Posted on 01/25/2013 9:37:55 AM PST by Kaslin
Kinda’ funny, how every four years some FReepers rediscover that big businesses donate to both political parties.
Whenever I visit Walmart,I faintly hear “Dueling Banjos” in the background.....
Some are still mad here, many are not. Sadly, I think only the very top of the line are made here.
***Anyone who loves WalMart must be blind to how they are destroying America.***
Yep. Destroy is what Walmart does best. Back in the 1950s this county was firmly in the economic stranglehold of CHICKEN MEN who paid starvation wages because they were “agriculture”. People were too poor to even leave the area to find better jobs. You worked for the Chicken Men at their wages or starved.
When Sam Walton started his Walmart, wages went up and people saw a chance to make a few bucks more. The Chicken men could no longer keep everyone working for their starvation wages and had to import the first Mexicans into the area.
The local high dollar “Mom and Pop” stores had to close because they could not compete with the “Mom and Pop” store started by Sam Walton. The high dollar grocery stores had to close down for the same reason.
Wal-Mart is the reason that all manufacturing has gone to China and American homes are filled with cheap plastic crap.
Walmart forgot 'ya gotta dance with the ones who brung ya...' If Walmart had to count on Liberal elites keeping them in business they wouldn't last a week.
Walmart needs to remember the Chick fil A protest - almost a million citizens showed up - and not even a few dozen on the other side. Leftist look like a large group because they control the MSM - but when it's sheer numbers - numbers that can't be faked - we win.
It's 10,000 Tea Party people vs 60 "Occupiers' every time... and as for shoppers? Elites don't show Walmart.
I’m with you. I shop where I can buy in bulk at a much lower rate-things like paper products, laundry soap, mouth wash, tooth paste, etc.
Walmart forgot 'ya gotta dance with the ones who brung ya...'
If Walmart had to count on Liberal elites keeping them in business they wouldn't last a week.
Walmart needs to remember the Chick fil A protest - almost a million citizens showed up - and not even a few dozen on the other side. Leftist look like a large group because they control the MSM - but when it's sheer numbers - numbers that can't be faked - we win.
It's 10,000 Tea Party people vs 60 "Occupiers' every time... and as for shoppers? Elites don't shop Walmart.
We do. Oh, and I love the idea of Walmart doing health care - not just 'insuring' but DOING health care.
***They would then price their products to drive that store out of business,****
This is news? We got two feed-hardware stores in our area. Both have signs posted at the door warning “price scouts” from the other store not to enter.
Grocery stores used to send scouts to other stores to sniff out prices so the store could lower prices below what the other had.
It is called COMPETITION, FREE MARKET. Just the opposite of PRICE FIXING, as used to be practiced between mom and pop stores in small towns.
What brand of toothpaste do you buy? Wal-Mart has the same brand of toothpaste you get in any other store. Perhaps you should change your toothpaste.
That said, my beef with Walmart is their meat department. They need to do what Publix did - offer two grades of beef. Both grades can be a better value... Publix goes it by having 'greenwise'... Walmart could do it by offering 'choice'...
***Not by using slave labor to support a Communist China regime!***
All the BIG BOX stores around here use Chinese made goods.
Walmart
Sears
K mart
Hobby Lobby
Ace
True Value
Target
And many, many more.
I buy at a Mom and Pop (franchise) hardware store because if I need twwelve inches of 3/4" PEX tubing the gal at Walmart wouldn't know what the hell I was talking about.
You exactly have it backward. Wal-Mart would be out of business if there wasn't demand for cheap plastic crap.
Frankly, that whole "ebil corporations make me buy their product" shtick is what you hear at an OWS encampment.
Wal-Mart is not the reason that all the manufacturing has gone to China. The Unions are the ones. Also tell me what national store does not sell anything that is made in China. You can’t because they all do. Even AAFES does. At least at Wal-Mart you find items that are made in the US if you take the time to look
Walmart has preemptively surrendered to the regime on the 2nd Amendment. THREE MONTHS AGO (before Sandy Hook), they stopped suppling stores with ammo. It has now grown into “concern” about safety.
I will not shop at Walmart so long as they treat me like a criminal and deprive me of my 2nd Amendment rights. I know, I know it is a business; blah, blah, blah., and they can do what they like. I get it and I can also do what I like and refuse to shop there. Do lower prices and bargains mean more to you than your 2nd Amenedment rights? If so, wear your chains well. If not, then shop elsewhere.
You must be one o’ them thar indeveeduwals I heard ‘bout...
You might want to review your sources, or stop by your local Wal-Mart and buy some ammo.
“All the BIG BOX stores around here use Chinese made goods.”
Correct... And Walmart blazed the trail. When the Clintons opened the door, everyone went for cheap goods.
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