Posted on 01/17/2010 10:58:08 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood
My money is on Wal Mart. They are the epitome of mass marketers.
This attitude is Wal-Mart thinking since forever. The first thing they do in a new small town is build outside the main drag and just kill it off, as customers flock to their location. Doesn't work that way everywhere.
Maybe if they'd hired smart Koreans to run the new division and trusted them with full authority to bend the rules and adapt the model, they would have been successful.
Kind of proves the point and is typical of large organizations. They are slow to adapt and are positive that their way will work no matter what you tell them. Instead of adapting, they keep pouring money in and then just give up.
You are very right in what you say. They are very exacting and will refuse or claim shortages that don’t exist to keep their bottom line. Dealing with Wal-Mart has put more than one company in bankruptcy, kind of a deal with the devil.
BJs Wholesale is a warehouse club like Costco and Sams. They aren’t trying to be funny with you. Most people just call it BJ’s.
I blame Wal-Mart for that one as much as the government. They should have known what the rules were (no matter how stupid) and just skipped the German market altogether.
My wife reads a lot of series and just has to get the new one when it comes out. I couldn’t believe some of the prices. Sure they had a discount table and I picked up a few good deals but for everyday, too damn high.
I could get most of the books I wanted at Amazon and have them delivered to me cheaper.
Never heard of it.
They don’t have them in Memphis, but I hear they are big out west.
They aren’t in Southern California.
I love BJ’s and was very sad that the ONLY store they opened in my state they closed after Costco came in and build a store literally 3 blocks away. They had a great selection, all the stuff I wanted, great prices and a very high quality house brand. I currently have to keep a membership at Costco and Sams to get what I used to get from one store. My savings do make both memberships worth it but it irks me. Plus neither Sams nor Costco consistently keep stock in the same stuff. I hear the rational all the time but these are name brand products that don’t just disappear. BJ’s managed to consistently keep the items I purchased in stock and I could always count on them.
Plus I guess this guy doesn’t realize that walmart sells online too.
Look, I was just explaining that BJs Wholesale is a real place and that people were not messing with you. You can easily do a google search. They are a large major corporation.
Looks like they are a East Coast operation.
BJ’s Wholesale Club has over 180 locations in 15 states:
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Virginia
The writer has no clue.
Walmart is not successful because of the way it sells. Walmart is successful because of the innovation in the way buys
Some people prefer to be ignorant.
It’s a CHOICE!
I have never seen that grumpy old man greeter in a Wal Mart, your little shopping tales and anecdotes do not ring true. It is just a bunch of anecdotal nothing, as you seem to have some personal vendetta against Walmart.
It is because of guys like you and the left's war against Wal Mart, that San Diego does not even have a Superstore, and we are the 8th largest city in America. We get the Democrat Costco, but no Walmart superstores.
"The Regulation of Superstores: The Legality of Zoning Ordinances Emerging from the Skirmishes between Wal-Mart and the United Food and Commercial Workers Union George Lefcoe, University of Southern California"
Having saturated the less populated heartland of America, Wal-Mart is carrying its supercenter expansion program to major urban areas. Wal-Mart supercenters merge discount retail with full service grocery stores under the same roof. Because supercenters compete head-on with unionized supermarkets, they place downward pressure on grocery worker wages. The United Food and Commercial Workers, the largest representative of grocery workers, has joined other Wal-Mart critics at city halls across the country in using zoning laws to restrain Wal-Mart’s supercenter expansion program. A smattering of law suits have ensued, and more are sure to follow."
"This paper describes the types of anti-superstore zoning ordinances favored by the UFCW, and the legal objections Wal-Mart can expect to be raised against them. At the top of the legal checklist are equal protection, pre-emption by the National Labor Relations Act, and prohibitions against the use of zoning to regulate economic competition. Anticipating these objections, the UFCW and its allies can make a public record sufficient to insulate virtually any anti-superstore ordinance from being invalidated in court. But this cannot be accomplished easily or inexpensively, because enacting jurisdictions wanting to avoid remand will need to commission studies to fit the claimed rationales for these laws. Market impact assessments sensitive to the local trade area will almost always be required, and in a handful of states, including New York and California, so will environmental impact reports. If the UFCW and their grocery chain allies find the zoning effort too costly and cumbersome, they may wish to consider extending ‘living wage’ controls to grocery workers, a move more likely to be resisted in the political arena than blocked by courts."
This “so-called” analysis makes no sense -
It starts with the premise that the big box stores are going to run into some trouble because of overbuilding and concludes that consumers will go back to mom and pop stores for service and quality. Uh?
Talk about a non-sequitur!!!
I don’t know how WallMart will fare in the future, and after reading this I know even less.
I worked for a small mom and pop organisation that has weathered the storm quite well. Everything they sell is at very high margins, but they have really good customer service and much of what they sell is unique, ie, you won’t find it anywhere else.
The only thing I’d like to have is WalMart’s inventory system. :) It’s nice being able to look at a screen and be able to tell what you have of everything.
bttt
I’m sure there is and will continue to be plenty of room and demand for both types (and more) of retail operations.
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