Posted on 11/29/2005 1:17:44 PM PST by sickoflibs
By actual count, I went to a Wal-Mart once in my whole life. My wife and I found the section where they sell outdoor sporting goods. She needed a pair of those heavy-duty earplugs that hunters wear so they won't be deafened by the thunderclaps of their weapons when they're pulverizing wild animals. My wife uses the plugs strictly at night. She says she can almost blot out the sound of my snoring.
But I am not a regular Wal-Mart customer, and I will not be among the hordes arriving there today, the day after Thanksgiving, when Americans begin celebrating their bountiful national gifts in the traditional patriotic ritual of searching for holiday bargains.
I do not shop at Wal-Mart for a couple of reasons. One, because there's no Wal-Mart particularly close to my house. But also because of the ambivalence that so many of us feel about this corporate behemoth whose revenues are now an astonishing 2 percent of the entire U.S. gross domestic product and whose dominance of the business world is now larger than GE, Ford, GM and IBM combined and eight times larger than Microsoft's. It's a behemoth that now prepares for a showdown with its own work force at this winter's Maryland legislative session.
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Do no stores between his home and Wal-Mart sell them? Was Wal-Mart's price so much lower that he drove all the way to Wal-Mart to buy them? Or did he make the whole thing up?
I deduced from that that he is the epitome of a liberal who thinks he is better than common folk who do things like hunting or working for a living.
No problem. The stupidity of liberals is vast. There's room for much repitition.
But if it were true, it would be a good argument as to just how expensive government health care is now, and how expensive it could get if expanded as the leftists all want.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Riight, that's usually because the average Wal-Mart clerk is an uneducated part-time worker.
But it's $1,500 above the level for a family of two, and $4,700 above the level for a single person. I love how they cherry-pick the stats, they should have gone for the standard family of four, which looks even worse.
Maybe they're saying that women should stay at home and tend the kids, so they can't contribute from a part-time job?
They oughta put this guy's picture next to the definition for "Sissy Mary!"
I would. I predicted Wards was on the way out in the early 90s when they remodeled the one here in sanitarium grey, then they made most of the doors emergency only exits to heighten the feeling of being trapped against your will and gosh if the customers just didn't stop coming. My last transaction at Wards was to steal a manual for my microwave, I bought it from them the weekend before but it didn't have a manual, so I came with my receipt to see if I could just get a manual for it (microwave worked fine but it had lots of goofy settings I wanted to read before trying). 5 minutes of wandering around the appliance section without getting so much as a hello from an employee later I decided to open the door on the floor model, found it had a manual, took the manual and never went there again. That was 96, obviously Wards was on the way out.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
They sold guns, too. You could get surplus weapons for a pittance.
That's what they would say, without missing a beat.
They're going to raise the price of the 100 round Winchester white box, so I can't shoot as much?
Bastards!
And why did Wal Mart get so big? Because chains such as Sears and Woolworth forgot their customers. As big as Sears is and for what they have, they should be number 1. Yet, their crappy service tends to drive people away.
I agree. I wish the media would look at the Targets, Sears, JCP, etc and make a fair comparison. Wal-Mart probably pays more than any of these other "little" retailers for their hourly wage earners plus they offer very good health coverage for what they ask the employee to pay and they have store bonuses that are divied up among ALL employees and not just upper management.
I reach back to my good friend and talk show host Neal Boortz for guidance on this one. If you are incapable of making more than $14k a year, what the hell are you doing with a family of three? What business do you have spitting out kids? I make close to $50k, and my wife another $35K, I'm still not sure we can afford kids for crying out loud!
How shrill will this whiny prick's squeal be when he finds out that his wife buys his underwear at Wal*Mart.
"Well, honey, if you didn't ruin them with skid marks I'd buy you the expensive stuff..."
That would be to care for what? The hundreds of children Wal-Mart doesn't employ? It's hard for me to see why it's Wal-Mart's responsibility that many of its employees have children they can't afford.
But also because of the ambivalence that so many of us feel about this corporate behemoth whose revenues are now an astonishing 2 percent of the entire U.S. gross domestic product and whose dominance of the business world is now larger than GE, Ford, GM and IBM combined and eight times larger than Microsoft's.
That sentence alone shows that this guy has no clue what he's talking about. Total revenues are not equal to "dominance of the business world." Wal-Mart may bring in more revenue than Microsoft, but it's in a cutthroat industry, and if it raised prices it would imediately (in some communities, it might take several years) find itself vulnerable to competition. Microsoft, on the other hand, commands a far more solid position in its industry.
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