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The First Ever Walmart (1962)
LOLWOT ^ | 1-2-2015

Posted on 01/03/2015 8:27:21 AM PST by kingattax

Hard to imagine that from this simple image emerged a supermarket global empire



TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: firstwalmart; walmart
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To: Last Dakotan
End result you have a nation with billion dollar trade deficits and a dwindling middle class.

But what about the superior quality of Chinese made products? < /sarc >

81 posted on 01/03/2015 7:42:47 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Safetgiver
A real shame we don’t make much stuff anymore....Thank the Unions (Look for the Union Label).

Manufacturing has a real low union participation rate. Something like 10%.

82 posted on 01/03/2015 7:44:47 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: faithhopecharity
It was probably already too late to reverse the larger economic patterns.

A real country would have slapped tariffs on the Chinese crap in a NY minute. But our politicians were purchased early on with ChiCom money(bribes).

83 posted on 01/03/2015 7:49:06 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Bryanw92

Haven’t you heard about time travelers? Like the guy in the really old photo talking on a cell phone. Well this time traveler drives a Subaru Outback.

If the guy was talking on a cell phone who was he talking to and where was the cell tower they were using?


84 posted on 01/03/2015 7:52:07 PM PST by ThomasThomas (EGO venit lego tantum titulus Posteri)
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To: central_va

A famous Californicate politico observed that “ We have the best government money can buy!” (Jesse Unruh, who incidentally was the guy who Reagan had to beat to become governor in 1970).


85 posted on 01/03/2015 7:57:55 PM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..)
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To: Larry Lucido

Thanks did the same at woolworth stores good time gone.


86 posted on 01/04/2015 7:35:32 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: ThomasThomas

>>If the guy was talking on a cell phone who was he talking to and where was the cell tower they were using?

It wasn’t a cell phone. It was a Star Fleet communicator and he was talking to the starship in orbit.


87 posted on 01/04/2015 10:23:31 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
The only thing that can create a "trade deficit” is foreign investment in America.

Who knew Chinese "investments" come by the boatload?


88 posted on 01/04/2015 4:31:26 PM PST by Last Dakotan
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To: shove_it

Both Target and Kohls have better optics and better designers but the quality is terrible.

I am not even sure that younger people understand good quality anymore.

Not many look at Pendleton, Woolrich, et al

Bought a Pendleton wool bathrobe a little while back. It will last forever and is WARM and well-made.


89 posted on 01/04/2015 4:47:59 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: Chickensoup

Yup. Target does have nicer linoleum.


90 posted on 01/04/2015 5:24:47 PM PST by shove_it (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen -- Dennis Prager)
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To: Last Dakotan

I didn’t say that foreigners might not earn the money they invest here via exports to us - but if we don’t pay for the imports, but we send an IOU instead, guess what - that is foreign investment in that American IOU.


91 posted on 01/04/2015 6:06:49 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion ("Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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