Quoted from Patches

gonna need more cops for both ends....and dispatch is across Town....talk about a puzzle and intelligent thinking....

NO WALMART IN THE WESTERN PART OF TOWN...

Quoted from Libertarian4life

Really, I can't believe anyone could object to a Walmart sandwiched between Kmart and Sears, also sitting across the street from BJ's.

Quoted from 55tbird

Walmart will drive Kmart out of the property in 6 months and sears will be relegated to a hardware/tool store...

Quoted from Box A Rox

The TaxPayer subsidized WalMart will kill any competition.  WalMart is a PLAGUE on this country and
will continue to drag down the middle class until the middle class turns it's back on WalMart.

Quoted from Box A Rox

The TaxPayer subsidized WalMart will kill any competition.  WalMart is a PLAGUE on this country and
will continue to drag down the middle class until the middle class turns it's back on WalMart.

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The National Labor Relations Board General Counsel is issuing a decision today
to prosecute Walmart for its widespread violations of its workers’ rights. The decision
will provide additional protection for Walmart’s 1.3 million employees when they are speaking
out for better jobs at the country’s largest employer.

The Board will prosecute Walmart’s illegal firings and disciplinary actions involving
more than 117 workers, including those who went on strike last June, according
to the decision.
The decision addresses threats by managers and the company’s national spokesperson
for discouraging workers from striking and for taking illegal disciplinary actions against
workers who were on legally protected strikes. Workers could be awarded back pay,
reinstatement and the reversal of disciplinary actions through the decision; and Walmart
could be required to inform and educate all employees of their legally protected rights.

Quoted from bumblethru

Boxy....you and I never agree on anything..........except this one.

I call Walmart the anti-Christ!

And not because they are non-union.....that has nothing to do with it as far as i'm concerned.

I was talking to some duansburgians.....they said they would love it since there is nothing close to them except bj's.

So I told them to invite walmart into their township!

Quoted from Box A Rox

What happened to your Diane Feinstein poster???

Quoted from bumblethru

If the truth be known...........many major market chains BUY THEIR products FROM walmart........FACT!!!!
It is actually cheaper for these markets to buy (wholesale) from walmart, for resale, than it is to buy from a distributor......FACT!!!
Walmart 'sells' (shelf price) their products for the price that most market chains 'buy wholesale'....before the mark up.....FACT!!!
So at the end of the day..........you really don't know WHAT you are eating or where it REALLY came from......FACT!!!

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THE WAL-MART YOU DON'T KNOW
THE GIANT RETAILER'S LOW PRICES OFTEN COME WITH A HIGH COST. WAL-MART'S RELENTLESS PRESSURE CAN CRUSH THE COMPANIES IT DOES BUSINESS WITH AND FORCE THEM TO SEND JOBS OVERSEAS. ARE WE SHOPPING OUR WAY STRAIGHT TO THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE?
BY CHARLES FISHMAN
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A gallon-sized jar of whole pickles is something to behold. The jar is the size of a small aquarium. The fat green pickles, floating in swampy juice, look reptilian, their shapes exaggerated by the glass. It weighs 12 pounds, too big to carry with one hand. The gallon jar of pickles is a display of abundance and excess; it is entrancing, and also vaguely unsettling. This is the product that Wal-Mart fell in love with: Vlasic's gallon jar of pickles.

Wal-Mart priced it at $2.97--a year's supply of pickles for less than $3! "They were using it as a 'statement' item," says Pat Hunn, who calls himself the "mad scientist" of Vlasic's gallon jar. "Wal-Mart was putting it before consumers, saying, This represents what Wal-Mart's about. You can buy a stinkin' gallon of pickles for $2.97. And it's the nation's number-one brand."

Therein lies the basic conundrum of doing business with the world's largest retailer. By selling a gallon of kosher dills for less than most grocers sell a quart, Wal-Mart may have provided a ser-vice for its customers. But what did it do for Vlasic? The pickle maker had spent decades convincing customers that they should pay a premium for its brand. Now Wal-Mart was practically giving them away. And the fevered buying spree that resulted distorted every aspect of Vlasic's operations, from farm field to factory to financial statement.

Indeed, as Vlasic discovered, the real story of Wal-Mart, the story that never gets told, is the story of the pressure the biggest retailer relentlessly applies to its suppliers in the name of bringing us "every day low prices." It's the story of what that pressure does to the companies Wal-Mart does business with, to U.S. manufacturing, and to the economy as a whole. That story can be found floating in a gallon jar of pickles at Wal-Mart.

Wal-Mart is not just the world's largest retailer. It's the world's largest company--bigger than ExxonMobil, General Motors, and General Electric. The scale can be hard to absorb. Wal-Mart sold $244.5 billion worth of goods last year. It sells in three months what

number-two retailer Home Depot sells in a year. And in its own category of general merchandise and groceries, Wal-Mart no longer has any real rivals. It does more business than Target, Sears, Kmart, J.C. Penney, Safeway, and Kroger combined. "Clearly," says Edward Fox, head of Southern Methodist University's J.C. Penney Center for Retailing Excellence, "Wal-Mart is more powerful than any retailer has ever been." It is, in fact, so big and so furtively powerful as to have become an entirely different order of corporate being.

Wal-Mart wields its power for just one purpose: to bring the lowest possible prices to its customers. At Wal-Mart, that goal is never reached. The retailer has a clear policy for suppliers: On basic products that don't change, the price Wal-Mart will pay, and will charge shoppers, must drop year after year. But what almost no one outside the world of Wal-Mart and its 21,000 suppliers knows is the high cost of those low prices. Wal-Mart has the power to squeeze profit-killing concessions from vendors. To survive in the face of its pricing demands, makers of everything from bras to bicycles to blue jeans have had to lay off employees and close U.S. plants in favor of outsourcing products from overseas.

Of course, U.S. companies have been moving jobs offshore for decades, long before Wal-Mart was a retailing power. But there is no question that the chain is helping accelerate the loss of American jobs to low-wage countries such as China. Wal-Mart, which in the late 1980s and early 1990s trumpeted its claim to "Buy American," has doubled its imports from China in the past five years alone, buying some $12 billion in merchandise in 2002. That's nearly 10% of all Chinese exports to the United States.

One way to think of Wal-Mart is as a vast pipeline that gives non-U.S. companies direct access to the American market. "One of the things that limits or slows the growth of imports is the cost of establishing connections and networks," says Paul Krugman, the Princeton University economist. "Wal-Mart is so big and so centralized that it can all at once hook Chinese and other suppliers into its digital system. So--wham!--you have a large switch to overseas sourcing in a period quicker than under the old rules of retailing."