Wal Mart

Started by red baron, December 12, 2008, 10:14:48 PM

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teddy037.2

I don't shop there, either.

Kopfjäger

Quote from: superjohn on December 13, 2008, 11:57:27 AM
+1

I have boycotted Wal-Mart for the last 15 years. They opened a store in my hometown of 6500, lowered the prices below cost and drove out the other retail outlets, then raised the prices. Then they built a Super Wal-Mart next to it and did the same thing to all the local grocery stores. Now, people in town will drive 40-50 miles away to a more populous urban area where the Wal-Mart has more competition to buy their goods because their local store raised the prices again.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not whining and I'm not picketing the place, but I'm not about to fuel a business that I see as predatory to small, locally owned business.

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Quote from: kopfjager on December 13, 2008, 01:20:08 PM
Yeah. You show them who's boss.  ???

I'm not trying to show them anything. Just making a personal choice.

Speedbag

Quote from: He Man on December 13, 2008, 12:22:17 AM
What you dont know is that chinese people are smart enough to not buy their own crappy shit.

+1

Chinese Wal Mart stores carry a lot of good, sometimes high-end American imports. Go figure.
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Quote from: Speedbag on December 13, 2008, 02:42:38 PM
+1

Chinese Wal Mart stores carry a lot of good, sometimes high-end American imports. Go figure.

Cheap shipping rates to China, maybe?

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Speedbag

A friend of mine gets over there several times a year for work (which he hates with a passion) and has been astounded time and time again by what the WM stores there have. And a lot of the people he's seen are pretty well dressed.

I saw a show on the tube once that says because their economy is growing so fast more of their people increasingly have money to burn and seek out better products than their own crap. How ironic.  [roll]
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Quote from: Speedbag on December 13, 2008, 03:25:42 PM

I saw a show on the tube once that says because their economy is growing so fast more of their people increasingly have money to burn and seek out better products than their own crap. How ironic.  [roll]

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Quote from: derby on December 13, 2008, 03:56:43 PM
isn't that what we do? italian motorcycles... german cars... japanese electronics...

hey, now! I... resemble.. that remark!  :D

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Quote from: Grifo on December 13, 2008, 12:15:05 AM
14. Wal-Mart is where Randall gets his women  [cheeky]  [bow_down] 

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What's a Wal Mart?  ???

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Quote from: Super T.I.B on December 14, 2008, 06:18:38 PM
What's a Wal Mart?  ???

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On a clear day in the winter I can actuall see another Wal Mart from a Wal Mart parking lot.

What is in between them?
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