Posted on 04/30/2005 10:46:54 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
As Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has grown into the nation's biggest grocer, St. Louis is one place where its Supercenters have been curiously scarce. Now, Wal-Mart says the area needs more of its grocery megastores.
"We really like St. Louis," said spokesman Ryan Horn. "We're looking very closely at a number of places in the St. Louis area, and that's not going to change."
A lot of others wish it would.
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
Why do they only criticize WalMart? Target also offers low prices, same merchandise (from China), etc...Oh, I forgot, the Dayton family (owners of Target) are a big contributor to the Dem party.
Costco has selection every bit as good as Sam's Club, and prices every bit as low. Yet they pay their people a decent wage and provide a much higher level of benefits at a much lower cost to the employee. And Costco is very profitable to boot. What do they know that Walmart doesn't? One difference I notice is that the Costco employees don't act like a surly troll when you ask them a question, and we actually see the same people from week to week at Costco.
The neocommunist, anti-American, anti-capitalist, union thug crapweasels sure to like to attack Walmart!
WalMart is a prime mover behind the transfer of manufacturing jobs to China. The business practices of WalMart undermine the entire infrastructure of the small towns they enter.
They do not buy American products; rather, their false god of "always lower prices" seduces them to abuse their employees, their suppliers, and, ultimately, the host communities they suck dry.
No secret there. It irks them to no end that wal-mart made it big. They want to bring ill feelings against wal-mart in order to make taxing the crap out of them possible, if you generate enough ill will against someone then you can push for taxes and stand a chance of getting them put through.
Witness how they say rich people are all evil therefore we should tax rich people at a higher rate than poor people. Wal-Mart is simply another rich entity on their hit list for wealth distribution.
Giant Eagle Grocery in the Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia area are are working the same way and I'm for them.
Big Box Stores=Chinese Factory Outlets
One thing Wal-Mart knows better than Costco is how to make money. If you don't like Wal-Mart, don't shop there. Their success is contingent upon offering value and selection. That's the nature of capitalism.
Companies don't go into business to "pay a decent wage and provide a much higher level of benefits at a much lower cost to their employees." Companies go into business to turn a PROFIT. If their business practices offend you, or if you think you can do it better, open your own mega-store and pay your employees $50/hour to bag groceries.
and now we get to see the undercover Marxists come out...
Walmart is in business for profit.
I dont think I have ever even SEEN a Costco, much less been into one.
I guess I am one of those people that are now contributing to Sam's Club and Walmart as I just got my membership to Sam's. I am such a communist heathen!!! /sarcasm
This is simply an out-and-out lie and something that could have been easily copied and pasted from a DU thread.
No question about it. All you need do is substitute Reardan Metals for Wal Mart and you can see the envy and watch the communists glare. (Reference is to Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged")
They have already taken steps to bring government regulation to Wal Mart. Soon they will ask the government to take over the stores and the company.
Well seeing as Walmart dwarves Costco I think the question is reversed
Im sure Costco has everything made in America huh?
Target and Payless too
Hell everybody but Walmart is yankee doodle dandies
Costco's management gave ooodles of money to Moveon.org and other far-left organizations that are intent on having our country not fight back against the people who are trying to kill us.
Why not? Fear of the unknown or are they simply not concerned?
Put down Ayn Rand for about eight seconds and pick up Adam Smith...
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