Comments on: Is The Internet Killing Wal-Mart?

The Skinny: Big-Box Behemoth Losing Power As Consumers Shop Online, And Elsewhere

[jcr103]

Is the Internet killing Wal-Mart? Let''s hope so.

[toolmangler-2009]

Posted by slim1h2o at 05:38 PM : Oct 03, 2007

She cannot handle it when someone says something she doesn''t like about Canada. It is alright for her to bash the USA but then she doesnt live here. I went through Wisconsin, Canada and points west in the late ''50s and the temperature was 28 deg ''below'' zero for nearly a month, Thats TOO cold for me.

[hypnotoad72]

When Wal-mart moved in, they put up big posters claiming how they are pro-community. Now that the competition is drying up, for them to vamoose is about as anti-community as they can get.

Which is probably for the best; Wal-mart knows it''ll always be around, even during the occasional drop in profits.

[erasmus6]

"You may think this is crazy talk but im a visualar. I / we see things that can happen." posted by lewiston14

I''m an empath.:)

[billpl-2009]

when you have to resort to having to write

"how may I help you"

on the BACKS of your empolyees?
what do think is going to happen?

[lewiston14]

Let%u2019s not worry about the 50 million illegal immigrants that are here let%u2019s not worry about the 5000 miles of unprotected borders with Canada. Canada is not the problem what comes through is Simple enough to do. Then when a dirty bomb makes it through our shell shocked stock marked will drop 3000 points in a day making things for us even worse. You may think this is crazy talk but im a visualar. I / we see things that can happen.

[lewiston14]

You can look at it this way. Walmart is not going away anytime soon or are China products. I could have spent $50 in gas drove to ten stores only to find the same faucet. If I did not buy it my kitchen would not have a working sink right now. China owns the US and in a couple of years will own everybody else. That is the product of slave labor and few restrictions on how they do things. Maybe we put ourselves out of business. Nope we can%u2019t do this and we can%u2019t do that. That really works in a world where it%u2019s free to do whatever they want. Looking for concrete? Better keep looking because while we spend a trillion dollars elsewhere they are buying concrete to build more. Are they involved in any problems outside their borders NO.? They just sit back and wait for everybody else to destroy themselves. Smart move on their part IMHO. Am I supporting them? No but some may ask %u201Cthen why don%u2019t you move there%u201D Good question maybe because they have jobs for the educated people. I could teach and make more there. Live in a good part of town and not worry about walking around the neighbor hood without getting shot. They take a very dim view on that sort of stuff. Its not often you get to see a head snap off the very next day no questions asked. They seem to have things together better then us.

[erasmus6]

slim1h2o

I really think you would be so much happier if you moved to Canada (west).

NO GUNS ALLOWED, though! :)

[slim1h2o]

I hate to tell you this, but we don''''t live in igloos like some people think. Where I live, (and with global warming :))the temperatures can reach 80 to 90 degrees and the winters are, for the mostpart, fairly mild. We do get some snow but really not that much.


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Posted by erasmus6 at 05:33 PM : Oct 03, 2007

Hey, what did I say, I know you don''t live in igloos. I''m from upstate like I said, Thats too cold for me. GOT IT!! Now I know your just trying to p i s s me off

[slim1h2o]

Now medicine, thats a different story.


Differrent story, same end result, that blows here too erasmus6

[erasmus6]

"Well erasmus6, if it wasn''''t so cold up there I would move there. I grew up in upstate NY and that was too cold there." posted by slim1h2o

I hate to tell you this, but we don''t live in igloos like some people think. Where I live, (and with global warming :))the temperatures can reach 80 to 90 degrees and the winters are, for the mostpart, fairly mild. We do get some snow but really not that much.

[slim1h2o]

Well erasmus6, if it wasn''t so cold up there I would move there. I grew up in upstate NY and that was too cold there.

I think Canada is nice country otherwise, just got on a little tiff about walmart. And I need to tip my hat to the Carpenters, half my post was their words.

Ya this country blows any more. Been lied to ever since I started working. Work hard and this will happen, that will happen,......blah,........blah doesn''t work like that. It''s always who ya know, and who b low here

[erasmus6]

slim1h2o

Well, all I can say is that I feel very sorry for you. It must be awful living in such a corrupt country. Hearing what your country is like makes me feel like there are continuous rainbows and springtime .....:)

[slim1h2o]

Posted by erasmus6 at 04:18 PM : Oct 03, 2007

Well Canada must have continouse rainbows, always springtime and gold dust in your eyes of blue, and angels suddenly appear.......etc, etc....Walmart sells 2nd quality, or 2nd tier products here. I know, I quit buying that *** long ago, Oh and I stopped buying the notion that the American dream is attainable and true too! It doesn''t exsist, it was a scam! I know , I lived it, Like Wal mart sells junk.

Now medicine, thats a different story.

[christiansin]

Innovation is the best thing for eliminating a conglomeration of power. Large companies are forced to either buy out or crush small innovators in order to retain their power and monopoly positions. Arguably the free market economy suffers from such large companies as a result, both while they dominate, and then later while they fall.

[erasmus6]

slim1h2o

Like I said, nothing can be sold here if it is flawed, without it being stated.I have shopped at Wal-Mart many times and have NEVER found anything that has said that it is flawed.

Also we have another store that has even cheaper priced stuff than Wal-Mart in it. It is called the Canadian Superstore. Neither Wal-Mart or the Superstore can be classified as a dollar store. A dollar store sells things that are no more than a dollar. Anyways, at the Superstore, I can buy make up and many things for up to $5.00 cheaper. I am talking about Cover Girl, Mabeline or whatever. I can buy my CHEERIOS made by GENERAL MILLS for $2.50, whereas at Safeway or any other store I would be paying $6 or $7. I can assure you that these things are NOT flawed.

People have been brainwashed into thinking that if they aren''t paying more for something there must be something wrong with it. NOT SO. At least where I live it isn''t like that.

I am thinking that you may have a problem in the U.S. with not being able to believe in what you are getting. Like your medications and stuff, for instance. If I have to get a particular medication, it is a guarantee that what it says is in it,IS IN IT.

[slim1h2o]

erasmus6;

Here in the States, Wal Mart is/was our dollar store, when Sam was alive. And yes it is posted, well used to be anyways. But do as I suggested in my earlier post, don''t take my word for it, but I think you''ll be surprised.

[erasmus6]

"It is to late to stop this now." posted by Oscarez

Sorry, I disagree. It is NEVER too late. All people have to do is start complaining and stop buying all products form China. The problem is that people are just to LAZY to do that. They b-i-t-ch and complain but will do nothing to try and change things. If people stop buying and bombard them with phone calls they will have no choice but to change. NO MONEY, NO BUSINESS!

[klingon69]

Quit smoking about 5 yrs ago, but this does not bode well for the citizenry. If they get this through, what will be their reason next time.

[erasmus6]

slim1h2o

When I was talking about the binoculars being cheaper at another store, I wasn''t talking about Wal-Mart.

Also I don''t know what it is like in the States but here anything that has a FLAW must be stated on the packaging or in the advertisement of the product.

Now if you were to go to a dollar kind of store, you might find something that LOOKS identical to another brand, but isn''t the SAME brand and it could be inferior.