Gizmodo posted an article today about a new green laptop packaging idea from HP and Walmart. It's pretty sweet - The laptops will arrive at Walmart in the bag packaged 3-4 to a case, with no other packing material like icky foam and baggies and crap. They can then be plopped right onto a Walmart shelf, where they will be gobbled up by anyone who actually has $800 bucks and shops at Walmart. Why green you say? cause they lowered packing material 97%! (!!!)Of course, Gizmodo and their readers gave most the credit to HP. After all, it is incredibly fashionable to hate Walmart. After all, they told their people not to vote for Obama - that's like telling NRA members not to vote for McCain (you see, Obama hearts people who make minimum wage, while McCain hearts Palin, who hearts shooting shit).
Ironically, the truth was told in the San Francisco Gate (you see, San Francisco doesn't have any Walmarts, nor do they have any Republicans). This packaging concept, the one that reduces packaging materials by 97%, was inspired by a Walmat contest.
That's right, Walmart hosted a design contest to see which supplier could reduce packaging the most, and they'd put them on the shelf. This adds to the list of other Walmart lead Green innovations like deodorant not in boxes (silly, wasn't it), concentrated laundry detergent (no more 5 gallon jugs to lug around) and milk containers that take up less air in a truck, saving millions of gallons of oil a day... (source: writer's estimate).
When it comes to paying employees what they are worth, sure Walmart sucks. But don't blame them for everything. They are using their power to help the environment. No matter how you feel about Walmart, you can't hate them for that.
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