[Knurd Rebos]

WallyWorld is BAD for America's small business. example: I work for a small distributor of Texaco products. Joe Sixpack can go to WalMart and buy a case of Havoline oil at a price CHEAPER than we can buy it straight from Texaco!
IT AINT RIGHT!

[been_lurking]

I work for a small distributor of Texaco products. Joe Sixpack can go to WalMart and buy a case of Havoline oil at a price CHEAPER than we can buy it straight from Texaco!

Cut overhead, reduce waste, cut profit margins and compete. Otherwise, find a new business.

[TheCause]

Capitolism...........get used to it.

[sphinx]

WallyWorld is BAD for America's small business. example: I work for a small distributor of Texaco products. Joe Sixpack can go to WalMart and buy a case of Havoline oil at a price CHEAPER than we can buy it straight from Texaco! IT AINT RIGHT!

No, it ain't right, but your complaint is with Texaco, not WalMart.

[pittsburgh gop guy]

Volume, VOLume, VOLUME! I know it ain't right - but it is capitalism. I think Walmart is paying around 7-10 bucks an hour - it makes more sense than paying the minimum wage because then you have less turnover and turnover costs money.

I know that Walmart gets lots of their stuff from the chicoms - but damn - everything in the store is cheap. I don't get my clothes there (Target/EB), or know anyone that does, but they have tons of stuff for cheap.

[RFH]

Last year my Lawn Mower started making an awful banging noise (probably due to the fact that I ran it out of oil once). It had a Briggs and Stratton engine. I went to a lawnmower repair shop and found out that it would cost more to repair the lawnmower than to purchase a new one from Walmart -

I ended up buying a new, self-propelled mower on clearance at Walmart for $100, and threw the old one away.

[chainsaw]

Joe Sixpack can go to WalMart and buy a case of Havoline oil at a price CHEAPER than we can buy it straight from Texaco!

Why don't you buy your texaco oil at Wal-Mart then?

[bert]

I work for a small distributor of Texaco products. Joe Sixpack can go to WalMart and buy a case of Havoline oil at a price CHEAPER than we can buy it straight from Texaco!

Cut overhead, reduce waste, cut profit margins and compete. Otherwise, find a new business.

Concur. the squeeze produces discomfort, but it is the way business is always done. The inefficient and obsolete must perish. To survive a company must find ways to compete.

[Indrid Cold]

It is right. It's called the "free market". Check into that sometime. Wal-Mart sells their guns cheaper than I can get them shipped from distributors, too. I can't say I like that state of affairs, but I deal with it by carrying a different line of guns than they do. Heck, I buy most of my ammo from Wal-Mart because it's cheaper than ordering from distributors.