Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Wal-Mart 'urgent' memo urges improvement at U.S. stores: NYT
Reuters ^ | 12 Nov 14 | Reuters staff

Posted on 11/12/2014 5:36:14 PM PST by SkyPilot

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 141-153 next last
To: SkyPilot

Yup

China Mart.


41 posted on 11/12/2014 6:26:17 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: LongWayHome

That’s funny.

I just went to Aldi’s an hour ago while the Sirloin was on the grill. They have boneless pork butte for $199# . That is a pretty good price. Not as good as I got fourteen months ago, huge overstock blowout sale, they bought too much and where selling it for $.89#, but still at least $1 cheaper than even the normal bone in.


42 posted on 11/12/2014 6:26:45 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: SkyPilot
One thing Wal-Mart should do is institute a dress-code for their customers. You should see the way some of these shoppers dress!

Instituting a "business-casual" standard would be nice.

43 posted on 11/12/2014 6:27:34 PM PST by SamAdams76
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LongWayHome

The same people own Trader Joe’s


44 posted on 11/12/2014 6:29:31 PM PST by dangerdoc ((this space for rent))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Arkansas Toothpick

Nobody reads paper letters any more. Too much effort to sort it out from the junk mail.


45 posted on 11/12/2014 6:29:50 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: nascarnation

Marc’s is the bomb! They are super. They blow away Giant Eagle. They also have a great close-out section. Some of the stuff in Aisle one is practically being given away. Rarely as much as Walmart.


46 posted on 11/12/2014 6:30:43 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: SkyPilot

When it comes to Wal-Mart...I never go to the front door. I always enter and exit through the Auto Service Center or the Garden Center.

I don’t mix with the FSA if I can avoid it.


47 posted on 11/12/2014 6:32:19 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: upchuck

Food stamps where lowered a small amount last year. For example if you had been getting say $750 per month, you where cut back to $719 per month. A reduction of around 4%. Most people wouldn’t even notice.


48 posted on 11/12/2014 6:33:34 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: Jim from C-Town

When we visit up there, we always hit Marcs.
It used to be called Bernie Shulmans back in the 70s.

Marc Glassman was one of his lieutenants and bought him out.


49 posted on 11/12/2014 6:33:38 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, Convict, Deport)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]

To: upchuck

You’re correct, we still spend incredible amounts of money on Food Stamps. The growth EXPLODED when Barry Soetoro took charge in 2009 through 2013, and then all it did was level off slightly. It seems like the WalMart millionaires expected the steep increases every year.


50 posted on 11/12/2014 6:33:47 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: LongWayHome

Aldi is awesome. They get about half of our grocery budget every month.


51 posted on 11/12/2014 6:34:42 PM PST by EternalVigilance
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: stilloftyhenight

“Their meat is expensive and poor quality.”

No, it is not. It is exactly the same meat you get at any chain grocery store. It all comes from the same place (I am referring to meat, not seafood).

The brands and packing houses are the same, and the prices are known to be better than name brand chain grocery stores. The days of a professional butcher in your local supermarket are all but gone.


52 posted on 11/12/2014 6:34:45 PM PST by wrench (While not "airborne" , Ebola is a Spit-Borne virus. Good thing no one sneezes in public)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: SkyPilot

Soon, they will be the only place we can shop. Only one bank coming soon.


53 posted on 11/12/2014 6:36:40 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nascarnation
FWIW SNAP (aka food stamps) is actually administered by the states, not the fedgov.

100% of Food Stamp money is provided by the Federal Govt. Look it up. "administered by the state's" is simply more make work jobs for state employees dolling out the freebies.

54 posted on 11/12/2014 6:40:27 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: Jim from C-Town
SNAP benefits cost $76.4 billion in fiscal year 2013. Almost $80 billion for ONE Federal food program. Lots of money in poverty.

I just read an article by an economist who is predicting some very bad economic gloom on the horizon. He said people have lulled into the belief that things are actually improving, when in reality the End Game is already in motion. He said Food Stamps mask the real poverty and, yes, the economic depression we are really in.

55 posted on 11/12/2014 6:44:53 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: Jim from C-Town

I’m happy to see the word is out on ALDI. I hope folks out here check them out. Don’t forget to bring a quarter to put into the shopping cart....you get the quarter back when you return the cart.


56 posted on 11/12/2014 6:45:09 PM PST by LongWayHome
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: SkyPilot

And it’s 40% fake money too, created by the Fed.

But the discussion was about the EBT crowd plugging up the aisles at WalMart in Florida.

And that’s a problem the states CAN fix at no cost.


57 posted on 11/12/2014 6:51:26 PM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, Convict, Deport)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 54 | View Replies]

To: SkyPilot

Actually, food stamps went down in 2012(?) as the bail out program ended. Now stamp amounts are going back up. Don’t know where the new money is coming from.


58 posted on 11/12/2014 6:53:02 PM PST by upchuck (The language of government now is word-spew. ~ h/t Peggy Noonan)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies]

To: nascarnation

Yup. He has expanded quite a bit since then. He has around sixty stores in the Metro Cleveland a couple in the Columbus area and four Xpect Drug & Grocery stores in of all Places, Connecticut. He is a pretty bright guy. A little strange though.


59 posted on 11/12/2014 6:53:19 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 49 | View Replies]

To: ansel12
Walmart, the store that lefties hate the most.

Yep, and 90% of those shopping in Walmart fit the libdem profile.

Crazy, in'it?

60 posted on 11/12/2014 6:53:59 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 141-153 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson