Walmart, do you shop there?

Walmart, do you shop there?

  • Yes, I give them my money

    Votes: 33 53.2%
  • No, they are evil incarnate

    Votes: 16 25.8%
  • In Soviet Russia Walmart shop you!

    Votes: 13 21.0%

  • Total voters
    62

Timmahh

Well-Known Member
Walmart gives me what I want, when and how I want it on everyday items.

Rarely do I purchase Items that are $100 or above from them, the big money goes to small business.
most people spend 20 times or more as much small money than they do big money.
your doing more harm than good.

youd be doing far more good spending your small money locally and big money at wallmart. they make much less profit on big ticket items, while the mom and pops barely make any profit on any items.
 

tet1953

Well-Known Member
LOL my gf disses Walmart all the time, complains about Chinese imports etc...and shops Walmart all the time too :)
 

april

Pickle Queen
i have to drive 1 hr to get to a walmart, Zellers is 20 mins, plus we have tons of local stores that have great prices!
Also i grow over 20 different items in my veggie garden alone
 

LaKapitone

Active Member
no offense, but what you see are not benefits, unless your corporate wallmart employess.

Walmart Managers, employess, office personel, and contractors ALL get paid less than national average, and in many cases, less than local averages. sure they hire more handicapped people than anyone, they also have a huge turnover of those same people when sickness worsens. they cut/fire/layoff those same employees when they get sic. Fire them for Legally using Medical Marijuana. They use No Union employees in their construction projects. not that im a union guy, but they also use contractors that hire illegal workers so they can pay them less, and both walmart and the main contractor make millions on them, and then use tax shelters for using disabled, and low/poverty stricken citizens to get out of Millions and Millions in tax money.

a LARGE part of the items walmart sells are made in china. regardless of name brand. take FOTL for instance.

Walmart bought the right to use the FOTL logo on items walmart has made at chinese companies for cents on the dollar. they sell these items for HUGE markups, but appear to be SAVING YOU, the customer 3.00 a package for FOTL undies.
now the FOTL undies sold at walmart are thinner, cheaper, and made of mech less qualiy material than the FOTF undies you buy say at target, or meijers, or your local department store that isnt a national.

the FOTL undies they sell are high quality made Fruit of the Loom Undies. not some cheap chinese knockoff that ou need to buy more of the following year. if you would of bought the none chinese shit. youd have a set of FOTL undies that would last you 5 yrs, per pkg, instead of a yr per package.

walmart can SUCK MY COCK!

the ONLY Brightspot at walmart is they use Murphy oil at their gas stations.
Murphy Oil is the ONLY US gas retailer that uses 100% USA produced crude oil.
which really is an oxymoron in effect.
'ALL get paid less than national average'
-So what? When you get hired you are told what you will be working for, you have every right to decline that offer. If your rebuttle is 'not everyone can afford to throw jobs away' I already know because I live in one of the nations highest unemployment counties - but at the same time, if they took the job then that means it was ENOUGH, not Walmart's fault you work for less. Not to mention Walmart hires more employees then all other retailers, therefore they offer more opportunity.

'Fire them for Legally using Medical Marijuana'
-Medical marijuana is STILL marijuana, I am the biggest supporter of marijuana, but even I know many business' DO NOT accept the excuse it's 'medical' & they don't have to because marijuana is STILL ILLEGAL! Even medical is, duh! You don't think Target isn't going to disqualify you when you drug test for them also? Come on....

As far as FOTL - I happen to LIKE updating my underwear once a year AT LEAST, so I'm glad the FOTL suck because it forces me to re-up. Who wears the same pair of underwear for 5 years? Sorry, I don't even want my pair to last that long. Point is, Walmart doesn't hire union, you don't care, I don't care, so who cares? They save money doing this, they save money hiring employees who are willing to work cheaper, as a result they can afford to give us cheap prices. It's called SMART BUSINESS & I'm tired of hearing all the negative talk about them, EVERY BILLIONAIRE BUSINESS IS EVIL! You don't get that powerful WITHOUT fucking people... take FACEBOOK as a perfect example, get over it people, if you hate Walmart, you might as well hate Hershey's, Target, Etc. some are less evil then others, but that means they're still evil.
 

StonedPony

Well-Known Member
Walmart today is a pox on life itself...........DIE YOU MONSTERS..............but I love thier cheap prices.......
 

LaKapitone

Active Member
Oh yeah, not that I think your lying or anything, but can you post a link or source where it has been suspected or known that Walmart uses FOTL logo on non-FOTL brand items? I would imagine that is highly illegal whether you buy the product logo rights or not because your leading customers to believe it is a certain brand when it was not actually manufactured by that brand. I thought buying the logo rights only enabled you the freedom to put the logo on the package but NOT advertise it as that brand. For example, those knockoff brand bags of cereal that taste identical to regular cereal can buy the rights to the real cereal brand logo so they can put it on they're bag saying "identical to coco pebbles!" <-now they have the right to put the coco pebbles logo, but that doesn't give them the right to use the logo & act like it's THEY'RE cereal. This isn't the flea market.

Just interested in reading the source material, thanks!
 

LaKapitone

Active Member
i shop where its cheapest if its china walmart then so beit.
Pretty soon everything will be made in China... maybe not in our lifetime though. Then what will people do/say that are anti-China products? Times are changing! Lol. [sorry - stoned]
 

Kodank Moment

Well-Known Member
Walmart is bad and Walmart is good.

Walmart is a bunch of things. I buy food there. I don't buy anything else there.


It exists. Without people will complain and with it people will complain. It's a vicious cycle.

I will say one thing. The royaly fuck there employees.
 

tet1953

Well-Known Member
I remember when "Made in Japan" was the joke (I"m sure you remember that too, SP). Pretty much the way "Made in China" is regarded today. Then Japan became more high-tech, and started making quality products. Opticals, electronics, cars. You didn't hear the snicker about "Made in Japan" anymore.

The almost complete loss of our manufacturing capacity has and will continue to cost us greatly.
 

StonedPony

Well-Known Member
I think when that little 1/2ton pickup truck the DATSON could hit over 100.000 miles blindfolded and no major repears ppl started really perking up to japan Tech...............
 

CHUCKTYLAH

Active Member
I have to shop at wal-mart..........They made all the other places shut down. Now they are out of half the things I need half the time. Used to be able to pick from a few stores if one was out. I shop there but I fart as much as I can as I walk through and I don't wipe my feet before going in either. If I have a ball of pocket lint in my pocket BOOM throw it on their floor. Don't mess with me!
 

racerboy71

bud bootlegger
i agree with the op.. walmart is the death of the mom and pop stores, and it really is a shame.. i try and not go to walmart as much as possible.. i may end up going once or twice a year when my toilet is out of order and i need to take a dump, but usually the rest rooms are full to the brim with employee's trying to duck out of work and whom never wash their hands before returning to the food counters selling pizza and popcorn..
i do understand that there are some places where walmart is the only real option out there, but not where i live, and far from it.. we have a grocery store around us called aldi's, and they completely smoke walmarts prices.. and i always grow more than enough veggies and shit in the summer to last me for months.
and i can't stand a store that would fire an employee who legally uses marijuana.. they can burn in hell...
 

Timmahh

Well-Known Member
its been 3 or so years since i read the study that gave me the info i posted. i doubt i could re find it.

but as far as so what to them paying less, expecting more, fireing ill and disabled people for stupid reasons, just to deny them any medical insurances, or continued insurance when their employee are say, diagnosed with terminal cancer. which they have done and gotten away with.
they treat their employees like a commodity. no different thant the piece of shit chinesse crap they sell... and you say so what? REALLY?.... I hope you NEVER become a business owner, you ll be more of the problem than the solution.

now im not saying their managers need to make 200,000 a yr. but someing over poverty (to be a 55 hr a week manager) shouldnt be too fucking much to expect. even Mc Donalds pays their manages 25 to 35k a yr for fucks sake.
 

Devildog93

Well-Known Member
I think when that little 1/2ton pickup truck the DATSON could hit over 100.000 miles blindfolded and no major repears ppl started really perking up to japan Tech...............
My Mazda B-2200 has 330,000 km on it and shows no signs of dying soon. I drive it in the winter, and when I need to haul shit around. Costs about $45 CDN to fill it up....maybe $50 now.

I pay $69.95 CDN a month for insurance. Fuckin love it.


As far as Wal-Mart......if Mom and Pop stores can't beat their prices.....wtf am I supposed to do? Go pay more just because. Fuck no. And to say Wal-Mart shit is manufactured with less quality is retarded. Tell that to my Acer laptop that is the hub of my network for the last 3 years, or the 26" RCA HDTV I use as a monitor that was purchased at the same time.

People get so mad that they are using capitalistic doctrine in their business practices.........just like every other big corporation out there. Every time you fuel your car, you are giving money to ruthless businesses. How many people have been killed by Dick Cheney's henchmen in Iraq.

You either want capitalism or you don't. Too bad that Wal-Mart just dominates the market.....it really is, but I pay enough fucking taxes, the cost of living is going up, and the shit I buy there is only brand name stuff that lasts just as long as stuff I buy from smaller stores......at a substantial saving.

I guess capitalism has its draw backs..............
 
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