Movie: Wal-Mart : The high cost of low prices

[427king]

You wont shop there because the way they treat people, but you dont mind selling to them as your best customer??????????

[notstock71]

This is why I like this site. I posted this same thread on alot of the sites I visit and I'm getting hammered as being this and that. All I wanted to do was get some conversation going not only on Wal-Mart but major business in general. We could have these same arguments about oil companies too and maybe we will when a movie comes out.

I really don't feel the need to reply to other peoples feelings and beliefs, to each their own. Who am I to critisize anyone. Thank God for the USA where we can make the decisions we want and express our thoughts and feelings openly.

[rat tuned]

i am not an independant operator. i am a delivery driver that is told what i must do if i want to stay employed. i do however get a certain $ percentage of what i sell. if i don't like it i guess i can can walk but i figure i like a roof over my head and food in my stomach. they have a right to exist just like every other retailer. i have every right not to shop there as a customer. 30 years in retail\wholesale i've seen some crazy things. but these guys take the cake. i gotta eat like everyone else. mike

[Salvatore]

Chuckie, Why are you defending WalMart so much or are you just being the devils advocate. Whether we like WM or not it is not going to go away. I believe they sell products for less because even the Chinese (cheap,low grade products) have a lesser grade of product. I think WM buys the Chinese throw aways in some cases. JMO. It seems that way. Shop where you want to shop. There are no factories left in this country anyways. Its pretty much over for us with factory production as we once knew it. My grandkids will never here or use the word factory I bet.

[427king]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18298972/

[Schonyenko2]

You know, I'm not quite sure who to blame for the idea that as a nation we could base our economy on consumer spending, while we produce nothing.Was it the Republicans who made the folks in those double wides with the attached porches, that with enough plasma screen tvs, gas grilles, Nascar CDs, and 160 channel dish network that they were really "upper middle class"?
That unions are bad because they value senioity over personal initiative, so it's harder to suck your way to the top. And as flawed as they are, until we all decide to treat each other with respect, and fairness, it's better than having to deal with a friggin idiot on a power trip.
Or perhaps we blame the Democrats. Slick Willy supported NAFTA. And as much as GOPers hate to admit it, he was very good to business. Lotta stuff went to China under his administration.
But I guess in reality, we can just blame our selves. That's a tough one.Hard to just blame Wally world when the major lending institutions have sold out to foreign investers. Your home loan through Citigroup is most likely held by someone with a last name of middle east decent, or Mandrin.
Amazing. We won WWll, not because we had better equipment, or superior soldiers. We won because we had GM, Chrysler, Ford, International Harvestor, McDonnell Douglas, etc. We out produced the other side, and as time passed, our equipment did surpass the Axis. We made our own steel, and had craftsmen, welders, tool, and die makers, patternmakers, pipefitters. Skilled workers who had, and worked with pride.
How do you suppose that compares with being a Walmart greeter, where you wear the flag on your shirt, and don't have a clue why.
Maybe when the Chinese get tired of sellin us stuff, and just decide to take the place over, about the only thing we can do is throw hot Starbucks double lataes at em, and some Dunkin donuts. With a little luck they'll all die of high cholesteral before the take over the whole country. Then we'll have to get some illegals to clean em up I guess. Sorry for the rant.

[TDW]

I'm kinda glad I'll be dead in a few years. This Country is doomed.

[70 copo]

We have been given up for dead as a country several times in the last few decades. Great depression, Communist red scare, Jap's buying everything in sight in the 80's now Wal Mart and the so called "Global Warming" scare where we spend Billions to go green while the developing countries continue to have zip for regulations.

Big government and regulations is the real problem. Ask any small business owner. These are the same poor folks that are likely hurt by Wal Mart's tactics.

We will get through it. This is the greatest country ever!

[kwhizz]

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We have been given up for dead as a country several times in the last few decades. Great depression, Communist red scare, Jap's buying everything in sight in the 80's now Wal Mart and the so called "Global Warming" scare where we spend Billions to go green while the developing countries continue to have zip for regulations.

Big government and regulations is the real problem. Ask any small business owner. These are the same poor folks that are likely hurt by Wal Mart's tactics.

We will get through it. This is the greatest country ever!


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I "Agree"........and it will happen thru "Self" Thinking individuals........and not the Sheep (Cheap) mentality.......

Ken

[427TJ]

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Jap's buying everything in sight in the 80's

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Keep in mind that it was we Americans who sold the Japanese everything in the 1980s. We'd sell bin Laden a fully loaded 747 if we could keep it out of the news.