A Wal Mart Thread

“Cry me a river. Right. So they go for the cheapest crap they can get, regardless of the larger outcome of their actions.

The huge irony is, using your sad, sad scenario, they aren't making jack because all of their jobs are being given away to China in order to produce the cheap crap they buy at WalMart. They may be putting cheaper RC Cola, Gordon's Fisherman fish sticks and Hungryman dinners in their stomach now, but they are really screwing themselves longterm. They don't get it and apparently, either do you.”

“have you ever been to Walmart? Walmart sells the same brands as every other store in America. The only difference is its cheaper at Walmart and you can take it back if it breaks or it isn't what you want (like REI)

I build roads. Can't build a road in china and ship it over. You want to stop us from buying chinese crap. Put a tariff on it, drive up the price and hopefully US businesses will stop being greedy long enough to sell their products for less. But to do that take away the minimum wage laws and all the laws that makes it so damn expensive to build stuff in america. BTW, I hope you are willing to lose more wetlands because those factories are going to have to go somewhere.”

“I am not claiming the WalMart doesn't have the same problem indicative of many other retail operations in the U.S. I am just saying they are the most widespread and therefore, the biggest contributor to the problem. In addition, there needs to be a shift in mentality from the U.S. population. At the moment, I am pretty much in favor of buying anywhere, except from China. They already own this country via bonds. Why keep giving them money?”

“I recently had a comversation with a WalMart customer and found that my food cost were about 10% on average cheaper shopping at my local Arab market. Another good thing, my market has locally growing items and fresher food than Wal Mart because the turn over is greater.

There is no money to be saved at Wal Mart buying cheap goods there. Those items wear out twice as fast as quality items. This means that you'll be going in to Wal Mart twice as much and gorging yourself on other cheap crap you don't need.

Wal Mart if responsible for 20% of Chinese exports. I thought Communism was supposed to be a bad thing.

How many Republicans shop at Wal Mart?

Would Reagan approve?”

“They own us because we are taxing, borrowing, litigating, regulating, and wasting ourselves out of competitiveness.”

“"They own us because we are taxing, borrowing, litigating, regulating, and wasting ourselves out of competitiveness."

Here-here, no more of that crap!
Let's return to lawlessness!!

Yee Haw!!”

“laqtis, you are wrong. The same item for sale at most any other store (brand and model) will usually be cheaper at walmart. Why would the walmart one wear out sooner than one bought at another store. I grocery shop at walmart and at local grocery stores depending on my mood and I know for a fact that a full cart at walmart is quite a bit cheaper than the same size cart at other stores. I don't buy much fresh fruits and veggies at walmart because I don't like the handling process (too much tossing around) but the turnover of veggies at my local walmart is tremendous.”

““"They own us because we are taxing, borrowing, litigating, regulating, and wasting ourselves out of competitiveness."

Here-here, no more of that crap!
Let's return to lawlessness!!

Yee Haw!!”
MarkO
2:30:36 PM
12/18/07

Just saying every cure has its side affects. Sometimes they are worse.”

“Chinese vegetables?

Or Mexican?”

“when I worked in a seafood restuarant 20 years ago all of our shrimp came from Venezuela. This is nothing new. As a matter of fact, I consider the fact that I can get any fruit or any vegetable in any season a mark of civilization”

“Well I am certain that no one here who HATES the Walmart idea avoids "sales" like an anathema...(LOL) the fact is they cater to what WE demand.

Does Walmart sell CRAP...? Occasionally, but they also sell a general purpose product at a price that helps people looking to stretch their dollars.”

“Libbies hate poor people.”

“Walmart is not the source of the problem, its a result.”

“Listen to them dudes talkin' up the poor with they mouths full.......

The privileged weenies want to keep WalMart shoppers on the plantation.”

“....so says someone sucking on the government teat.”

“lol, cmon marko, when you stayed home with the kids didn't you ever shop at walmart? I know I did. I still do. I see lots of people I know there too. Some working, some shopping.”

“Yeah, well buster I've got a grip on it with two hands!

There once was a ornery old hippy
Who hailed from ole Mississippi
And just to be lewd
He run around in the nude
While hanging on tight to his bippy”

“Projecting again, silly person.”

“I do most of my food shopping at my local Wal-Mart Superstore. I know I save many dollars compared to shopping my local Winn-Dixie.
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“Cheap-Cheap !!

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“If shoplifters steal from Malwart and sell it cheaper on the street, that makes Malwart second cheapest. Nice business lesson , ah?”

“Say "AH!!"”

“"“laqtis, you are wrong."

No I am not. All cheap goods wear out faster, no matter where you buy them. Cheap goods are made out of cheap material and put together with cheap labor. It's absurd to infer otherwise. It's simple Econ 101.

"I don't buy much fresh fruits and veggies at walmart because I don't like the handling process (too much tossing around) but the turnover of veggies at my local walmart is tremendous.”"

People in America today are walking around with a tons of chemicals in them from eating crappy, chemically enhanced food. The turn over might be decent at Wal Mart, but it's a different quality of product. My market, while saving me about 10% on average and provide a superior product.

For example, I am able to load up on a months worth of quality, fresh beef, Amish chicken, pork for about 50 bucks or so. This is for a family of four, two growing boys I might add. They also run a beef sale about every other month. Buy a slab of fresh beef for 35 dollars and they'll slice it up for free. I can get about 18 2 inch NY Strips out of that. Not too bad.


Personally, I really could get two shakes if ya throw your money down the toilet buying crappy goods from there. It's not my money wasted and I'm not the one supporting a Communist state, and the Capitalist pig dog they are in bed with.

Tear it up, son.”

“Seek out a farmers market. Buy local. This is where the American market is headed back to. Cutting out the middleman and going straight to the source. I see it more and more.”

“RM, have you looked at verticle gardening -speaking of local.”

“laqtis, you just made my point. Crappy goods is crappy goods. You attack Walmart because they are successful at selling what you call crappy goods while never attacking any other chain.”

“We are very lucky in Detroit to have a very good open market downtown.

Great stuff, the local organic growers are really reasonably priced, too.”

“Yes. Maybe it is easy for me to speak because I have the fortune of being in a major agricultural belt. Still, I think they are there if you look.”

“"laqtis, you just made my point. Crappy goods is crappy goods. You attack Walmart because they are successful at selling what you call crappy goods while never attacking any other chain."

Other stores are not the subject of this thread. If the thread was "Cheap Goods", or something like that, then you might have "had" me.

My post was on topic because I was speaking directly about how Wal Mart cheap crap (and there marketing style) hooks the consumer on crap in order to keep them participating in the money rotation.

You should stay on topic and quit trying to score cheap points buy mudding the waters.”

“And another thing.......

This notion that people "hate WalMart because they are successful" is just another cheap and stupid insult learned from the likes of Limbaugh and those other stinking and lying pig dogs.

People complain about WalMart because they are concerned about the negative effects on communities and the U.S. as a whole by that sort of "capitalism gone wrong".”

“OINK!”

“That's about the image that comes to my mind when I think Capitalist pig dog, but with a HUGE ceeeegar.

You know, kinda like this:

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“The Leftie elite socialists will get kicked out of the libbie club if they dare say anything positive about the evil Wal-Mart.
The lack of Unions at Wal-Mart "keeps the people down", don't ya know.”

“You mean like a drug-addled neo-nazi freak??

(not you, SS)
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“And shaking like a junky...”

“Stovie, sometimes ya gotta pay MORE to actually do the RIGHT thing. Jeeze, what did people do BEFORE SprawlMart was here? Just try and imagine a time, oh, less than ten years ago...”

“All Kevin has is worn out cliques anymore.

I haven't seen him rub two thoughts together in a reasoned form in a real long time.

I guess he thinks that the "silly libby" thing is cracking`em up 'round here and doesn't notice how of much of a tool it really makes him look.

At least he could pull up that "Look what the...." thread with that "Hi Geo!" bit. That got a few chuckles about 5,500 or so times ago.”

“Silly Libbie.”

“LOL”

“you're right, laqtis, like everyone else on this thread I got off subject. The fact remains that selling inexpensive stuff to people doesn't make Walmart evil.

Marko, please show me a community that walmart killed. Towns with Walmarts grow.”

“Correction: towns with WalMarts sprawl.”

“The affect of Wal Mart on small towns is very well documented.

However, you didn't ask me.”

“they go for the cheap goods because they can't afford anything else because they don't have unions jobs, and they probably voted for Bush and republicans who won't tarriff the hell out of the commies so good paying jobs here get a chance, so people can buyu at mom and pops.

besides that, I blame everything else on Sporting Goods Department Managers at Meijers stores those people are the debbil.”

“Wal-Mart kicks ass. I seldom go, but there's one only a half hour away if the local CVS, Family Dollar, or Ingles can't fulfill my needs.”

“If you support Walmart you are supporting Communism and screwing your fellow Americans. �That's the bottom line.”

“Has anyone read Freakonomics? I had a few buddies over last weekend, one a prof of Mathamatics at Ohio State, one a prof of Statistics at Duke, and the other a Prof of Economics, and we were discussing the book for a lengthy time. I wonder what the statistical correlation of WalMart shoppers is to education.

Has anybody read the book?
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“Nope, but if I can fit it in during the semester break, I'll read it.”

“I have read parts of it. Abortion goes up, crime goes down. Wonder if when abortion goes up, shopping at WalMart goes down...”

“hey Q - when are we going to meet up for a beer/bush bashing session?”