Wal-Mart and homeland security- you can't make this stuff up

[Matt J]

wow! so walmart "squeezes" their supplier so they can offer inexpensive products to america and its them that push the jobs overseas? allow me to inform you that if these companies could produce products at compeditive rates the wouldnt have to leave the states. and if these companies can keep walmart as a customer, and why wouldnt they, of course they move overseas. and the reason why they cant produce compeditively is because of the big government burden. it seams that every month i hear of a factory closing up manufacturing and moving it to china. and thats solely on high tax burden, high labor costs mainly due to union intervention and rediculous government regulation that mostly has nothing to do with safety. We have one of the highest corporate tax rates on the planet and that in itself if a major contributor to this problem. if you want to blame anyone, blame your democratic party that says one thing and does another. and blame your unions. perfect example, car manufacturers moving out of detroit and moving to texas, alabama, georgia and miss because of having low tax burden and no union intervention. and by the way, walmarts prices are based on the quantity they purchase and how they are able to turn around the sale of all these products before they even have to pay the tab.

i too used to blame walmart in my younger days, but it only took some realistic knowledge and real life experience to make me understand. i still wont go there though

but what do i know, i only do this everyday of my life....

Nothing beats labor quite like slave labor huh?

 

[Matt J]

"probably" shoveling to walmart?

Somehow money got left out.

 

[sunspotbaby]

All Walmart customers aren't idiots. Poor maybe, but to call Walmart customers stupid or not intelligent is in very poor taste IMO. Walmart does have lower prices and a little of everything, maybe not so endearing or fashionable customers, but rich and elitist does not an intellectual make.


P.S. I dread Walmart opening in SoWal. Maybe if we all make the phone calls to homeland security, they'll deem it a security threat and close it down And turn the whole corner into a farmers mkt.

 

[scooterbug44]

A directive encouraging a naturally suspicious customer base to act on their suspicions. if that's not throwing gasoline on a fire, then what is?

An attempt to goose their less than stellar sales and siphon more money from the taxpayers?

 

[kkddbb]

Nothing beats labor quite like slave labor huh?

what is that supposed to mean? silly and certainly not from someone who's serious about the subject matter at hand. but go ahead and continue dividing an already divided nation, unfortunate

 

[Matt J]

what is that supposed to mean? silly and certainly not from someone who's serious about the subject matter at hand. but go ahead and continue dividing an already divided nation, unfortunate

Whoa you're completely right, I almost tugged at that last thread holding this country together.

My point was that I seriously doubt Wal-Mart is doing this out of the goodness of their hearts. I'm glad that you felt that one statement is going to destroy the fabric of this country, now I know I can distract you with things like:

OH LOOK IT'S A ROLLBACK!

 

[kkddbb]

Whoa you're completely right, I almost tugged at that last thread holding this country together.

My point was that I seriously doubt Wal-Mart is doing this out of the goodness of their hearts. I'm glad that you felt that one statement is going to destroy the fabric of this country, now I know I can distract you with things like:

OH LOOK IT'S A ROLLBACK!

i dont get it, but you did make me laugh

 

[beachgirl66]

Wow! I could really get on my soapbox with this one, but I won't. I will say that my husband and I owned a grocery store, which we sold this year. When the Superwalmart opened, our sales dropped dramatically, but we survived. We were the only independent grocery store left in the county when we sold. We have seen many of our friends stores (mom and pop stores) in surrounding towns close because of Walmarts coming in down the street. I live near a town where going to Walmart is actually considered entertainment for most people.....Sad but true. After seeing some of the posts on "The People of Walmart" website, I guess I could see why people go there for entertainment!

 

[John R]

Loose lips Sink ships. Don't see, don't tell.

 

[Minnie]

And yet intelligence profiling is accepted.

Have to agree with Sunspotbaby.

Not everyone that shops at Walmart is an idiot, an Anti-American or a slob or even poor.

Basically in some areas of the country, Wal-mart is the only option and some times they simply have the best prices.

The stereotyping of Wal-mart shoppers on this site by some really surprises me in that I would think most everyone on this site would be above that.

If you don't like it then don't shop there, but must you disparage those that do.

Sure big stores had a negative affect on Mom and Pop stores but why the hate for Wal-Mart and not Kroger, Publix, Target, Home Depot, Lowes, Costcos. BP, Exxon, Hampton Inn, etc etc.

Is this selective hating?

Wal-mart is just the easy scapegoat for everything that is wrong in America and there is so much more that is wrong than Wal-mart.