Personally...I do not understand why some conservatives love Wal-Mart. They seem to have monopoly on retail...its almost like the state having monopoly on all retail in the old Soviet Union.
Low prices can be achieved thru competition...a much better model than Wal-Mart “lets ship the manufacturing to Commie China”. There will come a day when Wal-Mart’s model of cheap will come crashing down....Commie China has to close factories....and will suffer a decline in population
Not even close. The Sherman Act defines a monopoly in such a way that a single sell must have 67% of the market. As to supporting the Commies, true, Walmart throws them a lot of business. However, if you're following what's going on inside China, this new-found wealth in China is posing severe problems to the Communist model. Finally, I'm tired of seeing union commercials that infer I'm a bad person for buying at a store that sells more cheaply than other stores. Trust me, the union's not going to help domestic companies compete in the world market, and that's what the current economic system is all about.
In my mind, I fail to see much difference between the unions' model of labor fighting management and the Communist model of the the proletariat (worker) fighting the bourgeoisie (management).
monopoly? Where do you live? There is a world of shopping out there.
Wal-Mart has done some very innovative things to help keep costs lower, not only for them, but some of the manufacturers they work with. These are two “classic” I have heard over and over.
The stocking system can automatically tell a company like Proctor and Gamble that store X has so many units of a product such as Tide available and they are selling at Y rate. This allows P&G to send appropriate amounts of Tide to store X at certain times, reducing over production and storage.
The also got deoderant manufacturers to eliminate the cardboard boxes deoderant was sold in. This save millions in shipping costs for Wal-Mart and probably saved the deoderant manufacturers millions in manufacturing.
On a side note - Wal-Mart also hires a lot of people that otherwise wouldn’t have a job opportunity. There are some out there that need to prove that they can show up and work for a set number of hours for six consecutive months before moving on to something else.
This is why I believe there is no single meaning in conservatism. Free market, one element of American conservatism, would want people to find cheap labors, regardless patriotism or other ‘conservative’ ideologies. China offers that so American manufactures buy from them.