Wal-Mart's everyday high costs

[Red Dawn]

Bump for Lord Jezo

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Bump for Lord Jezo

Hehehe, good one Red.

 

[ProviaFan]

My mom is a Wal-mart and Save-a-lot fan. I'm not sure if Save-a-lot is just a midwestern thorn in the side or not, but for those who may not be familiar with it, it is a store that is much crappier than Wal-mart (always locates in the crappiest part of town, and has crappy buildings), and sells low quality junk at prices that are slightly less than Wal-mart's.

Personally, I don't go to Wal-mart for anything, except film processing. However, I will only put up with scratched negatives and crappy prints so many times, and at this moment I have some mailers from A&I on the way, so I can get future rolls processed at a real lab.

Heh, I'm not sure why I decided to bore you all with the past two paragraphs, except that I'm tired and not thinking coherently right now. But, I have a more personal issue with Wal-mart, that probably hasn't affected any of you.

Nevertheless, when they come into a town (they did this to both towns within a few minute's driving distance from the rural area where I live), they kill more local businesses than just retail and food stores. In a larger town (e.g. Terre Haute, IN), they won't be able to compete with a large chain like PetCo or PetSmart (the quality of liveware from those places rivals Wal-mart in a bad way - i.e. sick fish, dying terrestrial plants sold as aquatic plants, etc.), but all the small and good stores that employ people who actually know how to net fish without almost killing them end up getting put out of business shortly after a Wal-mart arrives.

Edit: My "personal issue" listed above is in relation to the pet store problem listed below, because aquatic animals and plants is one of my hobbies. And, of course, I realize that my "larger town" would be a tiny rural villiage to many people here, but that's the way I see things, having been forced to live much of my life in rural Indiana.

 

[Techie333]

Bill and Microsoft can start their own chain of walmart-like stores! Can't they? Maybe they will improve america........oh wait....he's moving jobs outa america........lol people......its a free market.

 

[dmcowen674]

11-1-2003 Wal-Mart Marches on Despite Bad Press by AT members

There was no mention of illegal immigrant workers or sex discrimination claims as Wal-Mart opened a massive new supercenter in Davenport Iowa, one of 39 stores it opened nationwide in a single day. The 207,000 square foot Davenport supercenter, the size of about four football fields is the second Wal-Mart in this town.

Store manager Jeff Teague handed out giant-sized checks to area charities. A local pastor said a prayer. A Wal-Mart employee sang the national anthem, and a high school band belted out "Hang On Sloopy" at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday that drew hundreds of shoppers.

Wal-Mart is defending dozens of lawsuits alleging discrimination, wage-and-hour violations and other labor issues. Walton actually opposed unions, saying in his autobiography that there should be no need for them if companies treat their employees well.

The lawsuits do not seem to have deterred job-seekers in a soft labor market. Teague, manager of the Davenport store, said he received more than 5,000 applications for about 460 jobs. At the Valley Stream, New York, store, 15,000 people applied for 300 jobs, manager Bobby Balder said.

 

[Lucky]

In the case of wal-mart often without extending them any benifits whatsoever.

stop spreading lies you dolt! Every single employee at walmart part time or full time is elibible for benefits after a very reasonable initial waiting period.

 

[UCSDHappyAsian]

yah wal-mart is importing good quantity and selling them at 100 - 500 % profits...... yep yep... the price looks acceptable.. but the thing is ... they already make enough profits out of us..