And they’ve gutted entire US industries by helping take their IP and product specs over the manufactures in China...
Looks like we’re nearing a tipping point, when even someone as stupid as a MBA wakes up to the reality.
It is a major corporation and it wants to have butter on its bread and it turns to the government. It wants to price newcomers out of being competitive it turns to the government.
Find a corporation that doesn’t do these things now a days, its tough. Look at the Chamber of Cronies, they are all in on the act.
Well then. The answer is simple. Shop at Amazon.
Watch out. 3 tags coming!
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I hate Walmart because it pretty much single-handedly killed the “mom and pop” stores and flooded the market with crap quality goods. Of course, Walmart isn’t alone in doing that but I moss the local stores (not for everything) where there was a sense of community and good quality.
In each case, Walmart is happy to support left-wing, anti-free-market government policy as long as it hurts their competition more.
This is not-too-subtle corporate cronyism, and has nothing to do with free market economics.
If Walmart is going to support such leftist crap, they deserve to lose conservative consumer dollars.
I shop at Walmart to get ammo when it’s available, and once I bought a gun there (a US made Colt M4 6920, an “assault weapon”). If they offer a good product at a good price I buy it there. The local gun shop won’t be put out of business by Walmart.
Food, I don’t buy there much. The local grocery store is closer and more convenient.
Sure, Walmart may have killed off some Mom and Pop stores, but nowadays they wouldn’t survive anyway, what with the internet, and their prices were always high in comparison to large retailers today. The times call for efficiencies of bigness to thrive.
The American consumer killed off American manufacturing: Walmart offers cheap stuff and that’s what people demand. If they wanted to keep US manufacturing going, they would have bought the stuff. How do you compete with Pakistan or China when your regulatory, labor and health care costs are so much higher? You don’t because you can’t.
To use Amazon isn’t any better, IHMO, because they’re a liberal owned operation selling the same stuff from overseas, minus the brick and mortar.
My love affair with Wal Mart ended when one could go into a store with 40 check out lanes including self checkouts and only 3 lanes are open and the self checkout made for 20 items or less were broken. Or some slob with 80 items insisted he/she was the most important shopper in the world and decided to use it and the store management does nothing to prevent it.I recall our local Super K-mart was just the same before Sears holdings closed a bunch of them including that store. Wal Mart appears to be following the K-Mart model to the “T”.
I’ve become a fan of Dollar General lately.
No thanks Walmart, I don't like trading in goods made by slave labor, and YES many are made by political prisoners (an entire family was placed in prison because a son took a course in college and wrote a paper that was "deemed to be seditious!") who are paid nothing for their labor. Most Chinese companies are actually owned by the Chinese military, so I don't care to help China achieve power over us by purchasing "cheap gardening tools, etc. and lastly, I resent Chinese "food products" including non-food substances like Melamine, that kill American babies, adults and pets!
BTS, those same prisoners are blood-typed to become "organ donors" when the needs or profit necessitates.
We bought a box of cereal from Walmart yesterday, the box said 23 ounces, we took it home, placed it next to an older box, THAT box said 25 ounces, even though it was the same size!
We called the cereal manufacturer and they said they make two different boxes of cereal, one with 23 ounces, one with 25 ounces, depending on the store.
We asked if that’s because Walmart wants to sell a cheaper box, while making it seem they’re getting the same amount of cereal...she didn’t respond.
Seems totally corrupt to me, to sell two boxes that look exactly the same, while one has 23 ounces and one has 25.
I don’t trust anything from Walmart...
Ed
I soured on them when they caved to the “Go Green” movement, resulting in darkened stores and restroom facilities that were utterly useless.
Big Business can manage the minimum wage increase. Their smaller competitors can’t. The same with Obamacare.
Interesting. The Wal-mart haters here don’t sound any different than the Democrat and union Wal-mart critics.
We ought to price those Chinese slave labor goods out of our market.
Consumer greed is the root of the Walmart (or any other big chain store you want to blame) problem. Consumers want more stuff for their dollar primarily, quality secondarily, and a strong America lastly and leastly.
Lee Iacocca insisted that the management types at Chrysler had to dump their Caddies and drive Chrysler products to work or find work elsewhere. An example set to self preserve their industry. If American manufacturing workers and the communities that relied on that manufacturing purchased their own products, they would still have jobs.