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By: CaliforniaMike send a private message
Glendale : CA : USA | 5 months ago  
"Progress has never been a bargain. You have to pay for it. Sometimes I think there's a man who sits behind a counter and says, 'All right, you can have a telephone but you lose privacy...
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    Posted By slydog slydog | 5 months ago
    Great commentary that looks at the Pros & Cons of the Big Box store!
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    Posted By Sherrill_Fulghum Sherrill_Fulghum | 5 months ago
    I worked for a company who promoted within. they ended up going out of business due to mismanagement.

    Keeping down prices is NO excuse for incompetence. I quite going to Wal Mart because there is never anyone around to help and if you do find someone, they don't have a clue or tell you that they are on a break. The Dollar Tree and Family Dollar close to my home are much nicer and helpful.

    Wal Mart has a strange way of hiring. Take a look at their computerized applications. The questions they ask are borderline invasion of privacy and severely type cast. Only nosey busybodies need apply.
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    Reply By CaliforniaMike CaliforniaMike | 5 months ago
    I agree with you for the most part. Wal-Mart is very invasive and they work hard to keep anyone out who might help organize a union.

    But those low prices help a lot of people ...
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    Posted By InspectorGadget InspectorGadget | 5 months ago
    You have an interesting point there. There are too many people out there constantly highlighting the negatives of Wal Mart. At least you put this out there for the world so people can be aware that the company does have at least one positive aspect. Also, I've heard that they do take environmental issues seriously. They've made efforts to reduce their energy consumption. Although the negatives heavily outweigh the positives, everything isn't negative.
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    Reply By CaliforniaMike CaliforniaMike | 5 months ago
    There are very few issues where someone is all good or all bad -- except for Dick Cheney.
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    Posted By Sherrill_Fulghum Sherrill_Fulghum | 5 months ago
    If they are so concerned with helping people out, then why have many of the stores eliminated their craft and fabric section? With that stuff gone sewrers and people who want to make stuff are forced to use JoAnn and Michaels which cost a lot more.
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    Posted By allknower allknower | 5 months ago
    Great commentary Mike! A few of my thoughts: who says the globe has escaped the claws of imperialism - McDonalization, WalMartization, Starbuckification is imperialism in the form of globalization of giant MNCs. These entities have a say on what we eat to what we earn ... what we watch on t.v to who stays in business and who doesn't. It is the worst face of Monopoly and Imperialism ... 'cause when the two join hands (as you said too)-> 'the birds loose their wonder and the clouds smell of gasoline'!
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    Posted By Write4Life Write4Life | 5 months ago


    I wish there was a better way.
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    Reply By CaliforniaMike CaliforniaMike | 5 months ago
    Me too.
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    Posted By slydog slydog | 5 months ago
    Hey Mike! Check this site out for a Walmart shock! Is it a Virus..
    a business or (as Col Cathcart wanted in Catch 22) "a nice, tight
    bomb pattern"! Scary..considering many of their products are made
    offshore and being consumed (cheap or not!) by more & more Unemployed
    Americans.

    http://projects.flowingdata.com/walmart/
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    Reply By CaliforniaMike CaliforniaMike | 5 months ago
    Wow! When you look at the empty areas without Wal-Marts, you soon realize that most of them are places where there just aren't any people.
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    Posted By Write4Life Write4Life | 5 months ago
    Slydog - Mike - Looks a little like an epidemic wouldn't you say?

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