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.

Afterall, people need a place to recycle their useless plastic crap before they can head back to Wal-Mart and buy some more! ~ScrewedbyWal-Mart in Anytown, America

A wise old man once told me that what keeps our economy going is people throwing away perfectly good stuff so they can buy new stuff.  We do have a consumption disorder, but that was not created by Walmart.

Robert J. Trenwick;

Think about it, if nothing ever wore out, where would all the jobs comes from?  Once everybody had everything they wanted, a lot of people would be out of work.  Consumption is the engine of employment.

...a lot of (Chinese) people would be out of work.

Consumption is the engine of selfishness. Use it up quick before anyone else gets a share.

As long as the global economy is based on ‘growth’ we are DOOMED! It denies the finiteness of this planet and it’s resources.

Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish caught will we realize we cannot eat money. ~ Cree Indian Proverb

As long as the global economy is based on ‘growth’ we are DOOMED! It denies the finiteness of this planet and it’s resources. ~Ken V

What else then?

Altruistic interest in others, self control and contentment. Restrained use of resources and excellence in recycling vast materials and cleaning up the mess already made. Technology, speed and magnification for growth gracefully and not in the ‘pigs at the trough’ methodology. These are the things WalMart cannot accept as they are anathema to Bentonville’s ‘love of money’ psychopath attitude.

WalMart- Useless consumerism and excessive Chinese crap uber alles!! Manifest Destiny through personal self storage facilities!!

hey sdv everywhere else you shop at like costco sells lots of excesive crap from china.

Ken V,

“Consumption is the engine of selfishness. Use it up quick before anyone else gets a share.”

Where would your job be, if no one used your product or service?  Use WHAT up quick? Production assures MORE product, not LESS!!

“It denies the finiteness of this planet and it’s resources.”

Mankind, has always found ‘new’ resources to meet their needs, take ‘oil’ for instance, did the ‘caveman’ use oil?  Years ago, whale oil was used, now it’s not, Why?  It seems though, that people like you, would rather we go back to the ‘caveman’ days, everyone using up ‘nothing’!!

“Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish caught will we realize we cannot eat money. ~ Cree Indian Proverb”

As the planet has been around for millions of years and will still be around for millions of years after man is extinct, it is not hard to understand, that the planet will repair any damage man does in the meantime!!  Overpopulation, is the main threat to man’s continuation to exist!!  As population increases, the extent of polution, etc. increases, and the demand for more, of EVERYTHING!!

“You very likely own stolen goods. The gas in your car, the circuits in your cell phone, the diamond in your ring, the chemicals in your lipstick or shaving cream — even the plastic in your computer may be the product of theft. Americans buy huge quantities of goods every day that are literally stolen from some of the world’s poorest people. These thefts are permitted — indeed encouraged — by an archaic rule of international trade that violates the most fundamental rule of capitalism: to protect property rights.

Tracing these stolen goods back to where the thefts occur lands us in some of the most wretched places on earth. What these countries have in common is an abundance of natural resources and plentiful political violence and corruption. All suffer from what Joseph Stiglitz and Jeffrey Sachs call “the resource curse.” Here dictators and insurgents sell off the country’s resources to foreigners, terrifying the people into submission while keeping the wealth for themselves."~~~~~~~~Cato Institute-5/12/08--"We all Own Stolen Goods.......... A link to this interesting essay at available at Thousand Reasons.............Intriguing suggestion for creation of international Clean Hands Fund.

Intriguing suggestion for creation of international Clean Hands Fund. ~ddrb

Like we all need more bureaucracy!

“Production assures MORE product, not LESS!!”

Yeah, and as we all know, America is a bastion of manufacturing and production.

You would have been right on target RDS if you had said:

“Chinese production assures MORE products for LESS!”

“Production assures MORE product, not LESS!!”

Yeah, and as we all know, America is a bastion of manufacturing and production.

You would have been right on target RDS if you had said:

“Chinese production assures MORE products for LESS!”

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What else then?

Why are you business types unable to see that everything has limits? This ball of dirt can only support a finite number of people. Constant growth is unsustainable. In medicine this condition is known as cancer!

“did the ‘caveman’ use oil?

You ought to know.  You’re able to relate to the caveman more than any of the rest of us, RDS!

You’re Wrong Again, RDS!

“Overpopulation, is the main threat to man’s continuation to exist!!”

Unfortunately for you, you are once again “Exhibit A.”

STUPIDITY is the main threat to man’s continuation to exist!

Ken V,

“Why are you business types unable to see that everything has limits? This ball of dirt can only support a finite number of people. Constant growth is unsustainable.”

As long as the population continues to grow at the rate it is doing, there will always be MORE customers for Wal-Mart!!

Constant growth in population is what is unsustainable!!

Screwedby,

“STUPIDITY is the main threat to man’s continuation to exist!”

And, in this area, you are “EXHIBIT A”, because stupidity leads to overpopulation!!

As long as the population continues to grow at the rate it is doing, there will always be MORE customers for Wal-Mart!!

Precisely. and let the global implications be damned!

Selfish greed without a thought to consequences.

No Argument Here, RDS!

“STUPIDITY is the main threat to man’s continuation to exist!” ~ScrewedbyWal-Mart

“...because stupidity leads to overpopulation!!” ~RDS

And you are exhibit A.  What don’t you understand?

Raise all the speed limits.

Allow drunk driving.

Start more wars.

This will reduce the population.

Raise all the speed limits.

Allow drunk driving.

Start more wars.

Give all the kids drugs that will make them sterile

This will reduce the population.

really joe we are so thrilled to hear your opinion.lets throw a parade down broadway for you.

Start more wars.

Give all the kids drugs that will make them sterile.

I like those two, Joe. We can always hope for a global pandemic, major impact of asteroid/comet, or the eruption of a super-volcano (Yellowstone).

I think a 95% kill-off will do the trick.

I was just thinking like RDS , of course ma tt believed it.

2012 is getting close.

Ma tt they passed your law in Calif.

JOE,

“I was just thinking like RDS”

No, I was thinking more in the line of birth control, like say couples only having 2 kids, max!!  Not 18 kids like the Duggers!!  Just think, if their kids only have 2 kids each, that would be 36 grand children and if those grand children have 2 kids each, that would be 72 great grand children, so, in just 3 generations, you would have a total of 126 kids, ‘off shoots’ from 1 couple!!  But, chances are, that many of their kids will follow in their footsteps and have large families too!!

“2012 is getting close.”

By 2012, we should have about another 48 million more people in the U.S.!!

RDS WHO MADE YOU GOD?

LEAVE THE WORLDS PROBLEMS TO HIM!

OR MAYBE YOU SHOULD JUST LEAVE EARLY!

“I was thinking more in the line of birth control, like say couples only having 2 kids, max!!” ~RDS

Didn’t the communists in China do this?  You would be right at home there RDS.  And, you’d be a lot closer to the source of all those cheap goods you crave.  Why don’t you do us all a favor and move there?

“Not 18 kids like the Duggers!!”

More of your useless hyperbole, RDS?

Screwedby: (Kinda funny considering were talking about the Duggars)---Wiki says that Mr. Duggars made all his money from principles learned in a financial seminar. It also states that he was in Arkansas politics. I wonder if all the hospital bills and health care is paid for with coverage from his stint in Arkansas state politics.?

“Mr. Duggars”???

I do believe Jim Bob’s family name is singular (without an “s” at the end).

But then again, why should anything posted here by a rank amateur (*) surprise me??

* The four initials are censored...just ‘cause!

I wonder if all the hospital bills and health care is paid for with coverage from his stint in Arkansas state politics.

For those even remotely thinking of buying into *s stuff, my answer to this latest in a long line of conspiracy theories is…

“Doubtful”

Jim Bob Duggar was in state-level politics for only a few years—hardly long-enough for anyone to garner long-term medical benefits.

“Wiki” also says Duggar owns a number of commercial properties in his local area (you anti-types should at least be able to wrap your minds around the concept that commercial properties generate big money in rent/lease fees).

It should also be noted that this family is frequently covered on some of the cable/satellite channels owned by Discovery Communications (TLC, Discovery Health), which is probably another revenue-generator for the family…

Screwedby,

“Didn’t the communists in China do this?”

True, because they recognized this as a problem!!  But, I wasn’t advocating a government mandate on this, heaven knows we already have government regulating too many things, I was talking in the “Personal Responsibility’ area, oh, I forgot, ‘Personal responsibility’ is a Whacko Concept, right?  Well, how about in the ‘Socially Responsibility’ area, you’ve heard of that one haven’t you?  Our society’s existence depends on there being enough left, so that future generations can survive, doesn’t it?

“Why don’t you do us all a favor and move there?”

I happen to like it here, you seem to be the one who was ready to leave once before to Canada, and you could move to one of the many other countries WITHOUT Wal-Mart stores!!  Besides, your ideas are more ‘socialistic’ than mine!!

..like say couples only having 2 kids, max!!

Too late for ZPG. We need a major kill off. All these natural catastrophies of late, tsunamis, earthquakes, etc. only kill thousands of people, a drop in the ocean.

There are 6.8 BILLION* souls on this planet and the number is rising faster than gas prices.

*I was going to link to the US Census Bureau POPclock, but the site was “temporarily unavailable”, whatever that means?

“But then again, why should anything posted here by a rank amateur (*) surprise me?? “ bbrd ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~TThat infers you are a rank professional. As in PAID .

BTW: Rank is a derivative of rancid.

“There are 6.8 BILLION* souls on this planet and the number is rising faster than gas prices.”

How can we reduce Global Warming when we keep increasing the sources of carbon output?

RDS:How does WalMart plan to reduce the carbon ouput on trucking up 2,000,00 containers of Chinese Communist goods coming from the port of Lazaro Cardenas,Mexico-up through America’s heartland,on the Nasco/Nafta superhigway?

TThat infers you are a rank professional. As in PAID .

I also inferred that * was my ex - does she care to dissect that one for everyone, too?

bbrd: It is evident you have no thing of substance to discuss,and the only information that you choose (or are paid) to contribute is disinformation. If anyone here believes you have any association with me ,or have had ,they are in mentally deficient,or in on the phony fix ,along with you. As Ken stated,your obsession with getting personal belongs elsewhere. And your repeated and false allusions to being an exhusband of mine,I consider libelous . In addition,the unwarranted taunting for months now,amounts to what possibly could be legally construed as cyber bullying.

One small point, dd. How can bbrd be bullying you when every time you two get into it, you kick his ass?

“Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.” ~ Nietzsche

It is evident you have no thing of substance to discuss,and the only information that you choose (or are paid) to contribute is disinformation.

Look here, * , I don’t believe any of us are getting paid anything to comment, here (that is, except for maybe one person on the “anti” side, which is another story, altogether)—for me, it’s just a personal thing.

For others, it could be the potential disruption what may be the only store in their town—in other words, they don’t want to see WM go the way of Caldor’s, Bradlee’s, and so forth.

For even more, it could be the fear of a total financial meltdown (as whether you like it, or not, Wal-Mart is very much intwined with the U.S.—no—make that the global economy).

OK, aside from my getting up close and personal over the past week, I want you to break-down where anything I said concerning Wal-Mart was “false”, or otherwise misleading (preferably, in your own words—not some article from the past that has about 45% relevance).

Otherwise, that “libelous” schtick of yours can swing both ways…

...kick his ass?

Nice props, Kenbo—too bad she’s not in agreement with you.

Ken V: Did I disagree with you?

bbrd: You are more concerned with the"validity" of your WalMart posts than the INTENTIONAL falsehoods you have repeatedly posted about me?  That you should interpret my reference to “disinformation “as being other than disinformation about me,well, that’s subjective. You read into it what you will,and interpret it as you choose. What is NOT subject to interpretation is the fact that you were NEVER married to me,we NEVER went to Cape Cod ; but for either sport or malice , you have intentionally chosen to perpetrate and perpetuate this falsehood .Evidently you ascribe to the “ends justifies the means” thinking. One can only ponder what “ends” you hope to achieve. We’ve ALL had a preview of the deceptive” means.”

One can only ponder what “ends” you hope to achieve.

And I guess you’re all “sweetness and honey”, * ?

You certainly have room to talk, m’dear—especially, when you and your buds all constantly make a hobby of piling-on RDS, and the rest of the “pros”, past and present.

Think about it…