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Originally posted by irseg
Yeah what's the deal with that anyway?
Wal-Mart and Target are both huge corporations that build stores all over suburbia. So why is it so cool and popular to despise Wal-Mart, but Target is perfectly fine for doing the same damn thing? Is it their trendier housewares selection?
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The difference is obvious; Wal-Mart is the biggest company in the world.... the biggest. They rake in something like 2.5 billion dollars in profit a year. If they wanted they could have an army as well funded at the US in 4 year, seeing how the US budget is something like 10 billion I'm not quite sure.
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Originally posted by raeanna74
For department store - Walmart. It's just more affordable and it's the only department store in town (or within a 28 mi radius).
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Sure, it's the only one in range, why is that? What would you have all done before a Wal-Mart was in town?? Ohhhhhh right.... LOCALY OWNED BUSNIESS, I haven’t seen much of them lately, because Wal-Mart destroys them. How could a Wal-Mart in bumfucknowhere make a profit? With that much stock and not really that high traffic, truth is they don't. If one Wal-Mart is failing they let it go because so many others are making tons of money, they know that that community will expand, if slowly, with a complete lack of local stores that sell the same sort of things as they do.
What they want, Wal-Mart that is, is to get all competition, so much so that everyone is so accustomed to going there for everything you'll never stop, Wal-Mart will be all you need, this is the perfect end for a business. Problems with it, one, foreign outsourcing, I'm Canadian so I am used to buying mostly imported things, but the States isn't. Going overseas for cheaper goods is nothing new; Wal-Mart is just recently started investing overseas more and more. They are a very demanding company, if you can't deliver the goods at the time that was agreed one, you’re gone. They can always go overseas for cheaper versions of exactly what you make. So what you get is cheaper and cheaper quality things, and more and more loose of jobs. Another problem, low paying jobs, when people get a job at Wal-Mart, there is little chance for that much improvement in the company starting on the ground floor. There are so many jobs available that more and more people are starting there, barely making it by, and living below the poverty line the whole idea behind it is horrible, they just sell things that are huge, for extremely low prices, such good deals that you can just let it all go to waste if you can't finish your giant jar of pickles because it only cost $1.75. One final reason that Wal-Mart is a horrible example of capitalism blown way out of proportions is they control so much that it becomes a political and social problem. Think of censorship, they will not carry certain CD's because of language, or other reasons. When a CD is not carried in Wal-Mart the band looses and ton of money, and this the record label will not allow. Things like this are very bad in so much as eventually everyone will just dress the same and like the same things and buy from Wal-Mart.