I hate Walmart because their produce looks horrible, the meat is SCARY, they don’t have the ‘wide selection’ everyone seems to think they have, and their clothing quality is piss poor.
That said, they’re the only affordable clothing store around and their only competition has equally poorly made crap at a higher price.
Walmart is the Anti Christ
[quote]Gothic77 wrote:
I hate Walmart because their produce looks horrible, the meat is SCARY, they don’t have the ‘wide selection’ everyone seems to think they have, and their clothing quality is piss poor.
That said, they’re the only affordable clothing store around and their only competition has equally poorly made crap at a higher price.[/quote]
I agree. Though Wal-Mart is a huge staple in the localized commerce industry of capitolized American landscape. Concider this, Wal-Mart store placement is decided by a computer - the same computer that determines where the best places fast food chains should be erected. Buy low, sell high - The American Standard. Though, as a scientist I tend to follow the Hertzman principal, which would ultimatley place that standard to rest. The Hertzman Principal sounds like this:
“In a crowded seated stadium, if one person stands up, that person might get a better view of the stage. If everyone stands up, no-one’s view is improved.”
Buy low, Sell high will only take Wal-mart (and various others including investors of all sorts) so far…
[quote]pittbulll wrote:
Walmart is the Anti Christ[/quote]
Damn it. And here I am wearing his underwear.
I see a lot of people talking about how Wal-Mart is driving mom and pop out of business because they can’t compete on price. Well, they shouldn’t even try!
Find a customer base that will pay a few extra bucks for service, and for items Wal-Mart doesn’t offer.
[quote]Gothic77 wrote:
I hate Walmart because their produce looks horrible, the meat is SCARY, they don’t have the ‘wide selection’ everyone seems to think they have, and their clothing quality is piss poor.
That said, they’re the only affordable clothing store around and their only competition has equally poorly made crap at a higher price.[/quote]
I agree completely. I don’t buy food at Wal-Mart as a rule, but I buy anything else I can get there.
Thank god for H.E.B.
[quote]SWR-1222D wrote:
I bought 4lbs of ground turkey. I picked an amount that allowed me to separate it into equal 8oz pieces.
So as I’m weighing and bagging the meat, I get down to the last bit that I can make in to 2 more 8oz servings, cut off 8oz, and am left with 5 oz!
I re-measured the other meat that I already separated, and they were exactly 8oz.
3oz of meat may not sound like much, but for a large chain grocery store, they should get their measurments right.
I’ve also gotten meat from other places (as I will do from now on) and the measurments have been almost identicle to what was on the package.
I’ve got to find a local meat shop somewhere close by. I recently found a local place to get fruit and veggies, so I’m trying to boycot Walmart and other large grocery stores as much as possible. I’d rather give to my local community anyway.
Anyone else get screwed by the serving size of a grocery store’s meat?[/quote]
Actually, I’m glad that things are going so well in your life that you have time to whine about 3oz of meat.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
But I bought a XXXL Starter shirt with “moisture wicking technology” for only $9.89 last night that I cut the sleeves off and plan to wear tonight in the gym. Sahara comes out on DVD next Tuesday for about 14 bucks at midnight, and where else can I get that body wash that has a fresh scent that lasts for 8 hours for only $3.49? Ugly? I’ll buy that for a dollar.
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Especially when that bottle probably doesn’t last you so long (in a good way).
Everyone likes to knock WalMart for their disregard for the Mom and Pop merchants, yet at the same time, if everyone didn’t abandon the Mom & Pop’s to go buy at Wal-Mart. Clearly they provide something that the small stores can’t match. There are some things I like about WalMart and some things I can’t stand about it.
In this country, you are free to spend your money where you want. If you don’t like Wal-Mart, don’t spend your money there. There’s an article in the August 13-19 Economist that discusses Wal-Mart and the benefits it can provide to poor, urban areas that are now served by only a single store. In the case of this article, the city of Philadelphia is struggling about whether or not to fight WalMart’s coming, meanwhile, the poor in Philly are paying more for their goods than the better-off politicians who are making the decisions.
Like anything else, it’s not all black and white. You can’t accuse WalMart as purely evil no more than you can praise them as a retail savior.
DB
There are plenty of people who don’t want to support the monster that is Wal-mart and don’t mind paying a little extra… so they shop at Target.
Capitalism, for all of the good that it does, will usually in the long run hurt the little guy.
There’s a reason that Wal-mart is successful, because it does what people want. We are the heart of Wal-mart. If you don’t believe me, check the tv section…
[quote]doogie wrote:
Gothic77 wrote:
I hate Walmart because their produce looks horrible, the meat is SCARY, they don’t have the ‘wide selection’ everyone seems to think they have, and their clothing quality is piss poor.
That said, they’re the only affordable clothing store around and their only competition has equally poorly made crap at a higher price.
I agree completely. I don’t buy food at Wal-Mart as a rule, but I buy anything else I can get there.
Thank god for H.E.B. [/quote]
Right on! you know I went to walmart looking for Lender’s frozen bagels. Walmart DOES NOT CARRY frozen bagels! Who the heck doens’t carry frekaing Lenders!!! Bizarre. I was hgihly annoyed! So off to HEB we trekked, 2 miles in the other direction, with gas nearing $2.50 a gallon,e tc… Blah. Yeah, HEB is still our main shopping store.
[quote]croak wrote:
If you don’t believe me, check the tv section…[/quote]
Cool. It also says, “Image is nothing, thirst is everything”. I’m buying a Sprite!
[quote]IronHell wrote:
While the law, if I understand it correctly, doesn’t allow a monopoly nation-wide, locally Wal Mart can still be construed as a monopoly and imagine what they can do with their prices?
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The law doesn’t allow for illegal monopolies - i.e. those that abuse their monopoly power.
Wal Mart is great. I hate when I travel somewhere with no Wal Mart and I need to pick up something like a toothbrush and the good old mom and pop store ass rapes me. But I guess in the long run ass raping people to make individuals or partnerships rich is better than getting resonably priced goods from a big corporation.
[quote]ZEB wrote:
SWR-1222D wrote:
I bought 4lbs of ground turkey. I picked an amount that allowed me to separate it into equal 8oz pieces.
So as I’m weighing and bagging the meat, I get down to the last bit that I can make in to 2 more 8oz servings, cut off 8oz, and am left with 5 oz!
I re-measured the other meat that I already separated, and they were exactly 8oz.
3oz of meat may not sound like much, but for a large chain grocery store, they should get their measurments right.
I’ve also gotten meat from other places (as I will do from now on) and the measurments have been almost identicle to what was on the package.
I’ve got to find a local meat shop somewhere close by. I recently found a local place to get fruit and veggies, so I’m trying to boycot Walmart and other large grocery stores as much as possible. I’d rather give to my local community anyway.
Anyone else get screwed by the serving size of a grocery store’s meat?
Actually, I’m glad that things are going so well in your life that you have time to whine about 3oz of meat.
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Thanks! Me too! 
I couldn’t find steak-ums there either. I thought that was kind of strange.
I see what they’re doing, Walmart sucks us all in with a big selection and low prices, then slowly changes what they sell so everyone conforms to their way of thinking, then eventually, they are going to take over the world!
They’re already starting to plant microchip recording devices in their products to see what else we’re willing to sacrifice service for price for.
I bought my didgital camera there and found a strange white tab with a barcode hidden inside the box. I’m convinced they’re trying to spy on me.
[quote]croak wrote:
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Capitalism, for all of the good that it does, will usually in the long run hurt the little guy.
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Capitalism helps the little guy.
Capitalism provides competative goods and services as well as opportunity.
It is corporate and government corruption that hurts the little guy.
You have corruption in every system.
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
croak wrote:
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Capitalism, for all of the good that it does, will usually in the long run hurt the little guy.
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Capitalism helps the little guy.
Capitalism provides competative goods and services as well as opportunity.
It is corporate and government corruption that hurts the little guy.
You have corruption in every system.[/quote]
If you look at a new industry in a long term scale you will see a couple of things. First off one person/group/company will create a product/service that fills a need (or creates and then fills one).
This company makes money, others see this and decide, hey I can do that. Acutally I can do it better. Competition starts and the industry moves forward at an accelerated rate. New companies are able to innovate and think outside of the box.
Eventually you reach a level where there are a wide array of companies, large, medium, and small. If the top end is large enought they gobble up the smaller companies. Consolidation occurs. You are left with a handful of large companies. This not mean that there are not smaller/new companies that can spring up and innovate and be successful. That does die out.
This whole process may take a decade or a century but to some extent it happens with all industries.
The internet age has changed this a bit. Smaller companies that do not require brick and mortar type operations are able to function and even prosper. Software/IT companies are a prime example. However there is a huge amount of turn over in this industry.
My comment was not meant as a slight at capitalism. I think its the way to go, but there are negatives.
[quote]dollarbill44 wrote:
You can’t accuse WalMart as purely evil no more than you can praise them as a retail savior.
DB[/quote]
But you are purely evil and hence, due to my deductive reasoning Wal Mart is evil.
[quote]Flop Hat wrote:
Wal Mart is great. I hate when I travel somewhere with no Wal Mart and I need to pick up something like a toothbrush and the good old mom and pop store ass rapes me. But I guess in the long run ass raping people to make individuals or partnerships rich is better than getting resonably priced goods from a big corporation.[/quote]
Heh, “reasonably priced” is whatever you are willing to pay for it and whatever the merchant is willing to sell it to you for.