The price of Wal-Mart coming to town

[BINOWGAYLATER]

I can't keep up with all of this - but there is a lot of truth here -and a lot of bullcrap towit:
Originally Posted by Lukeee
People always complain about how shitty WalMart is, if your business fails after the opening of a WalMart store then your business was a pile of shit too. People were only shopping with you because there was nothing better around.

Jeezus man - get your head out of your ass and look around..
My Dad ran a successful business for nearly 50 years. his name was known STATEWIDE - his reputation impeccable - then a Walmart opened up a few blocks away. He sold basically a small "silo" of building materials" - they sold just a couple of those same products. and you know what? They sold it for less than his cost -- even if he ordered HUGE quantities - HE COULD NOT COMPETE - is that capitalism? not really. it's far from an even playing field. At the end of the day - people went for cheaper prices - quality be damned. The business closed last year - 4 family members are now out of work -- with no prospects of another job anytime in the future..

The big get bigger, and the rich get richer -and I'm not at al sure that this is what Sam Walton had in mind..

Vote with your wallet? Don't shop there? sure sure -- There are 48, MILLION americans without Medical Insurance in this country - do you think they have one spare penny to pay 12c more for a can of beans at the OTHER (foreign owned, btw) supermarket -or they go to walmart for the "deal"- They do not have hardly anything of quality -- and the people that don't konw it are finding out quick enuff - but unless you have "unlimited resources" some people - FUCK - a LOT OF PEOPLE - have to shop there - or their kids don't eat (much). I never shopped with a coupon - I never returned a soda bottle for a 5c refund on deposit - i really didn't need to - NOW - things are different - for me and millions of others - This may yet be WALMART's finest hour. I wouldn't buy stock in a cigarette manufacturer - but I would SWALLOW REAL HARD - and buy Walmart Stock if it would help me survive another year and not lose my house.
It is what it is - and it stinks.. I hope that those of you who are less sympathetic and empathetic will never be in the position of HAVING TO SHOP THERE - just to survive.

 

[Haberdashery]

I can't keep up with all of this - but there is a lot of truth here -and a lot of bullcrap towit:
Originally Posted by Lukeee
People always complain about how shitty WalMart is, if your business fails after the opening of a WalMart store then your business was a pile of shit too. People were only shopping with you because there was nothing better around.

Jeezus man - get your head out of your ass and look around..
My Dad ran a successful business for nearly 50 years. his name was known STATEWIDE - his reputation impeccable - then a Walmart opened up a few blocks away. He sold basically a small "silo" of building materials" - they sold just a couple of those same products. and you know what? They sold it for less than his cost -- even if he ordered HUGE quantities - HE COULD NOT COMPETE - is that capitalism? not really. it's far from an even playing field. At the end of the day - people went for cheaper prices - quality be damned. The business closed last year - 4 family members are now out of work -- with no prospects of another job anytime in the future..

The big get bigger, and the rich get richer -and I'm not at al sure that this is what Sam Walton had in mind..

Vote with your wallet? Don't shop there? sure sure -- There are 48, MILLION americans without Medical Insurance in this country - do you think they have one spare penny to pay 12c more for a can of beans at the OTHER (foreign owned, btw) supermarket -or they go to walmart for the "deal"- They do not have hardly anything of quality -- and the people that don't konw it are finding out quick enuff - but unless you have "unlimited resources" some people - FUCK - a LOT OF PEOPLE - have to shop there - or their kids don't eat (much). I never shopped with a coupon - I never returned a soda bottle for a 5c refund on deposit - i really didn't need to - NOW - things are different - for me and millions of others - This may yet be WALMART's finest hour. I wouldn't buy stock in a cigarette manufacturer - but I would SWALLOW REAL HARD - and buy Walmart Stock if it would help me survive another year and not lose my house.
It is what it is - and it stinks.. I hope that those of you who are less sympathetic and empathetic will never be in the position of HAVING TO SHOP THERE - just to survive.

Great post. I agree with much of what you say.

It's just how things are, this is the system and there is no escaping it. You might try and set up your own little revolution and refuse to shop there, you may even get your family and friends to not shop there but we can't escape it. It's like a fish trying to escape the water. We have been made into the system. Older folks mite remember a more honest time of life, a more simple realism but for the youth this is all they know and consider it to be normal.

And Bankside, yes it's all comical, very comical. Like one huge sick joke which is sweeping the globe. It's the freak show!

 

[BINOWGAYLATER]

awww - thanks hatman -- you're sweet.
BINOW<<<<<<<older folks......

I think the new tag line from here on out - is more like --
"All of the screwing - none of the grease".. cuz we're all getting it - but it doesn't feel soo good..

or -
as my grandpa used to say:
Is the screwing I'm getting worth the screwing I'm getting !!

Hey - i gotta laff sometimes - or I'll just keep cryin'......

 

[Haberdashery]

awww - thanks hatman -- you're sweet.
BINOW<<<<<<<older folks......

I think the new tag line from here on out - is more like --
"All of the screwing - none of the grease".. cuz we're all getting it - but it doesn't feel soo good..

or -
as my grandpa used to say:
Is the screwing I'm getting worth the screwing I'm getting !!

Hey - i gotta laff sometimes - or I'll just keep cryin'......

Oh No.

It's not Hatman. It's the American meaning of the word being Men's outfitter.

Ya know, I just love America

 

[Rex]

I got a cool sleeveless shirt for the gym from Walmart for six frickin' bucks!

Sure it's not good quality but I don't care. It's for the gym. You can't top their prices. Walmarts the bomb!

 

[BINOWGAYLATER]

The word appears in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Haberdashers were initially pedlars, sellers of small wares, such as needles, buttons, etc. The word could derive from the Icelandic haprtask "pedlars' wares" or the sack in which the pedlar carries them. In this sense, a haberdasher (Scandinavian name) would be very close to a mercer (French name). A haberdasher would retail smallwares, the goods of the pedlar, while a mercer would specialize in "linens, silks, fustian, worsted piece-goods and bedding".[3]

Obsolete meanings of the term "haberdasher" refer to a "dealer in, or maker of, hats
and caps".[

see- I'm old AND Obsolete ! but OMG - look above - it's the definition of WALMART --- retail smallwares !!! the end is near !!