You, my dear Dana, are late to the punchline.
You, my dear Dana, are late to the punchline.
Who works and shops at Walmart, has a poor education and social background? Poor people?I wasn't making a comment on their economic status. It has nothing to do with rich or poor as evidenced by the fact that I included the elderly and teenagers in their first jobs. I was making a comment on their educations and social backgrounds.
Who works and shops at Walmart, has a poor education and social background? Poor people?
I wish there were a walmart near me. As it is, I get a decent chunk of my household items from their website. Setting aside the fact that the company is one of the great success stories, its prices are just outstanding.
What's wrong with yellow? .
What's wrong with yellow?
Me either. I prefer supporting my local businesses even if it means paying a couple dollars more for the product.
exactly.... I don't do chains, including places like walmart.
exactly.... I don't do chains, including places like walmart.
exactly.... I don't do chains, including places like walmart.
How many things actually have "local" options nowadays?
Just as an example, I recently needed an iced tea maker, a rice cooker, and an espresso machine. My choices for that are:
1) Take the train down to Macy's (a huge chain) and walk around for 45 min before paying a premium,
2) Travel all over the city trying to find individual local stores that would sell each of these things (after purchasing them from overseas), or
3) Go online and order them from Amazon or Walmart, saving time and a couple hours.
Criticisms of big box stores make some sense when they're pushing out smaller stores that actually produce things locally, but I don't see why the individual dude importing things from China or Italy down in midtown is more deserving of my dollar than the company importing things from China or Italy that has a bunch of stores.
I don't deal with Walmart because I don't care for the way they move into smaller towns and open mega stores that put several small businesses out on their rears. Walmart isn't that big a deal somewhere like here in LA or in New York but it has, literally, taken over the commerce of small towns and a single Walmart usually affects multiple towns in the same area.
Add to that the mounting charges of gender bias and poor treatment of employees and I just can't fathom doing business with them.
All the stuff you listed, by the way, can be bought on the same block of Chinatown or at most strip malls. There's zero need to ever set foot in a Walmart.
How many things actually have "local" options nowadays?
Just as an example, I recently needed an iced tea maker, a rice cooker, and an espresso machine. My choices for that are:
1) Take the train down to Macy's (a huge chain) and walk around for 45 min before paying a premium,
2) Travel all over the city trying to find individual local stores that would sell each of these things (after purchasing them from overseas), or
3) Go online and order them from Amazon or Walmart, saving time and a couple hours.
Criticisms of big box stores make some sense when they're pushing out smaller stores that actually produce things locally, but I don't see why the individual dude importing things from China or Italy down in midtown is more deserving of my dollar than the company importing things from China or Italy that has a bunch of stores.
Shopping WalMart once in a while is a right of passage for me and my ilk. Now I'll look for the dudes in the yellow vests, because NOTHING beats shopping with a gay guy. :nails
With absolutely no evidence, one guy is claiming that one manager at a store treated him badly. Lawsuits like this are astoundingly common, so I'm not sure what we're supposed to take from it even if we assume that he's telling the truth.
I doubt I could easily find all of those things in Chinatown while comparison shopping and looking up the specifications, and even if I could, it would involve a whole bunch of searching around and would certainly end up costing me more than it would if I bought them online. While they might be easy to find at a strip mall (if I felt like driving to one), what makes a strip mall outlet of bed/bath/beyond or macys any less damaging to local business than Walmart?
Especially "if your ass looks fat in those pants"
When I said "strip mall", I was talking about one of those rows of little shops you find in neighborhoods. I think some people call them "boutique" stores. And I don't mind paying a little more if it keeps me from having to set foot in a Walmart and have to slough through those people while I shop. Every time I have ever been in a Walmart, I got the compulsive need to scrape off the bottom of my shoe when I came out.
As to the rest, I understand what you are saying. However, I think those events where larger stores put out smaller competitors happened a little more gradually. Further, those smaller competitors likely ended up becoming suppliers for the larger mom and pop and neighborhood grocers and such. When Walmart moves into a small town, whole blocks of private businesses go under.
"Those people"? Elitist much?
As if I'd buy clothes there!! :crazy3: Go sit in the corner for 5 minutes, Mega. :naughty
I buy my meds at Wall Mart.
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