Movie: Wal-Mart : The high cost of low prices

[Mr70]

I heard Walmart is actually a subsidiary of Paypal.

[agtw31]

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I heard Walmart is actually a subsidiary of Paypal.

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Walmart could swallow Ebay/Paypal whole if they wanted to.

[Chevy454]

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If the reason people dont like walmart is the fact they put Mom and Pop out of business,then they must not shop at Home Depot either,let alone the internet .

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That's a great point...Wal-Mart isn't the only business to sell out to all the cheap products coming out of Asia...they're just unfortunate enough to be the lightning rod!

The Chinese are literally moving into *all* manufacturing markets...heck, one of our life insurance providers here @ work has started offering CASKETS from China, at 1/2 the cost of the cheapest steel caskets from any other supplier. Last I knew, they couldn't keep them in the warehouse because they were selling so fast...

[427king]

They are making caskets now because they feel they wont get many returns on them..... They still cant make a pulley that spins straight,but damn they make a good Generel Tsos chicken.

[southernfriedcj]

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they make a good Generel Tsos chicken.

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If they could just figure out a way to make food that didn't leave you hungry 30 minutes later.

[Salvatore]

[redvetracr]

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they make a good Generel Tsos chicken.

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If they could just figure out a way to make food that didn't leave you hungry 30 minutes later.

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where is the percentage in that??

[427king]

They say there is so much Mercury in the Tuna sushi rolls that if you place two of them close together on your plate they become one.

[notstock71]

This is why I like this site. I posted this same thread on alot of the sites I visit and I'm getting hammered as being this and that. All I wanted to do was get some conversation going not only on Wal-Mart but major business in general. We could have these same arguments about oil companies too and maybe we will when a movie comes out.

I really don't feel the need to reply to other peoples feelings and beliefs, to each their own. Who am I to critisize anyone. Thank God for the USA where we can make the decisions we want and express our thoughts and feelings openly.

[rat tuned]

i deliver goods to a couple of walmarts. i make a decent wage and even selling at a reduced retail they are my largest customer. i refuse to shop there. the general attitude of the management is unbelievable. look a man in his face to say hi and he/she will not even acknowledge. i'm blown away at the way a lot of the help gets treated. there are some decent respectful managers but the percentage of idiots is definately far greater than the rest of my customers. i happen to have made pretty good friends with quite a few people who are employed there. one incident that really sticks with me happened to a girl on the hot foods section. a customer was upset that a certain item was out of stock(very common). she appologized stating she has no control of items ordered and not shipped. this guy started yelling at her and said "listen you effen c*nt just go out back and get it for me). even though there were several witnesses who backed up her story the store manager felt he needed to "coach" her. stated that she did not try hard enough to satisfy the customer. i have dealt with a lot of companies and i have never seen a place that has virtually no class or sense of fairness or decency. this manager should be thankful that wasn't my wife or daughter!!
his ass would get a serious coaching. there are a lot of good hard working people in that company that have been misplaced from companys that went out of business because of walmart and now have to work for them because there uis not much else. absolute power corrupts absolutely. mike