Author Topic: Wal-Mart is Bad For America (Read 1179 times)

Jackal1 · « **Reply #45 on:** November 04, 2005, 12:15:57 AM »

ROC, you talk all that and seem to be saying that it is a good thing.
You can have it.
I`ll take small town and pay higher prices anyday.
Some of the Mom and Pop`s, as you have explained, have been hanging on by a shoestring around here also. Most of them have been "hanging on" for 20, 30, 40 years.

The "Cowgirls" are getting a new stadium also. People are loosing their homes over this. Not just houses , their homes. Everything is not dollars and cents. Some things go way beyond that.

Sandman · « **Reply #46 on:** November 04, 2005, 12:24:23 AM »

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Originally posted by ROC
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Walmart isn't the boogie man. Reacting to sound bites and hype is the scary thing.

In another words, WalMart is better than nothing.

Okay... we'll give you that.

Hangtime · « **Reply #47 on:** November 04, 2005, 01:02:19 AM »

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Originally posted by Sandman
In another words, WalMart is better than nothing.

"The fat chicks on isle 12 are to die for...

...hehehhehhehheeheheheh".

Skilless · « **Reply #48 on:** November 04, 2005, 02:00:53 AM »

And if I may, I'd like to take it back to the original post--

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/view/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/view/#rest

Skilless · « **Reply #49 on:** November 04, 2005, 02:05:27 AM »

I went to Circleville when I was a kid. They have a pumkin festival every year.

beet1e · « **Reply #50 on:** November 04, 2005, 02:22:28 AM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
My daughter is starting out in her working life. Wall mart is very good for her.

lazs

LOL Lazs! I saw the thread title, and was about to add "don't tell Lazs", but you were the first to reply!

Hope your daughter's doing OK.

lazs2 · « **Reply #51 on:** November 04, 2005, 08:36:03 AM »

Ok.. We have an ace hardware in town... those thieving aholes ran this town for 25 years with "sevice with a sneer" and any markup short of 100% was a godsend. they paid their emplyees the minimum wage and tried their best to cheat on that.

We had zero bookstores and a bicycle shop that opened when he felt like it and had no emplyees.

Most of the old bussiness in town are still open in their same slipshod way but ace has gotten bigger and now the same aholes are smiling and asking how you are doing with fake concern and bringing their prices down to reasonable levels... they couldn't find anyone to work their for 6 months when they needed a new person so they raised the starting pay and actually (gasp) offered a few benifiets.

My daughter needed a job bad and I need her to have one... she could have worked at the local places part time or fast food part time but got a job at Wall mart for $9 an hour to start and benifiets.

I buy some things there. mostly not. Most things they don't have that I want. I can't believe skilless is unable to simply order any cd he wants off the internet... maybe he really is skilless.

Wall mart also increases the general fund of the city by about 2 million a year... the old mom and pop stores brought nothing.

I am failing to see the evil here.

lazs