Wal-Mart to sell cheap generic drugs

MarketWatch ^ | 9/21/06 | Jennifer Waters

[kellynla]

"Wal-Mart doesn't actively seek to break any laws nor discriminate against any people?"

That dog won't hunt.

[ConservativeMind]

It sure is nice to see your sourcing for that perspective.

Face it: Your position can't stand any scrutiny.

[Bryan24]

Walmart used to give you:

-Low Prices
-Friendly, helpful Service
-American-Made products
-Wide selection of the same product

Now Wal-Mart gives you:

-Low Prices
-Crappy service
-Chinese-made products
-Greater number of product types, but less selection of brands.

Wal-Mart leverages their immense buying power at the wholesale level to offer low prices. They use this to drive competitors out of that market.

It's a trade-off. You can get dirt cheap prices on low-end products, or go to smaller stores to buy nice, high-end products at high prices.

The mid-range stores have a terrible time making it due to Wal-Mart's practice of "eliminate the competition".

I've been shopping in Wal-Marts since the late 70's. Wal-Mart has already passed the point where they try to keep improving in order to beat the competition. Their service just plain sucks, now.

Yeah, I like the low prices, but I also like to have someone who can answer a question when I have one.

I like to have the choice. Wal-Mart has eliminated the choice in many small towns here in the South. At first, it wasn't so bad. But now, their service has fallen off and their selection isn't as good. But it is much harder to start up a new business in competition with them now.

[1rudeboy]

I think it's funny that the only person on this thread yelping about ChiComs and Lenin, is also the one promoting the notion that folks aren't smart enough to decide for themselves whether to buy drugs at Wal-Mart.

[Mase]

Ya need to get off the Mao-Mart Kool-Aid! LMAO

You need to grab a brain. Wal-Mart won't be sourcing any generic drugs from China and only about 9% of their total purchases comes from China either directly or indirectly. But hey, you've never let facts get in the way of your feebleminded tirades in the past. Why stop now? It's good to know the union hall set up high speed access for you.

[ConservativeMind]

Here in Illinois, it is the exact opposite. Super Wal-Marts literally breathe life into all sorts of other competiting stores, which line it within a 1/4 mile of the Wal-Mart parking lot. They siphon off customers or provide additional shopping opportunities where before there was only a corn field.

[Gabz]

BA DA BING!!!!!!!!!!

[kellynla]

"You need to grab a brain."
you must be looking in the mirror.

That Mao-Mart propaganda you're pushing,
Lenin would be proud

try again...you've got us laughing in the aisles!

[1rudeboy]

ex-Texan will be by shortly to give us a critique of Wal-Mart from a Marxist perspective.

[SuziQ]

I thought WalMart had been doing this all along. I know I got a prescription for an inhaler once, and it wasn't the 'name' brand of medication, but a generic. Didn't matter to me, it was way less expensive and worked like a charm.

With the headline, it sounds as though someone is trying to make it seem as though Wal Mart is offering INFERIOR medication.

[Gabz]

My experiences have been exactly the same, everytime I turn around something new is being built up around WalMart in what used to be fallow fields. Often the local mom & pop's send me to WM for something they either don't carry or are out of and it would be a week or so before their order came in. At other times it has been staff at WalMart that has sent me to a local mom & pop to get something they don't have or consider a seasonal item.

In January I discovered WM considers canning jars American made) to be seasonal items and so unavailable. Thanks to the helpfulness of the gal in housewares and her manager, I was able to find 3 seperate year-round sources, all of which are lower in price than WM.........

[1rudeboy]

Speaking of "looking in the mirror," since when does being unconcerned about a large retailer selling drugs make one a communist?

[Gabz]

I really get a kick out of them :)

[1rudeboy]

This forum would be boring without them . . . I think of them as cute mascots.

[ConservativeMind]

Although I shop at Wal-Mart, I also now go into Walgreens rather frequently. They are on almost every street corner in those very new buildings you mention.

It makes more sense to buy something a few cents more expensive than to drive to Wal-Mart at $.48/mile of added cost.

[Gabz]

I really enjoy reading the nonsense, it's hilarious that so many can be so delusional :)

I've been getting my perscriptions filled at WM ever since we moved here, because it is 1) the closest pharmcy and 2) the pharmacist knows his stuff. When our elemntary school was being plagued with an outbreak of headlice last year he recommended a non-toxic alternative to the standard stuff..........and directed me to another local pharmacy which is the only place in the area that carries it.

[Gabz]

LOL!!! "cute mascots" -- Good one!!!

[kellynla]

If you are ignorant of the lawsuits Mao-Mart has had to pay former employees for unlawful business practices then that's your problem not mine. And of course the Asian slave labor that Mao-Mart profits from shouldn't concern an American patriotic "conservativenind" like you.

[1rudeboy]

My impression is that Walgreens runs a tight ship. I don't see it bowing before Wal-Mart. Some of its immediate competitors, such as CVS, etc., appear to be more of a threat.

[capitalist229]

This will go over as well as irrigating spinach from manure-laden farm ponds.

BUMP