[rollei_list] OT: Walmart
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:30:42 -0400
At 02:01 PM 7/22/2010, CheshireCCat wrote:
This is off topic, so I won't reply anymore to
walmart posts, but they come into small towns,
lower their prices so that none of the family
owned businesses can compete, run them out of
business because of all the cheap people around
who would rather have a deal than a relationship
with their local stores and then they raise
their prices back to normal. I lived in San
Diego for many years and I saw it happen there,
northern california, Florida, Oklahoma, and a
few other places. They give their employees just
under full time so that they do not have to pay
benefits, and they fire anyone that even
mentions starting a union to get better working
conditions. I have seen them fire a full store
of employees and shut down the store until they
could hire new staff. They run everyone out of
business, and then they hire them at low wages
so that the only place they can afford to shop
is at walmart. They are an unethical and immoral
company and I have never and will never shop
there because I still have my self respect and I
care about my local community more than a cheap
deal on some plastic item that will break after
3 months. My rant is over and I will not post
off topic anymore. Costco is not so bad, they
givve full time and pay competitive pay to
employees. They sell cheap because they do it in
bulk and they don't make the place pleasant to
the eye. White floors, walls and ceilings are too sterile anyway.
It used to be that buying American was enough,
but now that greed has overcome so many in this
country, it's more important to buy local and
support your local businesses. walmart using
local farmers is great, but they are doing this
only to give you a little ammunition against
those of us that know what they do to
communities. One good thing with so many evil
does not make them honorable nor does it
convince me that they care about anything but the bottom line.
JD
WalMart is GREAT. This is capitalism at its
very, very best. If those Ma-and-Pa stores were
meant to stay in business, they would be
competitive, but they are just so much wastepaper
in the trashcan of history, like a full-service
camera store in this digital world. Their
business model is pretty damn good: I can get
items and services there which are just not
available elsewhere locally, and I live in a
fairly big city, Richmond, Virginia.
I do object to their selling items made in China
but, for the most part, I do not buy items made
in Communist countries so this is an easy thing
for me to avoid. Castrol oil at 2/3 what is
charged at the car parts places. Electronics at less than 2/3.
I know several dozen WalMart employees, and all
are delighted to work there. I have never heard
a WalMart employee gripe about the conditions of their employment.
What you are railing at, of course, is a greater
change in the economic patterns of the
West. Well, I will rail against the advent of
digital, and you can rail against WalMart, but we
are both, in the end, railing against the same
thing. Times change, and we either change with
them or we get trampled by that runaway cattle herd.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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