Made In China

[MooseGirl]

I hate Wal-mart, I will spend more money on somethings at other stores. The only bad thing is with a family of 6 and basically a one family income we do need to shop there as they are the cheapest.

[ann2]

I love wally -world!!!

[Can Do (Phil 4:13)]

It's all about the Unholy dollar talking. I've learnt that people will do anything and I mean anything to get a bit extra (or even a whole lot more extra) money in their dirty little hands. So why would big corporations be any different?

Just start trying to find large corporations who have a Social Concience. I'd love it if you can name them. It would be great if we could all find Christian Companies who do the 'right thing' and we could go out of our way to support them

Faithie

[irishcowboy]

And Walmart pays their employees well.....

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do they really???????

hmmmm

better ask the employees around this area..... there are 5 supercenters and a couple smaller walmarts with in 30 minutes of my house......

they have chased out smaller businesses......

they do not have what I need most of the time, and the stores that did have what I needed are no longer in business....

womens cloths are rediculous.... if you are a zero to an 8 or 10 you might find something that is conservative, but mostly the clothing is too revealing.....

my wife and i do not shop walmart for cloths at all, cause they do not have what we need..... too slinky too revealing, sized wrong , ( loose in the back side and too tight to even get past the thighs and such ) very uncomfortable....

they are set for the teen market not the over 30 market.........

they are set for the sex market, not the christian market.....

i can go on what i dont care for with walmart,

go get a belt sander, and they dont even carry the sand belts that go with it...

get a battery operated tool today, and try to get parts for it a year from now....

get a Price Pfister Kitchen faucet from walmart, and spend 90 bucks on it, and have the cheap spout break, you can not get a replacement spout, but have to have it taken out and taken back to walmart to exchange the entire faucet.... the parts are run on a separate production line from the normal line of Price Pfister Faucets...... thus parts are not available...... ( besides the rubbers that go inside it and maybe the cartridges.... )

go ahead and buy that 15 dolllar faucet, pay 40 buck to have it installed by a plumber, then when it starts dripping in two to three weeks, have the plumber come back take it off ( cause there are no parts for it ) and you return it while the plumber waits for you to get back, and then he reinstalls it for another 40 bucks ( that is if you dont take too long returning it )........ spend 95 dollars on a 15 dollar faucet when the plumber could sell one from the truck for 45 bucks and have parts on hand for 10 bucks less.....

go ahead and buy them cheaply made things, I carry faucets that have 100 year drip free warrentee ( factory ).......... that is a life time faucet ( no it is not moen )

mike

[WayneB]

You know Mike, you make a good point.

I bought some Abu Garcia fishing reels in Wal-mart a few years ago for a low price. Great deal!!! THEN I found out that Abu Garci, like most of Wal-mart suppliers I am told, makes two level of quality. The reels you find in a Bass Pro Shop for instance are of better quality than the identical looking reel sold in Wal-mart. An Abu-Garcia field rep told me that the Walmart reels have less ball bearings. Is it true? I don't know for sure but it sure seems to be so.

Wal-mart beats up their suppliers just as all the other major discount centers do. Home Depot is just as bad. My company refuses to do business with Home Depot for the very reason that the risk is high and the margins are low. The ONLY way you can succeed is by cutting corners...something we refuse to do.

[Eadora]

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Edited January 19, 2005 by Eadora

[Ovedya]

Wow. In a lot of places I'd say that $9.50 an hour is a pretty good wage. Of course you have to take into account that in order to barely earn a living in California, you have to make a minimum of $15 an hour.

[Joe Christian]

Can't say I love Wal-Mart, but in a fairly small town it's the cheapest (usually) for most items. One thing that gripes me though is I have to pay 2 dollars extra because I wear XXL. Doe's it really take that much more material? I think not and I seriously doubt that I will change my mind about that. Then again, look at K-Mart, I went to three stores one day in the same town looking for an item, I noticed on several of the items, none of the stores had the same prices! Besides, they have Martha Stewart representing their store items. K-Mart has pretty much lost my business because they have a liar and a person convicted of financial related crimes still representing their company.

[Eadora]

Yoh! The China WaL;-Mart

Well this is a pleasant surprise.

You all must know what I think of Wal - Mart.

I shop there to!

Because the alternatives I see as no better.

The Market Is Cornered! They have left us no escape <<but to become complicit>>

I do not like it but it seems to be a fact.

[JimR-OCDS]

I just purchased a pair of nice thinsulate ski gloves at Wal-Mart, for $3.

Thank You China!