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I dont remember seeing anyone defend target or their practices.
Also, that 9.73 number more than likely includes supervisors .
Well, there's this:
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Originally Posted by odanny
You may not have noticed all the privately owned businesses that closed their doors thanks to Walmart. That is a good place for you to start looking, and you will learn all kinds of things. But you are like most people, only concerned with the immediate impact and how it benefits you shopping there right now.
I don't spend my money there, they are rich enough, I prefer other chains like Target and Kmart.
Actually, the Walmart attracted businesses to Lafayette CO. It (WM) opened long after downtown had dried up.
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Originally Posted by J746NEW
The millions of mom and pop type shops across the country gave more power to local communities and small business.
That was the argument against Sears, too.
Of Course WalMart Destroys Retail Jobs: That's The Darn Point Of It All - Forbes
** Yes, Mom and Pop stores do go out of business when WalMart arrives. Just as they did a century and a half ago as the Sears Roebuck catalogue started hitting the farms. And yes, when the dust has settled there are now fewer people working in retail than there were before WalMart (or Sears Roebuck).**
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Originally Posted by RogersParkGuy
Wal-Mart also extorts tax subsidies from towns and cities desperate for jobs, and puts independent retailers out of business. This last is extremely important, because starting small businesses has long been an important path of upward mobility in this country.
In the short term, shopping at Wal-Mart may save you some money. But in the long term, the more the Wal-Mart model spreads the less prosperous we will all get.
My town recently sold its soul to Alfalfa's, a local grocery store that wants to build a second store. See below:
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Originally Posted by Katiana
Many businesses get subsidies to locate in certain places. . . . Here's a link: Louisville extends $1 million in incentives to Alfalfa's to locate at vacant Safeway site - Boulder Daily Camera
**Alfalfa's, which would locate a 22,000-square-foot store near the site of a long-abandoned Safeway at 707 E. South Boulder Road, would receive a full rebate of the sales tax revenues it generates in the first three years of operation -- capped at $800,000. The natural grocer would also get a 50 percent rebate of the use taxes and permit fees paid to the city.
Walmart sells second rate junk. It is not about lefties or the right...it is about our disloyal corporations that have sold out their nation of origin for cheap labor and bad product. Walmart and the people in China are shifty when it comes to hiding the origin of products. A pair of bad slippers will have the bold tag..."Made for Canadians since 1946"...then in tiny letters it will say made in China....or here in Toronto I will see a Canadian flag on Walmart product.....and in small letters instead of made in Canada it will deceptively say - made FOR Canada...giving the quick impression that you are buying something made in North America....It is better to spend 150 dollars on a real pair of shoes made here than buying a pair of plastic shoes for 20 bucks made in China.....Walmart does not save you money...it gives you the illusion that you are saving money.
Oh yes, obviously, since 120 million people per week are too stupid to know how to spend their own money on items they want or need in order to make their lives better. Too bad they do not have a direct line to your superior wisdom.
Why do rightwingers not understand that when you outsource 100% of all your production, you eventually lose control over product customization, quality of consumer goods, and product innovation. You then depend on foreigners instead of American jobs and this causes a trade deficit.
Why do rightwingers not understand that when you outsource 100% of all your production, you eventually lose control over product customization, quality of consumer goods, and product innovation. You then depend on foreigners instead of American jobs and this causes a trade deficit.
Oh yes, this can happen because people typically buy the crappiest products they can find, without regard to the value they obtain per dollar spent. NOT.
I can buy all my basic needs at 1 store for cheap. That means I have more money to spend or save. Thus, WalMart has increased my prosperity. Explain why this is bad.
Walmart is a sympton, not the cause of problems in America.
I love Walmart I go there probably 2wice a week. They are reasonably priced have most of what I need whether its food or household products and they are 5-10 min away
ME ME ME ME ME. Some people are so selfish. It's all about them. The individual is all that matters.
Walmart pays its employees such a low wage that they are forced to also go on public assistance. Who pays for that public assistance? We all do. If Walmart would just pay its workers a decent wage then we wouldn't have this problem.
This whole thread is so elementary its like listing to a bunch of 4th graders.I find it hard to understand why all these right wing nuts are trying to support Wall Mart business practices when they are subsidizing the largest retail chain in the world, right out of their own pockets. What a nice business plan for Wall Mart , get rich , very very rich on the backs of the very people that buy all the junk that made in China with child labor......what are they thinking....? its behond me that so many people are so blind and stupid.
This has to be good for America, especially if other companies follow their example and commit to similar goal of buying American.
"Only" $5 billion/year is more than anyone has vowed to do, so let's not say "only". It's a great start and W-M is getting the ball rolling. Let others sit up and take notice. If the big corporations each did $5 billion a year, don't you think that would spur the US economy to produce the goods?
And just why all of a sudden now ? We have been fighting this off shoring of jobs for many years now and Wall Mart has been at the front of the problem. They know it , now you need to know it . Give us the answers and get back to us on it. Use your head and not your spoon fed politics thats been driven by the corporate greed of the worlds largest Retailer.
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