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As for store closures, those in the west should get ready for a slew of 'em to start happening as Safeway/Albertsons merger takes hold.
All those have already been announced and its actually relatively few stores, only what is being required legally, so in some places where there is a Safeway and an Albertsons right across the street from each other, one will close down, or in smaller communities where they would result in a monopoly of sorts. Most of the closures are in Southern California.
Beyond that, Cerberus, the company that purchased Safeway is looking to create a larger nationwide presence to challenge Kroger.
And when Walmart sees a consumer shift at that store they will adjust pricing. Retail follows customers feet. If the feet are not coming in the door like they used to they adjust until the exodus reverses.
Since the advent of technology in business serious players have drilled down farther and farther into the metrics (data mining) on what the consumer, specifically their consumer target, want to buy and how to get them to buy it at THIER store.
Product placement,store layout down to the slope of the concrete floors in the isles is all a science and constantly monitored for that nugget of information that could suck a % of customers from store "A" into store "B".
As for store closures, those in the west should get ready for a slew of 'em to start happening as Safeway/Albertsons merger takes hold.
I've watched their prices go up and up since they built the super store, and yet, people pack in there? I don't get it, matter of fact, I've complained about the prices several times...including the produce...I don't believe it....so, I'm going somewhere else....
I've watched their prices go up and up since they built the super store, and yet, people pack in there? I don't get it, matter of fact, I've complained about the prices several times...including the produce...I don't believe it....so, I'm going somewhere else....
It pays to shop around. I have a bunch of stores within a 5 mile vicinity so I'll hit up 4 or 5 different places on my weekly grocery trip. It really varies on what items you're buying. If I want to buy organic milk, I go to Fry's, if I want produce, I go to Fry's, Safeway or Sprouts, if I'm buying cleaning supplies, cold medicine, protein bars or dog food, I go to Walmart since they have the exact same products as all the other stores, but just for a lot less money. If I want some specialty items, I go to AJ's, Fresh and Easy or Trader Joe's, it just all depends on what I'm looking for.
Last resort for me... I've tried to cut out shopping there completely about 3 years ago, but every once in a blue moon something pops up you can literally only get conveniently at walmart.
Plus, I live in a town now where the only big box store IS walmart... Crazy, right? Good for me I do most of my shopping online, but like I said, there are those rare moments! (and I hate it every time I have to go so damn much!)
Does anybody else find it weird that this many people go out of their way to NOT shop at Walmart but will be fine with shopping at other big box retailers (Target, Home Depot, Kroger, Sears, McDonald's). It's not like these other retailers were sent from heaven and give free massages and bags of fairy dust to every employee.
Judging by the amount of products that Apple sells in this country, I find that to be 100% correct.
It's not just Apple. Samsung, Sony, Panasonic, etc., they ALL do it.
And IMO, they're not doing anything terribly wrong, considering they're not FORCING anyone to work in their manufacturing plants. Rather, they provide individuals in impoverished countries with a job that they otherwise would not have.
FoxCONN workers earn on average around $300/month. The other options for low-skilled laborers include rice fields at a wage of $50/month. What would you have Apple et all do exactly?
Does anybody else find it weird that this many people go out of their way to NOT shop at Walmart but will be fine with shopping at other big box retailers (Target, Home Depot, Kroger, Sears, McDonald's). It's not like these other retailers were sent from heaven and give free massages and bags of fairy dust to every employee.
Call me crazy.
I often wonder this same thing! They all get their products from the same places. it's not like there's 10,000 companies that make toilet paper or screws.
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Originally Posted by Arcenal352
It's not just Apple. Samsung, Sony, Panasonic, etc., they ALL do it.
And IMO, they're not doing anything terribly wrong, considering they're not FORCING anyone to work in their manufacturing plants. Rather, they provide individuals in impoverished countries with a job that they otherwise would not have.
FoxCONN workers earn on average around $300/month. The other options for low-skilled laborers include rice fields at a wage of $50/month. What would you have Apple et all do exactly?
People often think they have the answers to the world's problem when in reality they have no clue what it's like in other countries. None of us do unless we've lived and worked there. To me $300 a month sounds much better than $50 bent over picking rice.....that's just me.
Seriously. With a ridiculous track record of total corruption, horrible employee treatment, destroying the American manufacturing base by cutting prices to nothing and shipping jobs to China....I really do not understand why these stores still exist. Apart from incredibly rural areas where its the only game in town, how can Americans still give their money to one of the main causes of our economic ruin?
Not only that, but how can so-called patriotic Americans give their money to buy products made by a country that is a dictatorship? We had a decades long embargo against Cuba, (supposedly) because of their alignment with Soviet Russia. But China, who mows its people down with impunity, pays its workers pennies an hour and hosts many of the most polluted cities in the world, they get a total pass in the name of economics. And it isn't even economics that benefits US, or the Chinese worker- it only enriches a handful of people. I am sure that WalMart demanding lower prices had more to do with the closing of our own factories than any other single cause.
So how can anyone continue to shop there? What are your reasons?
Simply because my town loves Wal-Mart so much that there are two super ones, plus a Wal-Mart neighborhood center rumored to be on the way.
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