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From: Des Moines, Iowa
everyone always wants to pay the lowest possible price, but then hate the place that does it? kinda a catch 22. i'll buy from them because motor oil is so much cheaper there. and i like that. as for american made stuff? some things are just junk anyways, so agian i will pay for a lower priced thing, where it's made i don't really care. it still takes american workers to ship it stock it and account for it. remember all those stories about how hard factory workers life was, why do we even want those jobs here then? i get sick of seeing some of these things, sometimes you have to give a little to take a little. want lower priced items? let them make them else where because they can't do it here because americans want more money to do the same job.
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From: Stephenville, TX
I dont shop in walmart for other reasons....500 people sitting in the isle with their basket carying on a conversation. Ask them to move, they look at you and keep on talking. I do like doing burnouts in their parking lot.
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Re: Walmart
Originally posted by X-1
Heres a topic to fire up. Stay away from your walmart. Why, well several reasons. Everytime the open a super walmart local businesses suffer. They pay their employees less which lowers the local wages, and by buying bulk junk from over seas they are helping to eliminate american jobs. So next time you are in your local walmart, think about the people thru out the u.s. that have suffered because of the greed of one company. Sam Walton would be turning over in his grave.
Heres a topic to fire up. Stay away from your walmart. Why, well several reasons. Everytime the open a super walmart local businesses suffer. They pay their employees less which lowers the local wages, and by buying bulk junk from over seas they are helping to eliminate american jobs. So next time you are in your local walmart, think about the people thru out the u.s. that have suffered because of the greed of one company. Sam Walton would be turning over in his grave.
How big does a company have to get before we start hating it? Mircrosoft, WalMart, Intel, we cheered all these companies on when they were smaller. They were taking on what seemed insurmoutable odds-- the underdogs. They had a better method and were successful. Then at some point they overcame a lot of their competition and they became the big industry and we started hating them.
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From: tucson/luray usa
Originally posted by 79driver
I dont shop in walmart for other reasons....500 people sitting in the isle with their basket carying on a conversation. Ask them to move, they look at you and keep on talking. I do like doing burnouts in their parking lot.
I dont shop in walmart for other reasons....500 people sitting in the isle with their basket carying on a conversation. Ask them to move, they look at you and keep on talking. I do like doing burnouts in their parking lot.
but that happens in most large stores with annoying regularity.
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From: Little Elm, TX
I hate Wal-Mart simply because they threatened to sue our parish into bankruptcy if they weren't allowed to open a SuperCenter on a piece of land that is too small to support the parking, and also has terrible drainage. Literally across the highway is a HUGE piece of ground begging for development. But, they ain't interested in it.
I am also dreading the empty big-box. We already have one standing idle from a grocery store that went out of business.
Mall-Wart...I'd gladly shop anywhere else. If there was anyplace left!
I am also dreading the empty big-box. We already have one standing idle from a grocery store that went out of business.
Mall-Wart...I'd gladly shop anywhere else. If there was anyplace left!
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Originally posted by 79driver
I dont shop in walmart for other reasons....500 people sitting in the isle with their basket carying on a conversation. Ask them to move, they look at you and keep on talking. I do like doing burnouts in their parking lot.
I dont shop in walmart for other reasons....500 people sitting in the isle with their basket carying on a conversation. Ask them to move, they look at you and keep on talking. I do like doing burnouts in their parking lot.
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From: Nevada
I can picture a future Walmart shopping center, the big box anchor surrounded by interconnected Walmart speciality Departments/stores with an internal tram service. A Walmart Vehicle center will be included, selling, Walmart vehicles made in China. Not as far-fetched as you might think.
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From: Virginia Beach
Originally posted by georgedavila
I can picture a future Walmart shopping center, the big box anchor surrounded by interconnected Walmart speciality Departments/stores with an internal tram service. A Walmart Vehicle center will be included, selling, Walmart vehicles made in China. Not as far-fetched as you might think.
I can picture a future Walmart shopping center, the big box anchor surrounded by interconnected Walmart speciality Departments/stores with an internal tram service. A Walmart Vehicle center will be included, selling, Walmart vehicles made in China. Not as far-fetched as you might think.
But don't giant corporations usually end up getting too big??? Remember old Ma Bell??
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From: western ky
i know the argument about how k-mart and bradlees and those others all came and went. but Walmart is a lot bigger than that. most people dont see how huge they are, the gigantic warehouses they have and the tens of thousands of trucks, etc. it would be a shame if they ended up being the only place for anyone to get anything. i dont mind paying a dollar more to mom and pop's hardware store, we should try and keep them going before they become something we tell our grandkids about. they provide so much walmart can't
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From: Detroit Subs
Originally posted by georgedavila
....That's one of the reasons West Coast grocery chains held out against union demands for employer paid benefits, to allow them to implement the same policies nationwide and better compete with Walmart. Their (grocery chain) wages, at an average of $15/hr are still way out of line, so that'll have to be adjusted to keep them in the game. .......
....That's one of the reasons West Coast grocery chains held out against union demands for employer paid benefits, to allow them to implement the same policies nationwide and better compete with Walmart. Their (grocery chain) wages, at an average of $15/hr are still way out of line, so that'll have to be adjusted to keep them in the game. .......
No wonder more and more stores are going to U-Scan-it machines.