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I don't need toys, I just need a home that I am happy with... unfortunately, people want to deny me that by stealing from me because I have more money than them... so they can get the toys they wanted with my money... I love Walmart and until someone sells cheaper than Walmart, I will keep shopping at Walmart...
p.s. Walmart sells toys that you can actually use to PREVENT others from stealing from you...it's a win-win!
Well folks, I gotta tell ya...I have crow to eat...(yuck)...as some of you suggested, the documentary, probably did have some over exhaggerated issues in them that were not true...although, there were some things that are true...
I spoke with a very good friend last evening who is savvy on economics and political events...he straightened me out...
But....as he said, there is true and false in all things, negative and positive in all things...so, I have decided to stay open minded and research this further...
I'm also going to watch it again...and TRY very hard to stay biased...
Thanks much to all of you...for your communications on this subject and for joining in this thread...
Well folks, I gotta tell ya...I have crow to eat...(yuck)...as some of you suggested, the documentary, probably did have some over exhaggerated issues in them that were not true...although, there were some things that are true...
I spoke with a very good friend last evening who is savvy on economics and political events...he straightened me out...
But....as he said, there is true and false in all things, negative and positive in all things...so, I have decided to stay open minded and research this further...
I'm also going to watch it again...and TRY very hard to stay biased...
Thanks much to all of you...for your communications on this subject and for joining in this thread...
Hugs
Creme
The truth usually lies somewhere in the middle, I am glad that you are looking at this issue from a clear minded perspective. My point in all of my issues with Walmart and any other company is that it is important to speak your mind and your conscience, and the most straightforward way to communicate these positions is by your buying habits. Your choices in where you shop and what you buy are important and you should feel comfortable with these choices. As a consumer, I express my feelings by choosing not to support Walmart, it might not count for much in the whole scheme of things, but there are so many things in this world that seem out of my control, where I make my personal purchases is something that I can control.
I generally don't buy all that much in groceries at WM - some
If you had no insurance - and an office visit was $30 / 40 including xrays? Yes you would
WalMart is a fine company -
No offense on your age, but you have to save a lot less, statistically, than a younger person, so you can afford to buy all the junk- I mean things- that you want to at WM. Which, to me, is not such a fine company.
I read many comments on this thread regarding the quality of working conditions at Wal*Mart and have also heard some first hand experiences from people who have worked there. Basically I've read and heard both sides of the coin. Some claim bad working conditions and others claim good working conditions. Perhaps some of this is not necessarily just about Wal*Mart per say, and about geography and local culture of the people?
Our experience living in different states (i.e., one in the deep south versus one in the northeast) is that working conditions are quite a bit different in the same type of industry but mostly because the people and the local culture themselves are very different.
Wal-Mart does not make the toys. If you don't like the wage that toy manufactures pay abroad, take your issue to the toy manufacture and boycott the product.
Your post screams ignorance of basic economics. You're implying that $14.77 is going right into Wal-Mart's profit margins. Have you ever heard of costs, transport costs, cost of running a store (wages, energy, taxes, insurance, customs duties on imported goods, etc. etc.)? Not to mention, the need to have some profit - otherwise, why be in business to begin with?
You seem to know..Why don't you do the numbers for the rest of us and let us know how much a , say, 14.77 toy cost wal-mart to put on their shelf..
used to be and still am conservative, but have since changed to an independent.
but your right, although, I don't think it's all one sided, I know plenty of convervatives who lean towards the betterment of the community....but you get both working on the same committee and it never works....liberal ideas, really sometimes offend conservatives, and they would really rather just back off, because they can't deal with senselessness.....but your right in your statement to a degree...I just don't think it's all liberals and all democrates....some are very diverse from both parties...now if your referring to the complete lefts and complete rights, those who are not diverse....well, then you have made a great big point....in my mind...and some of my friends....those who are so completely to the left or right are very dangerous people, and will absolutely defend a policy even though it doesn't work.
You seem to know..Why don't you do the numbers for the rest of us and let us know how much a , say, 14.77 toy cost wal-mart to put on their shelf..
OK. The latest 10K SEC filing shows the following:
Sales: $374.5 Billion
Cost of Goods Sold: $286.5 Billion (76%)
Net Income $ 12.7 Billion (3.4%)
Please feel free to go throught the entire SEC 10K filings for all of the financial details. But this is a decent broad interpretation.
Wal Mart made a little over three percent on sales last year. Their COGS (cost of average items before general and administrative costs which includes employee salaries) was a little over three quarters of the selling price of their goods.
This means that WalMart probably made $0.50 net income on the $14.77 item that you used as an example. It cost them about $11.10 for that toy prior to overhead expenses like employee salaries, light bill, heating bill, maintenance, marketing costs, etc.
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