[QUOTE]Originally posted by TRICKS46
[B]When Walmart is the only store left, how good will it be and what competition keeps them in line then?

 

Blood sucking scum who have destroyed the neighborhood stores and free enterprise. Sam Walton would turn in his grave, and HE SHOULD!!!!

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tanqueray
[B]

The unemployment rate was 4.4% before the terrorist attacks, so obviously Walmart wasn't doing too much damage.

 

I personally do not like Walmart, and the customers are so far below par that it is unbeleivable. They drive pieces of shit, but can afford to smoke.

They don't always have the best prices, and they only buy bottom end stuff to fool ya. Walmart sells the bottom 2 lines of just about everything they sell (electric razors, shovels, wheelbarrows, etc....), but they sell brandnames. So the dumbass customer overpays for a bottom of the line "norelco" when they could have spent $4 more at Target for a much better Norelco shaver.

Scot -

 

O ya, I used to work for TRUE TEMPER HARDWARE (manuf of Lawn and garden (and snow) tools)....

Walmart (whores) make all venders pay $20k per hour 1 time per year to present your goods to all of the Wal-Mart "buyers" (i guess the $ is to cover the expenses of the buyers time.?).

Anyway, you obviously need to take samples.......well....once again, walmart then makes you leave them, and they supposedly "donate" them to a charity (ya, the Sams Club Charity)

So, overall, it cost us $30k ($10k worth of shit to showoff) to have Walmart take almost all of he profit away by making us compete with the other 2 Lawn and Garden Manuf.

Big sales of no margin stuff at leasts gets your name out there.

Scot

 

I would venture to guess that Wal Mart brings many more jobs to an area than it displaces. Sam Walton was famous for a corporate culture that stressed the value of his employees. I think he spent like 300 days a year traveling from store to store. He, like many empire builders, is both revered and scorned.

In addition, Wal Mart carries a fantastic variety of car care products. Also, anytime I need a case of mayonaise or a gross of paper towels, I always go to Sam's Club.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by TRICKS46
[B]When Walmart is the only store left, how good will it be and what competition keeps them in line then?