HippiePower
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well too me its like mcdonalds is everywhere and sometimes you have no choice. but to succumb to corporate facism.
Wal-Mart: The Asshole of America
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SimpleSimon
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Well i might be just some crazy hippie from canada, but i always find an alternative to the conglomerate. Havn't eaten mcdonalds in years.
SimpleSimon
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You know Xsil3nt i was thinking. If you are truly against the media in the forms that it currently exist. And you know the core meanings behind why the media is so bad. Then it means that you haven't dug deep enough on that subject. Because if you get to the root of that, you will understand the fundamental reason why Wal-mart is so bad. Because its the same reason!
Zekedogg
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Do you know what you pay in taxes for each gal of gas???
anhedonia
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This entire thread reads like a bunch of characters from south park were having a discussion. I would like to go into detail about the chinese communists and how wal-mart is destroying the environment and causing what economists have called economic pollution.
heres an exce
A gallon-sized jar of whole pickles is something to behold. The jar is the size of a small aquarium. The fat green pickles, floating in swampy juice, look reptilian, their shapes exaggerated by the glass. It weighs 12 pounds, too big to carry with one hand. The gallon jar of pickles is a display of abundance and excess; it is entrancing, and also vaguely unsettling. This is the product that Wal-Mart fell in love with: Vlasic's gallon jar of pickles.
Wal-Mart priced it at $2.97--a year's supply of pickles for less than $3! "They were using it as a 'statement' item," says Pat Hunn, who calls himself the "mad scientist" of Vlasic's gallon jar. "Wal-Mart was putting it before consumers, saying, This represents what Wal-Mart's about. You can buy a stinkin' gallon of pickles for $2.97. And it's the nation's number-one brand."
Therein lies the basic conundrum of doing business with the world's largest retailer. By selling a gallon of kosher dills for less than most grocers sell a quart, Wal-Mart may have provided a ser-vice for its customers. But what did it do for Vlasic? The pickle maker had spent decades convincing customers that they should pay a premium for its brand. Now Wal-Mart was practically giving them away. And the fevered buying spree that resulted distorted every aspect of Vlasic's operations, from farm field to factory to financial statement.
Indeed, as Vlasic discovered, the real story of Wal-Mart, the story that never gets told, is the story of the pressure the biggest retailer relentlessly applies to its suppliers in the name of bringing us "every day low prices." It's the story of what that pressure does to the companies Wal-Mart does business with, to U.S. manufacturing, and to the economy as a whole. That story can be found floating in a gallon jar of pickles at Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart is not just the world's largest retailer. It's the world's largest company--bigger than ExxonMobil, General Motors, and General Electric. The scale can be hard to absorb. Wal-Mart sold $244.5 billion worth of goods last year. It sells in three months what
number-two retailer Home Depot sells in a year. And in its own category of general merchandise and groceries, Wal-Mart no longer has any real rivals. It does more business than Target, Sears, Kmart, J.C. Penney, Safeway, and Kroger combined. "Clearly," says Edward Fox, head of Southern Methodist University's J.C. Penney Center for Retailing Excellence, "Wal-Mart is more powerful than any retailer has ever been." It is, in fact, so big and so furtively powerful as to have become an entirely different order of corporate being.
rpt from a book called the wal-mart effect. interesting stuff.
heres an exce
A gallon-sized jar of whole pickles is something to behold. The jar is the size of a small aquarium. The fat green pickles, floating in swampy juice, look reptilian, their shapes exaggerated by the glass. It weighs 12 pounds, too big to carry with one hand. The gallon jar of pickles is a display of abundance and excess; it is entrancing, and also vaguely unsettling. This is the product that Wal-Mart fell in love with: Vlasic's gallon jar of pickles.
Wal-Mart priced it at $2.97--a year's supply of pickles for less than $3! "They were using it as a 'statement' item," says Pat Hunn, who calls himself the "mad scientist" of Vlasic's gallon jar. "Wal-Mart was putting it before consumers, saying, This represents what Wal-Mart's about. You can buy a stinkin' gallon of pickles for $2.97. And it's the nation's number-one brand."
Therein lies the basic conundrum of doing business with the world's largest retailer. By selling a gallon of kosher dills for less than most grocers sell a quart, Wal-Mart may have provided a ser-vice for its customers. But what did it do for Vlasic? The pickle maker had spent decades convincing customers that they should pay a premium for its brand. Now Wal-Mart was practically giving them away. And the fevered buying spree that resulted distorted every aspect of Vlasic's operations, from farm field to factory to financial statement.
Indeed, as Vlasic discovered, the real story of Wal-Mart, the story that never gets told, is the story of the pressure the biggest retailer relentlessly applies to its suppliers in the name of bringing us "every day low prices." It's the story of what that pressure does to the companies Wal-Mart does business with, to U.S. manufacturing, and to the economy as a whole. That story can be found floating in a gallon jar of pickles at Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart is not just the world's largest retailer. It's the world's largest company--bigger than ExxonMobil, General Motors, and General Electric. The scale can be hard to absorb. Wal-Mart sold $244.5 billion worth of goods last year. It sells in three months what
number-two retailer Home Depot sells in a year. And in its own category of general merchandise and groceries, Wal-Mart no longer has any real rivals. It does more business than Target, Sears, Kmart, J.C. Penney, Safeway, and Kroger combined. "Clearly," says Edward Fox, head of Southern Methodist University's J.C. Penney Center for Retailing Excellence, "Wal-Mart is more powerful than any retailer has ever been." It is, in fact, so big and so furtively powerful as to have become an entirely different order of corporate being.
rpt from a book called the wal-mart effect. interesting stuff.
SimpleSimon
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I forgot another fun fact. Most music labels have to submit a copy of all lyrics that will be sold in wal-mart, to wal-mart. Wal-mart has in the past (nickelback, Britney, REM, Red hot chillie peppers) made artist change the lyrics in there songs because they didn't like the message.
Now, when your label tells you to either change the lyrics, or loose 30% of the market share, what are you going to do.
Now think about how our society shapes itself around its music. Current music is very often a direct reflection of how the poeple feel. If a single retailer has the power to change lyrics, and change minds through it. We are really in trouble.
Thank god for indie music.
Now, when your label tells you to either change the lyrics, or loose 30% of the market share, what are you going to do.
Now think about how our society shapes itself around its music. Current music is very often a direct reflection of how the poeple feel. If a single retailer has the power to change lyrics, and change minds through it. We are really in trouble.
Thank god for indie music.
smokeylee
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yea wal-mart isn't the best. They ripped of their employee's of overtime money and other such things but to tell people to shop at target is far worst.Target is evil. Target once said that it supported gay rights, and would not support the war on terrorism or anyone involved in it menaing the troops, the people who really have no choice I as a vet of this war has been boycotting target and plus wal-mart pays my bills.
immacomputa
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I have to buy at walmart because it's the only store on my bus line and america doesn't support good mass transportation. walmart isn't the only problem america has.
I may be from Canada but I'd have to agree on that one with you, America has other problums beside Wal-Mart
I perfer to save a few $ then to pay more
XSiL3nTX
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Agreed. This is why Walmart is so successful.
yea I spend over $200 on music and I prob would have been paying close to $300 on musc for the same cds and that's what realy opened my eyes when I thought it would have costed close to $300 but it came to just a little over $200
GrowBigOrGrowHome
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There was a link posted earlier to Snopes, a fairly reputable and well researched website, about how that wasn't true. snopes.com: Rumors About Target
Do you have first hand experience with them not supporting you as a vet?
smokeylee
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not me personally, but the store in my area had rejected the vets and family members wanting to set up a stand by their store for a donation drive to send troops supplies and what not.http://http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-target-veterans.htm
though this may not be a corporate thing it is all done store by store. The real question is who do you want to believe. I know that I will continue my boycott until I see at the very least a toy's for tots donation drop off point at the store come the holiday season.
though this may not be a corporate thing it is all done store by store. The real question is who do you want to believe. I know that I will continue my boycott until I see at the very least a toy's for tots donation drop off point at the store come the holiday season.