?Even WalMart agrees they seek overseas lanour for the sake of increased prifit margins.?
Um, Oz, of course they do because that?s the same thing! Without a profit margin, a business cannot exist.
?How? Lower prices? the prices are NOT lower, in fact anyone who works at WalMart will tell you that MOST prices are not lower, but the Opening price gets you in the store and to the rack where overpriced products sit. It is a form of bate and switch.?
If you?d like to come down to Atlanta some time, I?d be happy to show you in person how you are wrong. I am not a ?regular? Wal-Mart shopper, however last night I did go and saw that almost every grocery item that I purchased was nearly 20% cheaper than at the store I usually shop at. Period. Fact. End of discussion. If you really insist, I?ll scan the receipts showing the difference for you.
?As for changin my mind, no you wont, not without soem facts and figures to support yoru wild claims.?
So you are insisting I scan the receipts?
?You can't just deny comments and make assertions to the contrary without supporting proof.?
Like what? Anything better than what you have? I don?t see you accepting much that doesn?t apply to your world view either.
?you are quick to discount facts presented because they do nto come from a source YOU trust, why the hell should anyone listen to you when you don't even support yoru point other than to disagree with someone else? That's not debating, that's just trolling.?
Considering the source I trust comes from my personal experience of about 14 hours ago, it would be quite difficult, if not impossible for you to discount them in any meaningful way.
?Now that's something a right wing nutjob SHOULD know.?
Now you?re just name calling, which is unproductive and just uncalled for. If it makes you feel any better, I am no more a ?right wing nutjob? than you might be a union stooge. Hey, a dozen years ago I was also called a right-wing nutjob because I questioned Bill Clinton?s desire to give ?most favored trading status? to China. (Such was the treatment one got for questioning anything done by the most moral and sensitive President of our age) To be fair, it was the ?see no evil? left-wing nutjobs that went weak-in-the-knees to support a president who was virtually on the payroll of both Wal-Mart (Hillary was on their board, by the way) and the People?s Army. (With Hillary still in the race, many seem to be conveniently forgetting the endless fundraising scandals these days)
I am not a big fan of China. (My position on China is that I?d rather compete with them in a ?trade war? than in a ?hot war?, which is where things likely would have gone in a different age) Yes, many in China are ?virtual slaves?. But then again, if Wal-Mart did not exist, they?d still be slaves, but working in munitions plants making bombs to be dropped on us, or rice paddies maintaining subsistence.
I?m not even that big a fan of Wal-Mart. I do not think they are the greatest thing on the planet, and I do not think they are the worst thing either. Most of the complaints you have against Wal-Mart could just have (and were) easily been leveled against other industry leaders like, say, Sears-Roebuck 40 or 50 years ago. In another 15 years or so, you will have forgotten about Wal-Mart and will be complaining about whoever replaces them.
Personally, I think it?s pathetic that ?retail? is now a bigger industry in America than manufacturing. But the decline of manufacturing was something that was taking place long before the rise of China and Wal-Mart. Chinese slave labor notwithstanding, America became uncompetitive because of the policies of those who are usually the most critical of Wal-Mart, and ridding the world of Wal-Mart would not solve those problems. At best, it?s a distraction from the real issues.
