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I find these days I am more and more fed up with price gauging, the cheapening of products, smaller amounts, lack of service and what I feel is a lack of corporate and government honesty. I find I have thoughts of and make statements of boycott more often then wanting to support these days.
For instance, here in NJ gas is sold cash or credit with a much higher price for credit, so I always pay with a 100.00 dollar bill. I think Walmart is terrible in the long run for our country, destroying small business and the Sams division is a joke "buy bulk at a higher price". Where is the unit pricing stickers that other retailers have too have? So yes I boycott Walmart.
How do you feel? What deserves support or how would you boycott a corporation or service fee increase?
I see nothing to boycott. It is called business. they charge more for gas with a credit card, because they have to pay a fee to their merchant account every time you use your card.
Walmart started off as a small business. If the small business is being destroyed it is because they have not learned how to compete.
Walmart buys trash in bulk from China and pays its associates $7/hr to sell it to Americans who buy it and saw the branch off the tree that they are sitting on.
Walmart buys trash in bulk from China and pays its associates $7/hr to sell it to Americans who buy it and saw the branch off the tree that they are sitting on.
But since walmart sells the same products that everyone else sells, then that means everyone else is buying from China also.
For one thing some of the bigger chains (Home Depot does this for example) make arrangements with manufacturers to sell cheaper versions of an existing product. In order to meet the retailer's price requirements, the manufacturer makes changes, which usually means skimping on quality. It looks like the same product but it isn't. This is why I don't buy power tools - or much else for that matter in Home Depot. It's crap, nd expensive crap to boot.
For one thing some of the bigger chains (Home Depot does this for example) make arrangements with manufacturers to sell cheaper versions of an existing product. In order to meet the retailer's price requirements, the manufacturer makes changes, which usually means skimping on quality. It looks like the same product but it isn't. This is why I don't buy power tools - or much else for that matter in Home Depot. It's crap, nd expensive crap to boot.
But if the manufacturer is not located in China then they are not purchasing from China.
If the manufacturer is in China, then everyone who sells the product is buying it from China.
For one thing some of the bigger chains (Home Depot does this for example) make arrangements with manufacturers to sell cheaper versions of an existing product. In order to meet the retailer's price requirements, the manufacturer makes changes, which usually means skimping on quality. It looks like the same product but it isn't. This is why I don't buy power tools - or much else for that matter in Home Depot. It's crap, nd expensive crap to boot.
This is very true.
We have taken water pumps and pressure tanks apart.
Yes if the manufacturer is in China then all bets are off, anyone selling it is selling junk from China.
But the manufacturer can easily be located in the US but have outsourced subassemblies or even the entire product to China. That will not show up on the label.
We have taken water pumps and pressure tanks apart.
Same model and brand, not near the quality.
FYI I would not buy any fittings there either. That is all I am going to say. Get your stuff from some place that sells "contractor quality" if you want it to last more than 2 years.
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That is all I am going to say. Get your stuff from some place that sells "contractor quality" if you want it to last more than 2 years. 
