Anyone been to the Wal-Mart in da 'hood? (Chicago, Cicero: school, minimum wage)

[karlsch]

Walmart and Target started in business the same year.

Fiscal 2008 sales: Target $64 billion, Walmart $374 billion. Why is this if, as some say, Target is so much better than Walmart? Incidentally, 70% of Walmart customers are middle-class and above.

Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined. They must be doing something right.

[noid_1985]

Originally Posted by karlsch

Walmart and Target started in business the same year.

Fiscal 2008 sales: Target $64 billion, Walmart $374 billion. Why is this if, as some say, Target is so much better than Walmart? Incidentally, 70% of Walmart customers are middle-class and above.

Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target + Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined. They must be doing something right.

yeah well as much money as Wal-Mart makes they should be able to afford to pay their workers more. Maybe if they did that Wal-mart would have better customer service

[linicx]

Before Sam Walton died, and the Walmart CEO started importing 'made in ____" junk, it was an American store that stocked USA products and hired USA employees. It was not global it was local. Same was not concerned with foreign investment, he invested in his customers. Until he died, he made personal visits to his stores on a regular basis. There hasn't been a Wally World CEO in a store in 20 years. And the US stores from coast to coast reflect it. The stores are dirty, understaffed and under-stocked. Store management is generally lazy, slovenly and have a bad attitude. On a whole, the entire chain has degraded 1000%. Twenty years from now there will be few if any Walmart stores in America. The CEO is determined to follow the business plans of failed former retail giants, like M-W and K-Mart, right into oblivion. He is doing a good job of it too.

Rural stores with the old floor plan fare no better than the store on Touhy. They are dirty and under-stocked. They look old inside and out. I drive 100 miles for paper plates. The end consequence to Walmart escapes their tunnel vision. They do not get it. When I am forced to buy in bulk I don't return for a year. Their old store that is half the distance, that does not stock what I buy, loses a big chunk of my expendable income because of it.

It is the same in rural Illinois as it is in rural Mississippi or rural New Mexico. The old dirty stores are a write-off at tax time. All but critical staff is part time. It is cost saving. Full time employees can buy into Walmart health insurance plan plus buy common stock at a reduced rate whereas part time employees get their check.

It is impossible to compare annual Walmart sales to Target, Costco, Kroger's, Sears or K-Mart unless they are all worldwide and also in direct competition with the box king. Seven bucks in China goes a lot further than it does in Chicago. I don't think annual reports tell the whole story.

[Jesse69]

Chicago and Chicago Suburban Walmarts totally suck compared to the SuperWalmarts all around Houston. You get everything there plus a full sized grocery with great food and cheap prices! That's partly why I love Houston better than Chicago!

[Avengerfire]

Now we get this drivel.

[coldwine]

Originally Posted by Avengerfire

Now we get this drivel.

I don't know about you, but now I know where to go to get cheap pantyhose and some fine ass bike chains.

[Avengerfire]

I was at the Jewel on Broadway and Addison an hour or so ago.

There was a dude there that had bigger boobs than Charo. The hormones and the surgeons did a great job but the voice....ehhhhh... dead giveaway....

Just thought I would mention.

[coldwine]

Originally Posted by Avengerfire

I was at the Jewel on Broadway and Addison an hour or so ago.

There was a dude there that had bigger boobs than Charo. The hormones and the surgeons did a great job but the voice....ehhhhh... dead giveaway....

Just thought I would mention.

I always look at how well they're dressed.

If you're going to enter the female sex, fine. But while you're trespassing in my gender, we're going to have a serious talk about what not to wear.

[linicx]

I know a he/she that's married. When all the surgery is over, and he is legally a she, I think the other she will either get a divorce or become the new she's sister. It makes my head spin.

[Drover]

I'm so glad I started this thread.