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TUCSON, Ariz. — The head of a Tucson Catholic charity is saying no to a $2,000 donation from Wal-Mart.

Brian Flagg oversees Casa Maria Free Kitchen. He tells the Arizona Daily Star that he turned down the money because of the company's effect on the community's small businesses and its low wages. He says he considers the donation "blood money."

Flagg says this is the first time Casa Maria has turned down a donation.

When Wal-Mart opened its newest Tucson store last month, it noted that several charities would receive a combined $15,000 from the company as part of the celebration. Casa Maria was among the charities listed.

Wal-Mart said in a statement that its pay and benefits typically meet or exceed what's offered by its competitors and that the company has donated more than $345,000 to Tucson organizations since 2009.

Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.

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    nokidding wrote...
    Really?
    November 22, 2012 7:19 pm
    Obama has killed small business more than the big chains. Walmart has been around since 1962 and currently employs more than 2 Million workers. Are the mom and pop shops paying $18 an hour? NO. You have a coice to work at Walmart, your not an indentured servant. Get an education and enspire yourself and work your way up the ladder or work elseware you whining entitlement idiots.
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    wrote...
    Really.
    November 23, 2012 9:01 am
    "You have a [sic]coice to work at Walmart, YOUR not an indentured servant. Get an education and ENSPIRE yourself and work your way up the ladder or work ELSEWARE you whining entitlement idiots." Reads like someone could stand to take their own advice re: that whole 'getting an education' thing...
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    Harold101 wrote...
    Stupid is...
    November 23, 2012 5:04 pm
    as stupid does.
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    ratedosx wrote...
    no kidding.
    November 24, 2012 12:21 am
    no kidding: walmart is not a small business. walmart pays less than one percent of its workers $18 an hour. the rampant misspellings and tortured grammar of your comment thereafter render your point inscrutable. that said, what walmart drives down in hourly rates and benefits, as well as tax breaks, the american public makes up for in so-called 'entitlement' dollars. all the welfare you're (notice the apostrophe and contraction; your fourth-grade teacher thanks me) all worked up about paying in tax is what walmart is avoiding.
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    nokidding wrote...
    I Did follow my own advise
    November 24, 2012 10:46 am
    Classy move pulling the "spell check" card, your so smart. I worked retail for 12 years and was working Christmas eve, Black Friday and the day after New Years when you were home sleeping off your hangover. Put myself through school and eventually became an engineer. I never had my parents buy me a car because I took care of it myself washing dishes from 15 through high school. Pick on somebody that hasn't earned their way through life.
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    bullsballs wrote...
    ya, really.
    November 24, 2012 10:51 am
    Wallyworld moves into communities, and the money flows out of the area, not into it. their generosity is just a smoke screen to what they are up to. after a few years, the economic condition of the area will be bankrupt, and wallyworld will be the only employer, and provider of goods, sort of like the company stores of the past, where the company owns everything, and the people have nowhere to to find gainful employment elsewhere.
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    nokidding wrote...
    Wrote the Hipocrite
    November 24, 2012 4:45 pm
    Here is a post from Wrote a few days ago regarding Walmart: "I worked for a Airline, A Taxi service and in retail. I have worked both scheduled days and overtime by both personal and employer requests. I do not mind I am a single person. My family one year I had to work Christmas Eve and Day delayed festivity's 2 days so I can Join In."
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    nokidding wrote...
    ratedosx
    November 24, 2012 5:00 pm
    "the rampant misspellings and tortured grammar of your comment thereafter render your point inscrutable." I'm so disappointed that there are so many "Holier than thou" faultfinding blamers like yourself in the world. You are clearly a passive-aggressive idiot that is totally devoted to bear down on the people that worked hard to get where they are.
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    nokidding wrote...
    bullsballs
    November 24, 2012 5:07 pm
    "Wallyworld moves into communities, and the money flows out of the area". Go up to Payson and walk into the Super Walmart there and ask every customer in there if they wish Walmart would leave, go away and require them to shop at a mom and pop store and pay 30% more. Yeah, see? Your wrong.
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    nokidding wrote...
    ratedosx
    November 24, 2012 5:19 pm
    A true passive-aggressive arrogant. Using Quarter words where Nickel words would suffice.
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