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Wal-Mart

so.. are you saying some new upstart could overtake walmart by doing everything by itself

or what

I don't see relevance
 
Which is exactly why I said it's the fault of the consumer in an earlier post. Money beats their own morals.
 
There are two small cities only 20 minutes away from my house that each have a Wal-Mart. The only reason I go there are to get good prices on CD's and to buy video games, and rarely to buy shoes. After that article, i don't think that I'll EVER buy any Wal-Mart brand item ever again.
 
Wal-Mart still gets a percentage of the profit, though, because it was sold through their store. If you buy something there you're supporting the company, regardless of who made the product originally. If you are truly against Wal-Mart then you wouldn't even buy third-party products there.
 
Kratos Aurion said:
Wal-Mart still gets a percentage of the profit, though, because it was sold through their store. If you buy something there you're supporting the company, regardless of who made the product originally. If you are truly against Wal-Mart then you wouldn't even buy third-party products there.
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It doesn't help when they are the only place within the city that has a good selection of games...
 
*headdesk* Alexi hates Walmart.

He does shop at Target occasionally, which while is as bad on the grand scale, is still awesome.

Of course, he usually buys his games at GameStop or EB Games. In fact, he usually only goes to Target for snack foods and shoes.

[end 3rd person]
 
I used to work at Wal*Mart. The wages were good (yes, they were higher than minimum wage), and the conditions and benifits were also good. Working there isn't bad at all.

However, the fact that they put those sandals on clearance? When I found that out, that's when I quit the job. It's repulsive that they would do that! "Oops! It looks like those sandals corrode and burn human flesh! We have to get rid of them! I know we should destroy them all, but we could make some more money by putting them on clearance instead of throwing them away. Yeah, let's do that!" No. Just no.
 
Ahouji is not fond of Wal-Mart, even remotely-- in fact, he actively hates it.

But guess what?
People will always shop there-- yes, even you, all of you who condemn it so rabidly. It's a sad fact that they have a lot of things and people WILL shop there.

My main gripe is... well... so many. The lack of adequate health-care, unions being banned, moving in and blatantly advertising their predatory pricing, their blatant disregard for human rights as far as outsourcing their labor...

It's obvious that I don't like it.
But it's a big business.
K-Mart? Target?
They're out to screw you, too.
^^

The sandal-thing is severely disturbing.
Oh, joy, just another case of disregard for safety. Lovely.

Welcome to the Wal.

(Also... I would like to refer people to the song WalMart Nation by MC Lars. It's a good summing up of what's wrong with it...
This'd be it.)
 
you know I go to walmart occasionally 8V

Deretto said:
The relevance would be that people blame Wal-mart as the reason that new companies can't form.
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still not seeing relevance

you do know it costs inconceivable amounts of money to set all that infrastructure up in the first place, right
 
Icalasari said:
Gckt... Walmart...

Our mall, our ONLY mall here, is being turned into a strip mall, with many places like Saan's (which is also a chain store but meh) being forced to close down. And guess when that happened? Yep, when Walmart AND Supercenter moved in >.<

My parents are actually shopping at Walmart for groceries (yep, our Walmart is practically a whole mall). Only thing I buy there? Video Games. After all, the games still come from Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft x.x And Walmart is the only place I can afford

>.> My parents want me to apply everywhere to get a job, including Walmart. For me, Walmart is last ditch
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wait... you mean the real canadian superstore(yes i'm in canada)... what's wrong with them???(if there is something please let me know.

It's hard to ban wal-mart when they have 10 bucks less on all the games i happen to want compared to eb games (there isnt a gamestop in canada)
Hey, I know, I'll just request a price match... genius!
and i still can't ban wally, I'm only 11.5 years old... I don't choose where my family shops.
 
I really don't beleive Wal-Mart is what it says it is, and my mom doesn't either. I seriously just e-mailed that page to her.
 
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Why wouldn't they advertise it? If you have an advantage over other businesses, it would be smart to use it. They want money, like more or less every other business.
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Well, predatory pricing is, under antitrust laws, illegal.
Yes, Wal-mart sometimes only goes a few cents under, which is legal for competition [though I'm a socialist-in-ideal and so don't exactly believe that free market is a necessarily GOOD thing]-- but they can, and at times do, aim at a method that essentially allows them to drive other stores out of town and hold an area in a death-grip monopoly. A few cents can't eliminate competition as quickly as a massive undercut, and, let's face it, they don't want competition. No company does-- but they get their stuff so cheap (and have so little regard for human rights) that they can.
 
turbler said:
wait... you mean the real canadian superstore(yes i'm in canada)... what's wrong with them???(if there is something please let me know.
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Yep, that place.

The only problem I have is the fact that the two of them combined, along with Extra Foods (which has been here for a very long time) are pushing out good businesses...

D: At least they aren't pushing out the non-existent video game stores ^^
 
And McDonald's is pushing out smaller food chains in my area(eg a&w) A&W is a big company but there's only 1 within 15 min drive, the other 2 closed down cause of mcdonalds.
 
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