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Elise Masutra
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Posted - 2006.03.06 20:43:00 -
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Edited by: Elise Masutra on 06/03/2006 20:45:00
 i just saw that DVD "Wal-Mart - The High Cost of Low Price" and i'm absolutly shocked ... i can't ever again buy anything in WalMart ...
sad thing is that there are other big companies which hold the same kind of style for their business 
if you ever get the chance to buy or watch this film i strongly recommend you do it!
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Godar Marak
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Posted - 2006.03.06 20:50:00 -
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Welcome to the real world.
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Lienzo
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Posted - 2006.03.06 21:07:00 -
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Walmart-type organizations are a potential future of business. Walmart is highly leveraged on the market, and as such, has to keep expanding. They seem powerful and influential, but really are utterly at the behest of internationalizing markets. Their speculative function is to rapidly equalize the difference in those markets. The intelligence behind such an organization is the ability to catalogue and precisely identify shifts in the demands of regional markets, no matter how petty.
It is to be taken for granted that nationalistic, union types would oppose it.
For the record, I am not a Randroid. I classify those between Furries and retired professional athletes on my list of things to avoid.
In short, do not fear the Walmart. Walmart is your friend. Love and know Walmart. Walmart Walmart Walmart.
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Samirol
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Posted - 2006.03.06 23:06:00 -
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 Originally by: Lienzo
Walmart-type organizations are a potential future of business. Walmart is highly leveraged on the market, and as such, has to keep expanding. They seem powerful and influential, but really are utterly at the behest of internationalizing markets. Their speculative function is to rapidly equalize the difference in those markets. The intelligence behind such an organization is the ability to catalogue and precisely identify shifts in the demands of regional markets, no matter how petty.
It is to be taken for granted that nationalistic, union types would oppose it.
For the record, I am not a Randroid. I classify those between Furries and retired professional athletes on my list of things to avoid.
In short, do not fear the Walmart. Walmart is your friend. Love and know Walmart. Walmart Walmart Walmart.
/me sprays holy water all over lienzo
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jason hill
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Posted - 2006.03.07 16:04:00 -
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walmart own asda dont they ?
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Naomi LotusBlossom
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Posted - 2006.03.07 16:14:00 -
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Walmart is Evil. Everyone must use some Monkey Wrenching to destory Walmart. I comand you.
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Rodj Blake
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Posted - 2006.03.07 16:22:00 -
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Originally by: jason hill
walmart own asda dont they ?
Yes, they do.
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Soren
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Posted - 2006.03.07 16:27:00 -
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Went down to mexico two weeks ago.. in the last year they've put-up a Walmart.. 
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Laythun
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Posted - 2006.03.07 18:04:00 -
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Originally by: Rodj Blake
Originally by: jason hill
walmart own asda dont they ?
Yes, they do.
but its not 'run' like one.
and a lot of the ideals from pre walmart asda have been taken into wal-mart itself.
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ReaperOfSly
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Posted - 2006.03.07 21:51:00 -
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For the benefit of those of us who have never seen this film, what exactly is it about walmart that is so bad?
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HippoKing
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Posted - 2006.03.07 21:54:00 -
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Originally by: ReaperOfSly
For the benefit of those of us who have never seen this film, what exactly is it about walmart that is so bad?
i was thinking that 
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DonTrump
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Posted - 2006.03.07 23:58:00 -
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One of the points you learn is when you ask for your benefits package at WM they give you a stack of gov forms to sign up for welfare. A staggering % of their workers are on gov welfare (fact: WM has more workers than anyone else 1M+ (over the size of the USA Army(the employees + the sporting good section could take over most countries))), and its actually WM pushing them into the gov assistance so they dont have to pay them any more salary. The usa and state govs don't approve or encourage this which recently got WM in some hot water.
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Vult
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Posted - 2006.03.08 00:09:00 -
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Originally by: HippoKing
Originally by: ReaperOfSly
For the benefit of those of us who have never seen this film, what exactly is it about walmart that is so bad?
i was thinking that
Hopefully this won't get pwned by mods as being too political, but...
Wal-Mart is a US empire of discount goods stores that employ people at the lowest possible payscale. Minimum wage, mostly. I say empire because most of the stores have an average of 1000 employees. The minimum wage is an insult enough, but the employees have piddly health benefits (if they're lucky enough to qualify for any at all) and a few years ago, the company got into a huge spat because of illegally employing workers who weren't legal immigrants or people who were even legally allowed to work in the US. There's no real minority or race issues... except for the stereotype that minorities are the only ones that work at Wal-Mart... and the other major issue they had was forcing some employees to work overtime hours and not report the overtime. Big no-no, basically.
But what is bad about Wal-Mart? Quality... It's not exactly where you'd want to buy your entire wardrobe. Occasionally you can go in there and just get something small that you need, like a tube of toothpaste or a pack of windshield wiper blades.
Their main competition is a store chain called Target, which is significantly smaller than the big W, but their overall product quality is hugely better, their selection is a bit smaller, but you can find virtually the same products at hugely better qualities for only a few dollars more.
Me, personally, I'm boycotting Wal-Mart... I don't really believe in their ethics for employment... my ex- worked there for years, and even her supervisors asked her to work overtime hours when clocked out, and refused to pay her, even out of pocket.
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Jinx Barker
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Posted - 2006.03.08 00:13:00 -
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Did you know that Wal-Mart is not only THE Biggest Corporation in USA, it is also THE Biggest Corporation in the World? (Fortune 500 USA/GLOBAL) information. Wal-Mart is #1.
How horrible for us, regular people.
I saw the video, but I always hated Wal-Mart anyway.
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Alan Freshley
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Posted - 2006.03.08 02:29:00 -
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Yeah but nobody beats ExxonMobil (Esso for any not in the United States). 
*awaits flames and rants about fuel prices*
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Archilies
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Posted - 2006.03.08 02:46:00 -
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I work part time in tesco (student, not a pikey) and the amount of things that i could tell you, tut tut, trading standards would crap all over them 
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jbob2000
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Posted - 2006.03.08 15:32:00 -
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I was watching a documentary on tv once, and its really interesting how they come about aquiring their products.
What happens is, local disributors come to a headquaters and they go in a room with some Wal-mart workers. The distributors say that they have so and so product and Wal-Mart says we will give you this much for it, no higher no lower. If the disributor disagrees, Wal-Mart basically says "we'll go buy from someone else and put you out of business"
This is how wal-mart is able to maintain unbelievably low prices. That, and illegal workers.
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Viktor Fyretracker
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Posted - 2006.03.08 15:39:00 -
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hmm Walmart ever growing, oil companies merging, AT&T reforming..... US will become like the caldari and run by mega corperations lmao.
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Solloeb
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Posted - 2006.03.08 15:40:00 -
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Heh if you dont like Wallmart come to norway :D
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solidshot
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Posted - 2006.03.08 16:37:00 -
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Originally by: jbob2000
I was watching a documentary on tv once, and its really interesting how they come about aquiring their products.
What happens is, local disributors come to a headquaters and they go in a room with some Wal-mart workers. The distributors say that they have so and so product and Wal-Mart says we will give you this much for it, no higher no lower. If the disributor disagrees, Wal-Mart basically says "we'll go buy from someone else and put you out of business"
This is how wal-mart is able to maintain unbelievably low prices. That, and illegal workers.
not only that but all these buy one get one free offers dont cost the big supermarkets a penny, they force the suplyers/farmers to give them all the extra goods free of charge and all the hauleirs that have a contract with the supermarkets are forced to haul all the extra goods free of charge and if they complain they are told they will lose their contracts to supply the stores
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HippoKing
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Posted - 2006.03.08 17:11:00 -
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sigs of the 23/24/25 hijack just as well -eris
yarrrr, i shall retake my sig -HippoKing
Not a chance, our 1337 sig haXx0r sk1llz are too powerful! - Wrangler
Ho-Ho-Hooooooo, Merry Saturday!11 - Immy
Yo ho ho and a bottle of BReeEEEEeee.... - Jacques ARRRRRRchambault
Stop spamming with "QFT" >:|. - Teblin
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Viktor Fyretracker
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Posted - 2006.03.08 18:19:00 -
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ok but whats interesting is my town got a walmart and no stores have closed, then again the Danbury metro area has 100k+ people.
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