Wal-Mart's Competency Catches Anti-Trust Division's Attention

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | 4-20-03 | Gregory M. Drahuschak

[Unwavering Conservative]

Two things, competency and customer awareness, usually determine business success. Inept management has ruined more than one company. Oddly, though, it's easier to hide incompetence for a time than it is to mask poor customer consciousness. This is abundantly apparent at retailers where distinguishing the good from the bad usually is relatively easy.

[Unwavering Conservative]

The way Wal-Mart has hurt the manufacturing base here in America by flooding our nation with cheap goods made by slave labor in Communist China and other Marxist renegade nations is bad.

The way Wal-Mart has recent thumbed their nose at RKBA and has cow-towed, without a single word of protest to the gun-grabbers, is bad.

I am not gonna shed any tears if the Anti-Trust Divisions splits Wal-mart up.

[Unwavering Conservative]

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[rmmcdaniell]

Title: Wal-Mart's Competency Catches Anti-Trust Division's Attention.

Nowhere in this entire article does the author back up the titles claim. It is nothing but rumor, and I feel cheated for wasting the 5 minutes of my life it took to read this.

Towards the end of his blather he admits: "Fortunately so far, there only has been loose chatter about a move against Wal-Mart."

[babaloo999]

So, people having the means and ability to buy products that they can afford is a bad thing now? Too freaking bad that our elected politicians have helped us along in this endeavor. For good or bad. I just report.

[Rodney King]

But armed with precedent, in 1984 AT&T was dismembered.

And long distance phone rates have dropped like Clinton's pants in front of a cheap whore.

The old AT&T and the current Microsoft

There is a big, big difference. AT&T was a physical monopoly. There was really no way for others to compete. Other comapnies can compete with Microsoft, the just fail miserably.

and Wal-Mart are or were big, competent (but remember that does not matter)

The argument would be better if he didn't throw in unsupportable statements.

, and customers felt these companies did things well.

I was young then, but I don't recall any love for the phone company.

As noted above, however, under Justice rules, customers don't know anything.

Do you have a citation for that?

Before its dismemberment, AT&T was known affectionately as "the phone company"

Maybe that's because it was the phone company. I call the water company the water company, without any afffection.

-- a company that often fixed problems before customers knew they had any.

As does the water company, gas comapny, cable comapny, etc.

(Justice Department rules permit such competitors to operate in bankruptcy and get unfair advantages over companies that still pay their bills and properly service customers).

Moron. Actually it is the bankruptcy laws that allow that, not the justice department.

Wouldn't it be interesting to attend a meeting of the anti-trust crowd to get a sense of what goes on during their deliberations?

They have public meetings all the time.

It's probably a good bet that if you asked someone in the meeting where the restrooms are, without speaking they would point to some distant location (perhaps room number 16) or maybe simply utter, "I dunno."

I doubt that. Stupid unsupportable statements don't help your argument.

It's good that the Justice Department has no say over customer-conscious beings like Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny. If it did, the elves would have their own operations. The Grinch would be included in the distribution channel, and the Easter Bunny would have to cede some of his territory to a goat or an anteater.

Man, you crack me up.

[Rodney King]

An anti-trust move against Walmart would be idiotic, but I just had to comment on this terribly written article. He could have written about why an anti-trust move against Walmart would be idiotic and actually used reasonable arguments instead of a bunch of unsupportable assertions.

[JoJo Gunn]

-- a company that often fixed problems before customers knew they had any. As does the water company, gas comapny, cable comapny, etc. --------------------

You obviously never dealt with a cable company before. A "Small Town Cable of College Grove, Tennessee" pox on you....

[Unwavering Conservative]

This writer seems to be doing PR for Wal-Mart, in that he is making fun of the competency of the Anti-Trust Division.

Did you notice that?

[Unwavering Conservative]

This writer is shilling for Wal-Mart.

He is trying his best to discredit the Anti-Trust Division.

He is trying to act like the busting up of Ma Bell was a bad thing.

Before Ma Bell was busted up, long distance phone rates were around 30 cents a minute.

Now you can get good long distance coverage for 5 cents a minute.

Did you notice that this writer seems to be in love with Ma Bell and Wal-Mart?

[Unwavering Conservative]

I can care less if the Anti-Trust Division busts Wal-Mart Up.

Wal-Mart is totally un-American IMHO.

The way they have recently started bending over backwards to the gun-grabbing Nazis is sickening.

Wal-Mart will fight their opponents to the bitter end, but with the case of the gun-grabbers, they just bent over backwards without a fight.

That makes me think the corporate hot-shots at Wal-Mart are anti-RKBA.

[Unwavering Conservative]

I don't know about you, but I have seen Wal-Mart steadily raising their prices for the longest time.

I shop at Dollar General and Big Lots and Fred's and local stores.

I am not gonna do shopping at Wal-Mart.

Wal-Mart is totally in bed with the tyrants in Beijing.

[Unwavering Conservative]

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[Unwavering Conservative]

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[fightinJAG]

Good points.

[Unwavering Conservative]

The author of this article is shilling for Wal-Mart.

He is trying in vain to discredit the Anti-Trust Division.

This author also seems to look back nostalgically at the evil Ma Bell monopoly.

[Vigilanteman]

Agreed. Wal-Mart is the best argument I know for having anti-trust laws on the books and vigorously enforcing them. Remember, this was one of the Beijing bedmates that helped finance Clinton's rise to power.

[Unwavering Conservative]

I agree with you.

By the way, wasn't Hitlery on the Board Of Directors at Wal-Mart until Bill became President?

[Unwavering Conservative]

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[Unwavering Conservative]

Why do you think this author told so many bald-faced lies in this article?