[IYAS9YAS]

The only people costing people jobs are the consumers who are looking for the bargains. The consumers are the only ones to blame.

[The_Victor]

Basha's shots at Wal-Mart came as union officials in Arizona and across the nation blame Wal-Mart's low prices and wages for pushing competitors to seek to cut workers' wages.

Compete or die, dude.

[riri]

Went into Basha's exactly twice. Don't care for the store and I think their prices are too high.

[Hodar]

"It's no different than what the Nazis did in World War II. It's a blitzkrieg. They are doing economically what the Nazis did militaristically."

So, Free Enterprize is the same as Nazi expansion. I guess I must have missed the Walmart death camps; or the Walmart's rounding up of minorities.

Welcome to America, here we have an open form of business we like to call 'Free Enterprise'. If you can sell your goods for less, and still make a profit; you will do well. So, you cut unnecessary things .... oh, like ... unions; overpaid executives, multi-tiers of management. You rein in your costs, you negotiate with your suppliers, and you can sell for less.

This is nothing new, Sam Walton did this when he had a single store in Bentonville, Arkansas. He even wrote a book about how he did it. Naturally, anything written by a hillbilly can't be intellecutally enlightned; so go ahead and do what you normally do. Soon, someone like Sam Walton will hand you your behind.

[MineralMan]

Methinks the gentleman pushes the Nazi thing too far in this diatribe. He can't compete? Oh, well.

[camas]

the walmarts in idaho hire a lot of OLD people that no one else will hire. i shop there.
p.s. idaho has a lot of old people too.

[connectthedots]

WinCo food prices are lower than Wal-Mart's.

[discostu]

For Basha to say something like that is simply hilarious. Just what does he think his stores do?! Cutting prices is a path to market share that has nothing to do with Nazi-ism.

[SamAdams76]

"I don't oppose Fry's or Safeway. They are legitimate competitors."

I don't really understand this statement. What makes Fry's and Safeway "legitimate competitors"? BTW, both Fry's and Safeway have larger market shares in grocery than Wal-Mart. Is that what makes them more legitimate competitors? If so, how much more market share must Wal-Mart gain before they are recognized by Basha as a "legitimate competitor"?

Also, since Basha is bashing Wal-Mart by saying that they don't treat their employees right, I suppose one can assume that the Basha supermarket chain pays their employees considerably more than Wal-Mart and offers them a more generous benefits package. That is true, isn't it? Isn't it?

Hello? Anybody out there? (sound of crickets)

[nightdriver]

Walmart used to guarantee that their stuff was made in America.

Walmart has not lived up to their "guarantee."

I refuse to shop at Walmart.

QED

[q_an_a]

i'm getting sick of people that are on the losing end of free and fair competition calling the winners nazi. RATS do it and now this businessman who is getting some competition. Anyone that has not read how Walmart runs it's operation is living in a cave.

They have been so powerful so long, that JC Penny left NYC 15 years ago. There have been plenty of warnings and yet everyone is crying as if there are no methods of competiting.

Every company takes at advantage of short term workers. There are cashiers and stock people that retired from Walmart with million dollar plans. "Workers" nont managers with a million in benefits. Anyone that thinks Walmart is cheap with workers has not seen what happens to long time workers.

[adam_az]

I wish they'd move the stupid state fairgrounds to some less valuable real estate, and let Wal Mart put in a store.

Eddie Basha is a loser.

Bashas supermarkets - dirty, disorganized, overpriced

Food City - Only in ghetto locations, overpriced, rotten produce, almost nothing but processed junk food and a large selection of various animal entrails in the "butcher" section..

AJ's - "gourmet" supermarket, lots of frilly crap, overpriced ($5 for some tinfoil?!), targetted at snooty people who want to avoid the riffraff that visit proletariat stores like, say, Trader Joes.

Do I see a pattern here?

[G L Tirebiter]

He was a 1994 Democratic candidate for Arizona governor.

Figures.

[devane617]

I really dislike WalMart and refuse to shop there, but Basha's Nazi thing is pushing a bit too far.

[DH]

Big fish eating smaller fish.

I wonder how many "Ma and Pa" tiny grocery stores Basha's put out of business when they came to town?  Well, as the saying goes, "what goes around comes around."

Now, when a bigger fish is eating them, they cry foul.