as if they were Chinese embassies.

    The grounds that surround a Walmart store is China’s property.

    How dare a U.S. Veteran trespass on that sacred ground!

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  • schattrton
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:15pm

    uh, why don’t they find out who was supposed to have called and ask if call was made

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    • Toltepeceno
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:28pm

      They were arrested, I think it’s obvious that the police were called…….unless police are on the lookout for veterans selling poppies in front of walmart.

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  • MittensKittens
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:14pm

    All in All it’s just another brick in the wall.

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  • Nickallsopp
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:12pm

    I never liked Walmart anyway. They always piss me off when i go there, A few months back me and my step dad wanted to go target practicing but we needed ammo so we go to buy some 20 gauge and .22LR, but there was no one working is sporting goods we went and found an employee and told him what we wanted and he said he needed the keys. So we wait and after an hour we when he came back and told us they couldn’t find the keys to shelf we told them to FO and left and we never bought ammo there again. That’s just one of many occasions, they should consider themselves lucky we even buy food there. I won‘t buy music or any electronics there because the music is censored even if doesn’t need to be and the electronics are far more expensive than the ones at our K-Mart. They even break easier. I bought a PS2 back in ‘04 and it busted about a year later, but on the contrary i bought the same type of console at K-Mart a month or so after, and to this day still plays without a hitch. That’s quality.

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    • MetalPatriot
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 6:37pm

      You SERIOUSLY waited an HOUR? Not to side with Walmart, but that sounds like a problem right there.

      You told the employee to FO? Again, that’s a problem.

      Also, I don’t believe that you got better quality at Kmart…everybody gets Chinese, Indian, or Indonesian products…EVERYBODY.

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  • izukiddin
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:09pm

    Quit going to that store!

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  • BlackCrow
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:03pm

    Sam Walton is spinning in his grave!

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    • Toltepeceno
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:10pm

      Sam Walton would find any veteran a job that asked him. I used to live in nwa. He was the real deal; anf I agree with you, he is spinning in his grave.

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    • Countrygirl1362
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:11pm

      So true. Sam went out of his way to help people and to put as much American made in the store. After Sam died, Wal-Mart went down the toilet in caring about anything Amercian, including the people who live here. The only thing the new Wal-Mart loves American is your money.

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    • Thevoice
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:16pm

      Boy this is just another example of the lack of common sense people have today…You can just hear the inner mental workings..Of the idiot that works for Walmart …O..My god the vets are out in front selling Poppies along side the hot dog table from the youth group …That’s against “policy” …Get me out the reservation book ..Ok call the police I have to get the vets out their not in the reservation book…and according to ..policy…

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    • deerfawn
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:42pm

      I worked for Walmart when Sam was around he was a great down to earth kind of guy. His kids have ruined what he built. I no longer go to walmart if at all possible.

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  • HotFixIt
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:57pm

    The result of an entire generation of the indoctrinated who are incapable of critical thinking, trained to avoid any conflict, “the government should handle it” beliefs and are trained to never speak up for what is right as a result of imposed “political correctness” speech. All this results in a situation as simple as vetrans unable to hand out poppies on memorial day because no one is capable of stopping and thinking. I see situations such as this more frequently and it makes me sick to see what is really happening to our country. This is not an isolated incident… it is an example of the the success the liberals socialists are having in recreating and training the people of this country to blindly follow …. right over the cliff!

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    • ICEDRAGONNITE
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:05pm

      Absolutely correct. I blame the School Unions for this and the NEA.

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    • busterpuddles
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:17pm

      VERY well put! I’ve been expressing that opinion for years … just not nearly as poilitely well spoken as you have.

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    • Bum thrower
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:19pm

      Right on the money!!! The 21st Century version of ‘I don’t want to get involved’.

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    • FstEti
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:29pm

      My personal favorite examples were when the TSA wouldn’t let a teenage girl go through screening because her purse had an a small picture of a gun either stenciled or embroidered on it (I don’t recall which) and, of course, the moronic “educators” who enforced the “zero tolerance” policy regarding weapons by punishing a first grade pupil for DRAWING a picture of a gun.
      You can’t make this stuff up.

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    • cemerius
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 7:54am

      Yes, or it was some anti-war liberal individual who went to the employees and complained and the “easiest” solution was for the non-confrontational manager to call the police to resolve the issue and to deflect the blame from ones self.

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    • objectivetruth
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:59am

      Companys call it limiting liability.It is so infuriating .They hire you to do a job then prevent you from doing it.Those who don‘t blindly follow orders don’t stick around long.Ironically they are usually hard workers and rather competent.Their pay scale reflects it as well, more times than not.They end up leaving as they tire of not being able to do their job properly.Something that a clerk would handle in a small private business is prevented from doing in this style and size business.Several instances as related on this forum are illustrative of the type of limiting worker shenanigans I speak of.Why in Gods name should a sporting good clerk have to ferret out a key for a ammunition display?The only true reason is that they didn’t work in that dept or they were underage.Otherwise its unexcusable.This isn’t a refusal of sale[maybe a new tactic? If it is then the whole service industry really is in the crapper]This is just a small sample of what the employees go through.To boot then they are rudely told how worthless and stupid they are by customers both in person and on forum boards.
      Thanks its nice to see that not all people find service workers to be stupid lazy incompetant boobs.Now if only we could make the companies see that the level of customer service would go through the roof.

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  • PurrrpleMtnMajesty
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:56pm

    Last time I went to Walmarts it was pretty empty. Perhaps it should be if they have so little regard for
    the very people that protect the country they make a fortune in. Handing out POPPIES? What a violation.
    Sickening.

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    • turkey13
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:08pm

      Only following policy! Jews did this in 1938 because Hitler said it was the thing to do. Report neighbors that had buried their guns or spoke out against the government. They felt bad when their neighbors were arrested but really bad when the German troops came and got them and their families and were relocated to camps with free medical trials.

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  • WTFHappenedToTheUSA
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:49pm

    Wal-Mart is a joke.

    Horrendous customer service…but I guess in todays’ day in age, with consumers wanting to pay less and less for items made overseas, this is the result. Being in retail myself, I can tell ya, the average American consumer doesn’t care at all about paying for good customer service or a quality product…all they care about is the bottom dollar, and they do not care what happens as a result of that mindset.

    I never, EVER shop at Wal-Mart, I personally feel they are partly responsible for the decline of the American way of life and our economy. Just try to go in there and find something made in the USA…GOOD LUCK!

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    • DexterMorgan
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:00pm

      Better yet try finding someone that speaks English at Walmart.

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    • MsMonsoon
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:02pm

      I’ve started making a point of shopping at small local businesses when ever possible. I encourage everyone I know to do the same. I often pay a little more but I deal with nicer, more helpful people.

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    • cosette
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:08pm

      I haven’t been in a Wal-Mart in ages. The stores are filthy, the goods are not displayed in an organized manner, the employees are snarky and rude and the registers are not manned according to peak shopping hours. Whoever manages these places has no marketing savvy and are incompetent to say the least. I’m surprised that they are so successful. However I’ve noticed that the clientele is of the same mindset , to put it in a word, slovenly.

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    • SHASTADIANE1
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:08pm

      Just a bit in defense of Wal Mart. As an AR resident, I remember when Wal Mart first started building stores in this State, and back in those days, they DID buy American almost entirely, and still make every effort to buy American. In case you haven’t checked labels lately, in ALL stores, it is darn near impossible to find anything in the clothing line made in the USA. I wish it weren’t the case, but with textiles and farmers going out of business, the lack of cotton, and other materials, and updated factories to produce them, most store, SEARS, Penneys, etc. have little choice but to go overseas. We had several Levi factories, and glove factories, and shoe factories in this State, but they all went overseas also. Wal Mart isn’t perfect, but none of them are it seems, they are just trying to survive. Wal Mart employs a LOT of people, who would otherwise be on unemployment, or just plain unemployed.

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  • right-wing-waco
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:47pm

    Why would the VFW hand out Poppies on any day but Memorial day weekend? I agree, this could have been handled much better.

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  • nolefan2
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:46pm

    If this were to happen at my local Walmart, the veterans would not be the only ones removed. I would take my business somewhere else. At least I know where not to shop when I visit Elizabethtown.

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    • Best_Patriot
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:48pm

      Yeah right. A tea bag not shopping at Walmart is like a Bear not eating honey.

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    • whatthecrazy
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:09pm

      @ worst patriot Why did u leave your face off the photo next to your obviously deceptive decription.

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    • Toltepeceno
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:12pm

      Like a ******* not hating veteraans and the military.

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    • Toltepeceno
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:20pm

      OK, try again. Like a Iibtard not hating veterans.

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    • wvgirl
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:43pm

      @whatthecrazy:

      RE: worthlesspatriot: If he had used a wide-angle lens on that horse, we would be be looking at his picture, of course. A true horse’s ass.

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  • affinity
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:43pm

    The last time I went to Walmart the employees couldn‘t ring my order up because they don’t put the prices on the items. I told them to keep their merchandise and I walked out.

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  • ArcticDodge
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:42pm

    The on site store managers are so spineless that they were not brave enough to go and speak with the veterans? Wal Mart better issue a pro veteran statement soon…. too bad there is not a WM near me so I can avoid shpping there.

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    • Doctor Nordo
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:50pm

      Uh, read the article?

      “Our company’s appreciation for the military runs deep through our history. As one of the largest private employers of veterans, Walmart is proud to recognize and support those who have served and are serving our country,” Walmart is quoted by WECT.com as saying in its statement.

      That doesn’t qualify as a pro-military statement in your view?

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    • Toltepeceno
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:15pm

      I don’t think the problem is anti veteran, it’s hiring ******* morons that hate veterans.

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    • Altair
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:20pm

      “The ON SITE store managers… ,” Doc.

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  • Constructionist
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:41pm

    It is believed that the miscommunication was further exacerbated by the fact that the veterans were speaking English.

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  • Best_Patriot
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:38pm

    Being a veteran doesn’t put you above the law.

    Now, what I’d love to see here is a bunch of tea bags saying what they usually say in threads like this, “that’s the last time I shop at WalMart.”

    However, you will never hear a tea bag say they’re going to stop going to WalMart. It’s where they go to recharge.

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    • right-wing-waco
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:51pm

      I do NOT shop at Walmart at all and one is only 3 miles away. I just don’t like there stores and not much of anything there is from the USA.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:53pm

      Best patriot……you were the homely overweight child who never got picked for dodgeball….we all know this is the deep rooted source of your anger and bitterness, now go upstairs, your mom has your lunch ready…..

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:55pm

      Please, just what law? Seems to have been a miscommunication within the store management and the local VFW chapter. Before I blame Walmart as a whole I can see the occasional snafu happen anywhere. But again, what law are they breaking?

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    • DexterMorgan
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:59pm

      I hope you step on a Lego.

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    • pavnvet
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:00pm

      @ Best (which is obviously a misnomer). You are a prime example of why you can’t fix stupid. If I remember correctly, it is you ******** that like to boycott anyone you don’t like. I donated for my poppy at my local Walmart.

      And, where do you go to recharge – Family Dollar or the local adult book store?

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:03pm

      Best patriot You shouldn’t have cropped your face in your photo.

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    • betterthantv
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:05pm

      @ DETROIT PAPERBOY. Just ignore this guy. If we ignore the trolls they will go away. The Left has nothing better to do than troll conservative sites and try to get us riled up. It tells us more about them than us.

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    • Toltepeceno
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:18pm

      Law? What law? Are you sane? Walmart does not pass laws, go back and work on what little education you have.

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  • Marci
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:32pm

    They felt compelled to call the police because unfortunately, over-reaction and idiocy are a hallmark of store employees in general. I have worked for the home office, and then worked as a vendor later after moving away from Arkansas. It would take all day to list the abuses I dealt with at store employees hands. In one instance, the customer service desk demanded we leave our car keys or $20 in order to obtain a guest badge to work in the department. I refused to hand over my car keys or money as I knew this was a local policy–not one Wal-Mart would stand behind. I asked to speak to a manager and they purposely only called up a customer service manager, not the actual manager or assistant manager. I was told by this CSM I had to give keys or cash to obtain the badge, I again refused and asked to speak to a manager. I was stonewalled, so I just left the store and reported the incident to my company. Then I picked up the phone and dialed a very familiar number to me at the home office and reported the incident. The next time I went in, they were no longer demanding anything. I used to be ordered around and treated like dirt by department managers as well during the course of my vendor work, often I just laughed it off, other times when it got too far out of hand, I reminded the department manager that I did not work for Wal-Mart, period. This mindset is instilled in these people as a matter of often being treated poorly by their managers themselves. But it is never corrected.

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    • MsMonsoon
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:58pm

      As I was leaving checkout at Walmart in San Clemente, CA, I requested carry out help. I had an item too heavy for me to lift out of the cart and into my car. After three requests for service, a little asian woman showed up. She took one look at me ( I am a 5‘10’ woman) and said she wouldn’t help me because I was bigger that her. I told her I needed help because of an injured shoulder. I got a nasty look but she finally did the job. How rediculous in the first place for Walmart to assign a tiny woman for carry out service!

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  • Wigan
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:29pm

    Sounds like an honest mix up rather than an anti-veteran policy. You have to support Wal Mart wanting solicitors to register and receive approval to conduct business on their private property.

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    • BIgWheeler
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:40pm

      I agree with you, but it‘s a shame the manager couldn’t do a little better thinking on his feet.

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    • midnightvelvet
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:55pm

      3 year employee….Walmart frowns on individual thought.

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    • Toltepeceno
      Posted on May 29, 2012 at 3:13pm

      Right, they accidently called the police. Honest mistake.

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    • myhoundwontchasebunnies
      Posted on May 30, 2012 at 8:47am

      This is an obvious isolated incident and a misunderstanding. My wife runs a walmart in MN and she said what she would have done is put one group at each door.

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  • COFemale
    Posted on May 29, 2012 at 2:24pm

    Did anyone attempt to talk to them first before calling the police or did they just call the police? Does anyone talk to anyone any more? Has it come to the point where your solution is call the police let them handle it?

    Shame on the employee’s.

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