i hate walmart

if you already had a K mart i imagine mainstreet was already done for in that town.

here old town, the side im closest to is nothing but antique stores now. they built the new walmart out by the big highway and all the chain shit moved in around it...

really is very little locally owned retail left here.

 

yeah, as far back as i can remember they've been always running various campaigns to bring main street back...

but i've also never seen a walmart pop up where there wasn't already a kmart, so if kmart comes in and kills main street first and then walmart comes in and kills kmart, i don't really see why walmart gets all the blame for killing main street.

edit: i see that you said walmart came from nowhere in your town, but i still doubt that's the norm.

 

it does seem that ALL of their general merchandise is made in China..very poorly made in China

 

most wal marts I have seen built here in California over the years were built accross the street from a Kmart..or shall I say Sears

 

Removing Wal-Mart from the equation.
Do you really think the "ma and pa" stores are really any better or would still be any better?
This isn't the 50s anymore.

The rise in China's domination of the manafacturing sectors would still be growing...less still would be made in America (or where ever you happen to live that wasn't China).
Do "Ma and Pa" really make any better ethical choices on the whole?
Do they not sell goods from all over the globe?
Are they really that insular?
Would they combine together and create less packaging and recycle etc.
Basically have a "corperate responsibility" .
Doubtful.
But, shucks as long as it is all American, it doesn't matter.

I guess I lack sympathy, because it generally isn't the idealistic "ma and pa" that runs small business' here, it is hard nosed business men/women, out for a buck, like the supermarkets.

Americans seems to have such a pole up their ass' about this, because it's grip on the world is loosening.
They are still one of the richest countries in the world.
They still dominate global trade...and the rules that apply...
But, still they moan.

No offence.

 

lol.. i think thats different areas of the country thing, k mart never did get its foot in the door in georgia..

really what im talking about and what i witnessed in this town took place 20 years ago.. this town had a piggly wiggly,a mainstreet complete with a feed and seed a block from the square and not a lot else. they completed the highway a few miles outta town,wal mart moved in and the rest is history..

its still happening in rural areas as wal mart expands but like i said, the whole buy american campaign to get into the small towns was a long time ago.

still pisses me off just thinkin about it..lol

 

I don't believe Wal-mart runs specialty stores such as chainsaw shops meat markets, bait and tackle shops or hobby stores out of business, I've never even seen walmart in the middle of downtown or on the main drag of a town they seem to be built in specialized shopping areas surrounded by other large stores such as Best buy and Meijer.

The only time i've seen a store directly go out of business do to another store encroaching on there market was a lumber yard that went belly up when a lowes came to town.

Why did it go belly up?

Because there products were much more expensive than the same products sold at the larger retailer, survival of the fittest.

 

yes i do. when you can look the owner of the store in their eyes and know they hold the same small town values as you you can take comfort in knowing that they are going to sell you the best product for the money and at the very least tell you the product your buying is a piece of shit..lol

thats the way it is where i come from, it may not be that way everywhere but it is here.

so yes i know it would be better from my perspective in this area.

but im sure the fat ass weekly wal mart shoppers loading up on prepackaged food and plastic garbage would probably disagree with me..

 

:smilielol5:

Do you guys also exchange blow jobs after you complete your purchase?

It sure does sound awfully romantic! :cheers2:

I kid, I kid...

 

how big of a town do you live in? how far do you have to drive to a highway and have you ever lived in a county with a population of less than 10,000 who had a major 4 lane highway be put in 10 miles from downtown of the county seat of a 1000 people?

seriously if you cant understand how this could happen then your not thinking.

some call it "progress", i call it the corporate driven destruction of small town america.

 

I lived in many towns all across the untied states and in almost everyone of them there was a wal-mart as well as many specialty stores, why should people need to drive all over town to run simple errands?

I could care less if a "piggly wiggly" goes out of business because they can't compete with the prices of a walmart that sells the same shit they do but at a lower price.

What do you think you are defending by keeping obsolete stores in business?

If it's a local store that serves a purpose walmart can't like chain sharpening or something to that nature good for them they have found a niche in the market if not survival of the fittest.

 

I was thinking something similar....:smilielol5:

 

My new years resolution the past 2 years has been to try to limit my purchases at chain stores to a very minimum. I live on a limited income and in a small town.

We have a Wal-Mart in town, along with a K-mart, Target, Home Depot. When I absolutely need to buy something I can not buy locally or make myself, I tend to try Target first simply because they have programs set up to give money back to the community. There are 5 Super Walmarts in a 50 mile radius of my town. That's kind of sad I think....small midwestern towns with nothing in them except Super Walmarts.

I can absolutely understand why people shop there though, quantity over quality is sometimes a necessity.

 

see youve never experienced anything but the life of walmart by your own admission..

therefore i wouldnt expect you to understand..
as i have already said, what i cant forgive took place before you were even in school. they could not have won the trust of this community had they not advertised "buy american,buy wal mart"..

then once they won the trust of the community and got them hooked they slowly began importing crap and quitting carrying american made goods.

a classic bait and switch..

that is indeed how they won small town america and the very reason why you "lived in many towns all across the untied states and in almost everyone of them there was a wal-mart ".

they killed small town america.

 

must not be that small to have all those huge stores in it...



so, did you fail in your resolution the first year, or is it just a continuing resolution that is repeated every new years so you don't forget?

 

What do you mean by this?

It would seem a Wal-mart in a town would mean that there must be a healthy amount of money flowing through the local economy.

I don't understand how you believe walmart kills small towns.

 

Another point I'd like to make is this,

Whats so good about small town america?

 

if you dont understand from what i have already said then i cant explain it..


im sure at some point in your life you will look back at what they call "progress" and see something that was just better to you the old way. but then again maybe not..

 

The town has a population of 12,000, which seems small to me.

And I did all right the first year I made the resolution, but I still felt like I was buying too many things that I didn't need. I had a tough time getting out of the habit of going shopping for entertainment if that makes sense. ...And yep, I suppose it will be a continuous resolution every year but I don't think it's something I'll have to work at so hard just something I'd like to keep doing.

 

that does seem small to have 3 major discount/department stores and a home depot... unless it's a suburb or something...

good luck with that resolution; i just wondered since when someone says "i've had the same resolution for the last so many years" it usually means they can't stick to it..