How is it so obvious what wal-mart is trying to do by monopolizing itself. And yet we all still shop there. With trying to create a walmart bank to all of their instore products? What do you think?
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Have not really thought about it. For some reason in my area, Walmart does not seem to be offering the products I want at better prices than what I can get elsewhere. When I visit friends and family in the midwest it seem the Walmart there seem have better offers.\n\nAs far as the services they offer I have not taken advance of their credit or banking service.
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Of Course!  \n\nThe documentary you seen seems quite accurate.  I stopped shopping there years ago with no desire to return.  The links below will direct you to more articles relating to the company.  Good or bad, their history speaks for them.\n\nI believe most of us now understand the crimes of Walmart.  I wish the focus would turn more towards investigating McDonald's, Coka Cola and other fast food/soft drink giants for poisioning the world with drugs that addict children and adults.  Not to mention the unethical way these companies do business as well. \n  \nAs far as the car question, I stopped driving over a year ago due to the rediculious gas prices.  I don't wish to support the current administration (which by the way SUPPORTS Wal-mart).  I have found biking and walking to be the best way to go.  Public transportation only when needed for extreme long distances.  Of all the 10+ cars I owned over the years, only one was foreign which was old and used.    \n\n:)\nPeace
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How many times have you gone to the store and bought something you didn't need, it was more of a want.  Everyone does that...it's wasteful.  Instead of donating things to a Goodwill or Salvation Army people throw things out that can still be used.  \n\nAttitude's are wasted everyday when people are mean for no reason.
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That's great but it doesn't make Walmart this nice company.  They're obviously just doing what it takes to get the dollars at Christmas.\n\nHERE YOU ARE, YOU'RE HEART ALL WARM ABOUT SAYING MERRY CHRISTMAS BECAUSE YOU'RE GLAD THEY'RE KEEPING CHRIST IN CHRISTMAS YET YOU CALL ME STUPID.  THAT'S VERY LAME.
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I pretty much agree with what you say.  I'm not stoning Walmart and as for Starbucks, the idiots paying 3 to 5 dollars for coffee are the ones needing to be stoned.\nWith Walmart, the driving issue is people who don't have much excess money and are looking for a good price on mostly essential items.  I relate to them big time.\n\nAs for what drives the Starbucks phenomenon,  in large part, it's people who have plenty of disposable resources, like to "drop names" (Oh, guess who I saw in STARBUCKS yesterday!!! <gush, gush, gag, gag>) have no concept of value and want to be "trendy" by spend a ridiculous amount on a cup of so-so coffee.  Call me cheap but aint NO freeking cup of coffee worth the going price there so.... the attraction ISNT "value".  BTW, value isnt a dirty word when your resources are finite..
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how many employees at a Walmart make enough money to support themselves??  Very damn few!! Walmart SUCKS!
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Wal Mart gave a one time donation to a gay organization concerned with equity in the workplace.  They had given similar donations to dozens of other organizations at the same time to dampen some of the furor over WalMart's employment practices in general.  Bowing to pressure from a conservative group, Wal Mart severed ties with the gay group.  \n\nYou EMail was of course a gross exagerration (like most emails advocatting boycotts, little truth to them).\n\nNo percent of profits were going to any groups, gay or straight.  These were one time gifts.  And the organizations involved who did receive the gift were only involved with workplace issues, and NOT the gay "movement" per se.\n\nChristian right wing groups will make little effort to stop Emails from being circulated, no will those who send them.  They stand to gain if the "untruth" still circulates, keeping their base agitated is the name of the game, not the truth.
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I don't know - some people will do anything to save 42 cents on Comet so they can buy a DVD they don't need.  I hate that store.  I would like to say I hate it mostly because of their business practices, but that's not the real reason.  The real reason is because the stores seem dirty, there are too many snotty-nosed filthy screaming children, and I feel like I need to shower as soon as I come out.  Of course, I've only been inside two (2) Wal*Marts, but that's enough for me, thanks.
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I do agree with you about the employee's attitudes at some of the Wal Mart stores...but this is also happening at other places of business...People are more rude today than years ago. Not that there were not rude people years ago but when an employee was reported to the store manager as being rude to a customer action was taken because the customer was always right even if wrong we never argued or was rude to a customer. \nI do know that Wal Mart has cut back on their employees and this makes it difficult for the ones working to keep up with the customers and also to do their work. (no excuse get another job). I find that sense Mr. Sam Walton passed away that things have changed at Wally World. (that's what I call Wal Mart because it is like a circus)\nBack to the subject...Every time an employee is rude get their name (ask them if you don't see their name tag) and report them right then and there. (ask to see the manager)
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Ameriplan is not a scam.  If we were all the major pharmacies, vision providers and thousands of doctors would not be involved with us.   Get real people.   I get so sick of seeing people say we are a scam who don't put the effort into making anything work or do their research.  Wal-Mart has more complaints than we do. Is Wal-Mart scamming the millions who shop there?  And what company doesn't have complaints/unsatisfied customers at some point?
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They are doing that in many smaller communities.  Just imagine you owned the local grocery store and are making a good living.  Walmart comes into town, you are out of business.  You will never be able to get the wholesale prices that they get or sell the different products that they are able to.\n\nThey are lowering income levels of the entire community when they move in.  That is according to their own study.\n\nAnother issue with Walmart is how they deal with suppliers.  If you had a farm and sold your produce to Walmart, they will say we need a 20% discount from you.  And if they are you only customer, what do you do?\n\nThey are hard on the community (store owners) they move in and the suppliers.
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OMG!  The mall was packed when I drove by, not a parking spot left in sight!\n\nMy guess is that retailers are pushing it more and more....\n\nHeck-Walmart had their holiday stuff out since end of August! I hate going to the garden center during 80 degree weather and seeing christmas trees and snow shovels! ;o
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Bottom line MONEY.  The UFCW will tell you time and time again it's for the benefit of the Walmart employees, but that's a blatant lie.  It's for the benefit of the UFCW management.\n\nIf WalMart Employees wanted a union, they could form a powerful union on their own.  The major problem with this issue, if you increase costs to Walmart, you increase prices of products, you reduce your market share, and then the jobs start going away.  That's probably the reality the Walmart Employees understand.
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Simply - BOYCOTT! \n\nI refuse to shop at Walmart. I wont buy gas from any of the Major Oil Companies. Unfortunately, we all need phone service, and in the 80's the feds broke up the phone company monopoloy - but it has rebuilt itself! So, boycott the govt, and dont elect greedy republicans to any position! If no one shopped at Walmart, they wouldnt be making money...
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Yes, they are evil. But there are a lot of things I buy there, too, because they're cheaper than everywhere else. \n\nThe only thing that can convince any of us not to shop there is going in at the wrong time, like the day the welfare accounts get replenished.
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I can't say that I actually hate walmart, however, I don't like some of the policies they have. It's convenient for me to shop there, because in my town, we don't have very many department stores to choose from. Trust me, if another large chain would happen to come here, I'd shop there. We do have a Meijer Store, but their prices are higher on many things.
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Walmart is the devil!\nThey drive many American businesses out of business... because their "price rollback" means they can't make enough money on their products. So these business move to another country or just shut down their doors.\nAlso, walmart is horrible to their employees - health care? what's that? and, a friend of mine was kept at 37.5 hours (or something) a week, 1/2 hour shy of full time, just so they wouldnt have to give her health care.\nWalmart is the DEVIL!