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Old 03-28-2012, 10:48 AM
 
Location: Heading to the NW, 4 sure.
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Saw a email about Walmart in Bejing. Very interesting about what they sell and how many there are in China.
And the prices are like dirt cheap....

Lots of information regarding this on the web.
Just kinda of interesting the different foods that they sell "LIVE".


Walmart in Beijing, #1: WOW My Observations of LOTUS SUPERCENTER | Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/triciawang/67513665/ - broken link)


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Old 03-28-2012, 12:50 PM
 
Location: Cody, WY
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It's not Walmart; it's even better. If we didn't have all sorts of welfare in this country we could have the same. People working for four dollars per day? That would do very good things for prices. Cutomers abusing workers and throwing food in their faces? The employees at my Walmart are very courteous but I've encountered clerks in my life who definitely deserved a sausage in the face.

If I lived in China I'd be shopping at Lotus. What a work ethic those people have!
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Old 03-28-2012, 12:58 PM
 
Location: NJ
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i hear all the products are made in america.
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Old 03-28-2012, 01:13 PM
 
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Its not just wal mart but many other companeis such as Mcdonald's etc. Just lookin gat China and India they have 1/4 the world's people and growing consumer base to serve. No wander they have enter those markets.But then at a svings arte of Chinese of 40% ebcause of medcial and retiement plus distruct of future form past experience ;it will have to be come more a consumer economy and less a invsetment based economy in the future to see them take over the consumer market.
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Old 03-28-2012, 01:29 PM
 
Location: In a happy, quieter home now! :)
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It's not Walmart; it's even better. If we didn't have all sorts of welfare in this country we could have the same. People working for four dollars per day? That would do very good things for prices. Cutomers abusing workers and throwing food in their faces? The employees at my Walmart are very courteous but I've encountered clerks in my life who definitely deserved a sausage in the face.

If I lived in China I'd be shopping at Lotus.
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What a work ethic those people have!
Yeah, I hear ya, Happy in Wyoming! Had I not lost my job, which was/is my trade for 40 years, to a mass of illegal immigrants (who know nothing about my trade), I wouldn't of had to apply for food stamps. AND......ya know what the kicker is?.....???.....I only receive $50 per month, while they receive, what.....$300 - $750 per month, for food? I stand behind them on the line at the supermarket....I watch them buy all the foods that my wife and I could never ever afford. TWO shopping carts FILLED with food! While all we have is food for the cats and 1 kielbasa for us.


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Old 03-28-2012, 11:58 PM
 
Location: Cody, WY
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Yeah, I hear ya, Happy in Wyoming! Had I not lost my job, which was/is my trade for 40 years, to a mass of illegal immigrants (who know nothing about my trade), I wouldn't of had to apply for food stamps. AND......ya know what the kicker is?.....???.....I only receive $50 per month, while they receive, what.....$300 - $750 per month, for food? I stand behind them on the line at the supermarket....I watch them buy all the foods that my wife and I could never ever afford. TWO shopping carts FILLED with food! While all we have is food for the cats and 1 kielbasa for us.

How is this related to a Chinese "big box" store? The people, both customers and staff, seem to be all Chinese. Illegal immigrants constitute a terrible problem in this country but I don't see the relationship to Chinese grocery shopping.

But how was the kielbasa?
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Old 03-29-2012, 07:25 AM
 
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Who else will we "export" to...
and why is our own grocery items so "older" & not so fresh???
Makes one goes hmmmm....

= US, our "blood" (real estate, land, food, jobs, even country's wealth / money, medicine etc... Ohhh...not to mention "our gas" to them and "we" cannot use "our own" natural resources unlike Canada) is already being transfused overseas to our "sugar daddy".
We do "owe" them you know.

P.S. Our "hiked" food prices did not guarantee us to eat fresh but China, India, Korea & other places to eat "fresh" & one wonders why??? Thus why I buy local & grow my own.
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Old 03-29-2012, 09:44 AM
 
Location: The western periphery of Terra Australis
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i hear all the products are made in america.
Lol

I saw a Walmart when I was in Beijing.
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Old 03-29-2012, 10:00 AM
 
Location: 39 20' 59"N / 75 30' 53"W
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It's not Walmart; it's even better. If we didn't have all sorts of welfare in this country we could have the same. People working for four dollars per day? That would do very good things for prices. Cutomers abusing workers and throwing food in their faces? The employees at my Walmart are very courteous but I've encountered clerks in my life who definitely deserved a sausage in the face.

If I lived in China I'd be shopping at Lotus. What a work ethic those people have!
Yeah sure it is, would you or would you want you family working for $4.@ hr.10hrs per day w/3 to a bedroom. Puleassse.

Walmart SUCKS. The only people making a decent earning are corporate fat cats.

Yeah....WOW...toilet paper for $6.20. I'm impressed.
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Old 03-29-2012, 05:03 PM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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i hear all the products are made in america.

^^^ Lol. Maybe they don't trust their own products
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