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

[427king]

I wonder whos getting the profits from the "movie"?? Maybe walmart doesnt want to become GM, cant blame anyone for that.

[BARN FIND]

Sorry, my bad

I guess I owe you all a beer now

[GRB]

Dollars are votes and the American people have elected W-M. Maybe we should just cast out their votes and make the people shop at govt. owned and operated stores. Higher prices, even worse service and the requisite, eventual shortages. Yeah, that's the American way!

[kwhizz]

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Dollars are votes and the American people have elected W-M. Maybe we should just cast out their votes and make the people shop at govt. owned and operated stores. Higher prices, even worse service and the requisite, eventual shortages. Yeah, that's the American way!

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Immediate Satisfaction from low Prices doe's not provide Long Term Fiscal responsibility........Why should we pay and live with sub-standard Chinese Junk, so a Corporation can make more Profit......Short Sighted Mentality only Feeds the Problem and sends more Jobs overseas....My $.02

Ken

[Chevy454]

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Immediate Satisfaction from low Prices doe's not provide Long Term Fiscal responsibility........

[/ QUOTE ]True, as a whole, but the other side of the coin are the folks that can't afford to shop elsewhere, and that' number is growing every DAY...figure in fuel/drive time and the fact that Wal-Mart normally does undersell any other competitor...ask most folks in that situation, and they don't call it "immediate satisfaction" they call it "survival".

In case you don't know, the area where Wal-Mart has it's roots (northern Arkansas/southern Missouri) ain't exactly the most economically *blessed* part of the country...

[427king]

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..Why should we pay and live with sub-standard Chinese Junk, so a Corporation can make more Profit

[/ QUOTE ] Its really simple, anyone that feels walmart is not a place for them to shop should buy thier next Samsung plasma TV from Mom and Pops for 500.00 more than walmart and feel like they really "stuck it to the man".

[ORIGLS6]

Speaking from a Manufacturing standpoint, the two worst business decisions you can make are:

1. Do business with Wal-Mart.
2. Don't do business with Wal-Mart.

Very difficult and demanding customer.

[firstgenaddict]

The problem with sending everything to be manufactured in other parts of the world is that eventually the foreign countries realize that they have to have environmental protections and worker protections like we have in the US... then the prices begin to rise on the imports... I read the other day that we can expect 10-20% increases for Toys and other "low end goods" from China.
They are destroying their own environment to an alarming degree... their water supplies are diminishing greatly as well... China is going to have a major problem with finding enough water to supply the industries in their country in the future.
Then we will be in a world of crap... no manufacturing here and higher prices than we had when we had manufacturing here.

[427TJ]

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..Why should we pay and live with sub-standard Chinese Junk, so a Corporation can make more Profit

[/ QUOTE ] Its really simple, anyone that feels walmart is not a place for them to shop should buy thier next Samsung plasma TV from Mom and Pops for 500.00 more than walmart and feel like they really "stuck it to the man".

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I try to buy from locals whenever possible. I might spend a few dollars more but it is gratifying when a hardware store owner says "thank you" and you know he means it because you're supporting him personally. On the other hand, "add to cart" is one of my favorite things to do on the computer. The Man will win in the end.

By the way, Oswald acted alone.

[427king]

Ill bet some walmart exec is sitting out there somewhere saying "how come those SYC guys dont care so much about pollution and the environment when they are driving their gas guzzling smog emitting copos, that are painted with all those toxins and chemicals ,and that have repro parts made in China"