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Walmart offers once-in-a-lifetime opportunity (Seeking Made-in-USA products for stores)
The Press-Leader ^ | April 10, 2017 | Staff

Posted on 04/10/2017 7:51:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 9YearLurker

Trump campaigned on a tariffs and trade restrictions. So I guess it’s me, Bannon and Trump. On your side you have Marx, so you got that going for you.


41 posted on 04/11/2017 5:32:52 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: bert

Did the check clear from you ChiCom handlers?


42 posted on 04/11/2017 5:33:48 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

What does that mean? Walton tried to buy American products. When available (usually at not over a twenty percent cost premium), he ordered his stores to buy USA products instead of the cheaper imports. It didn’t work very well as previously noted and the stores dropped Sam’s pro-American products policy after he died in 1992. You are free to judge it as you wish. Ps: Sam learned his logistics talents while in the US military supplying Berlin in the big airlift


43 posted on 04/11/2017 5:38:45 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: central_va; 9YearLurker

Actually, Trump campaigned on renegotiating trade deals and the possibility of imposing tariff’s.

I know you interpreted his statements as turning back to the tariffs of old days, but you were wrong. There will be no general application of tariffs. There might be the imposition of tariffs on targeted dumped commodities or products.


44 posted on 04/11/2017 5:39:36 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Hillary is Ameritrash, pass it on)
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To: central_va

Now, now,..... you know in your heart I don’t promote Chicoms. I acknowledge the reality of the growing force of Chicaps


45 posted on 04/11/2017 5:41:08 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Hillary is Ameritrash, pass it on)
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To: bert; central_va

Exactly, bert—Trump repeatedly said he was a free AND fair trader. Not a knee-jerk or wholesale protectionist, like one poster I can think of.


46 posted on 04/11/2017 5:41:29 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: bert

Maybe you should move there.


47 posted on 04/11/2017 5:50:41 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: bert

You hate Trump. Don’t lie.


48 posted on 04/11/2017 5:52:15 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Elsie

ROTFL It’s all garbage anyway. Cook at home.


49 posted on 04/11/2017 6:08:16 AM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: Windflier

They lost a ton of business when some dumb idiot decided to eliminate the fabric department, or go all pre cut lengths so the could eliminate a the personnel from that dept. When you live in the boonies of places your drive 4 hrs to just get to the only source of fabric Walmart, you get mad as a wet hen especially if you are a quilter an buy in quantity. Then go grocery shopping on top of that.

What they have now is so limited it’s a laugh. Hobby Lobby is being forced out, Hancock’s is closed, and there is no other places for fabric except online. Quilters like to feel, and touch what they buy.


50 posted on 04/11/2017 6:12:32 AM PDT by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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To: Elsie
You mean to say that the guns my local wallyworld has on it's shelves are FOREIGN made?

Don't know where you live, but guns disappeared from the local DFW area Walmarts years ago. I assumed it was everywhere, but obviously not.

51 posted on 04/11/2017 7:20:29 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: GailA
They lost a ton of business when some dumb idiot decided to eliminate the fabric department, or go all pre cut lengths so the could eliminate a the personnel from that dept.

I guess these stores vary from area to area. My local Walmart still has a sizable fabric department.

52 posted on 04/11/2017 7:29:06 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Alas Babylon!
Rifles, shotguns, pistols and revolvers are still sold in the Walmarts down South.

I don't know of a single Walmart in North Texas that still has guns for sale. Perhaps some still do outside of the major metro areas.

53 posted on 04/11/2017 7:51:50 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: bert
So is that bad ?

Walmart basically drives the American market until there is no way American manufacturers can turn a profit.

Once that's complete, they buy cheaply produced crap from overseas.

So is that bad ? You tell me. Walmart is good at what they do. No doubt. They have put more mom and pop stores out of business than anyone else.

Now they are whining about Amazon.

54 posted on 04/11/2017 10:09:51 AM PDT by Newbomb Turk (Hey Newbomb, where's your brothers ElCamino ?)
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To: Newbomb Turk

That’s just pure balderdasious drivel from incompetents


55 posted on 04/11/2017 10:13:28 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Hillary is Ameritrash, pass it on)
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To: Elsie

Are you in the running for Wal-Mart Shopper of the Year?? You’re waging quite the spirited commentary here.

As to the quote, I guess that was from the Fast Company article where the theme was a cautionary tale for those who would supply goods to WMT. Try reading your quote from that perspective to understand WMT really doesn’t care about its suppliers beyond price. Actually, you should read the entire article again.


56 posted on 04/11/2017 10:35:12 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Windflier

We had a large dept, the head set up other stores too, now you have to page some one, and anyone from any dept shows up. Lots of pre cut stuff, lot of it is from china, less selections on needles, thread, yarn, crochet thread and hooks. More jewelry making junk.

There are 2 quilting guilds in the area. Joann’s finally opened a store, 2.5 hrs away 1 way.

I use Hobby Lobby 99% of the time. Only if I break a hook will I go to Walmart for replacement, and then I don’t do groceries. Higher than Kroger’s.


57 posted on 04/11/2017 12:24:06 PM PDT by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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To: GailA
Hobby Lobby is being forced out,

It IS?

It looked pretty busy a couple of days ago; and it's merely 500 feet from a Walmart!

58 posted on 04/11/2017 6:03:11 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Windflier

Central Indiana


59 posted on 04/11/2017 6:03:31 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: T-Bird45
Actually, you should read the entire article again.< P>AGAIN??
60 posted on 04/11/2017 6:04:29 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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