Posted on 11/02/2009 2:43:20 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Wal-Mart announces second round of toy price cuts
By: Reuters | 02 Nov 2009 | 12:23 AM ET Text Size
By Nicole Maestri
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc on Monday announced its second round of price cuts on toys as the world's biggest retailer backs up its intention to be the "price leader" this holiday shopping season.
U.S. Walmart stores are cutting prices on 100 toys, like the Buzz Lightyear talking action figure and Star Wars light sabers, by roughly 20 percent to 30 percent.
The cuts are in addition to ones the retailer implemented at the end of September, when it began selling 100 toys for $10 each
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Shop at Wal-Mart and witness how it does that to others, then get back to me...
Those are REAL toys.
and I am a good chef because of it today. ; )
Ewww! I'm not eatin' what yer cookin'! 8^)
Where does ANY retail chain get their beef ... don’t like it .. no one is holding a gun to yor head to buy it at wal mart.
American people are idiots ... two farms side by side, one raises, markets and supposedly guarantees registered organic, cetified Black angus, the other markets conventionally and efficiently grazes rotationally. I sell them both supplememental hay and grain from the same shed and bin. Neither innnoculate with gowth hormone, only for brucellosis. One commands 15% premium on the hoof, which equates to 25% premium retail
Some unsuspecting consumer that hasn’t figured it out yet that “meat” does not come encased in plastic wrap from a supplier, pays the premium price for “certified organic” and unknown to him there isn’t a penny’s worth of difference.
Growing up on a Grade A dairy farm we played the same “marketing” game. Our “registered” holsteins produced the same milk as Gilman’s heard of unregistered, but more than likely as pure a herd of holsteins without paying the price to track/record lineage. Both farms produced their own stock, both used MVB (Minnesota Valley Breeders) but supposedly we earned respect ro documenting a registered herd. Where was the difference?
An unknowing/uneducated public’s vision that purchases with emotion rather thna logic. It gets worse every year.
Oh yeah .. the vitamin comapanies say our lands are drained of minerals and market their suppplements to that issue ... ... emotional hog wash .. with out the 12 micro nutrients in very specific quantities, locked or unlocked by pH due to geographics, pH suitable plants will not grow and produce. But marketing has an ignorant populace eating out of their hand. Yeah ... eat certified beef and then fill yourself with those supplements in the form of pills to ensure health without a thought what comes in that capsule.
Americans have been duped for years by slick marketing ..
Don’t go to wal-mart and buy their beef .. go to another retailer. I’m sure you know the supplier, grower chain of that retail store. (sarcasm off)
I shop at a WalMart a couple of times a week. I shop in Moorefield, WV, and in two stores in Winchester, VA. I occasionally visit the store in Martinsburg, WV, and spend many American dollars there.
Everything you note can be boiled down to two things. You are acting every bit like a bigot and do everything to make it clear that you don't like WalMart.
Don't shop there. Don't even go there if it is so bad for you. There, it's really simple, but to denigrate people for shopping at a legal retailer borders on insane. Take your meds.
Blaming Walmart for staying competitive isn't going to bring business back to America.
Try placing the blame where it belongs. Our own oppressive federal government.
And if you want to “Buy American” - check out this website - http://madeinamerica.com/
Oddly, I just saw those CDs today on sale for $1.79. No kidding.
http://graveyardmall.com/cuivchco3cds.html
Good for you... I can afford to go elsewhere...
Add my Amen to that!
Praying at the temple of Wal-Mart is your idea of salvation?
:)I am tempted to ask ,how ugly are you but I won’t.Hehehe
I wasn't a dog face, but I could have qualified... joined up with Spearhead instead... ;^ )
Hehehehehe,I ain’t shopping where you go.You have me laughing so hard your making me cough with my cold.(((((Hugs)))))))
Made a Florida Gator quilt for my eldest granddaughter for this Christmas. Her brother took his Gator quilt to college with him this year.
The older boys are getting T-shirts with the characters/logos they like that I found at JC Penny's on the mark down racks, as they are to old for stuffed animals grandma can make.
If you can afford to go elsewhere, why insist that others not shop there? I don't care if you could buy the whole store and the land it's built upon, you still need to take your meds for the insanity you espouse.
A man who spends more for an item by shopping elsewhere won't have his money very long! I spend mine wisely, not ignorantly. My granchildren can use what's left to keep the lights on...
If you really want some great, healthy meat, go out and shoot a deer! Or as we call it back here in the woods - “speed beef”!
But learn how to do your own butchering, otherwise you won't necessarily get the deer you shot back!
Hunters who send their kill to a local butcher get a percentage of the total weight back. You get whatever the butcher gives you, and the finished product comes from any and all deer that hunters take to that butcher.
No telling if the meat you get was gutted and dressed properly, how long it was hanging after being gutted or how warm it was outside while it was hanging.
It all goes back to the excellent point you made so well. The “average American” is stupid. And, I might add, spoiled, lazy and ignorant too.
You blame that on the store???????
It would be easy to think Sir Francis is a DU troll acting out the stereotype those goofs think we are - religious, gun-toting nuts.
I offer my prayers for your speedy recovery.
And some roses to lift your spirits.
“You blame that on the store???????”
No, I guess I don’t blame it on the store. It just adds to the “experience”. Kind of like going to Chuckie Cheese. I’ll go away now.
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