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The Wal-Mart You Don't Know (Shades of A&P and Sears historic practices)
Fast Company ^ | December 2003 (Vlasic,etc), January 2006 (Snapper) | Charles Fishman

Posted on 09/23/2006 11:42:39 AM PDT by dickmc

The Wal-Mart You Don't Know

The giant retailer's low prices often come with a high cost. Wal-Mart's relentless pressure can crush the companies it does business with and force them to send jobs overseas. Are we shopping our way straight to the unemployment line?

(Excerpt) Read more at fastcompany.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: grocery; huffybicycle; levistrauss; masterlock; notthisshtagain; snapper; vlasic; walmart
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I really don't give a crap if Wal-Mart is lefty. It is convenient and cheap.

And K-Mart sucks (clearly others agree...there are only 10 cars in the K-Mart parking lot all the time compared to 100 in Wal-Mart).


61 posted on 09/23/2006 3:26:39 PM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://xanga.com/rwfromkansas)
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To: Gabz
Personally I have always preffered Mt. Olive products to Vlasic, in both price and taste.

Same here!

62 posted on 09/23/2006 3:35:13 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Nick Danger

You too? I thought it was just in my area of the world. When will it stop? Oh, the humanity!


63 posted on 09/23/2006 3:46:47 PM PDT by pepperdog
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To: jan in Colorado

ping


64 posted on 09/23/2006 3:48:37 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: dickmc
Wal-Mart has the power to squeeze profit-killing concessions from vendors.

Our liberal Neo-com friends have told us thousands of times in thousands of ways that profit is evil, now they are complaining about too little profit?

So now profit is good, except for a non Democrat, non union company like Wal-Mart?

65 posted on 09/23/2006 3:51:22 PM PDT by RJL
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To: dickmc

Umm, this article is 3-1/2 years old

Took you that long to notice?

(yeah, I read it back in 2003 - walmart is the only place I've found w/ woodpecker nut bars and Red Heart Strata yarn. Until some other place carries them, I'll go to Walmart to buy them)


66 posted on 09/23/2006 3:55:31 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: Gondring

I remember the first time I bought Vlasic pickles, they were on sale and I had a coupon........I never did figure out how they justified their price. I've eaten them since, but rarely buy them.


67 posted on 09/23/2006 4:31:23 PM PDT by Gabz (Taxaholism, the disease you elect to have (TY xcamel))
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To: Gabz

I had liked Vlasic, and had to specifically look for Mt. Olive brand. I thought "well, this will be a sacrifice to support a company that is doing the right thing..." as I bought them. I was so pleasantly surprised that I found that I no longer understand how I liked Vlasic at one time!


68 posted on 09/23/2006 4:53:21 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Gondring

Mt. Olive seems to be a very prominent brand in the supermarkets in this area, I've been buying them for as long as I can remember.


69 posted on 09/23/2006 5:25:21 PM PDT by Gabz (Taxaholism, the disease you elect to have (TY xcamel))
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To: dickmc

Everytime I read this kind of CRAP I make an extra trip to Walmart and just buy something...


70 posted on 09/23/2006 5:28:45 PM PDT by CWOJackson
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To: 1rudeboy

Hey, that's not fair, your not supposed to do research...What are you a Walmart executive or something? (LOL)


71 posted on 09/23/2006 5:38:52 PM PDT by sgtyork (Prove to us that you can enforce the borders first.)
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To: Gabz

Were you able to find Mt. Olive when you were in Delaware?


72 posted on 09/23/2006 7:48:24 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Gondring

I first found Mt. Olive when I was in Delaware.......it was cheaper than the store brands :)


73 posted on 09/23/2006 7:52:21 PM PDT by Gabz (Taxaholism, the disease you elect to have (TY xcamel))
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To: 1rudeboy

I'm retired, and low, low prices is my aim. Walmart is my store.


74 posted on 09/23/2006 8:03:56 PM PDT by Ciexyz (Leaning on the everlasting arms.)
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To: Cacique

btt


75 posted on 09/23/2006 8:30:57 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: operation clinton cleanup

JC Penney is the other reason we've stayed on budget since 1993.


76 posted on 09/24/2006 9:54:23 PM PDT by TaxRelief (Wal-Mart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
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To: dickmc

All I have to say is if you don't like Walmart, don't shop there... I don't... It's generally full of rude people with their kids running crazy and trash everywhere!
BUT.... I believe in their right to exist in a free-market economy.


77 posted on 09/24/2006 10:04:09 PM PDT by antceecee (Western countries really aren't up to winning this war on terror... it might offend the terrorists.)
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