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re: Walmart??
Posted on 5/6/20 at 9:49 pm to Built Ford Tough
Posted on 5/6/20 at 9:49 pm to Built Ford Tough
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K-Mart lost out because they sucked at the China game
K-Mart lost out because Sears folded.
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Posted on 5/6/20 at 9:49 pm to Built Ford Tough
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(and they take so much advantage of the welfare programs in this country that their employees that make $10/hour have to rely on to survive).
bullshite. I live in a very rural/small town area.. 1300 people.. and the starting pay at Walmart is 14/hr.
Posted on 5/6/20 at 9:50 pm to Jinglebob
The difference is Amazon connects millions of small businesses directly to consumers (and yes Amazon does very sketchy stuff as well)
Posted on 5/6/20 at 9:50 pm to Zahrim
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i just dont shop there unless i have to buy something i cant get anywhere else in town.
Why?
Posted on 5/6/20 at 9:51 pm to Dale51
This was more of a historical thing — and yes they have upped their wages over the last few years
Posted on 5/6/20 at 9:51 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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We live in a market economy where companies compete to win.
Walmart was able to offer consumers products at lower prices. They won. And consumers benefited.
Nobody has a right to a job.
Partially, we also live in an economy in which conservatively Walmart has spent millions in lobbying to ensure their dominance and exploited their relationship with politicians, especially the Clinton's and even using the Podesta Group as one of their primary lobbyists.
Posted on 5/6/20 at 9:51 pm to Built Ford Tough
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I have a hard time seeing how their consumers benefited in the long run.
What do you mean? Can you explain that reasoning?
Thanks.
Posted on 5/6/20 at 9:52 pm to BamaPig
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K-Mart lost out because Sears folded
Sears and KMart merger was the worst decision ever by KMart. It cost their retired employees a ton of money if not all of it
KMart also never understood that keeping home offices in Michigan was bad for them
Posted on 5/6/20 at 9:52 pm to Built Ford Tough
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(and they take so much advantage of the welfare programs in this country that their employees that make $10/hour have to rely on to survive
Seems more like you disagree with government handouts than walmart over this. They don’t control welfare programs. I can’t blame anyone for utilizing benefits afforded to them by the gov.
Posted on 5/6/20 at 9:53 pm to Built Ford Tough
I've been anti WalMart since the 90's.
It's conquest is complete in my small town as the last stand alone grocery store closed last year. Downtown is full of empty storefronts.
It's conquest is complete in my small town as the last stand alone grocery store closed last year. Downtown is full of empty storefronts.
Posted on 5/6/20 at 9:53 pm to sms151t
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Sears and KMart merger was the worst decision ever by KMart.
My Mom lost thousands.
Posted on 5/6/20 at 9:54 pm to Dale51
The manufacturing industry in this country greatly collapsed and the blue collar workers that Walmart targets/targeted lost their careers
Posted on 5/6/20 at 9:55 pm to SquatchDawg
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Walmart just took dvntage if it better than most.
How DARE they!!!!
Posted on 5/6/20 at 9:55 pm to BuckyCheese
It will be interesting to see what Walmart does now that Murphy Oil is leaving Arkansas. They consolidated a ton of power when they got in good with Arvest who took over McIlroy.
Posted on 5/6/20 at 9:56 pm to sms151t
They could probably pick up a few energy companies at major discounts right now
This post was edited on 5/6/20 at 9:58 pm
Posted on 5/6/20 at 9:57 pm to BamaPig
As did mine. She got out though before the collapse of the 90’s My grandfather worked for Sears and retired in 80’s and took a lump sum, he had railroad and Navy retirement for his later years.
Posted on 5/6/20 at 9:58 pm to Built Ford Tough
I hope they do to help stabilize the economy. But you will complain somehow.
Posted on 5/6/20 at 10:01 pm to Built Ford Tough
How freaking many posters here have 8 year old alters in waiting?
Posted on 5/6/20 at 10:01 pm to Built Ford Tough
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Trump Nation should be extremely anti-Walmart based on the model they built their company on and their strong historical ties to Chinese manufacturing.
So people who voted for a person who has used Chinese manufacturing for years should be anti-Walmart because they sell Chinese-made products?
Posted on 5/6/20 at 10:04 pm to Steadmans Cheddar
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.
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.
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