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They are good because they have cheap prices. If other people can't compete with Wal Mart then tough luck. Why should I pay more when I can pay less?

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If you can say this after watching that documentary ("The High Cost of Low Prices") then you obviously didn't pay attention to the program.


If you shop at Walmart, you're going to hell.

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They are good because they have cheap prices. If other people can't compete with Wal Mart then tough luck. Why should I pay more when I can pay less?

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If you can say this after watching that documentary ("The High Cost of Low Prices") then you obviously didn't pay attention to the program.


If you shop at Walmart, you're going to hell.

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They are good because they have cheap prices. If other people can't compete with Wal Mart then tough luck. Why should I pay more when I can pay less?

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If you can say this after watching that documentary ("The High Cost of Low Prices") then you obviously didn't pay attention to the program.


If you shop at Walmart, you're going to hell.

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Yeah, there are those people who complain and are not satisfied. The point is that in order for you to have low prices then you gotta make cuts somewhere. Like salaries, benefits and other stuff. But as a customer, why should I care what goes on inside the company that I but at? That is their internal issues and affairs. As a customer there is only one thing: you give the money to the cashier and get the merchandise and then you leave the store. The lesser the price the better it is because the only thing that you are loosing is your money, so the less you loose the better it is. What is so bad about getting MORE for LESS?

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As the Company gets larger and larger, you too will be employed as a greeter (WITH ENEMAS!!) because WAL*MART will be the only employer in your podunk town, and they will employ you at a rate "just short" of being full-time, hence, not obligated for your health care (U.S.A. 19th out of 19 industrialized nations) and make you work off the clock, because if you don't, you will be fired, and THERE'S NO OTHER JOB in town, other than Wal*Mart.

But at least, if you are working for Wal*Mart, you know your massed efforts are going towards this:

http://walmartwatch.com/blog/archives/more_wealth_amassed_off_american_taxpayers/

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They are good because they have cheap prices. If other people can't compete with Wal Mart then tough luck. Why should I pay more when I can pay less?

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If you can say this after watching that documentary ("The High Cost of Low Prices") then you obviously didn't pay attention to the program.


If you shop at Walmart, you're going to hell.

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Yeah, there are those people who complain and are not satisfied. The point is that in order for you to have low prices then you gotta make cuts somewhere. Like salaries, benefits and other stuff. But as a customer, why should I care what goes on inside the company that I but at? That is their internal issues and affairs. As a customer there is only one thing: you give the money to the cashier and get the merchandise and then you leave the store. The lesser the price the better it is because the only thing that you are loosing is your money, so the less you loose the better it is. What is so bad about getting MORE for LESS?

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They are good because they have cheap prices. If other people can't compete with Wal Mart then tough luck. Why should I pay more when I can pay less?

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If you can say this after watching that documentary ("The High Cost of Low Prices") then you obviously didn't pay attention to the program.


If you shop at Walmart, you're going to hell.

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Yeah, there are those people who complain and are not satisfied. The point is that in order for you to have low prices then you gotta make cuts somewhere. Like salaries, benefits and other stuff. But as a customer, why should I care what goes on inside the company that I but at? That is their internal issues and affairs. As a customer there is only one thing: you give the money to the cashier and get the merchandise and then you leave the store. The lesser the price the better it is because the only thing that you are loosing is your money, so the less you loose the better it is. What is so bad about getting MORE for LESS?

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As the Company gets larger and larger, you too will be employed as a greeter (WITH ENEMAS!!) because WAL*MART will be the only employer in your podunk town, and they will employ you at a rate "just short" of being full-time, hence, not obligated for your health care (U.S.A. 19th out of 19 industrialized nations) and make you work off the clock, because if you don't, you will be fired, and THERE'S NO OTHER JOB in town, other than Wal*Mart.

But at least, if you are working for Wal*Mart, you know your massed efforts are going towards this:

http://walmartwatch.com/blog/archives/more_wealth_amassed_off_american_taxpayers/

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They are good because they have cheap prices. If other people can't compete with Wal Mart then tough luck. Why should I pay more when I can pay less?

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If you can say this after watching that documentary ("The High Cost of Low Prices") then you obviously didn't pay attention to the program.


If you shop at Walmart, you're going to hell.

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Yeah, there are those people who complain and are not satisfied. The point is that in order for you to have low prices then you gotta make cuts somewhere. Like salaries, benefits and other stuff. But as a customer, why should I care what goes on inside the company that I but at? That is their internal issues and affairs. As a customer there is only one thing: you give the money to the cashier and get the merchandise and then you leave the store. The lesser the price the better it is because the only thing that you are loosing is your money, so the less you loose the better it is. What is so bad about getting MORE for LESS?

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You certainly can't be so disconnected from reality as to not be aware of Cause and Effect?
Those "internal policies" directly affect the economies and tax base of the community that you live in.
If that's not affecting you then you're a shut-in. Oops, sorry, I forgot who I was talking to.

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Costco is a different story entirely. When I read up on them a few years ago, the story was that three of their warehouses had the employees unionize, only to have two of them disband the unions a few months later because the employees felt they were receiving little benefits for the union dues compared to their needs against the employer.

Their benefits package looks decent.

Nice article summing up the numbers here. Seems to say it all -- they get criticized for treating the employees too well, and at the same time are more profitable per employee than similar competitors.

Of course, maybe if you got your own Costco card, you could go whenever you liked and stay as long as you liked, without having to be nagged by your mommy... and she could always buy you your own gift membership.

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Here's the other reason I don't go to Walmart.

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I am not that unusual for the Cleveland area

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(Fortune Magazine) -- With gas, grain, and dairy prices exploding, you'd think the biggest seller of corn flakes and Cocoa Puffs would be getting hit by rising food costs. But Wal-Mart has temporarily rolled back prices on hundreds of food items by as much as 30% this year. How? By pressuring vendors to take costs out of the supply chain.

"When our grocery suppliers bring price increases, we don't just accept them," says Pamela Kohn, Wal-Mart's general merchandise manager for perishables. To be sure, Wal-Mart (WMT, Fortune 500) isn't the only retailer working to cut fat from the food chain, but as the largest grocer - Wal-Mart's food and consumables revenue is nearly $100 billion - it has a disproportionate amount of leverage. Here's how the retailer is throwing its weight around.

Shrink the goods. Ever wonder why that cereal box is only two-thirds full? Foodmakers love big boxes because they serve as billboards on store shelves. Wal-Mart has been working to change that by promising suppliers that their shelf space won't shrink even if their boxes do. As a result, some of its vendors have reengineered their packaging. General Mills' (GIS, Fortune 500) Hamburger Helper is now made with denser pasta shapes, allowing the same amount of food to fit into a 20% smaller box at the same price. The change has saved 890,000 pounds of paper fiber and eliminated 500 trucks from the road, giving General Mills a cushion to absorb some of the rising costs.

Cut out the middleman. Wal-Mart typically buys its brand-name coffee from a supplier, which buys from a cooperative of growers, which works with a roaster - which means "there are a whole bunch of people muddled in the middle," says Wal-Mart spokeswoman Tara Raddohl. In April the chain began buying directly from a cooperative of Brazilian coffee farmers for its Sam's Choice brand, cutting three or four steps out of the supply chain.

Go locovore. Wal-Mart has been going green, but not entirely for the reasons you might think. By sourcing more produce locally - it now sells Wisconsin-grown yellow corn in 56 stores in or near Wisconsin - it is able to cut shipping costs. "We are looking at how to reduce the number of miles our suppliers' trucks travel," says Kohn. Marc Turner, whose Bushwick Potato Co. supplies Wal-Mart stores in the Northeast, says the cost of shipping one truck of spuds from his farm in Maine to local Wal-Mart stores costs less than $1,000, compared with several thousand dollars for a big rig from Idaho. Last year his shipments to Wal-Mart grew 13%.

In fact, it's the small suppliers that are feeling the pain from Wal-Mart's pushback the most. Bushwick has seen its costs rise 10% over the past year, but has passed only half that amount on to Wal-Mart and its other retailers. For consumers who are having a hard time paying $3.80 for a gallon of milk, however, without those measures that sticker shock would be a lot worse.

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