Thread: Walmart creating "spanish walmarts" - have you hea

I was listening to talk radio in Los Angeles and it was mentioned that Walmart is creating "Spanish language Walmarts" in which all the signs, helper, and language will be in spanish. I called 1-800-walmart and talked to a customer service rep. And low and behold, yes - it is true.

WTF is going on??????

HOW are we loosing our country soooo fast. what happened to assimiiliation?

This will do nothing but cause balkanization and only further the thought that illegal aliens and whomever do NOT HAVE TO ASSIMILIATE!!

I am fumed.

I put a directive out to my family and friends. WALMART IS NOW A NO SHOP ZONE!!!! Costco here I come!

It's true!

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7acb957e-0f70 ... fd2ac.html

Wal-Mart looks to Hispanic market in expansion drive

By Jonathan Birchall in New York

Published: March 13 2009 02:00 | Last updated: March 13 2009 02:00

Wal-Mart plans to open its first Hispanic-focused supermarkets this summer in

Arizona and Texas as the largest US retailer continues its drive to expand its dominance of the US grocery business.

The pilot stores, named Supermercado de Walmart, will open in Phoenix and Houston in remodelled 39,000 sq ft locations occupied previously by two of Wal-Mart's Neighborhood Market stores.

The retailer said that the stores were in "strongly Hispanic neighbourhoods" and would feature a "new lay-out, signing and product assortment designed to make them even more relevant to local Hispanic customers". The staff will also be bilingual.

Wal-Mart's Sam's Club warehouse store also plans to open a 143,000 sq ft Hispanic-focused store called Más Club in Houston this year.

Several leading regional US supermarket chains already operate Hispanic store brands, including Publix in Florida, which operates three Publix Sabor markets, and HEB in Texas, which opened a Mi Tienda store in Houston in 2006.

The markets include elements such as cafés serving Latino pastries and coffee, and full service meat and fish counters.

Leading retailers are also pursuing Hispanic consumers online, with Best Buy and Home Depot having launched Spanish-language versions of their e-commerce sites in recent months.

Eduardo Castro-Wright, the head of Wal-Mart's US stores since 2005, has also been an advocate of testing new smaller, more focused formats, and raised the idea of turning the Neighbourhood Market into a Hispanic-style bodega concept several years ago.

He has also developed Wal-Mart's efforts to customise its larger Supercenter stores, which have been grouped according to differing community profiles, such as urban, suburban, Hispanic and African-American, with customised merchandise.

A 195,000 sq ft Supercenter that opened in Texas last year included a tortilleria bakery, Hispanic foods and a larger selection of Spanish-language music and DVDs.

Mr Castro-Wright was previously head of Wal-Mart's Mexican subsidiary, whose store network ranges from large US-style Supercenters to small local bodegas, an upmarket supermarket chain and two restaurant chains.

Last year, Wal-Mart also began testing four new 10,000 sq ft Marketside convenience grocery stores in the Phoenix area - its first new format in a decade. Tesco, the UK retailer, also has more than 25 of its small Fresh & Easy markets in the Phoenix area.

Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009

walliemart needs to be called on this. These actions will break every EOE law that was ever put on the books. THEY NEED TO BE CHALLENGED!

I tried calling but was unsuccessful so again I wrote a letter.

Customer Service
Just writing today to check on some information that I have heard of your stores in some locations across America. I have heard you were going to have special stores for Spanish speaking communities in various areas. Stores that would have all signs and language in Spanish. I do not agree with that decision at all,especially with all the political atmosphere surrounding the Spanish speaking communities today. As we all know ,there is a good majority of Hispanics here in the USA illegally and Americans are tired of all the special treatment given to these law breakers. Not to mention their refusal to assimilate into this country. Corporate America bowing to their needs.

We are not talking about immigration here, We are talking about an invasion of ILLEGAL ALIENS! Of course look who I am writing to. A company that goes on the record as a company often sued by their own employees. And like other employers in Arkansas, a company that would hire ILLEGALS! Which is also against the law.

What would give you the right to make such a proposal when other offices are getting SUED over" ENGLISH ONLY" workplaces? Your actions are on the lines of "discrimination" and will lead people as myself to pass on the word to STOP BUYING at WALMARTS!(of course I have already quit) One reason I say this ,is because I got the word from other individuals already. So you see ,word of mouth does work here.

Thank You

For what good it does! We shall see!

This story is on the front page of Fox News now:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509208,00.html

TexasGal

Yea – and we were the ones needing the tin-foil hats when we warned about an invasion going on!!

And the really sad part of this... They already paid for the Politicians (Locally,State & Federal), and they are LAUGHING all the way to the bank.

Class action lawsuit, anyone?

Im feeling very discriminated against!!!!!!

posted again on
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-149728.html

I agree SicNTired: so many placesd sued or being sued for "English only"
http://www.cjonline.com/stories/052008/ ... lish.shtml
http://www.politicaldogs.org/2007/04/sa ... h-only.htm
http://www.associatedcontent.com/articl ... html?cat=3
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bi ... s-l&P=8665

And there are plenty more articles on this