shopping at walmart

[assoutE12]

wow, ignorance is bliss there bro. the reason Walmart can have low prices is they have more leverage than even the consumer product manufacturers have (which says a lot). Walmart bullies P&G, J&J, etc. and can get prices and deals lower than anyone else, pushing competition out of the industry.

Walmart sells shitty products and monopolizes the industry to drive out people with good shit. When I want a proper tool, bolt, food, or liquor I want to go to a store with proper products and a wide selection. Walmart drives out diverse differentiated competition with bully tactics. that hurts consumer's utility related to freedom of choice.

and people only shop at Walmart when they have to. it's fortunately a limiting factor to their growth. the more lower class or desperate people in the US, the less people will be able to be satisfied at selection at lowes, marsh etc since they can afford the premium.sure, walmart also has some mean inventorying ability, logisitics/supply chain, but being a big bad bully helps them a lot

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They also go to the companys and have them produce products using cheap materials that they get from china. Try going into a quality electronics store and look at the part numbers on the plasma TVs, then went into walmart/best buy and look at the compareable tv the part numbers will be different be aide that tv is manufactured for that store.

[rwh11385]

I agree to an extent. I don't want it to seem like I buy everything I ever buy at Wal-Mart, I certainly don't. I buy most of my tools at specialized retailers, and most other products the same way. But you can't honestly believe that they don't sell the exact same food that all the other grocery stores sell.

If you believe that Walmart has all the variety and quality a Marsh has, you have been had. Parallel the liquor selection to that of a liquor store. A bottle of smirnoff is a bottle of smirnoff too, but does Walmart have as many flavors? Pints? Beer selection?

And if not that, do you think a store a third the size of a Marsh has the same selection? Food that is bought solely on low cost the same as food bought for overall satsifaction?

What if Walmart drives to elbow out a place that has a wider variety of cheeses with its cheap cheddar? It will narrow the room for a store to survive competing with walmart. sure, they'll be whole foods usually, but what about the healthy middle ground?

[Jand3rson]

Walmart sells shitty products and monopolizes the industry to drive out people with good shit. When I want a proper tool, bolt, food, or liquor I want to go to a store with proper products and a wide selection. Walmart drives out diverse differentiated competition with bully tactics. that hurts consumer's utility related to freedom of choice.

I agree to an extent. I don't want it to seem like I buy everything I ever buy at Wal-Mart, I certainly don't. I buy most of my tools at specialized retailers, and most other products the same way. But you can't honestly believe that they don't sell the exact same food that all the other grocery stores sell.

[blunttech]

man, all i wanted to do was laugh a little. i will find a new topic

[mrsleeve]

I have not set foot in a walmart since 1997 for any reason. I have watched it destroy 2 small towns.

I have a rant about walmart some where that I wont repeat in here because I dont have 3 hours to type it. When will some of you get that cheaper dose not always = better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Walmart is the prime reason EVERYTHING WE BUY comes from CHINA and you all bitch about the junk that comes from China!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Walmart uses the medicade to subsidize its own bottom line and that pisses me off more than anything.

I will stop now before I get on a big roll with the soap box.

Oh By the way I am in heavy construction, next time you turn on the tap or flush the shitter you can thank me.


Edit: Lance there got the bulk of it very well I see.

[rwh11385]

Only with certain products. With most of the good name brand stuff, those little "local stores" everyone is always crying about were selling the same brands for twice the price, which is half, if not more, the reason they go out of business. They always say "oh, we just couldn't compete with Home Depot's or Wal-Mart's prices". That's why they closed, because they can't. If people can get the same product for less someplace else, they're going to do it. We live in a free-market, capitalist society. That's how it works. Do I feel bad for the small business owners that go under because of the bigger stores? Of course I do, that's a terrible thing to have happen. But it's not going to keep me up at night that me saving hundreds, possibly thousands of dollars a year on the food, products and tools that I buy at those stores is what may or may not have contributed to them closing.

wow, ignorance is bliss there bro. the reason Walmart can have low prices is they have more leverage than even the consumer product manufacturers have (which says a lot). Walmart bullies P&G, J&J, etc. and can get prices and deals lower than anyone else, pushing competition out of the industry.

Walmart sells shitty products and monopolizes the industry to drive out people with good shit. When I want a proper tool, bolt, food, or liquor I want to go to a store with proper products and a wide selection. Walmart drives out diverse differentiated competition with bully tactics. that hurts consumer's utility related to freedom of choice.

and people only shop at Walmart when they have to. it's fortunately a limiting factor to their growth. the more lower class or desperate people in the US, the less people will be able to be satisfied at selection at lowes, marsh etc since they can afford the premium.

sure, walmart also has some mean inventorying ability, logisitics/supply chain, but being a big bad bully helps them a lot

[assoutE12]

I can understand what you are saying. But when you lose the small mom and pop shops, the quality of the products and the customer service suffers.
Also, walmart might decide to stop selling a product that was once sold by one of the small shops they deaded. Then people who want that product are SOL.
For example, I went to walmart the other day to buy a space heater, aparently they don't sell any form of portable heater anymore. I assume because of dumbass people burning down their houses. So I went across the parking lot to home depot, don't sell them there. So I went to a local hardware store and selected a space heater from the full half isle of them they have. If I were in a small town, or even one that doesn't hate box stores like we do, and the local hardware store hadn't have survived I would have been cold as shit that night.

[Maluco]

That Wal-mart in the pictures looks like something out of the 80's! I can't remember the last time I saw that type of ceiling or those checkout station lights. The check out station at our Wal-Marts all have LCD monitors playing music videos and other random shit...

Plus, I saw a small midget in a huge wheel chair. I felt bad for the individual, but damnit if that wasn't a bonus on the shopping experience.

lol, that's some hilarious randomness... I keep picturing it, I mean the little person in the huge wheelchair..

We live in a free-market, capitalist society. That's how it works. Do I feel bad for the small business owners that go under because of the bigger stores? Of course I do, that's a terrible thing to have happen. But it's not going to keep me up at night that me saving hundreds, possibly thousands of dollars a year on the food, products and tools that I buy at those stores is what may or may not have contributed to them closing.

Yes!

As far as I'm concerned, the only thing wrong with my local Wal-Marts is that they don't sell e30 parts...

[Jand3rson]

My problem with walmart is that it destroys small towns one local store at a time. And eventually the cheap shit they sell will be all you can buy. Same goes for best buy and home depot.

Only with certain products. With most of the good name brand stuff, those little "local stores" everyone is always crying about were selling the same brands for twice the price, which is half, if not more, the reason they go out of business. They always say "oh, we just couldn't compete with Home Depot's or Wal-Mart's prices". That's why they closed, because they can't. If people can get the same product for less someplace else, they're going to do it. We live in a free-market, capitalist society. That's how it works. Do I feel bad for the small business owners that go under because of the bigger stores? Of course I do, that's a terrible thing to have happen. But it's not going to keep me up at night that me saving hundreds, possibly thousands of dollars a year on the food, products and tools that I buy at those stores is what may or may not have contributed to them closing.

[assoutE12]

My problem with walmart is that it destroys small towns one local store at a time. And eventually the cheap shit they sell will be all you can buy. Same goes for best buy and home depot. The one in Lawrence is real clean, they just made it twice as big because we wouldn't let them make another one.

[Erik]

Not just your walmarts. Not sure how south you live, but I'm in Texas, You pretty much need a passport to walk in one. All you see are big pregnant Mexicans screaming gibberish to their 15 kids running around everywhere. It seems clean though.

So fucking true... That's how it is at our wal-mart. Not matter what time of day you go.

[Jand3rson]

josh, im going to have jonny send you some happy pills. this thread is entertainment only. i have no ill feelings for anyone who is gainfully employed. take a cleansing breath dude

It wasn't directed at you, bluntie. You're exempt from my rants about people bitching about something they have no right to bitch about.

[blunttech]

I think everyone posting in this thread should have to post where THEY work.

i work at blunt tech industries LLC providing a valuable service
im also an upper midwest commercial real estate mogul rivaling donald trump without the combover.

[blunttech]

I think everyone posting in this thread should have to post where THEY work.

josh, im going to have jonny send you some happy pills. this thread is entertainment only. i have no ill feelings for anyone who is gainfully employed. take a cleansing breath dude

[TDE30]

Blunt's comment was beautiful. All and all, I guess Wal-Mart isn't too bad, they often sell lots of crap but it is cheap, and cheap is good.