Is the GOP losing Walmart?

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Is the GOP losing Walmart?

By MJ Lee, at CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/01/politics/walmart-religious-freedom-bill/

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(CNN)—As goes Walmart, so goes the nation?

Everyone from Apple CEO Tim Cook to the head of the NCAA slammed religious freedom laws being considered in several states this week, warning that they would open the door to discrimination against gay and lesbian customers.

But it was the opposition from Walmart, the ubiquitous retailer that dots the American landscape, that perhaps resonated most deeply, providing the latest evidence of growing support for gay rights in the heartland.

Walmart's staunch criticism of a religious freedom law in its home state of Arkansas came after the company said in February it would boost pay for about 500,000 workers well above the federal minimum wage. Taken together, the company is emerging as a bellwether for shifting public opinion on hot-button political issues that divide conservatives and liberals.

And some prominent Republicans are urging the party to take notice.




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1. Buyers spoke. The boycott worked. The people are powerful. Corporations have no soul. They'll just

line up with whatever group offers them the most $$$. So now they care about goodwill. Which is an asset. So they are less conservative. For now.

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2. WalMart still hasn't had its 'Henry Ford epiphany'.

If workers are paid better, they can buy more of what you sell.

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4. ford didn't sell to the low end of the market.

walmart knows the more they pay people, the more they can afford to shop elsewhere.

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5. One question then.

If Ford wasn't the low end of the market in 1913, what brand was?

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6. probably durant-dort carriage company

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7. Were those one horsepower, two horsepower, or four?

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8. yes, exactly!

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3. Who will be hit most by the SNAP cutbacks and TANF

restrictions?

Walmart