Wal Mart Usually Scummy Corp. Does 1 Thing Right by Turning on Christian Fascists

[ark steel]

Small business can hold their own to a degree but if they don't continually adjust to the competition, eventually they will fail. Ace Hardware uses customer service and positioning their stores in rural areas to stay afloat ( barely ) while Radio Shack completely ignored the power of the internet and tried to stay with the same products in newer looking stores. There are many people that hate to shop in "Big Box" stores because it takes too long to get in and out and will pay more for the convenience ( like 7-11 ) but without a viable alternative, they have no choice.

Without a visionary leader, all small businesses will eventually fail. It is the nature of the beast. My retired AT&T buds live high on mega retirement bucks from the phone haydays but nowadays the (land line) telephone is dieing alongside the postal carrier.

Gotta go..my beeper just went off.

I will almost always go to an Ace Hardware store to get needed items. The only time I don't is if I know exactly what I need where I don't need the extra service or I know they do not have the item I want.

 

[Badcat]

Good Lord. I AM going to sound condescending, when I read tripe like this. You sound like the stereotypical Liberal - crying and boo-hooing over reality. The jaguar eats the rabbit - "Save the rabbit!"

It's simple Darwinism. Remember, that is how the world actually does work - the strong survive. When you start altering the world to "ensure" the weak survive, you mess with the natural order and bad stuff happens.

So yeah - the anti-capitalist Liberals do have an unarguable point - small businesses can't compete with the Walmarts of the world? SO WHAT??? What does that matter? They shut down, those people find other jobs, and life EVOLVES. If we go all anti-capital and force measures that allow the Mom & Pops to survive, we mess with the evolution. Bad things happen that you and I pay for at the register.

I grew up in a small town, and still have family there, where there are 2 Mom & Pop hardware stores competing for each other. Nearest big box is 30 miles away, so they make a living because they are local and convenient. I Love, love love visiting those stores when I'm in town - 100 year old buildings, you can find things with price tags on them that they've never sold from 30 and 40 years ago. Character, culture. It's great. I hope they last forever, but I know they won't.

This town of mine also used to have JR's grocery and another family run grocery. Till Food Lion came to town. Put them out of business. Guess what? Everyone in town is A-OK with it - they get lower food prices and typically the shelves are always stocked.

I have very tight friends that run the town's newspaper and the next county's newspaper. Owners and publishers of it. I stay in their home a week a year and hunt with them. They've made a mint from the business, but guess what? That big, bad ole' Internet is pushing them right to the curb. There's no family business to hand down to the kids. And guess what? Those kids are finding other jobs, good jobs, and moving on.

Evolution is the way of the world. Stop being so "anti-evolutionary" in your "anti-capitalistic" viewpoint. It's as moronic as protecting the delta smelt and diverting enough fresh water for all of Silicon Valley into the ocean - stupid policy for a bleeding heart cause that in the end just hurts all of us.

Let the market forces work themselves out as Darwin said they would. Walmart should have put those small businesses out of business. And someone should put Walmart out of business for being a horrible big box retailer that supplies the market with crap. And eventually some business should put THAT business out of business with a better model.

Liberals scream at us alll about Progress, right? In this instance, Progress really translates into Prevent Progress. Prevent a better business model from retiring an out-dated business model. Prevent improvement for the sake of protecting Mom & Pop stores.

You Libs make my head hurt to be honest. Progress doesn't mean Progress at all. Pick a different word please. May I suggest Stagnate?

I wonder how Walmart was able to start out as a small mom and pop store and compete against the likes of KMART and SEARS? Right? I mean, It's not like Burger King or Wendys ever had a chance against McDonalds. Right? I Mean, that piss ant Microsoft operating out of their garage had no chance against Apple! Kia Motors trying to compete against Chrysler, GM, Ford....Pffffftttttt. What were they thinking? Evil corporations with their greed squash the little people so their businesses remain GIANTS!

 

[Troglodyte]

You Libs make my head hurt to be honest. Progress doesn't mean Progress at all. Pick a different word please. May I suggest Stagnate?

We'll write a ******* dissertation,
why don't you?

I never said anything about progress and I'm only socially liberal. I just think Walmart sucks and it's existence hasn't really benefitted society. Amazingly, you failed to say much of anything else in your rambling.

 

[oneforthebus]

We'll write a ******* dissertation,
why don't you?

I never said anything about progress and I'm only socially liberal. I just think Walmart sucks and it's existence hasn't really benefitted society. Amazingly, you failed to say much of anything else in your rambling.

I live in an area where there are a lot of immigrant farm workers and many of them shop at my local Walmart. They are in there buying their kids school clothes and shoes or a cart full of groceries. The men are buying lunch or a pair of work boots that they could never afford elsewhere. Walmart may not benefit the elites of this country much, but the poor rely on it. Turn your nose up at the cheap Chinese crap but for some of these people it's the place where they get the only new articles of clothing they've ever bought. That's not a benefit to society? Affordable food and clothing?

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Wal-Mart is doing their part to help out the Liberal govt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1WpvyHN-H0&list=PL5hAMSowADa5vCXNCVGbWRxKYCNTTOfRu&index=121

http://allnewspipeline.com/What_Martial_Law_Will_Look_Like.php

 

[Troglodyte]

I live in an area where there are a lot of immigrant farm workers and many of them shop at my local Walmart. They are in there buying their kids school clothes and shoes or a cart full of groceries. The men are buying lunch or a pair of work boots that they could never afford elsewhere. Walmart may not benefit the elites of this country much, but the poor rely on it. Turn your nose up at the cheap Chinese crap but for some of these people it's the place where they get the only new articles of clothing they've ever bought. That's not a benefit to society? Affordable food and clothing?

And I suppose they shop there because all the other places are out of business. It's not like Nordstroms and Saks 5th Avenue were the only places to shop before Walmart.

If Walmart is selling them crap, and the places that went out of business sold more expensive goods but of far better quality, Walmart isn't doing those people any favors. They're selling them $20 work boots every year instead of $50 work boots every five years.

I've infrequently shopped at Walmart. For all I know, it has made me more money through mutual funds than I've spent there. But again, I can't argue against its critics.

 

[oneforthebus]

And I suppose they shop there because all the other places are out of business. It's not like Nordstroms and Saks 5th Avenue were the only places to shop before Walmart.

If Walmart is selling them crap, and the places that went out of business sold more expensive goods but of far better quality, Walmart isn't doing those people any favors. They're selling them $20 work boots every year instead of $50 work boots every five years.

I've infrequently shopped at Walmart. For all I know, it has made me more money through mutual funds than I've spent there. But again, I can't argue against its critics.

What a ridiculously elitist statement. These people live week to week. They can't afford to make big investments in expensive stuff in hopes it will last them longer. Kids grow out of shoes and clothes every few months or so. By the way a lot of those 50.00 workboots are probably made in China too.

Never fear, we still have plenty of expensive places to shop around here, and plenty of people who can afford to shop in them and would never set foot in Walmart.

 

[IndySteel]

Everything about Walmart is pure evil. People who shop there support domestic terrorism.

 

[Sluzilla]

Walmart is just about the only place I'll shop for groceries...so I pick up most of my other items of need there at the same time...one stop shopping is a good thing IMO...

My time is way too valuable to spend it going to three other stores only to find that none of them carry 1/4 of what I'm needing anyways...

 

[IndySteel]

Walmart is just about the only place I'll shop for groceries...so I pick up most of my other items of need there at the same time...one stop shopping is a good thing IMO...

My time is way too valuable to spend it going to three other stores only to find that none of them carry 1/4 of what I'm needing anyways...

I get the convenience thing, it is a time saver. But your buying cheap **** that was made in China instead of the USA. Walmart kills the American dream by destroying American jobs and killing off Mom & Pop stores. They hurt the US economy by importing so much **** from China and they're basically a blight on society by attracting criminals, thugs, methheads and the mentally ill.

 

[IndySteel]

Their beef has a chemically enhanced unnatural red glow and is graded at the minimum quality level of what is fit for human consumption. I'll continue to get mine from the local butcher.

 

[Stewey]

Everything about Walmart is pure evil. People who shop there support domestic terrorism.

Timothy McVeigh bought the fertilizer there.

 

[IndySteel]

Timothy McVeigh bought the fertilizer there.

See!!!???? lmao.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

If Walmart is selling them crap, and the places that went out of business sold more expensive goods but of far better quality, Walmart isn't doing those people any favors. They're selling them $20 work boots every year instead of $50 work boots every five years.

Show what you know about buying work boots.

 

[BAS]

I get the convenience thing, it is a time saver. But your buying cheap **** that was made in China instead of the USA. Walmart kills the American dream by destroying American jobs and killing off Mom & Pop stores. They hurt the US economy by importing so much **** from China and they're basically a blight on society by attracting criminals, thugs, methheads and the mentally ill.

If Walmart didn't exist, Jonesmart would be there in it's place. I prefer Target.

At some point someone is going to capitalize on the ability to find more product at cheaper prices, so you may demonize Walmart but it's not like they're doing anything out of the ordinary.

 

[Troglodyte]

What a ridiculously elitist statement.

My bad.

Those low-skilled workers who don't deserve to earn anything more than minimum wage are lucky to have Walmart and it's inferior products as it's all they can afford.

Nothing elitist about that.

 

[steelrzgirl]

Until someone else is paying my bills, Im not spending $5 more on a bottle of Tide at Target. Walmart is where I shop for all paper goods/chemicals, household items and majority of my groceries. I shop HEB for all of my other specialty grocery items which is a locally Texas owned chain. I also buy as many Texas produced items as I can. HEB is fantastic about buying and advertising Texas mfg'd products.

I worked for Walmart in Store Planning for 5 years. I used to run the construction phase of the remodels. The stores have the local authority to choose and carry localized products. The Texas Walmarts are very excellent for that.

 

[oneforthebus]

I get the convenience thing, it is a time saver. But your buying cheap **** that was made in China instead of the USA. Walmart kills the American dream by destroying American jobs and killing off Mom & Pop stores. They hurt the US economy by importing so much **** from China and they're basically a blight on society by attracting criminals, thugs, methheads and the mentally ill.

Do you really think Mom and Pop stores sell only things made in the USA? OR Target or Costco or Nordstrom or anyone else for that matter? Not sure why Walmart gets the bad rap on this one...everybody sells it, Walmart just sells it for closer to what it's actually worth. I guess it's ok to sell stuff made in China as long as you're charging out the *** for it (Apple)?

 

[oneforthebus]

My bad.

Those low-skilled workers who don't deserve to earn anything more than minimum wage are lucky to have Walmart and it's inferior products as it's all they can afford.

Nothing elitist about that.

How much should someone be paid to pick mushrooms? $20/hour? $50/hour? How much are you willing to pay for your mushrooms?

 

[Ron Burgundy]

I own a small business. I do not make a lot of money, especially since the advent of Obamunism. Between me and my employees I kick up about $4500 a month in Federal, state, and local wage and sales taxes. I'm guessing that nationwide Wal-Mart kicks up a lot more. Their fair share, if you will, obviously.

 

[Tim Steelersfan]

I just think Walmart sucks and it's existence hasn't really benefitted society.

I can only conclude you are out of touch. And you don't research. You've heard Walmart is bad, so Walmart is bad. You've admitted you've rarely been in Walmarts.

How about 10 ways Walmart changed the world? http://business.time.com/2012/07/02/ten-ways-walmart-changed-the-world/

Not all of these are good things in the article, but many are. With all good, comes some bad. Anyway, they essentially invented the idea of the big box retailer and are the reason you can buy $10 hammers vs. $20 hammers at your Mom & Pop store. They made selection of goods an alternative for Americans. Prior to Walmart, we had to buy the items our local stores had for sale. I work in the supply chain world, and can tell you that they did indeed, per the article, revolutionize how retailers work with suppliers in incredibly positive ways, making all businesses better in this area. Data-driven management - they were pioneers in this field, that every other business follows today.

Sustainability: "In 2005 Walmart threw its critics a curveball by announcing plans to transform itself into one of the greenest corporations in the world. Among its goals were “to be supplied by 100 percent renewable energy” and to “create zero waste.”

There's the Walmart Hunger Relief & Healthy Eating programs: http://foundation.walmart.com/our-focus/hunger/

Huh? Look at that, Walmart is working to bring back jobs to America: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...how-walmart-is-bringing-jobs-back-to-the-u-s/

I mean, when you consider that our Socialist-leaning policies have driven minimum wage so high that we can't compete with countries like China, Walmart is being creative to work to bring jobs BACK to America. Oh, those evil Walmarters.

I could go on. You get the point. Don't make uninformed, blanket statements. I don't have a Walmart tattoo, nor am I a big fan. But to say stupid **** like Walmart "sucks" and they haven't benefited society only exposes your ignorance.

What's that famous line? "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Sustainability: "In 2005 Walmart threw its critics a curveball by announcing plans to transform itself into one of the greenest corporations in the world. Among its goals were “to be supplied by 100 percent renewable energy” and to “create zero waste.”

When they remodeled the Wal-Mart near me they switched to low or no water urinals, I'm not sure how they work, and the men's room always smells like piss.

 

[IndySteel]

I would say that Walmart can suck my dick, but then I'd get the hep.

 

[hamster]

When they remodeled the Wal-Mart near me they switched to low or no water urinals, I'm not sure how they work, and the men's room always smells like piss.

That made me laugh.

 

[IndySteel]

Do you really think Mom and Pop stores sell only things made in the USA? OR Target or Costco or Nordstrom or anyone else for that matter? Not sure why Walmart gets the bad rap on this one...everybody sells it, Walmart just sells it for closer to what it's actually worth. I guess it's ok to sell stuff made in China as long as you're charging out the *** for it (Apple)?

Maybe not now so much. I admit that I should have been in my prime in the '50's. But it's still easy to buy American and Local if you make it a priority.