I keep telling you hippies Wal-mart is good for America, now will you believe me? From The Oregonian:
In cases of extreme weather and natural disasters, some of the nation’s largest retailers now behave like municipalities — sometimes better.
Spurred by the Sept. 11 terror attacks and rough hurricane seasons in 2004 and 2005, more retailers have created specialized divisions — or hired outside firms — to gird for emergencies. The goal: to speed recovery for customers, employees and ultimately sales.
It’s a measure of the times.
Mega-retailers going global with huge distribution networks face more frequent and varied disasters. Yet as leaders in the business of moving goods and information — Wal-Mart’s famous for daily crack-of-dawn conference calls detailing real-time sales — some have found they can react more quickly than local governments. For them, disasters have become just another cost of doing business.
Stakes are even higher around the holidays, when retailers can take in more than half of annual sales.
Last week’s storm did not damage either chain’s stores on the Oregon coast. Wal-Mart’s store in Aberdeen, Wash., lost power only temporarily and closed until generators arrived Tuesday.
But both Wal-Mart and Home Depot dispatched cleanup teams to Chehalis, Wash., on Monday, hours after the Chehalis river flooded the stores and overtook I-5.
Yeah, you read that right. Big evil Wal-Mart dispatched clean up teams to disaster areas while the Wal-Mart hating hippies laughed at the damage and smoked a joint. Who’s evil now?
If you’re still a Wal-Mart hater after that you’re either misinformed or a Communist. If you’re the former I’ve got some videos for you to watch:
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Part II
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Part III (NSFW)
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