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Re: Is Wal-Mart Good For America?
« on: Jan 17th, 2005, 7:53pm » |
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Well King of Pain. I am torn on that one. Did you read my post or thread on "Where are your priorities". I believe in Wal-mart providing lower prices for us. But I am against them doing it at the cost of our jobs here in America. I guess I am young and need to mature since I still want my cake and eat it too.
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Re: Is Wal-Mart Good For America?
« Reply #1 on: Jan 17th, 2005, 7:59pm » |
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Wal*Mart only answers to it's shareholders, not to Americans. They USED to brag that they only sold American goods, but backed off long ago.
There's a South Park episode on the evils of Wal*Mart.
Ultimately the answer is that it's the consumer's choice to support them and not the fault of Wal*Mart.
It's OUR choice....
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Re: Is Wal-Mart Good For America?
« Reply #2 on: Jan 17th, 2005, 8:01pm » |
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on Jan 17th, 2005, 7:59pm, vig wrote:Wal*Mart only answers to it's shareholders, not to Americans. They USED to brag that they only sold American goods, but backed off long ago.
There's a South Park episode on the evils of Wal*Mart.
Ultimately the answer is that it's the consumer's choice to support them and not the fault of Wal*Mart.
It's OUR choice....
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There is also a skit on MAD TV where everyone who shops at Wal Mart has a frontal labotomy...and so do all the employees as well as haveing bar codes on their arms.
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Re: Is Wal-Mart Good For America?
« Reply #3 on: Jan 17th, 2005, 8:14pm » |
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Yea I shop at Wally World due to the prices I admit that. But I have to say Im picky about WHAT I buy. I figure if I buy Amercian then Im helpin my country and my self. It's not nuff Im sure but Im trying.
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Re: Is Wal-Mart Good For America?
« Reply #4 on: Jan 17th, 2005, 8:25pm » |
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I never shop there, but it's not a bad place to set up camp at night when travelling .... some of them even have cable TV hook-ups! All free of course, since they figure you'll need to run inside for something before you leave in the morning.
However ... my future son-in-law works for them ... at low pay, for poor benefits and during bad hours........
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Re: Is Wal-Mart Good For America?
« Reply #5 on: Jan 17th, 2005, 8:30pm » |
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No. It's not. WalMart is good for the Walton family. That being said...I still have to go there sometimes. I avoid it as much as I can. 
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Re: Is Wal-Mart Good For America?
« Reply #6 on: Jan 17th, 2005, 8:30pm » |
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Most people that work at a local Walmart store have such low pay, they qualify for food stamps and other public assistance. Therefore, the government subsidizes Walmart. When a Walmart comes to town, yes they create jobs, but the tax revenue is not enough to pay for the increases public assistance. So net-net, a Walmart store in your neighborhood hurts the national economy and helps to increase our current RECORD national debt.
Its too bad the voting machines in Ohio were rigged to have Bush win. Otherwise, we would have ended this lying, botched neocon regeime.
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Re: Is Wal-Mart Good For America?
« Reply #7 on: Jan 17th, 2005, 8:32pm » |
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Re: Is Wal-Mart Good For America?
« Reply #8 on: Jan 17th, 2005, 8:36pm » |
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Thats one of the bad things bout Wally World you cant beni's till youve been there 6 months even if your full time and if your part time its a year!  Have a wonderful friend of mine that worked there for over a year! Had sucky hours, very little pay (minium wage) and worked her butt off!!! She finally said KMA and bailed. That was over a year ago so maybe some of the time frames on the beni's maybe differnt. 
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PS: Dave was thinking bout a part time job there then found all this out and said "NO f*cking way!" Smart man in my book 
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Re: Is Wal-Mart Good For America?
« Reply #9 on: Jan 17th, 2005, 10:02pm » |
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I am SO glad I chose to work at Starbucks instead of Wally World!
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Re: Is Wal-Mart Good For America?
« Reply #10 on: Jan 17th, 2005, 10:29pm » |
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I buy tube sox and pocket t-shirts from Walmart. I'd buy more, but they treat employees like oriental sweatshop labor.
Sometimes, one just needs to draw a line.
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Re: Is Wal-Mart Good For America?
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Re: Is Wal-Mart Good For America?
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on Jan 17th, 2005, 8:30pm, BMoneeTheMoneeMan wrote:| Most people that work at a local Walmart store have such low pay, they qualify for food stamps and other public assistance. Therefore, the government subsidizes Walmart... |
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Re: Is Wal-Mart Good For America?
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Re: Is Wal-Mart Good For America?
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Re: Is Wal-Mart Good For America?
« Reply #15 on: Jan 18th, 2005, 1:30am » |
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Years ago 15 or so they were flying the flag and the buy American deal. Now It's the buy Chinese deal. That’s ok if you know where your stuff is coming from. I don't go there but the wife doe's. Everything she drags in is made in China. It's a worldwide economy, get used to it. Anytime you can buy same for same at a lower price..............well it's your money.
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Re: Is Wal-Mart Good For America?
« Reply #16 on: Jan 18th, 2005, 1:48am » |
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on Jan 18th, 2005, 1:30am, forgetfulnot wrote:| Anytime you can buy same for same at a lower price..............well it's your money. |
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It's called Capitalism. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
What went wrong?
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Re: Is Wal-Mart Good For America?
« Reply #17 on: Jan 18th, 2005, 3:32am » |
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I read or saw a piece on Walmart some time ago aside from the PBS special. It turns out that on some stuff, they don't always have the lowest prices. Say for something like microwaves or electronic toys for you and me. They like to put out a loss-leader to get us all excited and look around. What happens is that so many of us think that everything else behind the loss leader is the best price too. A lot of the time, it ain't so. They know what they're doing.
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Costco is good for America. They sell better stuff, and pay their employees much better than Walmart/Sams Club. The lowest wage that Costco pays any employee ($10) is higher than the average wage Walmart pays all its employees ($9.96). Employee turnover at Costco is low, and most Costco employees who have worked there for 5 years or more are making middle class money (~$35,000- $40,000). Almost all Costco employees have comprehensive health insurance.
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Re: Is Wal-Mart Good For America?
« Reply #19 on: Jan 18th, 2005, 9:17am » |
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Wal-Mart is evil not because of price structure but for the fact that they will leverage (bully or bribe) local politicians to condemn land they want to use to build another store.
This has been going on all over the country and most recently I believe in Al. A group of people had some homes they had lived in for generations but were FORCED out of them by greedy politicians looking for higher tax revenue. Bribed of course by Wal-mart. When the gov't can comdemn your home/property on a whim then we truly have lost our last liberty in this country.
2012 is coming soon.
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Re: Is Wal-Mart Good For America?
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on Jan 18th, 2005, 9:17am, notseinfeld wrote: 2012 is coming soon.
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Re: Is Wal-Mart Good For America?
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Actually Medic---that's Olmec knowledger---PRE-Mayan and frighteningly accurate on other astronomical anomalies.
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Re: Is Wal-Mart Good For America?
« Reply #23 on: Jan 18th, 2005, 9:56am » |
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I watch all those shows on History and Discovery channel, I find it all interesting and cant get enough of it....even though the wife hates it and always changes the channel
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« Reply #24 on: Jan 18th, 2005, 11:27am » |
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Vig - Walmart actually answers only to the Walton family, not shareholders. It is still a privately held company...
RJ - you always make me laugh out loud!
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