How nice is this?
By sudalunts
@sudalunts (5523)
United States
December 23, 2008 2:56pm CST
A man who was unemployed went to walmarts and bought $1300.00, worth of $10.00 gift cards, a total of 130. He then went outside and started passing them out to the customer as they were leaving or entering the store. Walmart complained, and the man told them he just bought the tickets from their store. They did not want he in front of their store. The man said that it was Christmas and he was just trying to do something nice for people. Targets, heard about it and told the man that they would exchange the walmart gift cards for target gift cards and that he was welcomed to pass them out in front of their store.
When something nice becomes something wrong to some people (Walmart) what do you think about this?
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6 responses
@gohan2091 (544)
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23 Dec 08
I don't live in the US and over here in the UK, we don't have a Walmart but I know how big the company is over there. I think it was wrong of Walmart to do that, it was really a bad idea to complain. The man was just being nice and sharing his wealth with other customers, what's so wrong? Walmart needs to take some tips from Target I think...
@sudalunts (5523)
• United States
23 Dec 08
Actually, they questioned him at first as to where he got the gift cards. He told them that he had just bought them. They actually lost $1300.00, because the cards had to be spent at their store, their lost targets gain.
@CRSunrise (2981)
• United States
23 Dec 08
I don't see how Wal-Mart should have had a problem with this. Since those were gift cards for their store, people would have had to come back to the store to redeem them. Not everyone would spend just $10.00, so they would still be spending money at the store. It would be just $10.00 less.
@sudalunts (5523)
• United States
23 Dec 08
That is so true. They actually could have doubled what the man spent.
Have a happy holiday
@academic2 (7000)
• Uganda
21 Feb 09
I think this man lacked the necessary information on the working of Walmart and the gift cards-his ignorance took him too far and am affraid he got alittle embarrassed!
@handsomeitaliano (1050)
• United States
26 Dec 08
Why didn't they just give him a friggin job? That would have shut him up and they would have nothing to complain about.
@momtrying2makeit (3270)
• United States
5 Mar 09
Althought this discussion was started over 3 months ago I must respond to it. This to me is another example of why I do not like Walmart, they say they are for the american people but this was hurting no one yet they wanted the guy off their property. This is a sad thing to me and I wanted to let my thoughts on this be known. I know walmart is big but I mean come one this guys was only trying to help people and he got rejected and he was giving out their gift cards! Give me a break.
@RiujinZero (58)
• United States
23 Dec 08
I think Walmart just messed up a huge PR potential. Kudos on Target for sweeping it up.
Anyhow, I think something nice will always be something nice but some people/organizations may see it as a threat for one reason or another. That is the only way for something ice to be viewed as something wrong...when it is seen as a threat.
