[Maelstorm]

Walmart has some problems and not just union problems. Walmart is suffering from a lot more competition and honestly their current management is largely made up of pretenders who are running a disjointed ship where one hand is working against the other. A decade and half ago Walmart had visionaries at the helm. Now all the people who built the company are mostly gone or dead and have been replaced with people who don’t understand that the bottom line of their success is middle America. Those bible believing, gun toting, patriots who have been increasingly marginalized in the popular culture outside of the bright spots like Duck Dynasty are no longer loyal to Walmart and nor should they be.

[Starboard]

+1 Good post.

Businesses do lose their edge.

[mountainfolk]

I am a Walmart fan but I realize that I have been shopping at other stores at least half the time I used to spend at their stores. Walmart has ceased to carry the variety of electronics such as radios, clocks, odds and ends of other houshold useful products that I counted on. Aldies is better on a lot of grocery items and the Dollar Tree is way better for kitchen and cleaning items. I think that Walmart has streamlined themselves to eliminate their early attraction of being the first go to source for everyday items. I wish them well for the future but competition seems to have driven their management to concentrate on what is considered upscale at the expense of useful choices for a more realistic market place.