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re: Walmart??

Posted by Built Ford Tough on 5/6/20 at 10:04 pm
I mean they sort of killed small business in small town America. How many empty main streets have you seen when you drive around the country? You can very easily make the argument, if it wasn’t Walmart, it would just have bee n someone else — and I would agree with you....
And they are going to be screwed at election time if 10’s of millions of Americans lose their health insurance overnight - which is what will happen if the SC strikes the bill down...

re: Walmart??

Posted by Built Ford Tough on 5/6/20 at 9:56 pm
They could probably pick up a few energy companies at major discounts right now...

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Posted by Built Ford Tough on 5/6/20 at 9:54 pm
The manufacturing industry in this country greatly collapsed and the blue collar workers that Walmart targets/targeted lost their careers ...

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Posted by Built Ford Tough on 5/6/20 at 9:51 pm
This was more of a historical thing — and yes they have upped their wages over the last few years...

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Posted by Built Ford Tough on 5/6/20 at 9:50 pm
The difference is Amazon connects millions of small businesses directly to consumers (and yes Amazon does very sketchy stuff as well)...

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Posted by Built Ford Tough on 5/6/20 at 9:48 pm
I don’t disagree at all. I just feel like Trump Nation should be extremely anti-Walmart based on the model they built their company on and their strong historical ties to Chinese manufacturing....

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Posted by Built Ford Tough on 5/6/20 at 9:44 pm
K-Mart lost out because they sucked at the China game. Walmart was really the first major driving force that connected cheap Chinese goods to the American markets in mass....

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Posted by Built Ford Tough on 5/6/20 at 9:43 pm
They don’t make the products. China does / or did...

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Posted by Built Ford Tough on 5/6/20 at 9:41 pm
Walmart is a major reason the US has the relationship with China today, which involved crushing the manufacturing sector ...

re: Walmart??

Posted by Built Ford Tough on 5/6/20 at 9:38 pm
I have a hard time seeing how their consumers benefited in the long run....

Walmart??

Posted by Built Ford Tough on 5/6/20 at 9:35 pm
Why don’t people on this board slam Walmart? They had more to do with destroying mill town American than any other corporation out there. And to do it, they targeted the people whose jobs they were destroying as they snapped up massive percentages of the retail market share in rural America (and the...
Just to clarify, no vaccine and no pharma product that knocks it out?...
I think we are all stumbling around because of the alcohols ...
That’s a bold call in an election year / massive economic downturn ...
Boise State deserves to be in the Top 10 with what they have done....
They cleaned it up a lot in 2018...
That is going to be a hard needle to thread if unemp is still north of 10 in 3Q. If people ask themselves the question of if they were better off than 4 years ago.......