Friday Blog Round-Up: Rainy Day Edition

Well WMW came through again.  I was wondering how they would make something bad out of Walmart reducing their prescription drug prices.  It is hard to complain directly about the prices since it has been such a democratic issue to reduce drug prices.

I also notice that Walmart profits are up.  Looks like WMW is following the Hilliary example.  Don’t give up just because you have a hopeless cause.

WalMart, cheap drugs and student activism. Sounds just like San Diego State University as the business school it has always been.

WalMart- When will Bush let us sell Afghani heroin?

Note to unrestrained and misbehaved capitalism…
“You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?”
Steven Wright

“A word to the wise: part of the reason Wal-Mart and Target are doing this is that they want you to wander around and shop while you wait for your medication. So if you use a big-box store’s pharmacy, bring a book or magazine and pull up a chair—the savings will be nullified if you walk out of there with a $4 prescription and $30 worth of crap you don’t need.”

Yes, that’s why they made many of the $4 prescriptions into 3 month $10 prescriptions.  To lure into the stores more often. 

It’s all so clear now!

“WAL-MART WANTS YOUR MONEY”

“they want you to wander around and shop”

Gee, imagine that, a store that wants you to purchase things there, isn’t that a strange idea?  Most other stores want you NOT to shop and spend your money, right?  How terrible of them to want to sell things, after all, what do they think they are, A RETAIL STORE?

SDV,

“When will Bush let us sell Afghani heroin?”

If they did, YOU would probably be their first and best customer, because they would sell it cheaper than where you get yours now!!

Who is Alex is writing to and what world is he writing from.  He said you should sit and read a book while waiting on those $4 prescriptions.  75% of the people in the US, already shop at Walmart.  They will not just sit.  They will wander around the store and save even more money. 

For the other 25%, I also recommend that they not spend money on junk they do not need.  They should wander around and find out why the other 75% shops there.  That way, as long as they are already there, they can judge for themselves.

why dont any of you ever piss and moan about targets 4 dollar prescriptions?good i hope everyone spends their stimulus at walmart.people shop where they can afford to idiots on here

Why are their such abnormal devotees to the WalMart cult? Media manipulation efforts have internet frauds and fakes paid for by WalMart in a public relations scam to deceive Americans with a culture of ignorance. WalMart’s ‘war room’ is a paid whorehouse of internet liars and frauds to strangely and irrationally defend a ruthless business practice. Since the WalMart/Bentonville hostility to people and labor is in policy immoral and often illegal, they must have propaganda to survive in this communications era. 

“Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.”
Mark Twain

They will wander around the store and save even more money.

That’s where you’re argument breaks down, Nick. If you “wander around” buying stuff you don’t need/want*, you will not “save even more money” no matter how cheap it is.

Feed the Pig

*Impulse Buying

SDV, their war room only exists because sites like this exist to spin everything negative.  As has been noted previously, WM isn’t that great with PR, mainly because they are new at it.  Unions have been attacking WM ever since the first supercenter opened. 
For example, $10 3 month prescriptions on hundreds of generic drugs.  There is nothing wrong with this, but this site attempts to spin negative.

Ken V,

Or it could be considered making one trip for everything they need, including their prescription.  It just depends on the person’s self control.  I agree with you, impulse spending is bad.  Making a realistic budget and sticking to it is one of the things a person can most do to help financially.

Wal-Mart is Missing an Opportunity Here!

“If you “wander around” buying stuff you don’t need/want, you will not “save even more money” no matter how cheap it is.”

Not only will you not save money, you will, as SDV pointed out, not have any room for it all.

Those executive white shirts in Bentonville are missing an opportunity to make a few bucks!  They could convert all that unused square footage in their “dark stores” to storage lockers and rent them out to their best customers.  This way all those loyal shoppers will be assured of having a place to store the useless plastic junk they buy at Wal-Mart. 

That would be true karma!

“Making a realistic budget and sticking to it is one of the things a person can most do to help financially.”

Yeah, I agree.  Our government should try it sometime!

Screwed,

Yeah, that would be nice!

scott sorry bucko walmart is very good at pr.

Time for another episode of WIMP! (Walmart Internet Media Police) brought to you by Aroma Stink Therapy!! The cologne for suave hip WalMart/Edelman ‘war room’ floggers.

After waking up in his Chevette as the only vehicle left in the WalMart parking lot Royal RV section, our lame and cowardly social hero RDS realizes he burned all his clothes in the previous night’s ‘Keep America Lukewarm’ WalMart campaign for moral apathy. Needing some threads, into the giant blue and yellow hellhole RDS goes seeking at first some cheap bling bling then he sees the cowboy section…

bbrd: “Its the only rodeo clown suit we have left!”

RDS: “I’ll take it!!”

bbrd: “That will be...lets see now… $9.97 plus local and state sales tax...makes it $10.77...plus WalMart image fee...plus special allowance for Lee Scott...plus lawyers compensation fund...that’s a biggie...plus North Carolina and other state tax dodge rebate assistance fund...plus ‘dark store’ carry charge...plus employee turn over surcharge...plus COLI refund tax… plus German and Korean fund for the internationally indigent...plus India future fire insurance premium payment...plus John Edwards future U.S. Attorney General fire insurance premium...plus Walton special death tax surcharge...plus Coughlin, Gabbard and Rohlem cha cha tax...plus Wehrmacht submariners pension fund...plus Save the Nick endangered species tax...plus Eduardo’s Mexican children paddlock fee...plus Human Resources Union Response Team jet fuel surcharges...plus Edelman surcharge to the WalMart image fee...plus Defeat John Kerry/Swift Boat Veterans mandatory charitable Rockin ‘W’ contribution...OH YEAH!!!… and lastly the Crystal Bridges Art fund tax for blind church going southerners. Comes to $158.44 American.

RDS: (Gulp) “What!! This is WalMart...how come its so expensive?”

bbrd: “Hey look bubb, I sell the costume not the reason. If you don’t know what you are doing, ask. Folks around here try and be helpful even if means costing you more. Pucker up sweetie, I’ll take Euros or Canadian dollars if you gottem.”

RDS: “What is this world coming to when a man dressed up as a rodeo clown can’t pay for his own clothes?”

bbrd: “Indentured servitude genius. How do you think I got this job?

RDS: “Any discount for a borrowed Ayn Rand Objectivist members card?”

bbrd: “Sure. But you won’t like it. Cheap drugs or chain smoking will make you feel better though, they are both located in the pharmacy section 2 days walk to the east southeast.”

Next time on WIMP! Arkansa State troopers escort RDS to the Little Rock Mexican Consulate for Huckabee Prayer Seminars in Spanish.

scott sorry bucko walmart is very good at pr.

I can’t believe I just read that, even from vantress.

Attention:  All Non-Walmart Shoppers.  Do you feel insulted that Alex and Screwed advise you not shop at Walmart while waiting on your $4 prescription drugs.  Apparently he does not believe you are smart enough to use good judgment and will go nome with $30 worth of junk you do not need.  We already knew that he didn’t think Walmart shoppers were intelligent.

Before you go to Walmart to pick up your $4 prescription drugs, make a shopping list.  While waiting on your prescription, look around Walmart with you shopping list in hand.  You don’t have to buy.  Consider it a research project.  If you believe Walmart is a good place to shop, then shop.  If you don’t believe that Walmart is a good place to shop, just take advantage of you $4 prescription drugs.  You are welcome to return at any time.  Unlike Alex and Screwed, we who like Walmart are not afraid of your careful examination.

Nick,

Makes one wonder how people like Alex, Screwedby and others, who say they don’t shop at Wal-Mart, seem to know so much about Wal-Mart shoppers!!  Could it be that they are actually Wal-Mart closet shoppers, saying “Don’t do what I do, do what I tell you”?  After all, didn’t Screwedby say that he takes his mom shopping at Wal-Mart?  Or, do they spend many hours in the Wal-Mart parking lot, observing the habits of Wal-Mart shoppers and what happens there?  I know I saw a picture of Screwedby standing by a Wal-Mart ‘cart corral’ and he has also posted pictures of trucks parked in the Wal-Mart parking lot with China containers on them!!  They also tend to push Wal-Mart to raise their standards through higher wages and prices, could that be to cause the ‘riff-raff’ shoppers (as they call them) out, so they can have a ‘better’ shopping experience?  Ken V, has commented that Wal-Mart isn’t ‘upscale’ enough for him, with their ‘fake’ wood floors and fluorescent lighting, could it be he feels that the other Wal-Mart shoppers are not of quite the “quality” people he is comfortable to be associated with?  Don’t they call that type of people, “Snobbish”?  I tend to beleive, that these people actually DO shop at Wal-Mart and are just trying to ‘weed out’ who they consider undiserable, otherwise, why would they care WHO shops and works there?

SDV,

I see that you got a ‘good’ batch of drugs again, bet they cost more than $4.00!!

I just made a trip to Walmart Superstore this morning.  I needed to pick up some food items on my grocery list.  While I was at it I found great prices on Angel Soft toilet paper, Walmart brand paper plates, Oscar Mayer hot dogs, and Ziploc freezer bags.  I also had a chance to swing over to the automotive section to get some Penzoil oil and Fram filters for my car and the pet department to get some goldfish food.  It’s nice to know I have a one-stop-shop where I can get alot of NAME BRAND QUALITY PRODUCTS THAT I NEED at great prices and it saved me time, money and gas from having to also stop at Pep Boys and Petsmart.

That’s why I shop at Walmart and why no person can convince me otherwise that it’s a bad place to go.  It would have cost me alot more at Safeway and the other stores for the same things.

Who cares

giant blue and yellow hellhole

Never saw one of those, before…

RDS, is that proof-enough for you that SVD doesn’t go near a Wal-Mart?

Is This Supposed to Be Your “Scientific” Basket Study, Richard K?

I can get alot of NAME BRAND QUALITY PRODUCTS...

We haven’t conclusively established that your “Oscar Mayer hot dogs” represent “quality.” Judging from the rest of your shopping list, I’d bet they were Oscar Mayer Wieners and not hot dogs.  For my money, I’m sticking with an all beef frank!

FOUND ON THE INTERNET FOR RICHARD:

There is no fixed specification for hot dog meat, with pork and beef being the most popular ingredients. Less expensive hot dogs typically contain some pork, but are primarily chicken, due to the low cost and availability of mechanically separated chicken. Hot dogs are generally regarded as unhealthy insofar as most have high sodium, fat and nitrate content. In recent years, due to changing dietary preferences in the U.S., manufacturers have turned to turkey, chicken, or vegetarian meat substitutes, and have begun lowering salt content.

In general, if a manufacturer produces two types of hot dog sausages, “wieners” tend to contain pork and are the blander of the two, while “franks” tend to be all beef and more-strongly seasoned. This is particularly true of Oscar Mayer products.

“It would have cost me alot more at Safeway and the other stores for the same things.”

Alot more?  I’m still waiting for someone to prove this!

Oscar Mayer hot dogs at Walmart - $1.50/package.  The EXACT SAME THING AT MY LOCAL SAFEWAY - $2.59 regular price.  There’s your proof.  And this was only MY basket of how I shopped today.  I’ve also done enough shopping at Safeway and Walmart and Safeway can’t even compare to prices at Walmart unless you are talking the weekly loss-leaders on the end caps.  I’ll gladly snap those up.  I would think there are alot of other people like me who do the same thing.

That’s a very ignorant post you just made ScrewedbyWal-Mart in Anytown, America.

If Bentonville can get Oscar Mayer to produce a sub-standard hot dog that will sell cheaper, they’ll do it. If you can’t trust Wal-Mart for your baby’s toys why would you trust their food?

...mechanically separated chicken...

Makes me hungry just thinkin’ about it.

Wal-Mart: “You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.” ~ Obi-wan Kenobi

Ken V,

Today, on C-Span, they had a segment with Jim Hightower, from Austin, TX., he was commenting on how to go about changing things!!  One thing I found particulary interesting, was that he said, that doing was better than just talking about it!!

He related a story about the taxi driver at one company in Madison, Wi., they thought they were being underpaid and treated unfairly, so they took Alex’s advice and joined a union!!  The company owner, refused to bargain with the union, so they went on strike, soon, the company gave in to their demands, but, on the next contract, the company again refused to bargain, the cabbies went on strike again, this time, the owner shut down the business and the drivers were out of work!!  Then, they decided, since they did all the work anyhow, they would pool their cash and start their own cab company, they now have the biggest cab company in Madison!!

We have suggested a few times in the past, that the union do the same type of thing to compete with Wal-Mart, but, all we hear in return, is flapping lips and no action!!  Why is everyone afraid to ‘compete’ with Wal-Mart, Head-On?

“If Bentonville can get Oscar Mayer to produce a sub-standard hot dog that will sell cheaper, they’ll do it.”

Are you saying they don’t already?  If not, how come they are $2.59 at Safeway and only $1.50 at Wal-Mart, if there is no ‘quality fade’, why the $1.09 difference?

Screwedby,

“For my money, I’m sticking with an all beef frank!”

I heard, that all beef franks are mostly lips, tails, hoofs and other unsaleable beef parts!!  Forget that Frank, give me a good old Johnsonville bratwurst!!

Presumptions!  Presumptions!

“...if there is no ‘quality fade...”

How do we know there isn’t?  Oh, I keep forgetting, we just have to take Richard K’s word for it.  That’s pretty much how a pro Wal-Marter operates.

“compete with Wal-Mart”

I’m getting really tired of seeing all the hyperbole and other exaggerated and unsubstantiated claims being thrown around by the Pro Wal-Mart crowd.  If you want to make an “argument,” at least provide us with some baseline data or working definitions.

What do you mean by “compete with Wal-Mart,” RDS?  Isn’t any retailer that sells the types of things that Wal-mart sells, “competing with Wal-Mart?”

Here… I’ll make it real simple for you.  Anyone who’s ever worked in sales, has probably heard of the “Ben Franklin Close.” Old Ben was a pretty “nuts and bolts” cut to the chase kind of guy.  When a decision needed to be made, he would take a sheet of paper, draw a line down the middle, and on the left side he’s list all of the reasons for making a decision.  On the right side he’s list all of the reasons against making a decision.  He operated from the principle that whatever side had the most reasons, that was most likely the correct decision to make.

So the decision is: “Should You Shop at Wal-Mart or Not?”

Now using Ben Franklin’s method, I’ll get all you Pro Wal-Marters started.  On the left side (reasons in favor of shopping at Wal-Mart) No. 1 is… They have low prices.

CAN YOU COME UP WITH AT LEAST 2 MORE REASONS TO SHOP AT WAL-MART THAT CAN’T BE FOUND ELSEWHERE?

So in other words… if you take away the “price argument,” there really aren’t a lot of reasons to shop there?

Don’t worry about the reasons “Against” (the right side).  We’ve got 1 through 5 covered without really trying too hard!

“Pro Wal-Mart crowd” aka the WalMart/Edelman ‘war room’ paid for internet frauds and fakes.

This is composed of a handful of WalMart shills managing numerous false indentities polluting the internet with lies, distortions and propaganda to decieve Americans.

“The war room staff arrives at Wal-Mart’s headquarters, a short drive from a nearby corporate apartment where they live, by 7 every morning. The group works out of an old conference room on the second floor, christened Action Alley, the same name Wal-Mart gives to the wide, circular aisle that runs around its stores.”

http://www.spinwatch.org/content/view/2039/9/

Wal-Mart Recruits Bloggers for PR Battle

“Under fire for its less-than-employee-friendly policies, among other reasons, Wal-Mart has apparently been rallying a force of blogger loyalists and mercenaries, supplying them with PR ammunition in hopes of beating back the assault, writes the New York Times. Pro-Wal-Mart propaganda produced by public relations firm Edelman has appeared in blogs, often verbatim and without attribution...”

http://www.marketingvox.com/archives/2006/03/07/walmart_recruits_bloggers_for_pr_battle/

“The contract went to Edelman, which assigned its top two Washington operatives to the account. Wal-Mart would not say what it is paying Edelman, nor would it allow interviews with the war room staff.”
Michael Barbaro, The New York Times

“ Public-relations specialists make flower arrangements of the facts, placing them so that the wilted and less attractive petals are hidden by sturdy blooms.” Alan Harrington, “Public Relations,” Life in the Crystal Palace (1959)

“The real trouble is a callousness throughout the whole mood and the collective conscience of the American people.”
Robert Welch

WalMart- We are not just psychopaths impoverishing the American workforce. We are internet frauds and fakes deceiving and feeding the national conversation with pusillanimous propaganda placeboes. Our Bentonville version of ‘free market capitalism’… bon appetit suckers!

screwed by is so full of b.s. on everything he says on here and has no answer on why walmarts prices are so good and why safeways suck.oh screwed likes ufcw union stores that cater to him the elitist spoiled rich crowd.screwed why should i pay almost a dollar more at safeway for the same package of hot dogs that will last you the same amount of time?answer that one pal.

1.  Lower prices
2.  Save time (can’t do the same shopping at Safeway)
3.  Save on gas (no multiple store stops)
4.  Greater selection (NAME brand and generic plus alot of stuff I never see anywhere else)
5.  Convenience (If I didn’t change my own oil I get it done there while I shop, and for alot less money than Jiffy Lube).

btw, I took a look at the package of hot dogs I bought at Walmart and compared it to a package I got a few days earlier at Safeway..... THE EXACT SAME THING, SKU AND ALL, but for $1.09 less

By the way, a local TV station in Baltimore has been running comparison shopping news stories every Sunday night for the past few weeks.  For some reason Walmart has been consistently coming in with the cheapest price for the same “basket” of goods compared to other local stores such as Safeway, Target, Giant Food, Shoppers Food and KMart.  Last night they looked at cleaning products and Walmart’s basket was around $18 and Shoppers topped $25 for the same items.  The “basket” of items changes every week but the results don’t, Walmart is always cheaper than the competition.

I guess I’m not the only one who comparison shops.  But I guess according to some people on this site the local news station is also paid by Walmart.

Where is your 1-5 ScrewedbyWal-Mart in Anytown, America?

btw I’m a Walmart internet whore

I guess I’m not the only one who comparison shops.

No, you’re not:

The local newspaper in Carroll County, Arkansas conducted a test of Wal-Mart’s low price claim. Surveying a list of 19 common household items at six Wal-Mart stores over a one month period, the newspaper staff found that Wal-Mart was cheapest on only two of the items . The lowest register receipt for all 19 items was $12.91. The highest total for all items came from Wal-Mart at $15.86. All this without factoring in the high cost of Wal-Mart’s prices: lower wages, more imports, lost U.S. jobs, lower community living standards.

A study conducted by the Congressional Research Service showed that for every two jobs created by a Wal-Mart store, the community loses three.

You’ve Proved Nothing, Richard K!

I’ve got better things to do than “debate” the finer points of hot dogs with you, Richard.

“Save time” (This is a subjective assumption on your part.  Do you do ALL of your shopping once a week in one location?  Do you ever need expert advice at the hardware store for a plumbing project?  Do you ever buy building supplies? Do you do any gardening or plant any flowers?  I’ve “checked out” Wal-Mart’s great “selection” and compared it with places like Menards, Home Depot, Steins Garden Center, and a local landscaper.  Wal-Mart isn’t even a contender!)

“Save on gas” (You’ve actually logged or documented this?) What about all those shoppers who will drive an extra 10-30 miles, round trip, just to have the “Wal-Mart Shopping Experience?” Are they saving gas?)

“Greater selection” (Another subjective assumption.  You’ve obviously not compared or tried to buy a good set of tires at Wal-Mart.  What “selection?” Also, what if Wal-Mart doesn’t carry the brand I prefer?  Then it doesn’t matter how many other brands they carry, does it?)

“Convenience” (You really like your subjective experiences don’t you, Richard.  What might be “convenient” for you, might not be “convenient” for other shoppers.  How “convenient” is it when you can’t get a little basic information or advice about a product, from all those “knowledgeable” Wal-Mart Associates?)

“Last night they looked at cleaning products...”

Your reference to the Baltimore TV station’s weekly “basket study” proved nothing!

How many items or brands were included in this study?  You say they have been doing this for a “few weeks.” Big deal!

I’m looking for a more longitudinal study...maybe 6 months or even a year.  I’m looking for the same 30-40 items to be compared every week between 3-4 stores.  It’s never been done that I’m aware of.  Who’s to say that that great “deal” you just got on hot dogs at Wal-Mart wasn’t the “weekly special” or perhaps a “Mother’s Day Special” since many people grill out for Mother’s Day.  Does Wal-Mart sell those hot dogs every day for that price?  What about all the other items you typically buy from Wal-Mart?  If you don’t comparison shop for every item, how can you be sure you got the “best deal?”

“Always Low Prices”… yeah sometimes, but I think Wal-Mart has duped most consumers into “believing everything” Wal-Mart tells them when it comes to “low prices.” Bob in (now RDS)
Sunday, December 10, 2006

Ken,

The problem with your “keepers” are, while they may have had some degree of relevance a year or two ago, they may very well not hold-up, today.

Case in point:  Your Carroll County, Arkansas piece in italics—I think you already shared that with everyone a while back…

My suggestion to anyone who is “on the fence” on who is giving-out the best deal is to do your own comparison shopping around the neighborhood, and make your own educated choices.  It may/may not be Wal-Mart, depending upon where you live, etc.

An important point in any real comparison shopping is to always check the UPC (SKU) - if Wal-Mart and other retailers both sell the same UPC, it’s a safe bet that it’s the same thing (as it would be against the law to make a “different batch of the same thing").

Of course Wal-mart’s prices are cheaper.  That’s because they pay their employees so little.  I’d rather pay a few dollars more at Safeway and know I am helping someone support their family.

That’s because they pay their employees so little.  I’d rather pay a few dollars more at Safeway and know I am helping someone support their family.

Huh??

Are we talking the same Safeway??

You know, that large grocery chain…

If anything, “Visitin’”, you’re helping that company’s CEO/shareholders far more than you are helping the rank-and-file folks…

1.50 for hot dogs, always wondered what happened to all that recalled dog and cat food.

bbrd: ‘If anything, “Visitin’”, you’re helping that company’s CEO/shareholders far more than you are helping the rank-and-file folks… ‘

AND YOU HAVE PROOF OF YOUR STATEMENT bbrd?

Richard K,

“I’ve got better things to do than “debate” the finer points of hot dogs with you, Richard.”

This is a standard Anti Wal-Mart practice, they ask a question, you answer and then they either call you a liar, call you a name or say they don’t want to talk about it!!

Take Screwedby’s list thing, he asks you to make a list, then tries to tell you reasons why your list may not be explained deep enough!!  Then, where is his list?  He says he has 5 off the top of his head, but, won’t list them!!  I bet you or I could shoot holes in every one of his as well!!  I know one he might use, is ‘low’ wages and benefits, and my arguement would be “compared to what other businesses?”, surly not compared to most other retailers!!

Screwedby,

“Who’s to say that that great “deal” you just got on hot dogs at Wal-Mart wasn’t the “weekly special” or perhaps a “Mother’s Day Special” since many people grill out for Mother’s Day.  Does Wal-Mart sell those hot dogs every day for that price?”

What is the difference, if I am shopping at Wal-Mart and ‘notice’ something that is ‘on sale’ at a ‘lower price’ than other places, and I buy it, did I not SAVE money?  And, if I buy it today, I won’t need to buy it next week, so what do I care what it costs then?

““Save on gas” (You’ve actually logged or documented this?) What about all those shoppers who will drive an extra 10-30 miles, round trip, just to have the “Wal-Mart Shopping Experience?” Are they saving gas?)”

And, what about people like ddrb, who live right next to a Wal-Mart and drive to some other store, to pay higher prices, just because she is mad a Wal-Mart?

““Always Low Prices”… yeah sometimes, but I think Wal-Mart has duped most consumers into “believing everything” Wal-Mart tells them when it comes to “low prices.” Bob in (now RDS)
Sunday, December 10, 2006”

I never made that statement, it must have been posted by one of my copycats, the reason I changed my ID in the first place!!

BTW: Where’s your list, so we have the chance to tear it apart, like you did?

AND YOU HAVE PROOF OF YOUR STATEMENT bbrd?

Why should you care?  All New Englanders know there are no Safeway stores, nearby…

Waaah, Waaah, Waaah!  Quit Your Whining, RDS!

“Where’s your list...”

He says he has 5 off the top of his head, but, won’t list them!!

That’s right RDS… 5 right off the top of my head!  There’s actually “a few more.” If people like yourself and Richard K weren’t so brain dead, and had actually been paying attention for the last 3 years, you might have picked up on few.  There’s a nice archive feature here...why don’t you do your own research if you want to know about the many issues I and others have with Wal-Mart.

“Always Low Prices”… yeah sometimes, but I think Wal-Mart has duped most consumers into “believing everything” Wal-Mart tells them when it comes to “low prices.”
Bob in (now RDS)

“I never made that statement...”

Great defense ploy, RDS!  I’m sure that’s your story and you’re sticking to it.  This way whenever anyone quotes you, you can always say, “It wasn’t me.  It must have been some imposter.”

The question I’ve always had, is why would anyone want to impersonate you?

FOR THE SAME REASON I LIKE TO IMPERSONATE YOU .

1.  “Save Time” - If I can make one stop at Walmart to buy the things I need vs. 3 stores then absolutely I am saving time.  That unless you have some funny numbered clock.  I didn’t know we were comparing Walmart to Home Depot for such things as plumbing pipes and electrical supplies.  I also didn’t know that Home Depot sells hot dogs, car engine oil and filters as well as goldfish food.  For gardening items Walmart’s even got that covered for mulch, plant food, seasonal landscaping etc.

2.  “Saved gas” - Let’s see.  Home to Safeway (3 miles).  Safeway to Pep Boys (10 miles).  Pep Boys to Petsmart (3 miles).  Back home (7 miles).  RT - 23 miles.  Home to Walmart (5 miles).  Walmart to home (5 miles).  RT - 10 miles.  Yep, saved gas and I can document it.

3.  “Greater Selection”.  That’s easy.  Name another store that carries a great number number of SKUs than Walmart.  As for Tires.  I haven’t been to Walmart but I have been to Sams.  I had to order the tires and it took 3 days for them to come in.  As a matter of fact every tire I could find at Merchants, NTB and Mr. Tire I could get at Sams.  In the end I had 4 new tires, mounted and balanced with lifetime RH and rotation, for over $100 less then the next closest competitor I checked.  I can document that one too.

4. “Convenience”.  Absolutely it was convenient for me.  And if anyone tried the same path I followed to make multiple purchases at the same store vs. 3 seperate stores would come to the same conclusion.  btw, I don’t think I need any “advice” on the toilet paper I bought.

My “basket study” is far from perfect, but then again I never said it was scientific but just my experience yesterday morning.  What I can say, with alot of experience, is that I do comparison shopping for a wide range of products and I have 0 hard time believing that Walmart prices in general are lower than the competition.  I’ve seen it with my own two eyes over the past several years.

As for the hot dogs.  Those were Walmart’s regular price, every day.  That’s unless of course you can state that shopping at Walmart and their competitors for the past several years and constantly checking on prices means I DIDN’T do my homework.  From what I read you don’t even shop at Walmart so how would you know?  I guess you aren’t a smart shopper who does his homework.

Now I think it’s time for you to come up with your 5 item list, assuming you have valid one.  I haven’t been watching your “ramblings” for the past 3 years.  And you’re right, there’s no debating you because you offer no factual substance.

Screwedby,

“Great defense ploy, RDS!  I’m sure that’s your story and you’re sticking to it.  This way whenever anyone quotes you, you can always say, “It wasn’t me.  It must have been some imposter.””

That one’s easy, when did you EVER see me taking the ANTI Wal-Mart side?

“The question I’ve always had, is why would anyone want to impersonate you?”

That one is easy too, to make people think I had JOINED the ‘dark side’ and agreed with people like you, that could never happen!!

“That’s right RDS… 5 right off the top of my head!  There’s actually “a few more.” If people like yourself and Richard K weren’t so brain dead, and had actually been paying attention for the last 3 years, you might have picked up on few.  There’s a nice archive feature here...why don’t you do your own research”

OH, I see, if you need our information, we are supposed to answer you, but if we want you to show your ‘stuff’, we are supposed to search 3 years worth of archives!!  Truth be known, if you posted your five or more, we could rip them to shreads and make you look so foolish, heck, you look that way to anybody with a ‘brain’ right now!!  Why, because you can NEVER ‘back up’ your rants, with FACTS!!  Besides, if we want to hear your side of things, we can go to any union site or anti Wal-Mart site and see where you get your OPINION ( Indoctrination)!!

BTW:  Are you going to that Bob LaFollett thing in Baraboo?

Looks like the puppet character Richard K has been resurrected from the Walmart toy box.
Now one thing we should notice is that he uses words that are particular to a retail employee.

“I’ve also done enough shopping at Safeway and Walmart and Safeway can’t even compare to prices at Walmart unless you are talking the weekly loss-leaders on the end caps"~
Richard K in

Loss-leaders and End Caps??? Those aren’t words a customer would use.

PS.  Did you calculate your Walmart 10% employee discount when you quoted your prices?

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More evidence that Richard K is a Walmart employee who is staging as a customer.

“........SKU AND ALL, but for $1.09 less"~Richard K in

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Alex;

[More evidence that Richard K is a Walmart employee who is staging as a customer.]

Guess what, it is possible for someone to be both, isn’t it?  Or, don’t walmart workers shop for things?

But, let’s say that he IS a walmart employee, where is his rage against walmart’s low wages and poor insurance?  And, he didn’t even say he was wishing for a union.

Sure must be tough, being shown to be wrong all the time, isn’t it?  But, because he doesn’t agree with your point of view, he must either work in the front office at walmart or be a paid shill, right?

“let’s say that he IS a walmart employee, where is his rage against walmart’s low wages and poor insurance?  And, he didn’t even say he was wishing for a union."~Charles in Brighton, Tn.

Because he is the manager? Just a theory.
Or maybe he is Michael D from CT. 
Remember him?

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Since this is the Round Up I will shamelessly veer off topic.

Let me start by tipping the Anti Wal-Mart Tin Foil Hat to a blogger/message boarder known as empire for posting what I like to call:

[url="http://www.walmart-blows.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=10678&p=154573#p153208
empire” ]Alice in Waltonland[/url]

In 1983 in Mexico, Alice Walton somehow lost control of her car in when
into a ditch. She was hospitalized. Police reports disappeared

In 1989,Alice Walton speeding down a road, struck and KILLED Oleta Hardin......

Read all about it!

I can live with losing the ‘good fight’ but I can’t live with not fighting it!” ~ The Black Knight

Crap!

Alice in Waltonland

If it didn’t work again that time, here’s a clean copy to ‘Copy & Paste’ in your address window.

http://www.walmart-blows.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=10678&p=154573#p153208

Sorry..for some reason there are some links I can’t make work.

That’s because they pay their employees so little.  I’d rather pay a few dollars more at Safeway and know I am helping someone support their family.~Visitin

If anything, “Visitin’”, you’re helping that company’s CEO/shareholders far more than you are helping the rank-and-file folks…~bbrd in

And supporting Walmart goes to the so called ‘associates’ like a good charity? Yea right bbrd’s. Time to change places and give someone else a chance on the keyboard. Your making no sense at all.

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Use this one. The other doesn’t work. (Copy&Paste;)

http://www.walmart-blows.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=10678&p=154573#p153208

More evidence that Richard K is a Walmart employee who is staging as a customer.

Don’t feel bad, Richard K—Al thinks I work for WM, too…

Did you calculate your Walmart 10% employee discount when you quoted your prices?

Funny you mentioned “Michael D from CT” a few posts ago, Al—I recall reading something in the archives of this very website where he said most grocery items didn’t qualify for the employee discount.

What a favourite tool you truly are, Al…

Nothing “bullshit” about my shopping visit.  I’ve got the receipt to prove it.~Richard K
Monday, May 12 at 06:33 AM

Wow, Richard K has a receipt to prove he shopped at his workplace! Very very convincing Richard K.

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“Don’t feel bad, Richard K—Al thinks I work for WM, too…"~bbrd in

Sad thing is I think they [Walmart] could have done a lot better someone other than you. I believe that many of you hurt rather than help the Walmart cause. That’s OK though.

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Time for another episode of WIMP! (Walmart Internet Media Police). Brought to you by Loadus Crapus Maximus!! When you’re looking for that right phrase to describe WalMart’s public relations and the Edelman ‘war room’...Loadus Crapus Maximus is your only true choice!!

Asphalt would be hard to explain to his dentist thought RDS as our lame and cowardly social hero couldn’t get out of the choke hold or get the fat kid off his legs. After 20 minutes of getting tackled, punched and thrown to the ground and sat upon and choked in the WalMart parking lot...our hero finally realized it was all a joke and said..."OK guys I get it, you can let me up now. Very funny...who walked off with my smokes?” The crowd had dispersed as the police arrived, RDS didn’t care though. He hated people who stood in front of him when he was sometimes trying to pay for stuff at WalMart. Besides none of them told him it was all a big joke.

Officer Stacy Driver: “You can let him up now. Unless ‘you’ think he is on angel dust or meth. What happened here anyway?”

Richard K: “I’ve got my receipt...but I don’t think he has one. I think he just stole that stuff and walked right out the door.”

RDS: (Still struggling) “TOM COUGHLIN IS A FRIEND OF MINE!!! BUT SOMEONE TOOK MY SMOKES!!”

Officer Jan Bernstein: “You can let him up now, I think we can handle this petty theft suspect. Sir how do we know you know Tom Coughlin?”

RDS: “BUT I DIDN"T STEAL ANYTHING!! HONEST!!”
Richard K: “Well, obviously I don’t believe you. And I saw you leave the store!!”

Officer Stacy Driver: “So, you work for WalMart in the Loss Prevention Department?”

Richard K: “Ahhhhhh… welllll...noooo...not exactly. You see I am a abnormal WalMart devotee and worship type who watches those Chuck Norris exercise commercials and when I saw this guy walk out the door with 2 cartons of smokes and no receipt...I figured I’d nab em, you know Erik Estrada style.”

Officer Stacy Driver: “I see. Better call in a...”

RDS: “DAMN YOU!! I AM A WALMART WORSHIPER AND CARD CARRYING CULT MEMBER TOO YA KNOW!! LET ME UP!!, LET ME UPPPP!!!!! I WRITE WALMART WORSHIP HYMNS FOR A LIVING DAMN IT!!”

Officer Stacy Driver: “Delirium tremens and see if we can get State to do a 40 on him down to Caesar’s house at the Rock.”

Officer Jan Bernstein; “Roger that. Pepe, come in Pepe. Acknowledge a 40 to the Rock, Pepe?”

Richard K: (Finally letting go and signaling the fat kid to move off) “Well then, where is your ‘I love WalMart’ badge and how come your half naked with just a cowboy hat and chaps on?”

Officer Stacy Driver: “We’ll do the interrogating around here now if you don’t mind?” What’s your name sir?”

RDS: “RDS. I mobilehome in Springdale. That’s my Chevette over there. WHERE’S MY SMOKES?”

Officer Stacy Driver: “Do you like Mexican food RDS? Other than WalMart do you attend church anywhere?”

RDS: “Nope. Don’t believe in it.”

Officer Jan Bernstein: “Pepe is going to take you for a little ride. We don’t want to take you in on this petty theft charge and we’re thinking a free Huckster Prayer Seminar might help you see the light and stop stealing imaginary smokes from WalMart”

RDS: “I DIDN"T STEAL ANYTHING. But a free seminar sounds interesting.”

Richard K: “So, you’re just going to let him off with a warning and some Mexican food!! You creeps don’t know how to defend capitalism and private property!!”

Officer Stacy Driver: “Well, it is either that or we let you kill him over suspected petty theft.”

Next time on WIMP! (Walmart Internet Media Police). RDS has a religious experience and realizes that the Huckster is not dead and the phrase ‘no problema’ was really Republican code for repatriated corporate dollars at a 5.25% tax rate.

“If it isn’t true...it ought to be."~ Roscoe Lee Brown as Mr. Nightlinger in the Cowboys

charles where is your same concern about the poor wages and benefits at all the fast food joints,target,ufcw union grocery stores and other retailers and restaurants you eat at and shop at regualrly?funny the only time folks and wm haters like you bitch about wages its walmart.but you never bitch about mcdonalds,burger king and etcs crap wages.funny their low wages never stop you from eating there regularly.

screwed by,ken and sdv only spout bs on here.every time you ask them a question they run and hide and dance around like a politician caught in a lie.they are so arrogant they think their you know what dont stink.

...every time you ask them a question they run and hide...

I can’t speak for Screwed or SDV, but personally every time you ask me a question I want to spank you and put you to bed. You are an annoying ‘child’* that won’t leave the grown-ups alone!

Here’s one of your interminable questions that I will answer:

Who cares?

YOU DO!

*I’m talking emotional, intellectual child, not chronological.

In the year ended Jan. 31, 2007, groceries comprised 31 percent of Wal-Mart’s sales, according to its annual report.

...they run and hide and dance around like a politician caught in a lie.

Hey, Ken—that last post of yours just embelleshed Mr. Vantress’ statement.

How ‘bout it?

“dance around like a politician caught in a lie.”

“At some point the government has to look at it,”
he added.
<b>~Lee Scott

“The government should take the lead on making its businesses the most socially responsible in the world, not taking advice from a man [Lee Scott] whose company [Wal-Mart] is an international byword for exploitation.”
~ Matthew McGregor, from the UK’s War On Want

“dance around like a politician caught in a lie.”

Wal-Mart and Lee Scott have been dancing around their lies for over 20 years.  What was Sam Walton talking about when he said Wal-Mart would never go where it wasn’t wanted?  And then there’s this gem.  Was Lee Scott lying?  Does he really want governments to looking into corporations because they control 30% or more of the market?

This was Lee Scott’s complaint about how “hard” it is to compete with TESCO in the UK: 

“As you get over 30% (market share) and higher I am sure there is a point where government is compelled to intervene, particularly in the UK, (but not in the U.S.) where you have the planning laws that make it difficult to compete...”

And later he said…

“At some point the government has to look at it...”

~Lee Scott

“The government should take the lead on making its businesses the most socially responsible in the world, not taking advice from a man [Lee Scott] whose company [Wal-Mart] is an international byword for exploitation.”
~ Matthew McGregor, from the UK’s War On Want

Thats better!  Sorry for all the bold font the last time!

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