Posted on 08/14/2007 7:58:27 AM PDT by george76
The pandering to the illegal culture is overboard as well. Their CD section for example. They can not seem to keep any section well stocked other than Musico Latino. In my area most Latino's are in fact illegals working for DOD DOE sub contractors. You go in the food section in a Super Walmart and there it is Latino CD's and DVD's as well.
The store in Oak Ridge, TN for no reason whatsoever moved mens clothing to the other side of the store. My wife's sore spot with them is Crafts. Once a good selection now two isles with no rhyme or reason to it. The hardware and tool section is now a shadow of what it once was and filled with mostly useless junk. If you complain to Bentonville Headquarters they don't listen. Fine I vote with my money. My grocery business is going to Ingles or Krogers next month. I estimate I saved over $125 last month by shopping at Walmart. I saved it because I could not locate many of my usually buy items.
Sam Walton ran a business that was customer oriented and had at least some pro-USA policies. His kids that took it over it seems do not share their dads values. I did notice the real downward change began though when Sams son died. My local Walmart now looks like Target inside. I don't shop at Target because they as well do not stock what I need or want.
One poster mentioned them taking out guns. They do that in my region and they may as well close the doors period. Walmart has took a major quality slide no doubt about it. I want to see a store take them on now that they are weak. In my area we only have Target and K-mart as alternate choices. K-mart could and should take notice and take them on.
“If you associate Wal-Mart with low prices, you assume that every item at the store is low priced relative to other stores”
It might be my Army training, but I can go into a Walmart and fill up my shopping cart with incredibly low priced goods, yet leave out the items that I know that I can find cheaper elsewhere.
One would think that American manufacturers would recognize a great opportunity....PROUDLY, Made in America.....
Then again....are there any American manufacturers of toys and household goods that actually produce a product with American hands and on American soil?
That's how I shop, and I have no Army training :)
I vote with my feet.
I dont have the time to organize disgruntled shopper. If enough dissatisfied shoppers were to shop elsewhere either they will get the message or not.....
You can buy your child safe toys without trying to destroy the largest American employer.
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Creative destruction. Walmart bet big on Chinese manufacture. They rode it up. Let them fall if the public is smart enough to react.
I am.
Think it through. What difference does it make if it’s Walmart selling us goods or another store that has an easier time shifting their purchasing to safer goods? Why should we support China’s rise at all through our purchasing. They are a military competitor.
You are running this through the prism of some thread a year ago where leftists protested against Walmart because it was big. But there is no reason for conservatives to carry water for a corporation like Walmart — especially since they are a big donor to the left, stopped carrying guns and ammo, and are the biggest conduit for dangerous Chinese goods in the world.
“Can you find a store that sells more Chinese goods as a % of their sales than Walmart? Tongue in cheek — but — Do they sell ANYTHING that is not a Chinese manufacture? Walmart is THE store most responsible for this race to the bottom in manufacture that we’ve had.”
Actually, don’t all the “Dollar” stores sell mostly “Made in China” goods? At Wally World, for the last 6 or 7 years I choose things carefully, but it is getting harder to shop in just one store. I try to be careful about not buying Chinese goods. And if that doesn’t work, I go to thrift stores, where they do have American goods! LOL, but true!
i have two retired union members living near me.
both hate wal-mart.
one shops and wal-mart and cusses as she comes home laden with goodies.
the other foams at the mouth at the mention of wal-mart; she
refuses to step into wal-mart and buys at union stores such as albertsons,
and she like big lots.
amusing, she’s gotten some crappy stuff at big lots.
Of course, Walmart would hire this Sierra nutjob. To shut him up.
It’s getting to be more and more crappy stuff.
LOL I noticed something. Walmart is sluming at the Dollar Tree stores for lower quality goods to sell at a higher price. The best example is paper plates. At the Dollar Tree they are 72 plate packs for $1. Go to Walmart the same brand is about $1.69. The exact same name brand product that Walmart used to have BUT the plates Walmart sold a year ago actually did fit paper plate holders. Evidently someone in Wally World noticed the reduced quality plates sold at Dollar Tree and now buy them for sell at Walmart. No they did not go down on the price either.
The stores are dirty and cheap.
I try to be careful about not buying Chinese goods. And if that doesn’t work, I go to thrift stores, where they do have American goods! LOL, but true!
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We are just starting to really pay attention. It’s not going to be easy at first, but if enough of us do it, then the profit motive will be there for the stores and the manufacturers to make it easy for us to avoid Chinese goods. It is impossible to do if you shop at Walmart.
One would think that American manufacturers would recognize a great opportunity....PROUDLY, Made in America.....
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I barely see those tags anymore. I told my wife that we hunt for non-chinese goods. We go online, call, whatever it takes.
“That’s how I shop, and I have no Army training :)”
Come to think of it, I shopped like that before I was in the Army, maybe you and I are just too strong for “price brainwashing”.
That is why many smart shoppers carry the advertisements from other stores into their local Wal-Mart and purchase the items for the lower price(s). When Wal-Mart sells bananas for $.59/lb, and a competitor sells them for $.33/lb, then you show Wal-Mart the lower price, and they are supposed to sell to you with that price. If you get a crabby cashier, you might change your mind. However, I have friends who are very diligent about sticking it to Wal-Mart. It saves ‘em quite a bit of money.
“I have a two year old that may have been exposed to lead paint. Get off your “anything business does is fine because I’m Republican” high horse and look at what is really going on around you.”
I’m with you. Too many R’s have become just like Radical D’s regarding blind following and support.
Anyone who questions Corporate America (wait make that Corporate World) is labeled a commie/socialist. Pretty sad, but to me, it’s just a case study in human understanding.
No it's not.
I'll BUY that!!!!!
if no body goes there how is it crowded?
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