Posted on 02/25/2014 1:20:12 PM PST by Starman417
Big Business can manage the minimum wage increase. Their smaller competitors can’t. The same with Obamacare.
Interesting. The Wal-mart haters here don’t sound any different than the Democrat and union Wal-mart critics.
We ought to price those Chinese slave labor goods out of our market.
Just visited an ALDI for the first time last week. I was surprised at the low pricing.
Everything except meats was significantly less. Even milk was 40 cents / gal less than WM.
It’s not convenient to us to go there but may be worthwhile a couple times per month. I have to subtract the $3.50 gas cost for the trip from my savings, LOL.
In a little town where I shop there is this combo at an intersection, one across the street from the other.
That is the way my closest 2 are. I saw construction going on in another part of town. Walgreens on one side and CVS on the other side. It is like one can not exist without the other one.
“We bought a box of cereal from Walmart yesterday, the box said 23 ounces, we took it home, placed it next to an older box, THAT box said 25 ounces, even though it was the same size!”
Unbelievable.
Were the prices the same and were they bought at different stores?
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Years ago, there was a thread on Wal-Mart here. I followed a link, and someone had actually done a study on this and there were several interesting conclusions.
1. When Wal-Mart comes to town, the for most of the people there it is like everyone got a 10% raise. Even if you don’t shop at Wal-Mart you benefit because other stores try to match prices.
2. The number of mom and pop operations in the town actually increases. The type changes. If you own the corner pharmacy, you are going to be in trouble—Wal-Mart is lower priced. If you own Frank’s Custom Mufflers you are going to do better than you were. Wal-Mart will bring more traffic, and they don’t compete with you. All kinds of specialty stores thrive with Wal-Mart next door. The common feature is that they are selling something Wal-Mart doesn’t.
Well slap a 10% import tariff on the incoming cheap crap then things look a little different. A tariff could offset income taxes and promote domestic competition and production. A win-win. Most Free trades love the status quo of sky high income taxes, low(or no tariffs) and high unemployment.
Personally I hate Free Traders. The best scare tactic of the Free Trader is to claim a $1.00 screwdriver made in China and sold at Wally World would cost $10,20,30(pick an outrageous number) Dollars if made in the USA. It is a lie and BS.
THIS! In pursuit of slightly cheaper consumer products, Americans have financed their enemies and dealt with Communist slave-masters.
Consumer greed is the root of the Walmart (or any other big chain store you want to blame) problem. Consumers want more stuff for their dollar primarily, quality secondarily, and a strong America lastly and leastly.
Lee Iacocca insisted that the management types at Chrysler had to dump their Caddies and drive Chrysler products to work or find work elsewhere. An example set to self preserve their industry. If American manufacturing workers and the communities that relied on that manufacturing purchased their own products, they would still have jobs.
Yes we have done all this in search or as some might put it “coveting more stuff,” purchased at low prices.
Yup...same size, different stores, but the Walmart one was a bit cheaper.
Ed
walmart did NOT kill the mom and pop stores..
NO ONE forced Walmart customers to shop there.
They are the ones to blame, not walmart.
That’s like blaming KIA for the death of GM (don’t kid yourself. GM is dead) because they sold cars cheaper.
I don’t trust anything from Walmart...
why? did they lie to you about the contents of the box?
or did you fail to look at it?
Most of what they sell Is the same as other stores
I don’t trust them because the box looks exactly the same as the box that earlier had more content, obviously meant to deceive people.
It’s as if your spaghetti that you bought for years and years was suddenly made of sawdust.
I know you’re saying we should scrutinize every box to see if they’ve subtly changed the contents while retaining the appearance, but do we really want our grocers to act like forgers and grifters, changing contents, sizes, etc., whilst keeping the appearance exactly the same, hoping to deceive consumers?
That’s not capitalism, that’s fraud, make legal by fine print and consumer’s assumptions that they’re dealing with honest businessmen.
Ed
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