shopping at walmart

[uofom3]

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

You're talking about buyer power... which wal mart has more of then any other operation on earth.


It's good for the economy, ultimately. Net benefit from a loss of a few small businesses in region vs. the amount of savings for the consumer and ultimate residual spending inthe community nets down to a healthy positive for the economy.

[crunk3]

going into a walmart is like being in the fifth level of Hell! the thing that really pisses me off, is all the fat fucks riding around on scooters. they are everywhere. we should have a walmart picture thread hmmmm. fuck i could go on all day about the walmart.:hitler:

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[FredK]

Jennsbeamer do you have more than 5 teeth? If so, HOTTT!

[Sean5294]

going into a walmart is like being in the fifth level of Hell! the thing that really pisses me off, is all the fat fucks riding around on scooters. they are everywhere. we should have a walmart picture thread hmmmm. fuck i could go on all day about the walmart.:hitler:

[Maluco]

I am just enjoying a conversation and trying to up my post count. I gott get rid of that "noobie" thing somehow. How many posts till that goes away?

you will always be a ...

[JennsBeamer]

I like CHinese food - especially the Kung Pao.

[rwh11385]

that product purchased is supplied from china.

Wal-Mart by itself accounts for more than 10% of U.S. imports from China... Wal-Mart is termed China's eighth-largest trading partner by the government-controlled mainland media and would place ahead of Russia and the United Kingdom on the top-10 list.

Wal-Mart imports 80% of its goods from China.

[92 mtechnic cabrio]

that sucks

our walmarts here in socal are just considered other stores. it's just another place to get oil when in need. where do I go to buy the latest video game? walmart, if walmart doesn't have it, the EB Games in the same parking lot won't have it either.

not to mention, last time I went to walmart, it was flooded with super hot girls aged 18-24

[ditchdigger]

I am just enjoying a conversation and trying to up my post count. I gott get rid of that "noobie" thing somehow. How many posts till that goes away?

[Jand3rson]

It really wasn't my intention to turn this into a debate about why people dislike Wal-Mart or it's tactics, I was just pissed that people actually had the cubes to rag on people who are actually working and have jobs.

[ditchdigger]

Aside from the general walmart experience what I dislike about them is their tactics with suppliers that force manufacturing overseas.

Say a person is smart enough and lucky enough to invent and produce a new item. Perhaps it is a kitchen gadget that is molded plastic with stainless blades. You market and sell this item for 10.99 and make a tidy profit. Enter walmart. they like your product and want to sell it in their stores. This is huge for your business and as a matter of fact it will take up all of your production to feed their demand. but they want to sell it for 8.99. To continue making a profit you have to cut costs so you switch from stainless to steel blades that will rust in time. The product still works though. Enter the contract that walmart makes you sign. That products price has to go down 5% a year. You cannot afford to do that but you cannot afford to not supply walmart since they are your biggest and really only customer. Then you do the unthinkable and replace those steel blades with plastic blades that wont last 6 months. It still works though and walmart keeps buying. Where else can you cut costs? Exporting manufacturing to china is all that is left.

This has happened thousands of times in this country.

Oh yeah my employment? . I design and fabricate the machinery that manufacture the tear strips on tide boxes and fedex envelopes. And we do it here in the USA

[Jand3rson]

Fuck, I would kill for a Winco. There's one in Corvallis and when we lived there, that was the ONLY place we shopped.

I guess I should probably also add that I don't exclusively shop at Wal-Mart. We grocery shop there only when we're doing the big "fill the cart to the top" run, and for stuff like toiletries, DVD's, toys and some clothes for Lily, diapers, etc.

[smonkbmw]

regardless of the grocery selection and its cheap pricing. any money spent at a walmart goes into its total sales. the money from total sales goes into the purchase of more product. that product purchased is supplied from china. i think i remember the ratio of trade done between china and the us. its almost 3-1 in chinas favor, as in we take in 3 times the product then we give out. and HALF of that is all walmarts product.

i for one would rather pay some random working class americans salary then fund china. sorry to say.

the whole concept disgusts me. a "american" company (walmart) out sourcing mass amounts of jobs to a foreign company, thereby increasing the unemployment rate of this country. all in the name of making money from the people it doesnt employ and/or unemploys in the process.

besides josh, dont you have a local Winco? its a northwest owned company that buys the majority of its product here in the states. and pricing has got to be as close if not cheaper than walmart.

ok im done.

[rwh11385]

I don't drink and could care less about a store's alcohol selection, so that doesn't affect my decision of where to shop at all. But if it does yours, then by all means, go where you can find the best products! I wholeheartedly agree. If I'm going to get some really good deli meat and a really good cheese, I'm going to go to one of the smaller specialy markets for sure.

However, when it comes to things like Kellog's cereals, Dole fruit, Yoplait yogurt, Doritos chips, Jimmy Dean sausage, Digiorno pizza, Pilsbury rolls, Pepsi, Coke, Jell-O, etc, are you honestly trying to tell me that these products purchased at the Wal-Mart supercenters (which are larger than regular grocery stores) aren't the same ones that you buy at a regular grocery store?

Sorry my more useful analogy completely failed to make sense in your thick skull because you don't consume the products I was referring to. Think outside the things mentioned as if they were food. Then you might be able to realize what I was talking about.

Those smaller specialty markets will either be driven to reduce in number and drive up prices so only premium shoppers can afford them, or into disappearance altogether.

Yeah, some major brands may be there, but in what size and what variety. If you think the selection is the same, and not just a few same products, you don't know how Walmart operates. They don't profit from variety. A consumer does. Walmart cares about getting cheap product in and getting them off the shelves fast, not what people actually want.

[Jand3rson]

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?

I don't drink and could care less about a store's alcohol selection, so that doesn't affect my decision of where to shop at all. But if it does yours, then by all means, go where you can find the best products! I wholeheartedly agree. If I'm going to get some really good deli meat and a really good cheese, I'm going to go to one of the smaller specialy markets for sure.

However, when it comes to things like Kellog's cereals, Dole fruit, Yoplait yogurt, Doritos chips, Jimmy Dean sausage, Digiorno pizza, Pilsbury rolls, Pepsi, Coke, Jell-O, etc, are you honestly trying to tell me that these products purchased at the Wal-Mart supercenters (which are larger than regular grocery stores) aren't the same ones that you buy at a regular grocery store?