Not for the ADD crowd: Are you shopping your way straight to the unemployment line?

[iwearnosox]

Linkification for your appreciation before my intoxication.

Very good read!

 

[MikeMike]

its called capitalism, learn to use it to your advantage and your good.

no one likes the waltons since they were able to go from nothing, to everything.

MIKE

 

[Bootprint]

I wanted to read it but chunks of the article is covered up by the adverts to the right side.

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: Bootprint
I wanted to read it but chunks of the article is covered up by the adverts to the right side.

Fixed.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
its called capitalism, learn to use it to your advantage and your good.

no one likes the waltons since they were able to go from nothing, to everything.

MIKE

That's BS.

Sam Walton grew up an affluent banker's son. His father made a fortune foreclosing family farms in the Great Depression.

Get your facts straight.

edit: btw, Wal-Mart didn't come as far out west as I live until the early '90s. By that time, I knew all about them and their tactics. Part of capitalism is knowing how to vote with your dollar. I have never bought a single item at a Wal-Mart and never will. I have visited their stores. Nasty, disorganized, and filthy IMO. And the prices aren't even that good. If you could add the stench of over-buttered popcorn, you'd have a K-Mart of the '70s.

 

[Chumpman]

the linkification is negative on the working for me

 

[Chumpman]

and wow is that a crappy : O smiley. it should be something like the pillsbury dough boy going OH HO HO, not "oh sh!t, i hope no one smelt that one."

 

[Pliablemoose]

So who's been living under a rock & didn't know Wal Mart actually rules the world?

 

[Bootprint]

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
So who's been living under a rock & didn't know Wal Mart actually rules the world?

I knew they were big (Ok huge) but that's just nasty the way it makes them sound like they suck other companies dry.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: Vic
edit: btw, Wal-Mart didn't come as far out west as I live until the early '90s. By that time, I knew all about them and their tactics. Part of capitalism is knowing how to vote with your dollar. I have never bought a single item at a Wal-Mart and never will. I have visited their stores. Nasty, disorganized, and filthy IMO. And the prices aren't even that good. If you could add the stench of over-buttered popcorn, you'd have a K-Mart of the '70s.

I'm in 100% agreement with you.. I will never buy anything from them either.

 

[MikeMike]

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
its called capitalism, learn to use it to your advantage and your good.

no one likes the waltons since they were able to go from nothing, to everything.

MIKE

That's BS.

Sam Walton grew up an affluent banker's son. His father made a fortune foreclosing family farms in the Great Depression.

Get your facts straight.

edit: btw, Wal-Mart didn't come as far out west as I live until the early '90s. By that time, I knew all about them and their tactics. Part of capitalism is knowing how to vote with your dollar. I have never bought a single item at a Wal-Mart and never will. I have visited their stores. Nasty, disorganized, and filthy IMO. And the prices aren't even that good. If you could add the stench of over-buttered popcorn, you'd have a K-Mart of the '70s.

Sam Walton was born on March 29, 1918 to Thomas Gibson and Nancy Lee Walton near Kingfisher, Oklahoma. In Oklahoma, they owned and lived on a farm until 1923. The Walton's then decided that the farm was not profitable enough to raise a family on. So, Sam and Jame's (Sam's younger brother born in 1921) dad decided he would go back to being a Farm Loan Appraiser. Once this job started the Walton family moved out of Oklahoma and moved from town to town in Missouri. This would traumatize most children but for the Walton boys though it was no big deal. This could be seen when Sam was in 8th grade at Shelbina he became the youngest boy in the state's history to become an Eagle Scout and this was only a start of his many of accomplishments.

As Sam Walton grew up he was always an ambitious boy. He attended Hickman High School in Columbia there he played basketball and football, in which he was the starting quarterback for the football team and lead them to the state title in 1935. He wasn't the most smartest person at school but he was determined to do good so with hard work and lots of studying he became an honors student. Besides being athletic and smart he was also a political figure at school, too. He severed as Vice- President of his Junior Class and President of the Student Body his senior year. Don't think this is all Sam did though, he also had to help support his family, along with his father and brother because money was lacking due to the depression. Sam's job was to milk the family cow, bottle the milk, and then deliver the surplus of to customers and then went off to deliver newspapers afterwards. When he graduated from high school he was voted the "Most Versatile Boy" in his class. During this time it would have been easy for Sam to just give up on school and go to work full time. Seeing though how his family was struggling to make ends meet, he decided he was going to stay in school and attend the University of Missouri.

yep yep, lets see who has corect facts.

maybe its just me, but the stores out here near me, are MUCH MUCH more organized than any k-mart i have ever been to, larger selection and better prices.

MIKE

 

[przero]

Good read. Sad story. We met the enemy and he is us!

 

[tooltime]

i heard they hold their suppliers 'up-side-down' by the ankles to get their pricing

 

[MikeMike]

they do tooltime. they also have almost everything in their stores on consignment, which is they dont pay for it till its sold.

also, they have an office building across the street from their headquarters. the office space is RENTED to their suppliers.

MIKE

 

[jjessico]

"It weighs 12 pounds, too big to carry with one hand. "

OH GOD NOT TWELVE WHOLE POUNDS!!!!!

I found that funny, maybe you didn't.

Jason

 

[AvesPKS]

The best point he made was when he talked about Masterlock. Employees that basically shopped themselves out of a job; they shop at Walmart because they don't make higher prices, but they make a product that depends on people paying higher prices. Ironic.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
maybe its just me, but the stores out here near me, are MUCH MUCH more organized than any k-mart i have ever been to, larger selection and better prices.

MIKE

Not surprisingly, there appears to be more than one version of Sam's biography. I'm gonna go with the ones I've seen on TV and read in books and not one off the internet from some student's school report, ok?

Store selection mean little to me. I don't shop by browsing. I never impulse buy. When I buy, I hunt (or so I am told by those who know me). I decide what I want. I research it. I find the lowest price. I drive to the store, purchase that item, and leave. Quick as I can. With its huge crowded parking lots and massive stores full of rude trailer park rejects (meaning both the employees and the customers), Wal-Mart is the worst store in the world for my buying habits.
And by K-Mart, I was referring to the lack quality of what is actually in the store. Quality is worth paying for, people. Doesn't matter how cheap it is if it ends up being a piece of sh!t. I hear you can buy a Kia or a Hyundai brand new for dirt cheap but for some reason that doesn't stop people from thinking that expensive BMW's are better cars, now does it?


editted for minor typo

 

[amdskip]

I work there so I'll defend them.

Sure they are a highly sucessfuly company and suck other businesses dry but isn't that what made america great, competition?

Sam Walton did not live the rich lifestyle, wore blue jeans and drove an old ford truck. He flew his own plan because he had his pilots license.

I have visited their stores. Nasty, disorganized, and filthy IMO. And the prices aren't even that good. If you could add the stench of over-buttered popcorn, you'd have a K-Mart of the '70s.

You obviously haven't visited a store recently. Sure they had growing pains and the supercenter stores have worked out great. It is true the stores do get dirty and for the most part they keep them pretty clean for the volume of people going threw them. The prices are very good thank you very much. Sure they may have something on sale at a different store for a lower price but they'll glady match it. There is definately a price savings shopping at walmart. Thats one thing, they have worked to keep prices low and other stores lower their prices to compete too.

i heard they hold their suppliers 'up-side-down' by the ankles to get their pricing

You better believe it, don't you want lower prices?

they also have almost everything in their stores on consignment, which is they dont pay for it till its sold.

I don't think this is true.

also, they have an office building across the street from their headquarters. the office space is RENTED to their suppliers.

So, do they force them to rent it? IIRC, there are many companies with offices in Bentonville.

 

[Bootprint]

I only shop at MallWart once in a while, and purchase very little ie. jeans, socks... But something about their stores is very depressing, not quick suicide depressing but close.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: amdskip

I have visited their stores. Nasty, disorganized, and filthy IMO. And the prices aren't even that good. If you could add the stench of over-buttered popcorn, you'd have a K-Mart of the '70s.

You obviously haven't visited a store recently. Sure they had growing pains and the supercenter stores have worked out great. It is true the stores do get dirty and for the most part they keep them pretty clean for the volume of people going threw them. The prices are very good thank you very much. Sure they may have something on sale at a different store for a lower price but they'll glady match it. There is definately a price savings shopping at walmart. Thats one thing, they have worked to keep prices low and other stores lower their prices to compete too.

Yes, I have.
I was dragged to one by my GF just a few months ago in late August. It was the one in Vancouver, WA. The store was filthy and disorganized. Scantily-clad overweight trailer park rejects were making out on every other aisle, and the salespeople were rude and unhelpful.
We ended up leaving without buying anything.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

I'm not a big fan of Wal-Mart, as a matter a fact I really don't like shopping there (and so I don't, unless there is a really great deal, even then I think about it twice). Here's why:
- Getting service there is impossible since the only people they can hire with their bottom of the barrel wages are imcompetent like none other
- There are people with their kids running around in my legs while I try to shop
- The parking lots are a damn zoo with SUVs and minivans driving wrecklessly everywhere.
- The quality of most of what you find there is usually crap.
- The stores are frickin huge, you need a map to find anything, though this wouldn't be a big problem if they hired competent empoyees

Screw the lowest pricest, I'd rather shop somewhere that won't drive my favourite manufacturers out of business. I'll pay a couple of extra bucks if it means I get service. I'll spend a few more bucks on top of that for a quality product instead of a made-in-China POS that'll break in a week and a half because it only cost 35 cents to manufacture.

Yes, all in all Walmart sucks the big one but I guess most people are willing to put up with it to save 85 cents on a jar of pickles so huge they'll never actually finish.

 

[ajpa123]

This story is one every American should know.

I had a conversation last week about this with someone and i told her that don't get used to getting things so cheap becuase Walmart dictates prices and slowly puts its competitors out of business or will start absorbing them one by one. For example, It will wait till all the office supply stores battle it out and buy out the winner or just compete with it in some way. Same with Home Depot, soon it will be Wall-depot, and Wall-Electronics instead of Best Buy and Circuit City. By then it would have formed a strategic alliance with Amazon.com which would have an online account for like almost every human being.. lol

Then , watch the prices slowly rise, after Walmart rules the world.. lol

I know thats all impossible and based on fantasy, but its would make a good basis for a far-fetched movie huh.. lol

AJ.

 

[Linux23]

interesting. i did not know Walmart was da debil. i only shop at the one's in the South when I go visit. it's like friggin Disney World to those people.

 

[MikeMike]

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
maybe its just me, but the stores out here near me, are MUCH MUCH more organized than any k-mart i have ever been to, larger selection and better prices.

MIKE

Not surprisingly, there appears to be more than one version of Sam's biography. I'm gonna go with the ones I've seen on TV and read in books and not one off the internet from some student's school report, ok?

Store selection mean little to me. I don't shop by browsing. I never impulse buy. When I buy, I hunt (or so I am told by those who know me). I decide what I want. I research it. I find the lowest price. I drive to the store, purchase that item, and leave. Quick as I can. With its huge crowded parking lots and massive stores full of rude trailer park rejects (meaning both the employees and the customers), Wal-Mart is the worst store in the world for my buying habits.
And by K-Mart, I was referring to the lack quality of what is actually in the store. Quality is worth paying for, people. Doesn't matter how cheap it is if it ends up being a piece of sh!t. I hear you can buy a Kia or a Hyundai brand new for dirt cheap but for some reason that doesn't stop people from thinking that expensive BMW's are better cars, now does it?


editted for minor typo

Childhood circumstances encouraged Hustler Sam to work hard, adapt to new situations, and get along with others and yet also to display fierce competitiveness, initiative, and leadership.

from here

i cant find a good bio online of his early childhood, but the econ teacher in our school, and everything i have found seems to support my original explanation that he had a very hard childhood as a very poor child.

MIKE

 

[SagaLore]

Good read.

My grandma knew Sam Walton when he was still alive and Walmart was still small. She could have gotten stock from him but didn't...