Mal-Wart

Mal-Wart sucks... sucks big time.

Last night, myself, Raju, Aru, Badri, Shyam were dining together. Raju brings up the topic of Mal-Wart (to divert our attention from the crusade between raju and the rest-of-the-table). He says that Badri too hates mal-wart. Well, I hate anything purchased from mal-wart because, that anything is stale, if it is a food and that anything becomes nothing, if it is anything other than food. The cheap mal-wart burned-chips on sale, the wax polished mal-wart apple that is a sweet home for worms, the chinese made umbrella that concaves when used to keep out the downpour on a stormy day, the mal-wart cycle that creeks and tries to break the gear when used uphill (thank god! that cycle got stolen. I prefer it stolen than meeting with an accident while riding it), the heater that blew off after the first-night.... the list is big.

Well, Badri has a different reason. His reason is more sociological. According to him mal-wart exploits its employees.. is the only fortune company that doesn't pay medical insurance for its employees... encourages/doesn't oppose the child labour in its partner factories in china/india etc. These are good enough reasons to boycott mal-wart. For example, I myself wouldn't be comfortable eating at any restaurant employing child labour. And 3 or 4 of mal-wart family members are among the top 20 billionares (according to forbes magazine). If the family members were listed together, the family might as well be the richest family, surpassing Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. But still they don't pay the basic requirements for their employees. Badri says ".. This is an example of exploitation at all levels.. starting from the manufacturing countries till the consumers (fuck! my heater doesn't work)..."

Fuck Mal-Wart!!! Mal-wart is a big retail giant that apart from toilet paper, also sells groceries, tools, clothes, stale meat, TV, Electronics, guitars, shoes and crap.