Wal-Mart’s Achilles’ Heel

"[S]tores like Wal-Mart will always be with us, just as they were when they were called Woolworth’s or A&P. If Sam Walton’s creation disappears, it will doubtless be replaced by a more clever, more modern adaptation of the business model he popularized.”

From Revelation 13

16And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

17And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Imagine a Sam Walton and Adolf Hitler business merger into a all government operation.

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I like the last 5 posts.... they are about as literate as the first one.

So, “mary”. Like RDS and vantress you think of yourself as a person of literary and intellectual substance. What does your therapist think about that?

WalMart/Edelman- We hire internet fakes and frauds.

Rather, the author explains, people’s tastes are too varied for any big box store to truly win the retail competition.

The inverse of which implies that conformity favors Wal-Mart. I guess there’s nothing wrong with that if you choose to conform.

We can all dress the same (clothes from Wal-Mart), decorate our homes the same (decor from Wal-Mart) and eat the same food (groceries from Wal-Mart).

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Wal-Mart is only the latest in a long line of national retail chains, and like its predecessors it has the ability to change the economy for the better.

I Don’t Know, Ken!

“We can all dress the same (clothes from Wal-Mart)...”

I can’t speak for you Ken, but I don’t look good in khaki or camouflage.

“...decorate our homes the same (decor from Wal-Mart)...”

I made a vow to eliminate, if not severely limit the amount of useless plastic crap I allow in my house.

“...eat the same food (groceries from Wal-Mart).

How many different ways can you eat macaroni and cheese?

You really don’t get it. This goes hand in hand with “Multi-Culturalsim”. Once you’ve “broken down the barriers” that divide people (which is actually what gives us our strength) you can sell whatever you want to the sheeple and they’ll buy it. Slowly, they are driving our individuality towards a more homogenized outlook on life. Eventually, if this is allowed to continue, there will be only one flavor -VANILLA!

“a more homogenized outlook”

By this Vinny, do you mean that every town in America with a population of 20,000 or more, will have a supermall with a Wal-Mart Supercenter, one Home Depot or Lowes, either a Kohl’s or Target, with a Taco Bell and a McDonald’s on the ends?

Hey...VANILLA needs a little “topping” so throw in a Goodwill Store or a Salvation Army Family Store to complete the “mix”.  Afterall, people need a place to recycle their useless plastic crap before they can head back to Wal-Mart and buy some more!

...people need a place to recycle their useless plastic crap...

As the price of petroleum goes up plastic may become very expensive. What a refreshing change. Instead of cheap plastic crap. Wal-Mart can sell us expensive plastic crap.

I can hardly wait!

target,home depot and your favorite stores ken already sell expensive plastic crap.why are you not bitching and moaning about that?you are a big time hypocrit like all walmart haters are because we never hear a dam thing from them when their favorite stores do the same things they bitch at walmart for.