Hay Walmart! Say It Ain't So!

[anotherbob]

Company or politician it doesn't matter, they don't care about you ever, they care about the money and/or power they can get from you, nothing more. Yet people still keep falling for the bs and drinking the Kool-Aid.

Everything is a scam. Everything.

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Even if they do care about you, it's secondary if you're being generous. And even if they do care they still have to play the game to stay in there. So yes a healthy cynicism is a good idea.

 

[Sig]

That makes sense… when it’s all you got it’s all you got. I didn’t mean to sound elitist, I just don’t like Walmart or what it has done to places like where you live.

We still don't go there much. Just for stuff like soap, shampoo......wiper blades........thats about it.
Other than that we take the drive to Erie PA 60 miles away or shop online.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Yep, where I live it's the only place to buy anything for 60 miles.

I shop there with complete contempt.

 

[jakesmokes]

I’ve done my best to avoid going there ever since they stopped selling handgun ammo. Those were the good old day seven bucks for a box of 9mm. I thought all they sold were cigarettes, and honestly, I’d rather just stop at a gas station.

 

[Briarcutter]

Classy place

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Looks like a whole channel dedicated to Wallmart fights? They should be proud
Never been in one. I've seen a program years ago about the company and their policies, ever since then I refuse to patronize the company.

 

[woodsroad]

That makes sense… when it’s all you got it’s all you got. I didn’t mean to sound elitist, I just don’t like Walmart or what it has done to places like where you live.

I have to disagree with you there. Walmart didn’t do anything to hurt small businesses in rural areas. They offered a bigger selection at lower prices, just as Woolworths did almost 150 years ago. It was the friends and neighbors of small town shopkeepers that put them out of business, opting to shop the big box instead of patronizing the stores owned and operated by their fellow townfolk.

 

[fireground_piper]

You will thank them later for saving you.

 

[VDL_Piper]

A google search tells me it’s owned by the Waltons

 

[Dave760]

When I read, "Hay WalMart," this is what I think of:

 

[woodsroad]

A google search tells me it’s owned by the Waltons
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Goodnight, Maryellen.

 

[Questionable Source]

I didn’t mean to sound elitist, I just don’t like places like where you live or what it has done to Walmart.

Fixed it for you

 

[LotusEater]

I have to disagree with you there. Walmart didn’t do anything to hurt small businesses in rural areas. They offered a bigger selection at lower prices, just as Woolworths did almost 150 years ago. It was the friends and neighbors of small town shopkeepers that put them out of business, opting to shop the big box instead of patronizing the stores owned and operated by their fellow townfolk.

Fixed it for you

Your so clever

 

[LotusEater]

I have to disagree with you there. Walmart didn’t do anything to hurt small businesses in rural areas. They offered a bigger selection at lower prices, just as Woolworths did almost 150 years ago. It was the friends and neighbors of small town shopkeepers that put them out of business, opting to shop the big box instead of patronizing the stores owned and operated by their fellow townfolk.

I see your point but I think it is an over simplification to attribute business failures in small communities solely to consumer choices while ignoring the broader economic context and the challenges faced by local businesses in competing with a large corporation like Walmart.

 

[brian64]

I see your point but I think it is an over simplification to attribute business failures in small communities solely to consumer choices while ignoring the broader economic context and the challenges faced by local businesses in competing with a large corporation like Walmart.

Yeah, especially after the plandemic, where the little guys were shut down and many put completely out of business, while the big guys were allowed to stay open.

It's science, don't ya know.

 

[woodsroad]

I see your point but I think it is an over simplification to attribute business failures in small communities solely to consumer choices while ignoring the broader economic context and the challenges faced by local businesses in competing with a large corporation like Walmart.

The demonization of WalMart is a very odd thing. We don’t condemn Ford for driving the myriad small town automotive manufacturers out of business. Nor do we attack Cargill and Swift for closing down local butchers. AT&T gets a pass for putting the hundreds of local phone companies down, as does Unilever and (the biggest disrupter of all time) the government. I credit this unique amnesia to the appalling lack of knowledge of history by almost everyone born after 1980 and their singular drive to find easy to define culprits cynically handed to them by people and organizations with well-coordinated ulterior motives.

Damn, and I haven’t had my coffee yet.
But I did shower.

 

[LotusEater]

True- there are many sectors that were once dominated by small businesses but are now increasingly dominated by corporations. This is a reality that I don’t like and maybe in my initial post I should have said I don’t like what Walmart’s presence has done to small communities rather than “what Walmart has done …”

That said some entities are demonic and don’t need to be unfairly demonized. Walmart may or may not be one. Either way I’m not a fan or a regular customer.

For the record I was born in 72 and I haven’t had my coffee yet either.