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16 Mar 2012, 7:06 pm

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16 Mar 2012, 7:25 pm

If you don't like WalMart just don't shop there. Honestly if WalMart didn't exist there would be another store that fills the same exact spot.



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16 Mar 2012, 7:42 pm

I don't go there very much at all like I used to.
I don't like their predatory business practices against smaller, especially locally owned, businesses.
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16 Mar 2012, 7:44 pm

I've been tempted to drop a deuce on the floor a couple times. Wish I had gotten that off of my "before you turn 18" bucket list.



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16 Mar 2012, 7:47 pm

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I've been tempted to drop a deuce on the floor a couple times. Wish I had gotten that off of my "before you turn 18" bucket list.


So punish the workers for the corporation?


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16 Mar 2012, 8:22 pm

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So punish the workers for the corporation?



:heart: The quote.

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16 Mar 2012, 9:41 pm

Alexender wrote:
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I've been tempted to drop a deuce on the floor a couple times. Wish I had gotten that off of my "before you turn 18" bucket list.


So punish the workers for the corporation?


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I'm guessing I don't have the dexterity to get it in the coffee pot.

EDIT: I'd do it in the stores too, right in front of the greeter.



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16 Mar 2012, 9:49 pm

I think we should put magnets on the corpse of Sam Walton so we can use him to generate electricity, that's what.



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17 Mar 2012, 3:20 am

I don't shop there if I can help it.



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17 Mar 2012, 3:24 am

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NO, the supermarket industry is an oligopoly! Not only are supermarkets harming the retail sector there are impacting on urban planning and the real estate market (I know for a fact from one supermarket employee, that there employer makes more money on real estate than on the goods & services the supermarket sells).

Also with there diversification strategies are effecting other business sectors.


The supermarkets sell food umpteen times cheaper than Ma an Pa Inc. To Hell with Ma and Pa.

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17 Mar 2012, 11:45 am

ruveyn wrote:
Chipshorter wrote:

NO, the supermarket industry is an oligopoly! Not only are supermarkets harming the retail sector there are impacting on urban planning and the real estate market (I know for a fact from one supermarket employee, that there employer makes more money on real estate than on the goods & services the supermarket sells).

Also with there diversification strategies are effecting other business sectors.


The supermarkets sell food umpteen times cheaper than Ma an Pa Inc. To Hell with Ma and Pa.


You wouldn't be saying that if you owned a small business now, especially a small business that has to compete with supermarkets for trade. You do know that supermarkets exploit there supply chains and economies of scale to get you your cheap food.
So are you perfectly OK with farmers who supply food to supermarkets to be ripped off & exploited so that you can get your cheap food?


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17 Mar 2012, 4:13 pm

Chipshorter wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
Chipshorter wrote:

NO, the supermarket industry is an oligopoly! Not only are supermarkets harming the retail sector there are impacting on urban planning and the real estate market (I know for a fact from one supermarket employee, that there employer makes more money on real estate than on the goods & services the supermarket sells).

Also with there diversification strategies are effecting other business sectors.


The supermarkets sell food umpteen times cheaper than Ma an Pa Inc. To Hell with Ma and Pa.


You wouldn't be saying that if you owned a small business now, especially a small business that has to compete with supermarkets for trade. You do know that supermarkets exploit there supply chains and economies of scale to get you your cheap food.
So are you perfectly OK with farmers who supply food to supermarkets to be ripped off & exploited so that you can get your cheap food?


I won't speak for ruveyn,
but has it occurred to you that most people have to buy cheap food, or else have no food at all?


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17 Mar 2012, 4:26 pm

Chipshorter wrote:
The supermarkets sell food umpteen times cheaper than Ma an Pa Inc. To Hell with Ma and Pa.


You wouldn't be saying that if you owned a small business now, especially a small business that has to compete with supermarkets for trade. You do know that supermarkets exploit there supply chains and economies of scale to get you your cheap food.
So are you perfectly OK with farmers who supply food to supermarkets to be ripped off & exploited so that you can get your cheap food?[/quote]

Most food is grown on corporate farms in the United States. Farmers are no long the poor waifs and Oakies of the 1930s.

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17 Mar 2012, 5:07 pm

ValentineWiggin wrote:
I won't speak for ruveyn,
but has it occurred to you that most people have to buy cheap food, or else have no food at all?


I am aware of that fact thank you, are you aware that people working in the food supply chain have to eat as well.
Now is it fair that suppliers lose out financially all for the sake that costumers and supermarkets demanding cheaper products?

Supermarkets are the winners in the supply chain due to there focus on achieving profit maximization, the initial suppliers at the start of the supply chain are the ones that lose out the most.


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17 Mar 2012, 9:02 pm

Chipshorter wrote:
ValentineWiggin wrote:
I won't speak for ruveyn,
but has it occurred to you that most people have to buy cheap food, or else have no food at all?


I am aware of that fact thank you, are you aware that people working in the food supply chain have to eat as well.
Now is it fair that suppliers lose out financially all for the sake that costumers and supermarkets demanding cheaper products?

Supermarkets are the winners in the supply chain due to there focus on achieving profit maximization, the initial suppliers at the start of the supply chain are the ones that lose out the most.


Actually supermarkets work a low profit margins to maximize sales volumes. If a store sells a lot of stuff cheap it makes a fine return on capital invested.

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17 Mar 2012, 9:42 pm

Walmart is a good place to fortify and defend in case of a zombie apocalypse. That was the subject of a Judge John Hodgeman episode recently (A radio show).

Unfortunately a lot of other people would have the same idea.