Just What Independent Farmers Need: More Photo Ops with Wal-Mart

I realize this is somewhat off this topic but I had to share an article in today’s newspaper concerning the Tupper Lake Wal-Mart.
The ariticle is titled “Mayor envisions energy-efficient Wal-Mart.” It appears that Village Mayor Mickey Desmarais is elaborating on the “green Wal-Mart” he is envisioning for Demars Boulevard where the former Jarden Plastics plant sits. He is quoted as saying :
“The whole facade is an Adirondack facade. You probably wouldn’t know you were going by Wal-Mart unless you saw the sign. The building would be designed to blend in but not the sign. Any building going in there would be an Adirondack design. We don’t want a big-box building.”
He also said in the same article that:
“It’s all about energy savings. If someone can come in here and not have a big impact on our power, that’s great for everyone. These are some of the things Nigro (they are the developers) has been talking about with the Wal-Mart people.”
The mayor also said the facility could feature energy-efficient lighting and possibly even wood-chip heating. So far Phil Serghini, Wal-Mart spokesman has not confirmed or denied anything. “We have no announced plans for Tupper Lake,” he said Wednesday.
For those who don’t know, an Adirondack look would be a brown shingled building with green trim work. Tupper Lake also has its own electric company, so the Mayor figures an energy efficient building won’t raise anyone’s light bill.
Does anyone out there want to place bets on Tupper Lake getting THAT KIND OF GREEN WAL-MART?! And add to that no one’s light bill going up, because we all know how much power a big box store gets?
I’m not holding my breath over this one! And we all know if Wal-Mart were interested in Tupper Lake they certainly wouldn’t announce to anyone that they were! Secrecy is something they are well known for!

By the way concerning the Tupper Lake Wal-Mart, the property hasn’t officially been sold yet. The developer has been negotiating with the Jarden folks, but no sale yet.

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Loblaw profit hurt by weak sales, price cuts

Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:20am EDT

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Second-quarter profit at Loblaw Companies Ltd tumbled after one-time charges were stripped out, Canada’s biggest supermarket chain said on Friday, as weaker-than-expected sales growth coupled with price-chopping ate into earnings.

Still six to nine months behind schedule on its recovery plan, Loblaw said that profit margins are expected to remain under pressure for the rest of this year.

“They missed,” said BMO analyst David Hartley in an interview. “We get 45 Canadian cents adjusted versus 59 cents adjusted last year, so it’s a significant decline year over year, and it’s a 12 percent miss from consensus estimates.”

“You’ve got this big gulf between wholesale inflation and price deflation on the retail side,” said Hartley.

“They also said they were going to see downward pressure on their margins in the second half of the year, so cost containment is going to be a huge thing for them in the next six months.”

Sales at stores open for at least one year rose by 0.7 percent, compared with a gain of 2.7 percent in the 2007 quarter, partly reflecting the shift of Easter sales to the first quarter.

“As stated during our last quarter, we are behind in our plans for operating as an effective selling organization. This is reflected in our second quarter sales performance,” said Executive Chairman Galen Weston in a statement. “However we remain on track with our cost reduction efforts.

Loblaw, which is majority owned by North America’s biggest baker, George Weston Ltd, is using a strategy of chopping prices to spark revenue growth and to keep its customers as Wal-Mart Stores expands food sales in Canada. It is also trying to pinch expenses to offset lower margins.

The Toronto-based company, which also offers mobile phone and financial services, launched a sweeping three- to five-year turnaround plan a year ago, closing some stores and cutting about 900 jobs.

Loblaw also said on Friday that it was also starting to see “positive results” from its a five-point plan that President Allan Leighton announced soon after his appointment in April.

Aimed at accelerating growth the company is opening more stores and hiring service staff in Ontario, while renovating stores and expanding its discount banner in Western Canada. It is also improving its supply chain and systems programs, re-launching its President’s Choice private-label brand.

Shares in Loblaw fell 2.2 percent to C$29.69 on the Toronto Stock Exchange in early trade. Over the last 12 months the stock has lost nearly 42 percent of its value.

Hey Alex in Ontario:

Are you going to complain about your favorite store, for “closing some stores and cutting about 900 jobs.”, like you did about Wal-Mart?  How well is their business model working, when they are trying to outdo Wal-Mart and failing at it?

Loblaw Companies Ltd. - abuses workers by closing stores, cutting jobs and adding ‘Dark Stores’!!

Shut the Hell Up, RDS!

“failing at it?”

I say that’s something to be proud of.  Who the hell would want to be successful emulating Wal-Mart.

In the meantime the fruits of the so-called “Global econonomy” that RDS keeps touting can be seen all over.  In mid June, 3 Spanish truck driver’s unions halted a strike that seriously disrupted supplies to factories and markets.

It seems American truckers aren’t the only one’s hacked off at high diesel fuel prices.  Places like Argentina, Thailand, Chile and Poland are feeling the pressure of high fuel prices.  In South Korea, 13,000 unionized truckers demanded the government increase fuel subsidies and introduce a minimum wage.  On June 14th, a trucker’s strike at a port iin Korea, caused $11 million dollars of losses to exporters and another $3 million in losses to importers.

THAT’S WHAT I’M TALK’in ABOUT!!

Maybe if the truckers in this country get sufficiently pissed off enough, they will start shutting down some of the ports in this country to slow the flow of cheap shit that Wal-Mart is importing into this country!  Have you ever seen freight trains loaded with COSCO containers?  Where do you suppose all the stuff that’s inside them is headed?

Let’s hear it for your “global economy” RDS!

Screwedby,

“Who the hell would want to be successful emulating Wal-Mart.”

Well, according to the anti’s on this site, all the other retailers, except Costco!! It has been mentioned many times that everybody is following Wal-Mart, except Costco!!

“It seems American truckers aren’t the only one’s hacked off at high diesel fuel prices.”

And, I suppose that’s Wal-Mart’s fault too, right?  Besides, aren’t ‘high prices’ a good thing, to you?  Must be ‘better quality’ diesel fuel, if it costs more!!

“Let’s hear it for your “global economy”

It’s not MY “global economy”, it’s everybody’s!!  But, I guess that you would rather see people in other countries stay down, just as long as you can buy those high priced things!!  Who cares about other people’s ‘standard of living’, as long as YOUR way of life isn’t disrupted, right?  It’s always about what’s best for YOU and to hell with everyone else in the world, “Let the others starve, as long as I can live ‘high off the hog’”, is your chant!!

Mexican customs to be stationed in Kansas City
New ‘inland port’ in heartland part of international plan that bypasses unions

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Posted: June 20, 2006
8:21 pm Eastern

© 2008 WorldNetDaily.com

A Mexican customs office is being built in the U.S. heartland as part of a newly designed “inland port” facility that links with a Mexican seaport, an official in Kansas City confirms.
Tasha Hammes of the Kansas City Area Development Council wrote to author and WND columnist Jerome Corsi to correct some details of a column on the subject, but she affirmed that a key purpose of the Kansas City Inland Port, or SmartPort, will be to facilitate the movement of containers from the Far East through the Mexican port at Lazaro Cardenas rather than the West Coast ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Corsi also had written that Kansas City Southern had acquired Mexican railroads to create a “NAFTA Railroad” that would link Lazaro Cardenas to the U.S. for container transport.

Hammes explained that with American consumption of goods from the Far East increasing, U.S. coastal ports are at capacity.

“The Lazaro Cardenas port is providing an alternative way to get products to North America,” she said. “These products will come to Kansas City by way of rail. This is nothing new, other than the fact that Kansas City Southern acquired the Mexican railroad serving this port and that the major work has been done on the port of Lazaro Cardenas so that it has higher capacity and can handle larger containers.”

Hammes pointed out that the Kansas City SmartPort is “a non-profit organization, not a physical building or facility being built for Mexico.”

Hammes confirmed Kansas City plans to house a Mexican customs facility in the city’s port, but she pointed out it will handle outbound U.S. freight exclusively, not inbound.

Hammes clarified that Kansas City, Mo., is leasing the site to Kansas City SmartPort. It will not be leased to any Mexican government agency or be sovereign territory of Mexico.

“It will employ both U.S. and Mexican Customs officials just like the current facilities in place at our nation’s borders,” she said. “It’s a facility that U.S. companies will use to expedite the process of shipping their goods to customers in Mexico.”

A brochure on the Kansas City SmartPort website documents the connection between Lazaro Cardenas and Kansas City’s decision to become America’s number one “inland port,” saying:

“Kansas City offers the opportunity for sealed cargo containers to travel to Mexican port cities with virtually no border delays. It will streamline shipments from Asia and cut the time and labor costs associated with shipping through the congested ports on the West Coast.”
Corsi contends a main purpose of opening Lazaro Cardenas to receive a greater volume of containers from the Far East and linking it with the planned NAFTA Super-Corridor and Kansas City SmartPort is to reduce labor costs.

Longshoremen would not be employed at the port of Lazaro Cardenas, and, in Mexico, the employees of Kansas City Southern would not be United Transportation Union workers.

To the extent that Mexican trucks become involved in the operation, it would mean Teamster Union drivers would not be employed in the operation.

Hammes made no comment on this aspect of Corsi’s column.

To speed the crossing at Laredo, Texas, the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America working groups within the U.S. Department of Commerce will allow Mexican trucks to be equipped with electronic FAST technology so the trucks can cross the border in express lanes.

At the Kansas City SmartPort hub, the containers can be transferred to semi-trailers heading east or west, or simply stay on the Mexican trucks all the way into Canada.

According to the SmartPort website, in March 2005, Kansas City signed a cooperative pact with representatives from the Mexican state of Michoacan, where Lazaro Cardenas is located, to increase the cargo volume between Lazaro Cardenas and Kansas City.

Shipments will be pre-screened in Southeast Asia, and the shipper will send advance notification to Mexican and American Customs with the corresponding ‘’pre-clearance’’ information on the cargo. Upon arrival in Mexico, containers will pass through multiple X-ray and gamma ray screenings, allowing any containers with anomalies to quickly be removed for further inspection.

Container shipments will be tracked using intelligent transportation systems, or ITS, that could include global positioning systems or radio frequency identification systems, and monitored on their way to inland trade-processing centers in Kansas City and elsewhere in the United States.

As the Kansas City SmartPort website boasts: ‘’Kansas City offers the opportunity for sealed cargo containers to travel to Mexican port cities with virtually no border delays. It will streamline shipments from Asia and cut the time and labor costs associated with shipping through the congested ports on the West Coast.’’

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Note: The Kansas City superport IS up and running. For more information on Mexican ports and trucking,go to world Net Daily and type in Lazaro Cardenas, Hutchison Port Holdings, Panama Canal ,or any subject of choice.

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Baja port proposed to rival Los Angeles, Long Beach
Public-private partnerships bidding on Punta Colonet Chinese container biz

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Posted: March 26, 2008
10:50 pm Eastern

By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

Plans have been finalized by Mexico to develop Punta Colonet as a West Coast Mexican alternative to the U.S. ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach.

The proposal includes a deep-water Pacific Ocean port on Mexico’s Baja California peninsula about 150 miles south of Tijuana that could serve as a destination for the 30 million containers headed to North America from China and the Far East each year, according to a report published Tuesday in the Los Angeles Times.

The on-again, off-again plan to develop Punta Colonet has been discussed as the number of containers from China grows and multi-national corporations out-sourcing their North American manufacturing to China are looking for cuts in transportation costs.

The lure of Punta Colonet is the cheaper Mexican transportation labor available if Chinese containers arrive there to be moved into the interior of the U.S., rather than the more expensive American labor in Los Angeles and Long Beach.

The model to develop Punta Colonet is based on Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas, two Mexican ports on the Pacific south of Texas, which have been developed by Hutchison Ports Holdings.

As WND has reported, containers from China off-loaded at Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas bypass the labor costs of the U.S. Longshoreman Union dock workers, United Transportation Union railroad workers and U.S. truck drivers.

Manuel Rodriguez Arregui, Mexico’s secretary of transportation, announced in February his intention to publish in June a request for proposals for the operation of a deep-water port at Punta Colonet. His goal is to see work on the port begin next year, open for business in 2010 and be completed no later than 2015.

The plans are to take advantage of a public-private partnership, or PPP, in which private developers would work with government officials to use government powers to acquire whatever land or other rights were needed for the port to be developed. The capital for the project would be provided by the private developers, who in turn would seek long-term contracts to operate and derive revenue from the port.

In turn, the proposals submitted by private development companies can be expected to pay the government of Mexico one-time up-front seven-figure sums for the rights to develop the project and operate it for as long as 45 years after completion.

The project, which may take as much as $9 billion in private capital to develop, will involve some 7,000 acres at Punta Colonet, about as large as the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach combined.

The goal is to construct a modern port capable of handling annually 8 million containers or 20-foot equivalent units, according to a report published by the San Diego Union-Tribune, which was based on an interview the newspaper conducted with Eugenio Elorduy Walther, the governor of Baja California in Mexico.

The containers will then move to the U.S. interior on a 180-mile rail line expected to connect the port at Punta Colonet with existing rail systems at Yuma, Ariz.

The Union-Tribune also reported Hutchison Port Holdings has now bought property at Punta Colonet, and Union Pacific is seeking options on a railroad right-of-way in Yuma.

The Los Angeles Times said a competitive bid may be organized by Mexican Carlos Slim Helu, the world’s second-richest man with a net worth Forbes estimated in 2006 at over $30 billion.

The consortium would involve teaming up with Miguel Favela, the general director of Mexican operations for cargo terminal operator MTC Holdings of Oakland.

Favela told the Los Angeles Times Slim’s IDEAL infrastructure company, Impulsora del Desarrollo y el Empleo en America Latina SA de CV, and the Mexican mining and railroad giant Grupo Mexico could team up to grab the deal.

WND previously reported plans implemented in China to ship millions more containers to North America every year.

The Chinese are investing $15 billion to develop Yangshan, a reclaimed island the size of 470 soccer fields in the East China Sea off Shanghai. The plan by 2010 is to operate 30 berths accommodating post-Panamex megaships, each capable of carrying up to 12,500 containers, three or four times the size of the typical container ships now operating.

Currently handling 20 million containers a year, Yangshan is expected by 2010 to export up to 30 million containers a year, with the vast majority destined for North America.
Gateway and Corridor Initiative” transportation policy.

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hey ahole screwed your favorite stores like costco.target and etc including mom and pop stores buy the same cheap shit from china that wm does and imports the same cheap shit too and we never hear crap from you on that so shut your big mouth.

ps china cheap shit is only important because it is found at non wm stores.i only bitch and expect to hear bitching from you about stores other than wm at this wm site about wm.so shut your mouth about wm because it is the biggest and the leader in ruining america.wm could fire me today and it would take me two weeks to realize it.i loved the wm anti union video they showed and am trying to get my own copy but the girl at wm said i was insane.