[Toddsterpatriot]

I don't have access to the relative profitability of different product lines or departments at Wally World.

Excellent!

Perhaps you could show how WalMart's profit margins suddenly jumped when they "'encouraged' its suppliers to engage in wage arbitrage, pocketed the bulk of the savings, and passed a bit of the savings on to its consumers"

Since their percentage of foreign goods sold must be getting higher every year, according to some Freepers 100% of their goods are already from China, it should be easy to show that their profit margin is constantly rising.

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[grey_whiskers]

I'll reply shortly -- I have a teenager to deal with here ;-)

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

Perhaps you could show how WalMart's profit margins suddenly jumped when they "'encouraged' its suppliers to engage in wage arbitrage, pocketed the bulk of the savings, and passed a bit of the savings on to its consumers"

No, but I can show where suppliers are forced to cut into the bone to please Wal-Mart, and then have to offshore or go out of business.

Try FastCompany.com, click here and here.

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