Don't Shop at Wal-Mart

“Sears holding that would be.”

“Yep, buy Craftsman at Kmart now btw

Shameless commercial I know :-)”

“If you are to buy a stock SHLD would do.”

“KMart would the place who dropped Fuzzy Zoeller but kept The Whale....despite similar statements...Yeah I know if Kmart has it ...I don't need it.”

“If Walmart has it, I don't need it.”

“Sure I shop at Wal-Mart. I have a middle of the road income, live in a middle of the road house, so I save money where I can. Personal savings is important to me, and reducing the overhead cost of living (food, personal hygiene items and the like) helps me and my family save more money. Wild Oats has some great food but I would use up all of my income if I shopped there exclusively.”

“Grow most of what you eat; shoot or catch the rest.”

“Don't shoot until you see the whites of eyes.”

“I used to work at Wal-mart part time a few years back. I'll say that it's amazing that it's still in business with the way management is trained. There is a huge Employee turnover rate because of it.

As far as shopping there, I do most of the time. It's cheaper to buy there than most places. If it wasn't as sucessful, prices would be higher. Don't make sence for me to pay more for something.
Who give a #&%!$ if some shop there and some don't. Ain't America Great!!!”

““Grow most of what you eat; shoot or catch the rest.”
Nimblefoot
8:53:49 AM
9/23/06

What about hit.
Road kill, it's what's for dinner.”

“I have only cleaned two road kill deer, and one was nearly a waste of time after I got her skinned out. The hide doesn't have to be tore up for the muscle beneath to be hamburger.
All my other road kill adventures have been with o'possums, and ground hogs. Now thems some good eatin! My personal favorite are the ones hit by '87 Celebrities - tenderizes em perfectly, but I had a friend who was fond of ones hit by Chevette's too.”

“I wonder if the drug companies are giving that price to the neighborhood pharmacy as well.

Doubt it. The corporate machines roll, at the expense of each other. Companies eating thier own.”

“Free markets and competition = liberal kryptonite”

“Buddha Bear, we (you & I both) live in the United States of America. I point this out because it seems you don't know how our system works here in the USA. Here in our country, we have something called a "free enteprise" system. This system rewards successful firms / individuals. If WalMart can buy 600 gazillion of some product from me, and pay me on time for it, then I'm going to give them a better deal than I am the smaller firm that buys 1/10th the voluime & then (often) wants "terms" to pay me. I do this because it's a better deal for me.

Profits are what drive the business machine. Deal with it. Your continual complaints about the system make you look like an ill-informed, ignorant person with no knowledge of how business works. You don't necessarily have to agree with our system, but stop your incessant whining about it... if you don't like it then maybe you should consider moving to Sweden or some other socialist place that embraces your sad, inefficient & outdated philosophy.
last edited: 9/24/06 8:25:16 PM”

“God dag, wanderer. I believe you are in violation of the Terms of Participation, by entering a Post that demeans a country, nation, religion, or particular group of people.

I've been to Sweden twice and I love the country. And, yes, if it were possible, I would love to live there. It's a safer, cleaner and friendlier country in which to live.
last edited: 9/24/06 10:08:37 PM”

“I didn't demean Sweden, just told it like it is. They are admittedly Socialist & proud of it, and obviously are inefficient, etc., since they rank so low in so many areas.”

“Well, well, well, looky what we have here.

Wal-Mart Stores offers $4 generic drugs in Florida

By Robert Green

TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT.N), the world's largest retailer, said on Thursday it would cut the prices of nearly 300 generic drugs to $4 per prescription starting in the retirement haven of Tampa, Florida.

The move, immediately copied by rival Target Inc. (TGT.N), slammed stock prices of drug retailers, with shares of No. 2 U.S. drugstore chain CVS falling 8.4 percent.”

“If you say so, I guess those are the facts! At first I was upset by your lack of any references, but then I remembered that you are one of the most learned and respected members of TT. However, by this time I had started looking and did find that Sweden had dropped in world ratings since I visited the country. Here are a few quotes, for whatever they might be worth:

"Its citizens enjoy a high standard of living in a country that is generally perceived as modern and liberal."

"Today, the country is defined by social-liberal tendencies and a strong national quest for equality, and usually ranks among the top nations in the UN Human Development Index."

"Today, Sweden has a standard of living comparable to that of other advanced Western European nations, but it is no longer at the very top."
Sweden
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Please note that these quotations are from only one reference and may not tell the entire story. But they do not paint as bleak a picture of the country as you have tried to do. So I am not yet sure just why you selected Sweden as the one country to mention by name.

But I thank you for bring this subject to my attention. I learned that a 30.1 billion DKK Bridge/Tunnel, Oresund Bridge, now connects Sweden and Denmark.

Have a good day.
last edited: 9/25/06 8:01:17 AM”

“I like Swedan because they just love their guns!”

“Sexually promiscous big hootered blondes...the only worthwhile Sweedish Export.”

“You can have the hooters. The greatest thing to ever come from Swedan is the Classic...



and the 123...

”

““I didn't demean Sweden, just told it like it is. They are admittedly Socialist & proud of it, and obviously are inefficient, etc., since they rank so low in so many areas.”
wanderer
11:21:30 PM
9/24/06

In what areas are "they" so obviously inefficient?
Inefficient at building an upper class?

In what areas are they "so low"?
Public health, poverty, etc?”

“How do "you" spell success?”

“P-i-m-p-i-n'”

“I've been to Sweden twice and I love the country. And, yes, if it were possible, I would love to live there. It's a safer, cleaner and friendlier country in which to live.

That's because it's filled with women and sissy-boys.”

“Probably a great place to live if you're a socialist...

One of the enduring myths of the "Third Way" welfare state is that a nation as a whole can have a high standard of living--even if no one really has to work--as long as government transfers massive amounts of wealth from those who are well off to those who are less well off. For the past four decades, we have been inundated with news stories, books, and public commentary, all of which have exhorted us to be like Sweden.

The Swedes, we have been told, enjoy free medical care, generous welfare benefits, time off from work, and subsidies for just about everything. When one counters that Swedes pay enormously high taxes, the standard reply is, "That is true, but look at what they receive for their payments."

According to a recent study, however, the cat is out of the bag. Relative to household in the United States, Swedish family income is considerably less. In fact, the study concludes, average income in Sweden is less than average income for black Americans, which comprise the lowest-income socioeconomic group in this country.

European welfare states are not making their citizens wealthier. Over time, the cracks in these relatively wealthy nations are growing larger, and if the disease is not arrested, much of Europe will tumble off into real poverty in the not-so-distant future. Europeans--and, most likely, Americans--seem destined to learn the hard way that large, seemingly intractable welfare systems have their way of destroying the Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs.
While people can debate the present condition of Swedes in Stockholm versus blacks in Harlem, there is a deep issue here that people seem to forget when it comes to welfare states: they are destructive at their roots. Advocates of welfarism concentrate only upon distribution while vilifying production. Such a state of affairs cannot go on forever as governments are forced to cannibalize their own capital structure over time in order to make the system to continue to work.”

“If I lived in Sweden I'd introduce slavery and watch as crime sky-rockets over the next 150 years.”

“Nigal, that's a Swiss knife.”

“Dayhiker beat me to it. I was going to ask when Swiss Army knives started coming from Sweden.

I was afraid there was some kind of invasion that I missed.”

“"According to a recent study, however, the cat is out of the bag. Relative to household in the United States, Swedish family income is considerably less. In fact, the study concludes, average income in Sweden is less than average income for black Americans, which comprise the lowest-income socioeconomic group in this country."

That sounds a bit skewed, but OK.”

“Free Socialist Backpacking Gear. . . . hmmmm

I wonder if they hike. yada-yada-yada. :)”

“Sure the Sweedes hike and they carry the specially issued SWEEDISH ARMY KNIFE, which comes with knife with instructions saying SHARP EDGE TOWARD THING TO CUT.”

“See this documentary later, when you have the time:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/view/”

“The end of this thread has me laughing so hard my coworkers must think I'm going nuts (as I sit here trying to stifle it).

LOL Nigal and XL!”

“Swedish army knives aren't sharp enough to cut you. However they will mangle a Swedish meatball in seconds.”

“Do they sell them at Ikea?”

“Sure, but everything at Ikea is secretly manufactured by the Fins at slave labor wages, smuggled over the border and rebadged.”

““Sure the Sweedes hike and they carry the specially issued SWEEDISH ARMY KNIFE, which comes with knife with instructions saying SHARP EDGE TOWARD THING TO CUT.”
XL400236
12:04:49 PM
9/25/06

"I believe you are in violation of the Terms of Participation, by entering a Post that demeans a country, nation, religion, or particular group of people."

Bailiff, whack his peepee!!”

“Bailiff, whack his peepee!!

In Sweden that's legal.”

“So mark is into whacking peepees? I am assuming that there a significant about of selfflaggilation that goes on in the Beast's dwellings?”

“LOL! Is it just me or does dirtbag darrel look just like Jack Nicholson?”

“XL, that's from a Cheech and Chong skit.

Leslie Horwinkle...........yeah, that's a good name for XL!”

“wanderer - Until you start backing up your statements, I shall assume that all your uttering is your peraonal, opinionated BS.

moonglo - Sure, I guess Ingemar Johansson was a "sissy-boy." Will your stupid posts never end?”

“A dude from 50 years ago?

When did they go socialist?

You're posts are stupid.

Nowslimmer - I don't make it about you, I'd like the same courtesy. Thank you. Let's not throw around personal attacks like you just did. It's immature. You're waaaaaay too old to be acting like a 2 year old.
last edited: 9/25/06 1:46:18 PM”

“LMAO @ nigal.”

“Get off it, moonglo. Your post was stupid, just like this one from a guy who never fires the first shot!

"if i understand correctly, nowslimmer wipes his butt with the tea-bag labels on the end of the string”
moonglo
12:55:47 PM
9/01/06
(String: One-piece Tear)

I do assume you meant it to be humorous. However, I really don't appreciate your humor.
last edited: 9/25/06 2:23:14 PM”

“I don't care what you appreciate nowslimmer.

So yeah, 50 years ago they had a tough guy. LOL!!!”