Is Wal-Mart really on the way to being "greener"?

Ok I am so over people trying to say whether others are poor or mid class or wealthy who shop in walmart stores. Do you really have so much time on your hands that you stand outside a walmart and watch what people drive or wear bla bla yada? I'm over people saying others are STOOPING TO THE LOWEST POINT to shop and save at walmart. So if you wear a tshirt and shorts with holes in them and drive a 50 thousand dollar lexus , does that mean you can't afford something or can? My point is, maybe people enjoy shopping at walmart because its a good store to shop at. Maybe those who are so judgemental, shop at high price stores but forget to tell you about the big sale and the low low price they paid for those expensive items they purchised. DUH! It's all about a bargain no matter where in the world you are , no matter what race, and no matter how fat your wallet is.

Wal-Mart does just as much and more than most
retailers to supply the best for the least to the consumer. Do you realy think K-mart and Target are that much better? NO!! I say they are worse, higher prices and less on the shelf. Wal-Mart is giving more to the middle class and many upper class now are shopping there to save money. They are not perfect, but, they are trying to fix their mistakes.
And I can always find help in there stores. Trust me I can't find a soul in Target or K-mart.

watch out employees of Walmart - you enjoy your medical benefits now because before too long, goodbye
full time emoployees and welcome part timers - no benefits will be needed to be paid - I bet Sam is turning over in his grave

I don't think Wal-Mart has "Respect for the Individual", the number 1 of the company's "3 Basic Beliefs". There's no respect for the customers or the associates. All that Wal-Mart cares about is sales and making money.
Wal-Mart has been going through a major restructuring. A restructuring that has already but will continue to change the lives of the people who have worked hard and long for the company. People have and will continue to loose their jobs.
It all boils down to greed. Sam Walton would never have allowed the elimination of the human factor.
Wal-Mart has allowed technology to take over it's business. What a sad story.

It would be interesting to know if Wal Mart's "greening" is a response to higher energy costs or bad publicity. Do they want to save money by using less energy or are they just trying to look good to an increasingly skeptical public. The answer to that question would tell whether they will really make a dent in their energy consumption.

I, too am an employee of Wal-Mart and I am very proud to admit it. Do any of you know that Wal-Mart was at the Superdome, and the Convention Ctrn with trucks of food and water and were turned away, during Hurricane Katrina. They opened all the local stores so the hospitals and police could get supplies before the looters took all the rest. They gave their employees checks to help them out during the Hurricane. Everyday when I come to work I see the evidence of theft, trashed aisles and rude customers that think they can say anything to us, because we can't talk back. I hope someday that people will learn the Golden Rule and live by it.

I believe that there are chances that wall mart and others do go green. capitalism has brought the world to a point where whether there is a change in how things are done or pretty soon we will not have any more resources to produce, we won't have demand to evacuate the production, we won't have customers that believe in our propaganda and so forward...
I guess the big guys like wall mart are starting to understand and get this point and if they start putting that in practice other will have to follow or there's no more game for them pretty soon.

I was an employee of walmart for 10 years. I hate all this bad publicity walmart gets. i worked for walmart because they offered insurance. What small mom and pop store offers insurance or even pays wages as high as walmart pays. As an employee i saw other employees take advantage of walmart. Sure I own stock in walmart but it was because it was offered to me. Show me a small business in my town that offers this. Walmart has been good to me and I appreciate them. I didn't get rich working for them but I did make a living. ED

I like Wal-Mart's can-do attitude when it comes to taking on its critics, however trying to please anti-Capitalist leftists is a waste of time and money. Wal-Mart needs to do the right thing for itself, not for its critics. I noticed a lot of wasteful spending on its "green" stores, which were not really all that "green." Wal-Mart is playing by the rules, and if its critics do not like the rules, they should try to change the rules. Since they cannot do it through the legislature, they try to do it through Judicial activism, the media, and "shake downs."
Wal-Mart does not close down Mom and Pop stores, this is a myth. Wal-Mart deals with quantity, not specialty items. Mom and Pop stores often deal in specialty items. Nobody wants to buy a dusty 2-liter bottle of soda for $3.99. Also, nobody forces anyone to work for Wal-Mart, even the Chinese have a choice. I have relatives who worked for Wal-Mart for short periods while between jobs. Sure, they don't pay a lot, but who cares? It is your choice whether or not you want to work there. Do you really think that Mom and Pop stores have great pay and benefits?
Wal-Marts make small town living more bearable in my opinion. What these people really hate is middle America and what it stands for. Wal-Mart is just a symbol of that. This is why they call it a "redneck" store. They act like they are for the poor and uneducated, then they call them "rednecks." Middle America needs to stand up and defend itself and Wal-Mart.

Why are the comments holding Walmart Accountable and not the smaller stores? It would seem to me there is not much thinking going on. Only repeating what they have heard other non-thinkers say. Big Business has made the standard of living better in our Country.

You guys are a bunch of goobers you seem to make your selves feel righteous and and moral by critisizing Wal-mart. well I hope it boosts your ego because you sound like a bunch of whining adolescents. I shop at Walmart because they always have what I'm looking for, I dont shop there because they are the cheapest. If Kmart or target had what I wanted, I would shop there.

IF YOU DONT LIKE WALMART DONT SHOP THERE BUT THE REST OF US ARE GETTING TIRED OF YOUR WHINING AND COMPLAINING, WE CANT HELP IT IF YOUR EGOS NEED PADDING

I work at the so called "green" walmart and would just like to let everyone know that if you shop there make sure your getting the right price when you check out, alot of price changes happen on the products but wont be in the system for a couple days so you're basically getting robbed, oh and the whole green store aspect is failing miserably and they over work people, if you are working and over heat they sit you in the break room to cool off and then your right back to work even if you were puking your guts out, we had one cashier faint and they wouldnt even send her to get checked out and she completed her shift because they wouldnt even let her go home and get rest instead they put the girl to work at self check. how pathetic is that.