TxMom, I'd rather spend my money locally with the businesses that most likely have family members serving than a big company that is using patriotism as a marketing tool.
Sure, if that was the case, I'd agree...
But our wal marts do more than use patriotism as a marketing tool. Quietly, they do at least the following (and probably more that I don't know of):
Provide school supplies & school related prizes for an annual back to school bingo, at which military children are invited to attend (it's a free event, only for military kids, and every attending child is given a bag full of school supplies, in addition to at least 100 free raffle opportunities ~ all school supply related ~ and awesome winner prizes ~ also school supply related)
Provide drinks and snacks for soldiers (by donations funneled to the USO) at deployments/redeployments
provide volunteers for military related events
So they're making an actual impact, not just giving lip service like most businesses or organizations do when they hang a little sign in the window that says "We support our Troops."
They'll get my money any day of the week.
