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New JibJab targets the Big Box Mart Store.

The solution is easy: Buy local.

Take it from a guy who runs a Mom & Pop Shop, the service is incomparable and the prices are about the same.
 
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
The solution is easy: Buy local.

Take it from a guy who runs a Mom & Pop Shop, the service is incomparable and the prices are about the same.
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True, but what happens when many, many people are start coming to your little shop? Are you going to expand to fill the need? What about when other mom-n-pop shops start to lure customers away from your store, reducing your profits and personal income, are you gonna shrug your shoulder and move into a smaller house and sell your car, or are you gonna find ways to entice more customers back using things like more services, lower prices, bigger slections, longer hours, etc?

Why does no one want to remember that Wal-Mart was a mom-n-pop shop at one time, that used it's sucessful formula to grow into what it is today?

Yes, this is a good video that everyone should see, but the South Park episode about "Wall-Mart" was just a good, with an actual lesson tied in. I recommend it at well.
 
Saw it last week on news.com. It's pretty funny. I'm waiting to see the Wal-Mart defenders on this forum come out and argue against this flash.
 
Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
The solution is easy: Buy local.

Take it from a guy who runs a Mom & Pop Shop, the service is incomparable and the prices are about the same.
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True, but what happens when many, many people are start coming to your little shop? Are you going to expand to fill the need? What about when other mom-n-pop shops start to lure customers away from your store, reducing your profits and personal income, are you gonna shrug your shoulder and move into a smaller house and sell your car, or are you gonna find ways to entice more customers back using things like more services, lower prices, bigger slections, longer hours, etc?

Why does no one want to remember that Wal-Mart was a mom-n-pop shop at one time, that used it's sucessful formula to grow into what it is today?

Yes, this is a good video that everyone should see, but the South Park episode about "Wall-Mart" was just a good, with an actual lesson tied in. I recommend it at well.
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Careful.

While the formula may appear to be the same on a very shallow level it's not. It used to be "made in America". It was a slogan of Wal-Mart when the founder was still alive. Now it's a perverted version of the original ideals.


I strongly suggest people watch the PBS Frontline show on Wal-Mart. It's very insightful. You can view it online on their site.

After watching the episode go to a Wal-Mart and look around. You will never see the place under the same light again.

Bottom line: It's a simple trick to rip you off as a customer. Hey it works. That's their formula.
 
Originally posted by: Aelius
Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
The solution is easy: Buy local.

Take it from a guy who runs a Mom & Pop Shop, the service is incomparable and the prices are about the same.
Click to expand...
True, but what happens when many, many people are start coming to your little shop? Are you going to expand to fill the need? What about when other mom-n-pop shops start to lure customers away from your store, reducing your profits and personal income, are you gonna shrug your shoulder and move into a smaller house and sell your car, or are you gonna find ways to entice more customers back using things like more services, lower prices, bigger slections, longer hours, etc?

Why does no one want to remember that Wal-Mart was a mom-n-pop shop at one time, that used it's sucessful formula to grow into what it is today?

Yes, this is a good video that everyone should see, but the South Park episode about "Wall-Mart" was just a good, with an actual lesson tied in. I recommend it at well.
Click to expand...

Careful.

While the formula may appear to be the same on a very shallow level it's not. It used to be "made in America". It was a slogan of Wal-Mart when the founder was still alive. Now it's a perverted version of the original ideals.


I strongly suggest people watch the PBS Frontline show on Wal-Mart. It's very insightful. You can view it online on their site.

After watching the episode go to a Wal-Mart and look around. You will never see the place under the same light again.

Bottom line: It's a simple trick to rip you off as a customer. Hey it works. That's their formula.
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I did watch that special, it was very entertaining and informative. Nonetheless, it doesn't change the fact that shopping and endorsing a "mom-n-pop shop" on a large enough scale to damage Wal-Mart's bottom line can ultimately lead to the creation of the next "evil" and "greedy" successful corporations.
 
Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Originally posted by: Aelius
Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
The solution is easy: Buy local.

Take it from a guy who runs a Mom & Pop Shop, the service is incomparable and the prices are about the same.
Click to expand...
True, but what happens when many, many people are start coming to your little shop? Are you going to expand to fill the need? What about when other mom-n-pop shops start to lure customers away from your store, reducing your profits and personal income, are you gonna shrug your shoulder and move into a smaller house and sell your car, or are you gonna find ways to entice more customers back using things like more services, lower prices, bigger slections, longer hours, etc?

Why does no one want to remember that Wal-Mart was a mom-n-pop shop at one time, that used it's sucessful formula to grow into what it is today?

Yes, this is a good video that everyone should see, but the South Park episode about "Wall-Mart" was just a good, with an actual lesson tied in. I recommend it at well.
Click to expand...

Careful.

While the formula may appear to be the same on a very shallow level it's not. It used to be "made in America". It was a slogan of Wal-Mart when the founder was still alive. Now it's a perverted version of the original ideals.


I strongly suggest people watch the PBS Frontline show on Wal-Mart. It's very insightful. You can view it online on their site.

After watching the episode go to a Wal-Mart and look around. You will never see the place under the same light again.

Bottom line: It's a simple trick to rip you off as a customer. Hey it works. That's their formula.
Click to expand...
I did watch that special, it was very entertaining and informative. Nonetheless, it doesn't change the fact that shopping and endorsing a "mom-n-pop shop" on a large enough scale to damage Wal-Mart's bottom line can ultimately lead to the creation of the next "evil" and "greedy" successful corporations.
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Does the company strive for profit? Does that make them evil? In my book no. It's how they go about it that makes them evil.

Now does that mean that because we tear Wal-Mart down that some mom&pop store won't do the same thing? Of course not. You can never crush evil in the world. That's a lost cause. However that doesn't mean we simply give up or that we don't go after companies, regardless if it's Wal-Mart or mom&pop corner store, and hold them accountable.

One thing is for sure. Mom&pop corner store sure as heck doesn't have entire firms of lawyers in their pockets to tie you up in litigation until you quit or die.
 
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
The solution is easy: Buy local.

Take it from a guy who runs a Mom & Pop Shop, the service is incomparable and the prices are about the same.
Click to expand...

Some of you guys crack me up. You undersand the value of buying locally but can't expand your economics sense to the rest of America and see same value in buying American.
 
Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
I did watch that special, it was very entertaining and informative. Nonetheless, it doesn't change the fact that shopping and endorsing a "mom-n-pop shop" on a large enough scale to damage Wal-Mart's bottom line can ultimately lead to the creation of the next "evil" and "greedy" successful corporations.
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You'd have better odds being hit by lighting than becoming the next WalMart. So yes you're right... but a pig will fly out your ass before that'll ever happen.
 
Originally posted by: Zebo
Some of you guys crack me up. You undersand the value of buying locally but can't expand your economics sense to the rest of America and see same value in buying American.
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That's a good point. Buying local is fine, but not if you're buying the same chinese crap you'd be purchasing at "Big Box".
 
99 cent places usually sell local stuff, about the only places that do I have found. I haven;t lived anywhere with a wal-mart in ages and wouldn't shop at one.

They are not only bad for the local economy but ugly and not nessasary (except for chinas profits)
 
Originally posted by: Steeplerot
99 cent places usually sell local stuff, about the only places that do I have found.
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???????
Just about everything at my local .99 cent store is Made in China. Including the American Flags.

 
Originally posted by: techs
Originally posted by: Steeplerot
99 cent places usually sell local stuff, about the only places that do I have found.
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???????
Just about everything at my local .99 cent store is Made in China. Including the American Flags.
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Ayup. And the crap in there is just that.

 
Dunno, maybe find a different one?

The one we go to is a little smaller then a full sized safeway and the stuff is off-brand actually good stuff.

I got these ice cream sandwichs yesterday, never seen them before choclate and peanut butter, four of em in the box...

Better then a reeces cup! It is from some town I have never heard of in Deleware. The products are out there, granted we don't have wal mart around here killing the market either.

edit: They are from Deleware
 
Originally posted by: Steeplerot
Better then a reeces cup! It is from some town I have never heard on in Penn. The products are out there, granted we don't have wal mart around here killing the market either.
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That might have something to do with it.
 
Originally posted by: Steeplerot
Dunno, maybe find a different one?

The one we go to is a little smaller then a full sized safeway and the stuff is off-brand actually good stuff.

I got these ice cream sandwichs yesterday, choclate and peanut butter, four of em in the box...

Better then a reeces cup! It is from some town I have never heard on in Penn. The products are out there, granted we don't have wal mart around here killing the market either.
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So you're talking about a grocery store? Yeah we have those around here to that are low end stores. Some of the stuff in them is ok, but there is no way in hell I would ever buy fresh veggies or meat from one of them. Did try some cereal from one of them after one of my wife's friends mentioned it. Similar to Blueberry Morning, my favorite, but about 1/3 of the price. Not bad stuff, made somewhere in Michigan I think.

 
Originally posted by: Medicine Bear
Originally posted by: Steeplerot
Dunno, maybe find a different one?

The one we go to is a little smaller then a full sized safeway and the stuff is off-brand actually good stuff.

I got these ice cream sandwichs yesterday, choclate and peanut butter, four of em in the box...

Better then a reeces cup! It is from some town I have never heard on in Penn. The products are out there, granted we don't have wal mart around here killing the market either.
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So you're talking about a grocery store? Yeah we have those around here to that are low end stores. Some of the stuff in them is ok, but there is no way in hell I would ever buy fresh veggies or meat from one of them.
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The store I mentioned is a good sized 99 cent store, or at least that is what the giant sign says above it 😉
We have a butcher right across the street that employs about 6 people. A real butcher too...big arms and always telling jokes and remembers your name, A fish market with tanks of fishy smelling stuff, we have a farmers market with fresh veg action at a local community owned theatre.

Wal mart is unessasary and plain bad for a community, the whole concept is geared around a car also instead of taking a walk up your block to grab what you need from one of your neighbors stores.

Originally posted by: Medicine Bear
Did try some cereal from one of them after one of my wife's friends mentioned it. Similar to Blueberry Morning, my favorite, but about 1/3 of the price. Not bad stuff, made somewhere in Michigan I think.
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Originally posted by: Aelius

Does the company strive for profit? Does that make them evil? In my book no. It's how they go about it that makes them evil.

Now does that mean that because we tear Wal-Mart down that some mom&pop store won't do the same thing? Of course not. You can never crush evil in the world. That's a lost cause. However that doesn't mean we simply give up or that we don't go after companies, regardless if it's Wal-Mart or mom&pop corner store, and hold them accountable.

One thing is for sure. Mom&pop corner store sure as heck doesn't have entire firms of lawyers in their pockets to tie you up in litigation until you quit or die.
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I really don't think Walmart's evil as long as it obeys the laws. It's just a business trying to earn a profit for its shareholders, just like any other business.

I don't blame Walmart for importing Chinese goods or for trying to use semi-monopoly power to put the sqeeze on its suppliers. Rather, I blame the U.S. government, our politicians, and our populace who keeps electing those traitors for the failure to protect the American economy from global labor wage arbitrage and the negative effects of immigration and population explosion. For the most part, Walmart's just a business operating under the laws.

 
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