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How Rosie Helped Shoot Down Kmart
Josey1
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How Rosie Helped Shoot Down Kmart Everyone has an opinion on why Kmart had to file for bankruptcy protection. Many noted the discount chain's awful service and the superiority of Wal-Mart and Target. Now some are pointing out the role of Rosie O'Donnell.The brassy TV talk show hostess, you may recall, used to shill for Kmart. Then O'Donnell, who has rudely attacked actor Tom Selleck (a guest on her own show at the time) and other Second Amendment supporters, helped pressure Kmart out of the firearms and ammunition business. The revelation that the multimillionaire O'Donnell had a gun-toting hireling despite her loud anti-choice stance on gun rights for the middle and lower classes stood out as a shining example of Hollywood's left-wing hypocrisy.Wrote one NewsMax reader today: "Let's give credit where credit is due. The NRA helped in a big way to put Kmart out of its misery. When Rosie 'guns are OK for my bodyguards but no one else' O'Donnell petitioned Kmart to drop ammo from its stores, the NRA pounded them and let all of its membership know it. By dropping the ammo, Kmart shot themselves in the foot."Another reader wrote to us today: "Maybe the gun grabers will help Kmart."Kmart execs insist the company will bounce back, but Wall Street analysts aren't so sure.Attention, Kmart ExecutivesYou have to wonder if the corporation's big cheeses have ever actually shopped at their own stores. The "service" is horrendous, as the New York Post noted today in an article headlined "Shoppers: Ailing Chain's No Bargain.""I just threw all my stuff on the counter. No wonder they're going out of business," fumed a would-be customer who stormed off when the open register's line grew too long for her to wait at the Queens store. "The line is at least a half-hour long," said Pasha Shamlian of Flushing, who noted "it's a disaster inside." Cheryl Chow told the Post she waited for 10 minutes in front of a broken elevator because there was no sign it was out of order. "If Kmart closes, I'll just go to Pathmark." Lee Tahlor of Whitestone knew why the chain has fallen. "They barely have the merchandise anymore. I usually shop at Target." Gun-Selling Wal-Mart About to Becomethe World's Largest CompanyMeanwhile, a mere 40 years after Sam Walton opened his first Wal-Mart in Rogers, Ark., "the 4,150-store global retail chain that now sells everything from children's clothing to hunting equipment is poised to become the world's largest company," the Associated Press reported today. "Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is on pace to record more than $220 billion in revenue for the 2001 fiscal year and dethrone oil giant ExxonMobil Corp. from the top of Fortune magazine's annual list of the country's and the world's biggest corporations. ExxonMobil had $212.9 billion in revenue," said AP. "Everyone needs toilet paper and toothpaste, and they're the most efficient at selling it," noted Eric Beder, retail analyst at Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co in New York. "It is really an incredible story." Kmart's fiasco, however, is all too credible http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/1/23/165257