Observation at Walmart

[irishcowboy]

the walmart organization, has ruined most of the mom and pop places, they have chased out alot of the yard goods stores, they are trying to run out grocery stores and after they have done run them out of business with holding their prices down, then they raise their prices......

the walmart in our town has their prices set higher then the next town, but we no longer have a yard goods store here and the only other clothing store that is still here is a second hand clothing.....

in Derby Ks, my mom lives about a half mile from walmart, and did all her shopping one stop.... she can not wear the cloths off the rack, for a couple reasons, one is they are not conservative enough, and second, they do not fit right.... so she was buying her fabric and yarn and such right there, and doing her grocery shopping there and having the car serviced there.... since they no longer are carrying fabric and other yard goods, she has to go almost 30 miles to get material, so walmart has lost her patronage (entire account so to speak), because if she has to go that far to get material, she might as well get her other shopping done at a place close to where she gets her fabric....

walmart pushed themselves into eastboro (subburb of wichita now) which had no one that ever shopped at walmart, they did not want walmart in there, for reasons the parking lot would be trashy, there would be mcdonald cups, diapers, and other things that would be dropped in the parking lot, that would get tracked (blown by the wind, carried by stray animals and such) in to the housing area...... walmart ensured them that would not happen, they still did not want walmart there....... and sure as shooting, the residence all had it right.... dead center bulls eye...... it was not two months after they opened, that you could drive down the streets and see diapers and other trash that had been carried from the walmart parking lot into the neighbor hood, and no one in eastboro shops walmart.... (most that live there earn in excess of 6 digits with out even thinking about it.....)

we no longer buy tires from walmart, it seems when we get tires there, they have defects in them, causing the front end of the vehicle to shudder when we get up past about 40 mph..... we spent enough money having the tires balanced and rotated that we ended up getting a new set for about 10% more then those cost, and have had no problem with front end shudder, and that was about 15,000 miles ago...... after we got the new tires, we had the front end realigned and by having those tires on it, caused damage to the tie rod ends...... even thou we were keeping it in alignment and trying to keep the tires balanced..... the walmart tires we pulled had over half their life left in them (for miles that they were suppose to go)

I am not happy with their product, but it is getting to the point no one else has the stuff that is needed..... Teresa can not buy cloths there.... she has been going to Kohls for hers and also making her own too.... i wear jeans, and have been lucky so far that they still carry sizes i can wear....

mike

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[Jonny_NZ]

Well, yep, as long as we want to be able to buy lots of really cheap things, we'll have to buy Chinese made. On the other hand, my parents - both in their mid-sixties - still have quality cutlery, pots and pans that were wedding presents 40 years ago.

But things used to be a lot more expensive, and let's face it, quality still is. A good German kitchen knife costs a lot, as do good pots. Quality shoes cost (though some in Asia are making good ones now too, often under license).

I've recently seen technology factories here in the Philippines closing down as the companies - including Intel - moved their manufacturing to China to cut costs. This outsourcing thing affects people everywhere. Chinese manufacturers will likely raise their standards, as did Japan, Taiwan, and Korea before them, but this will also affect the cost at which we can buy things - they'll get more expensive as the Chinese get richer and have to pay their peasants more.

I buy things made in my own country when I can, and also when I can afford to. I do this not because I don't like other countries, but because I worry about the economic future of my own. We continually run a trade deficit - more money is leaving our country than is coming into it.

However, the fact is that economic prosperity really lies in innovation, as it always has. It's encouraging for the USA that despite outsourcing a lot of manufacturing you have a huge amount of people and money involved in R&D - IBM is closely linked with its university, places like Intellectual Ventures generate hundreds of ideas, and economists like Paul Romer have been preaching for years the need for innovation to drive growth. It's worrying that my own country is not as strong in such areas - we still rely on agriculture and tourism.