Let me explain something to you, Walmart sucks. They are selling crap. My coworkers and I go over this time and time again. They just don’t get it. Walmart sucks. They say that they can but a TV there cheaper. Well yes they can. The problem is that to sell it cheaper it has lesser quality parts inside. It may look the same on the outside but in some cases it has a totally different main board inside it. The power supply serial number is WM#####, where the WM stands for Walmart. You can design electronics to fail after so many hours of use. They know this and build their crap with lesser quality parts. When they ask you if you want the extended warrantee, you better take it because no shop will work on it because the WM circuit board is proprietary info that is not released for WM.

In gun building, you start with a stock. You take a good piece of wood and start carving it. When you get a piece of crappy wood you toss it in a bin. When you make the barrel you heat treat it and it warps some. You straighten the barrel out and have a fine shooting riffle. Some barrels will not conform to being straightened and they get tossed into a bin. WM goes to the gun maker and ask them to build a cheap gun and the gun maker goes to the crap wood bin and crap barrel bin and puts together a crap gun that the shooter can never sight-in.

Lets talk about bed sheets. My co-workers say that they are cheaper there and I have to admit that they are. Then I ask them if they have ever heard about thread count and the answer is no. Good sheets have a high number in thread count. They are made of a high percentage of cotton to polyester. MW has the supplier make them to their standards of low thread count and more polyester (old recycled milk jugs). If you feel anything they sell it is thin compared to other retailers.

I was looking for tires for my car and found what I thought I wanted until I called a tire shop and tried to order them. This guy that I called is very trust worthy. He went into a spiel about how crappy the tire was due to the lack of materials in the tire. It turns out that WM went to the tire makers and only one agreed to build it for them, the others said it would be unsafe. It can only be bought at WM.

They go into an area and check local prices and build a store. They lower prices because they have the support of their other store and take a lose. When they put everyone else out of business and I am talking about many Mom & Pop shops, they raise prices to support their other new stores. One case of this was in Bennington, VT a few years ago. WM wanted in but all the Mom & Pop shops did not have the financial backing to fight the WM corporate lawyers. The Judge told WM to take over an empty Woolworth store and they did. Once in Vermont, WM build other stores in the state putting Mom & Pop store out of business. Then WM put in a Super-WM and closed all the other stores down without warning. One guy on the news said,” I use to drive just down the block to get shoes, now I have to drive 80 miles to buy a pair of plastic sneakers.”

Go into any store around you, and look down the isles. If you see someone scanning products, check to see if they actually work for that store. If you work at WM and are the supervisor of a department, you are expected to go to competing stores once a month and scan their products so that WM can upload that data to put the other store out of business.
If you don’t have one of these stores in your neighborhood you are lucky. If they try to get in, fight them. They have put many stores out of business here where I live and now everyone is complaining about prices. When I ask them where they shop they pipe up and say WM. I just tell them that they did it to themselves.

 

So if I'm reading this correctly ...........ya hate Walmart ??? ........LOL

I see your point they do rightly screw up the retail equation in more rural
locations. Yes their branded or / made for WM products do suck however
some bulk items like say BJ's Wholesale / Cosco etc are too goo to pass up.

TBT .........any thought on Sams Club ???

Now that Indy has deleted his post there's plenty of room left ...... LOL

 

Yea I didn't want to get into an international battle. Walmart just sells the "cheaper" mouse trap not better IMO.

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

They say a photo is worth a thousand words. Well this should end the thread!

 

They do have good prices on oil

 

I forget the name of the selling practice of that is. But it is to get you in the door buy your oil and wm hopes that you buy other things while you are in there .

 

I don't know....

I believe much of it, but wally world is sooo frickin' big that I don't see many of the gun manufacturers having millions of "reject" guns to sell to probably their biggest customer.
I've bought guns from wallyworld that were absolute tack drivers that functioned flawlessly.

I think that when walmart was smaller, maybe they were buying a lot more factory seconds and stuff, but nowadays most companies supplying walmart would have to have more seconds than firsts just to supply the giant.

As far as special contracts...like with electronics, bed sheets, etc... I can see that.

And I also believe that walmart smashes the market and then charges people more and more because they can. I've seen this firsthand. I've seen situations where a smaller company was supplying walmart in the beginning, but then walmart realizes they can make an inferior product for cheaper, put the wm brand on it, and then charge more.

I can't argue that walmart isn't evil because I think it is. I have trouble defending them at all, really..... but a few of the allegations I don't believe to be entirely true.

Hells yeah! Rotella dino is $10/gal! Synth is only $22/gal!

 

i've been boycotting wm for years. their employees are useless (and this is coming from someone who worked there in college). some things are worth paying for.

 

So in that mode of thought anyone want to discuss Big Oil Corps, Wall Street Bail Outs
etc..........after all the underpinning to this thread is pretty much summed up by that
financial debacle of the past decade..........and what do you know .......the clock has
been reset by bailout money ...........and a whole new cycle of thievery begins once again
...........the never ending cycle in reverse .........borrow , beg then steal

 

Big business at work - piracy in Brooks Bros suits..........................
I hate to hear it when a Mom'nPop goes out of business because of a conglomerate.
It's not only relevant as far as Walmart is concerned - happens worldwide, in all major chain stores.

 

Uh Huh Corporate Dictatorships with Politicians bankrolled by them

But then outright socialism is not exactly an efficient business model either

So where's the happy medium.........then we start discussing 2 party political
systems .............and on and on and on