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A Tirade Against Wal-Mart

Feb 09, 2005 07:23

I went to Wal-mart yesterday.

(Pardon me while I go chew the wallpaper off for a few minutes.) OK, I’m back. Sorry. I just had to vent ( Read more... )

rants and complaints

Comments 6

d2a0v0i5d February 9 2005, 18:32:54 UTC

Haa! That story was unfortunately ALL TOO TRUE. I try to avoid WalMart like the black death, but my wife and daughter think it is heaven-on-earth. My sole recompense for this is that, if they are going to piss away money, at least they have more bags to carry out (for the same dollars) than if they had a Nordstrom's or Neiman-Marcus addiction!

maia_sayet February 9 2005, 19:11:40 UTC

I am, for the first time EVER, living in a town without a Wal-Mart. It's awesome. We actually have a thriving downtown!!

And, the issue with the cities, isn't so much tradelines, as real estate. Those SuperCenters require more land that God gave a rancher, and that kind of land isn't available, and certainly isn't CHEAP in urban areas. Even in Dallas (Texas is the Wal-Mart epicenter of the Universe--there are over 300 of the suckers there), there's only one Wal-Mart. In San Francisco, where it's half a million for 1200 sq ft, Wally World is pretty much out of luck.

fuzzybutchkins February 9 2005, 21:36:45 UTC

I live in a town were, oddly enough, the walmart is sequestered in the back of a shopping district designed to look pedestrian and appealingly quaint to middleclass white folks. (the irony being that the only way you can get there is by car.) there are lots of little shops and specialty places and stuff, and the walmart is positioned in the back i such a way that you cannot see it from anywhere but the freeway ( ... )

perryfinch February 9 2005, 22:32:26 UTC

We call Wal-Mart the "village of the damned." We avoid it whenever possible. I think I've been in a Wal-Mart maybe 3 or 4 times in my life. Back when they were open 24 hours (heaven help us), it was the only option when a kid would mention, at 10:30 at night, that the next day was the Halloween party at school, and he needed a costume.

Anyway, you're right...it's a hellhole. But fuzzy is right...K-Mart can be even worse. (Ours is closing and being replaced by a Sears, which could be interesting...although they'll never beat Target.)

I agree. dubbage42 February 10 2005, 05:49:42 UTC

I hate Wal-hell and will go on at length to any of the locals who so badly want a shopping hell in our little town as to why I hate them. That lovely so-called American corperation purposly runs small businesses out of business. They actually have employees call local stores and ask prices of some items. They will then lower their prices to below the local area prices. Once they undercut the little stores enough that they either stop carrying *whatever* or that they go out of business, hell's prices go back up.
I'm all for competition. Don't get me wrong. I just think that anyone who wants that little slice of hell in their town just isn't thinking about what is good for their own communities.

Ok. It's time for bed, I'm rambling. (It's almost 1am here.)

Night!

Deb