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Consumerist Asks: Have You Downgraded To Wal-Mart Today?
While same-store sales rebounded ever-so-slightly in April, Wal-Mart continues to chug merrily right along, posting a 5% gain. Meg Marco at Consumerist explains it thusly:
A new survey of American consumers shows something very unusual — they’ve lost their interest in shopping. Is this lack of interest driving them to discount stores like Wal-Mart? Seems so...As interest wanes, more and more shoppers are heading to discount stores like Wal-Mart, says CNN.
So there you go. A little happy, uplifting news for your Thursday afternoon. We’ve lost our will to shop so much so, that we’re willing to go to Wal-Mart just so we can get it over with. So when the economy was going well Wal-Mart’s same store sales were flat, but with the economy in the tank, they’re rolling right along? Yay.
We’ll let Meg have the final word:
Have you “downgraded” to Walmart?
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COMMENTS
I’d live on road kill and wild greens picked from the ditches before I’d shop and give my hard earned money to an anti-labor company like Wal-Mart!
Big D in
Thursday, May 07 at 04:18 PM
Downgrade, race to the bottom, we’re going in the wrong direction, people.
Here’s an old fashioned idea that I hope makes a comeback: Prosperity!
What’s good for Wal-Mart is BAD for America!
Ken V in Texas
Friday, May 08 at 05:43 AM
Ken V,
“Here’s an old fashioned idea that I hope makes a comeback: Prosperity!”
I thought you didn’t like those oldfashioned ideas, because they were out-of-date? Are you starting to turn into a dinosaur, too?
RDS in
Friday, May 08 at 02:25 PM
HERE’s ANOTHER OLD FASHIONED CONCEPT THAT NEEDS REVIVING…
Let’s make the things we consume in America… Well maybe in North
America?
Are you starting to turn into a dinosaur, too? --RDS
No. There’s only one dinosaur on this blog and we all know it’s you!
ScrewedbyWalmart in Anytown, America
Friday, May 08 at 08:31 PM
I thought...
It’s all downhill from there.
Wal-Mart is the exemplar of a form of corporate colonialism, which is to say, organizations from one place going into distant places and strip-mining them culturally and economically. ~ James Howard Kunstler
Ken V in Texas
Friday, May 08 at 09:09 PM
Screwedby,
“HERE’s ANOTHER OLD FASHIONED CONCEPT THAT NEEDS REVIVING… “
Wow, that’s 2, you must be getting wiser everyday!!
RDS in
Friday, May 08 at 11:31 PM
“...you must be getting wiser everyday!!” --RDS
That’s the difference between you and me, RDS.
ScrewedbyWalmart in Anytown, America
Saturday, May 09 at 02:54 AM
Screwedby,
“That’s the difference between you and me, RDS.”
Yes, I already know those things, you still have to learn them!! But, that’s what I’m here for, to teach you!!
RDS in
Saturday, May 09 at 11:31 AM
THAT WAS A POOR ATTEMPT OF THE USUAL RDS SPIN…
As usual RDS, your limited cerebral functioning did not allow you to
comprehend my original meaning. Unlike yourself, I’m capable of taking in new
information, analyzing it, and synthesizing it with what I already know.
One of the things I learned some time ago is that there is nothing I want to learn from
you.
ScrewedbyWalmart in Anytown, America
Saturday, May 09 at 11:52 AM
Screwedby,
“ there is nothing I want to learn from you.”
It’s your loss!!
RDS in
Sunday, May 10 at 12:02 AM
Now I will retire for the evening with a large bong pipe and plenty of weed. After that I will get cozy & snuggle with my Mom since today is mothers day
Night all
ScrewedbyWalmart in Anytown, America in
Sunday, May 10 at 09:37 PM
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