Wal-Mart Worried about Gas Prices

[BushBasha]

On Feb. 2, the J.P. Morgan security company downgraded Safeway stock, saying ?recent departures of management (and the CEO selling 25 percent of his vested stock) do not give us comfort in the 12 month outlook for the company or its stock price.? In late January, CL King & Associates research director Gary Gibben said of Burd: ?As right as he was for the company at one time, he may be the wrong guy now.? In fact, Safeway stock has lost 50 percent of its value over the past three years because of costly, failed acquisitions.



And in December, the California Public Employees? Retirement System (CalPERS), the state?s government workers? pension fund and the nation?s largest public retirement plan, formally asked the chairs and CEOs of Safeway, Albertsons and Kroger to ?fairly and expeditiously? resolve the dispute with the UFCW. ?Fundamental to the fair treatment of employees is a reasonable health care plan that provides basic health care for your workers,? the letters said. ?In addition we feel that your corporation?s blatant disregard for quality of life issues for your long term employees is having a significant impact on our investment in your corporation.?

 

[TNM93]

I am glad you have the luxury of spending more money on goods that are made in the USA; do you think the female single mother working for $5.00/hr with astronomical rent in the city and no transportation should also pay more for similar products that can be had for less?

Melissa Knight, 28, a single mother, was laid off in June from a $15-an-hour job at the Hoover plant. She's collecting unemployment while hoping to be rehired. "It's all our fault," she says. "The American economy wants cheaper things.... I'm guilty of this, too."

Diversion time......

Safeway's CEO Cuts His Salary, but Takes Sneaky Millions; Then He Blames Employees for Complex Industry Problems

Contradictions now courtesy of Bushbasha.....

Thanks for quantifying the values you assign to people and for placing the "national media" ahead of "a few local" property owners.

Mom and Pop repair shop who charges me $50/hour to fix them can go to hell, sorry.

Going to quote me some more Safeway stories from Google now?:roll:

 

[BushBasha]

Originally posted by: ysperalda

Going to quote me some more Safeway stories from Google now?:roll:

Nope. Time to go home. I am down with your "model business," as the more I read, the more sick I become. I am sure you wish the whole business world operated like Shameway. God help us.

 

[TNM93]

Originally posted by: BushBasha

Originally posted by: ysperalda

Going to quote me some more Safeway stories from Google now?:roll:

Nope. Time to go home. I am down with your "model business," as the more I read, the more sick I become. I am sure you wish the whole business world operated like Shameway. God help us.

Funny how you never replied to the single mother quote despite claiming that single mothers benefit so much from Wal-Mart.......

I got sick of your replies ever since the first one, it's obvious that you are a Bush sheep. And then you diverted the topic from wages and Wal-Mart, to Safeway's business model and CEO pay. Nice. 😛

 

[BushBasha]

2. ACORN CHALLENGES RACIAL PROFILING BY MACY'S
SECURITY ACORN chapters in five cities are coordinating to
challenge Macy's stores' security practices of targeting people of
color for harassment - or "shopping while black." Across the
country, ACORN members, staff and others have experienced
discrimination by Macy's security staff who disproportionately single
out shoppers of color for harassment, including accusing shoppers
of shoplifting, detaining shoppers, and subjecting shoppers to
humiliating searches. Macy's security's racial profiling is also
currently the subject of a class action lawsuit, not affiliated with
ACORN, filed against the store by an African American shopper.
To protest this discrimination, between August 28 and September
16, 120 ACORN members and organizers in New York, Boston,
Miami, New Orleans and Los Angeles held actions at local Macy's
stores. At the actions, members passed out flyers and coupons to
other shoppers and passers-by entitling them to "one accusation of
shoplifting" for being a "dedicated Macy's shopper of color" or a
"great deal for shoppers of color: buy purchases over $100 and get
detained!" As a result of the actions, New York ACORN Executive
Director Bertha Lewis and President Gloria Waldron met with
Macy's executive staff on September 26 to begin negotiations on
changing the company's policies. For more information contact
Bertha Lewis at nyacornbrk at acorn.org or 718-246-7900.

Photo http://www.acorn.org/photos/gallery.php?p=621 ACORN
members marched into the downtown Macy's in New Orleans on
Friday, September 12, to protest the store's policy of targeting
African-American shoppers for harassment and detention.
Shoppers and employees on all three floors of the store heard
ACORN's anti-discrimination message: "2-4-6-8, Macy's security
discriminates!" Similar protests have been held by ACORN
members at other Macy's stores across the country. Photo by J.
Scott



Wow. I will no longer shop there. Another great example of 'model business' in your white world, right? I don't dare probe any deeper...afraid at what I might find burning in the front yards of African American Macy's workers' yards.

 

[BushBasha]

Protestors Picket Macy's, Call For Re-Hiring Two Muslim Women

By Ayub Khan, IOL Correspondent

SANTA CLARA, California, Feb.27 (IslamOnline) - The Coalition to Re-hire Alia (Atawneh) and Hiam (Yassine), two Muslim women fired from Macy's department store in Santa Clara's Valley Fair mall soon after Sept.11, demands their immediate re-hiring, according to a Macy?s statement received Tuesday.

Last Sunday, close to 175 people representing multiple races, ethnicities, religions and groups, held a noisy three hour protest outside the store shouting slogans like "M-A-C-Y-S, you?re racist, just confess."

The Coalition charges that Atawneh and Yassine, both of whom are Palestinian Muslim immigrants, were fired because of their religious and cultural backgrounds.

Atawneh, 29, a clerk at Macy's, was fired shortly after being berated by a customer who told her that she had no right to work in the United States. She said that when she asked the customer for an explanation, he complained to the manager.

Two co-workers also complained to managers about Atawneh, claiming she said America "deserved" the attacks, a statement Atawneh said she never said and does not believe.

Macy's, however, defended the firing claiming that Atawneh's comments were disruptive. A Macy's press release obtained by IslamOnline reads:

"As a company, we cannot and will not condone offensive, rude, provocative or disruptive comments in the workplace. After receiving more than one report that an employee made such remarks about the September 11th attacks, that employee was terminated."

Fadi Saba, of Arab-American Caucus and a coalition member organization, told IslamOnline, "All corporations that fire will go into denial. This has been Macy's trend.

?It is true that Alia Atawneh did make comments on 9/11, but that is when two of her co-workers [who knew she is Palestinian] asked why Palestinians in Nablus [in Occupied Palestine] celebrated - and Alia only tried to explain [not opine]."

The other employee, Yassine, 39, was fired because she gave a customer a discount on a handbag without a manager's approval.

Yassine does not dispute she gave the discount, but contends that what she did is common among fellow Macy?s salespeople.

Yassine, who wears hijab (Islamic headcovering) and is a U.S. citizen, said she has received many awards for her sales work since she started working at Macy's in 1997. She says she was fired because her co-workers were uncomfortable having her around.

The Macy's statement said that Yassine's firing was solely based on violating a company policy and that it had nothing to do with discrimination.

"The accusations that two recent employee terminations were based on discrimination are completely false. The two cases are unrelated; each was based on our conclusion that an employee violated company policies which apply to all employees," the statement read.

Meanwhile, the Coalition to Rehire Alia and Hiam, formed in association with Silicon Valley De.Bug, a San Jose-based activist group for temporary and low-wage workers and several other groups, said that it would continue to hold protests until justice is done.

It is demanding Macy's to re-hire the two women, compensate them for redress, and apologize to them and to the Arab community.

The coalition is also trying to unionize all clerical workers at Macy's and FDS (Federated Department Stores), which owns Macy's and several other department stores.

 

[TNM93]

Originally posted by: BushBasha
2. ACORN CHALLENGES RACIAL PROFILING BY MACY'S
SECURITY ACORN chapters in five cities are coordinating to
challenge Macy's stores' security practices of targeting people of
color for harassment - or "shopping while black." Across the
country, ACORN members, staff and others have experienced
discrimination by Macy's security staff who disproportionately single
out shoppers of color for harassment, including accusing shoppers
of shoplifting, detaining shoppers, and subjecting shoppers to
humiliating searches. Macy's security's racial profiling is also
currently the subject of a class action lawsuit, not affiliated with
ACORN, filed against the store by an African American shopper.
To protest this discrimination, between August 28 and September
16, 120 ACORN members and organizers in New York, Boston,
Miami, New Orleans and Los Angeles held actions at local Macy's
stores. At the actions, members passed out flyers and coupons to
other shoppers and passers-by entitling them to "one accusation of
shoplifting" for being a "dedicated Macy's shopper of color" or a
"great deal for shoppers of color: buy purchases over $100 and get
detained!" As a result of the actions, New York ACORN Executive
Director Bertha Lewis and President Gloria Waldron met with
Macy's executive staff on September 26 to begin negotiations on
changing the company's policies. For more information contact
Bertha Lewis at nyacornbrk at acorn.org or 718-246-7900.

Photo http://www.acorn.org/photos/gallery.php?p=621 ACORN
members marched into the downtown Macy's in New Orleans on
Friday, September 12, to protest the store's policy of targeting
African-American shoppers for harassment and detention.
Shoppers and employees on all three floors of the store heard
ACORN's anti-discrimination message: "2-4-6-8, Macy's security
discriminates!" Similar protests have been held by ACORN
members at other Macy's stores across the country. Photo by J.
Scott



Wow. I will no longer shop there. Another great example of 'model business' in your white world, right? I don't dare probe any deeper...afraid at what I might find burning in the front yards of African American Macy's workers' yards.

lol....keep diverting the issue......Now it's about racial discrimination....Um, that pretty much happens at all business, so don't know the point of this.

If you actually read my post, I NEVER mentioned anything about model businesses. But I guess that's lost on a Bush sheep. You took it from what company I supported or went to, to "model businesses". Anything to fit your argument. You are boring already.

 

[TNM93]

Originally posted by: BushBasha
Protestors Picket Macy's, Call For Re-Hiring Two Muslim Women

By Ayub Khan, IOL Correspondent

SANTA CLARA, California, Feb.27 (IslamOnline) - The Coalition to Re-hire Alia (Atawneh) and Hiam (Yassine), two Muslim women fired from Macy's department store in Santa Clara's Valley Fair mall soon after Sept.11, demands their immediate re-hiring, according to a Macy?s statement received Tuesday.

Last Sunday, close to 175 people representing multiple races, ethnicities, religions and groups, held a noisy three hour protest outside the store shouting slogans like "M-A-C-Y-S, you?re racist, just confess."

The Coalition charges that Atawneh and Yassine, both of whom are Palestinian Muslim immigrants, were fired because of their religious and cultural backgrounds.

Atawneh, 29, a clerk at Macy's, was fired shortly after being berated by a customer who told her that she had no right to work in the United States. She said that when she asked the customer for an explanation, he complained to the manager.

Two co-workers also complained to managers about Atawneh, claiming she said America "deserved" the attacks, a statement Atawneh said she never said and does not believe.

Macy's, however, defended the firing claiming that Atawneh's comments were disruptive. A Macy's press release obtained by IslamOnline reads:

"As a company, we cannot and will not condone offensive, rude, provocative or disruptive comments in the workplace. After receiving more than one report that an employee made such remarks about the September 11th attacks, that employee was terminated."

Fadi Saba, of Arab-American Caucus and a coalition member organization, told IslamOnline, "All corporations that fire will go into denial. This has been Macy's trend.

?It is true that Alia Atawneh did make comments on 9/11, but that is when two of her co-workers [who knew she is Palestinian] asked why Palestinians in Nablus [in Occupied Palestine] celebrated - and Alia only tried to explain [not opine]."

The other employee, Yassine, 39, was fired because she gave a customer a discount on a handbag without a manager's approval.

Yassine does not dispute she gave the discount, but contends that what she did is common among fellow Macy?s salespeople.

Yassine, who wears hijab (Islamic headcovering) and is a U.S. citizen, said she has received many awards for her sales work since she started working at Macy's in 1997. She says she was fired because her co-workers were uncomfortable having her around.

The Macy's statement said that Yassine's firing was solely based on violating a company policy and that it had nothing to do with discrimination.

"The accusations that two recent employee terminations were based on discrimination are completely false. The two cases are unrelated; each was based on our conclusion that an employee violated company policies which apply to all employees," the statement read.

Meanwhile, the Coalition to Rehire Alia and Hiam, formed in association with Silicon Valley De.Bug, a San Jose-based activist group for temporary and low-wage workers and several other groups, said that it would continue to hold protests until justice is done.

It is demanding Macy's to re-hire the two women, compensate them for redress, and apologize to them and to the Arab community.

The coalition is also trying to unionize all clerical workers at Macy's and FDS (Federated Department Stores), which owns Macy's and several other department stores.

More weak arguments about racial discrimination? Go back and actually read the thread, you might find it had something to do with Wal-Mart. 😛

 

[BushBasha]

Rape was in the news recently in a couple of horrendous stories from Pakistan. But the crime should be making some headlines here as well. That, clearly, was the view of the people who attended a Women's Leadership Summit, convened last month by the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women, which is the largest NOW chapter in the nation. The summit was intended to determine what specific issues are of urgent concern to women, and several at the top were connected to rape.

According to Matthea Marquart, NOW's NYC chapter president, some recent court decisions have resulted in victims not being permitted to sue for pain and suffering when they were raped in the workplace (including one at Macys); they could only apply for workers compensation.

Wow. :brokenheart:

 

[TNM93]

Originally posted by: BushBasha
Rape was in the news recently in a couple of horrendous stories from Pakistan. But the crime should be making some headlines here as well. That, clearly, was the view of the people who attended a Women's Leadership Summit, convened last month by the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women, which is the largest NOW chapter in the nation. The summit was intended to determine what specific issues are of urgent concern to women, and several at the top were connected to rape.

According to Matthea Marquart, NOW's NYC chapter president, some recent court decisions have resulted in victims not being permitted to sue for pain and suffering when they were raped in the workplace (including one at Macys); they could only apply for workers compensation.

Wow. :brokenheart:

Keep diverting, it's an indication you can't debate. Still waiting on that mom quote.....

 

[BushBasha]

Hi Complaints.com -this was faxed and mailed to:
Via Fax & Mail (619) 667-6395
Wendy Heinz, HR Manager
Macy's West - Grossmont
5500 Grossmont Center Drive
La Mesa, CA 91942

Diane Delucchi, Manager
Employee Relations Compliance
Macy's Divisional Headquarters
170 O'Farrell Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

Human Resources Director
Federated Department Stores, Inc.
7 West Seventh Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202

Greetings:
"I'm going to tell you right now, we don't' have any sales." While shopping for a belated mother's day gift, this is the humiliating and overtly degrading greeting I received from your fine jewelry sales associate and customer service representative Grace Awieraga on May 15, 2004 at Macy's (Grossmont) in La Mesa, California. I am a young Black woman and find the service provided by and received from Ms. Awieraga to be racially motivated and insensitive.

Shocked, offended and terribly embarrassed to have been approached in this manner by a Federated Department Stores, Inc.s'/Macy's sales associate and customer service representative, Ms. Awieraga, I walked away. Being offensively anguished and ridiculed by Ms. Awieraga, clearly because I am young and Black, I am appalled. Grace Awieraga blatantly, discriminatingly calculated that I am ill- afforded the financial means to purchase jewelry at full-price (e.g., racial profiling); or maybe Ms. Awieraga was disgusted with my Black presence at the fine jewelry counter and having the assignment of serving my shopping/purchasing interests was much too great for her.

Being utterly disgraced, I left the jewelry counter, but immediately returned -- in step with my head up -- to tactfully inform Ms. Awieraga that her comments were offensive and hurtful, and that I did not appreciate being treated in such a manner. Also, when I returned to the counter Ms. Awieraga was speaking to another associate and telling her of her offense. Grace Awieraga knew she had discriminated against me. I was never appropriately greeted pleasantly by Ms. Awieraga.

For example:
"May I help you?"
I was never asked my interest or purpose for shopping for jewelry. For example: "Are you considering a particular purchase of which I may be of assistance?"

Ms. Awieraga never apologized for her offensive behavior, not even after I made her aware of my hurt and embarrassment because of her remarks. In fact, I was never shown any jewelry, nor was I given the opportunity to inquire of any. I was immediately insulted by Grace Awieraga's assaulting remarks. "Shoo fly, shoo." I had been at the jewelry counter at least 3 minutes prior to Ms. Awieraga's offense and did observe the difference in customer service I received from Ms. Awieraga in comparison to her non-Black customers receiving care as I browsed the counter.

 

[TNM93]

Since we are diverting issue....

Originally posted by: BushBasha

Originally posted by: ysperalda
Sheehan, National Media and Other Protestors > A few locals.

Thanks for quantifying the values you assign to people and for placing the "national media" ahead of "a few local" property owners.

Now....

Originally posted by: BushBasha

Originally posted by: ysperalda

Still waiting for your answer on the low wages and high Chinese imports that Wal-Mart gets. 😉 I support businesses that actually pay a decent wage.

SomethingjustforyoumyProWalmartfriend

Mom and Pop repair shop who charges me $50/hour to fix them can go to hell, sorry. I'll put it on the curb and go to Wal-Mart and buy another if I so choose (it's all about "choice," right GoPack?).

Hmm, looks like you are placing Wal-Mart above mom and shop stores, contradiction..

It's been a whole 5 minutes since the last news story from 3 years ago, I'm getting bored.
😛

 

[TNM93]

Might want to read this BushBasha.....

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=52&threadid=1613011&enterthread=y

asking members to do more than simply post links or complete quotes of articles that can be found by anyone. If you believe something is important enough to post, you must have some opinion of your own about the content of the article or link.

 

[TNM93]

Originally posted by: BushBasha
Protestors Picket Macy's, Call For Re-Hiring Two Muslim Women

By Ayub Khan, IOL Correspondent

SANTA CLARA, California, Feb.27 (IslamOnline) - The Coalition to Re-hire Alia (Atawneh) and Hiam (Yassine), two Muslim women fired from Macy's department store in Santa Clara's Valley Fair mall soon after Sept.11, demands their immediate re-hiring, according to a Macy?s statement received Tuesday.

Last Sunday, close to 175 people representing multiple races, ethnicities, religions and groups, held a noisy three hour protest outside the store shouting slogans like "M-A-C-Y-S, you?re racist, just confess."

The Coalition charges that Atawneh and Yassine, both of whom are Palestinian Muslim immigrants, were fired because of their religious and cultural backgrounds.

Atawneh, 29, a clerk at Macy's, was fired shortly after being berated by a customer who told her that she had no right to work in the United States. She said that when she asked the customer for an explanation, he complained to the manager.

Two co-workers also complained to managers about Atawneh, claiming she said America "deserved" the attacks, a statement Atawneh said she never said and does not believe.

Macy's, however, defended the firing claiming that Atawneh's comments were disruptive. A Macy's press release obtained by IslamOnline reads:

"As a company, we cannot and will not condone offensive, rude, provocative or disruptive comments in the workplace. After receiving more than one report that an employee made such remarks about the September 11th attacks, that employee was terminated."

Fadi Saba, of Arab-American Caucus and a coalition member organization, told IslamOnline, "All corporations that fire will go into denial. This has been Macy's trend.

?It is true that Alia Atawneh did make comments on 9/11, but that is when two of her co-workers [who knew she is Palestinian] asked why Palestinians in Nablus [in Occupied Palestine] celebrated - and Alia only tried to explain [not opine]."

The other employee, Yassine, 39, was fired because she gave a customer a discount on a handbag without a manager's approval.

Yassine does not dispute she gave the discount, but contends that what she did is common among fellow Macy?s salespeople.

Yassine, who wears hijab (Islamic headcovering) and is a U.S. citizen, said she has received many awards for her sales work since she started working at Macy's in 1997. She says she was fired because her co-workers were uncomfortable having her around.

The Macy's statement said that Yassine's firing was solely based on violating a company policy and that it had nothing to do with discrimination.

"The accusations that two recent employee terminations were based on discrimination are completely false. The two cases are unrelated; each was based on our conclusion that an employee violated company policies which apply to all employees," the statement read.

Meanwhile, the Coalition to Rehire Alia and Hiam, formed in association with Silicon Valley De.Bug, a San Jose-based activist group for temporary and low-wage workers and several other groups, said that it would continue to hold protests until justice is done.

It is demanding Macy's to re-hire the two women, compensate them for redress, and apologize to them and to the Arab community.

The coalition is also trying to unionize all clerical workers at Macy's and FDS (Federated Department Stores), which owns Macy's and several other department stores.

lol, how you extrapolite a business that is better than Wal-Mart into meaning a "model" business is funny. The two have nothing to with one another. You can be a better business than Wal-Mart but not necessarily be a model business in every sense of the word, but whatever, I guess that logic is lost on you.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: ysperalda

Originally posted by: BushBasha
Wal-Mart's decision in 2002 to enter the southern California grocery market with forty of its "supercenters"?where the shopper can buy everything from tomatoes to deck furniture and spare tires. Although Wal-Mart has not yet opened any of these new stores, the response of California supermarkets, led by Safeway, has been to demand cuts in their employees' wages and benefits, with the cuts falling heavily on newly hired workers. This posed a serious threat to the supermarket employees, 70,000 of whom are members of the Union of Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) and have benefited from its bargaining with employer

And yet you idolize Wal-Mart? Go to San Antonio sometime where Albertsons used to do business. Then Wal-Mart comes in, with cheap labor wages and anti-union, and now Albertsons is no longer doing business there. But that's ok, right? Those people can just find jobs at Wal-Mart, right?

What are you talking about, HEB ran albertsons out of town. Albertsons were on the way out before walmart really got into groceries. Where I live there was an albertsons across the street from the regional grocer(HEB), HEB was always packed but albertsons never ways. This is probably because albertsons prices were much higher than HEBs.

 

[TNM93]

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: ysperalda

Originally posted by: BushBasha
Wal-Mart's decision in 2002 to enter the southern California grocery market with forty of its "supercenters"?where the shopper can buy everything from tomatoes to deck furniture and spare tires. Although Wal-Mart has not yet opened any of these new stores, the response of California supermarkets, led by Safeway, has been to demand cuts in their employees' wages and benefits, with the cuts falling heavily on newly hired workers. This posed a serious threat to the supermarket employees, 70,000 of whom are members of the Union of Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) and have benefited from its bargaining with employer

And yet you idolize Wal-Mart? Go to San Antonio sometime where Albertsons used to do business. Then Wal-Mart comes in, with cheap labor wages and anti-union, and now Albertsons is no longer doing business there. But that's ok, right? Those people can just find jobs at Wal-Mart, right?

What are you talking about, HEB ran albertsons out of town. Albertsons were on the way out before walmart really got into groceries. Where I live there was an albertsons across the street from the regional grocer(HEB), HEB was always packed but albertsons never ways. This is probably because albertsons prices were much higher than HEBs.

Doesn't hide the fact that Wal-Mart still undercut Albertson's low market share through strong arming suppliers. I agree with your point about HEB competition, but there were Supercenters already there before Albertson's left. Take the one on 281/1604 as an example.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: ysperalda

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: ysperalda

Originally posted by: BushBasha
Wal-Mart's decision in 2002 to enter the southern California grocery market with forty of its "supercenters"?where the shopper can buy everything from tomatoes to deck furniture and spare tires. Although Wal-Mart has not yet opened any of these new stores, the response of California supermarkets, led by Safeway, has been to demand cuts in their employees' wages and benefits, with the cuts falling heavily on newly hired workers. This posed a serious threat to the supermarket employees, 70,000 of whom are members of the Union of Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) and have benefited from its bargaining with employer

And yet you idolize Wal-Mart? Go to San Antonio sometime where Albertsons used to do business. Then Wal-Mart comes in, with cheap labor wages and anti-union, and now Albertsons is no longer doing business there. But that's ok, right? Those people can just find jobs at Wal-Mart, right?

What are you talking about, HEB ran albertsons out of town. Albertsons were on the way out before walmart really got into groceries. Where I live there was an albertsons across the street from the regional grocer(HEB), HEB was always packed but albertsons never ways. This is probably because albertsons prices were much higher than HEBs.

Doesn't hide the fact that Wal-Mart still undercut Albertson's low market share through strong arming suppliers. I agree with your point about HEB competition, but there were Supercenters already there before Albertson's left. Take the one on 281/1604 as an example.

Walmart was the straw that broke the camels back, but they were hurting well before that.

 

[Staples]

I love the graphic on that page.

Well, maybe Walmart should have not invested so much in China and put every American out of business. Putting all their eggs in one basket is coming back to bit them in the ass.

 

[EatSpam]

Originally posted by: Staples
I love the graphic on that page.

Well, maybe Walmart should have not invested so much in China and put every American out of business. Putting all their eggs in one basket is coming back to bit them in the ass.

I'm going to laugh when that giant falls. Their employees are already on public aid, so its not like it would be that big a deal!

 

[GoPackGo]

We all just buy way too much junk...things we don't use or need.

 

[Pabster]

Bah, nonsense. They'll just keep squeezing their suppliers to compensate. They've got an excellent track record (remember, 3% price drop per annum for identical product) 😛

 

[alent1234]

Proctor and Gamble is merging with Gillete. Word is that they will be able to tell Wal Mart to go away when they ask to drop prices. Besides Target and other stores are giving Wal Mart a lot of competition. What would happen if say Proctor and Gamble "accidentally" ran out of a product right when they knew that Wal Mart needs it most but had it available at other stores.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: alent1234
Proctor and Gamble is merging with Gillete. Word is that they will be able to tell Wal Mart to go away when they ask to drop prices. Besides Target and other stores are giving Wal Mart a lot of competition. What would happen if say Proctor and Gamble "accidentally" ran out of a product right when they knew that Wal Mart needs it most but had it available at other stores.

the would lose millions.

 

[alent1234]

what about an approaaching hurricane in florida and PG sends all the top selling items to Target and some other stores and very little to wal mart? And advertises it? They would still sell the stuff. All they have to do is play little Intel like games if Wal Mart tries to push them over

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: alent1234
what about an approaaching hurricane in florida and PG sends all the top selling items to Target and some other stores and very little to wal mart? And advertises it? They would still sell the stuff. All they have to do is play little Intel like games if Wal Mart tries to push them over

they would lose even more and likely wind up in court.