Post by george conklinPost by ***@yahoo.comPost by george conklinPost by ***@yahoo.comLet me ask you this, do you think it is right for W-M to abandon their
smaller, older stores to build Supercenters practically right next
door, or a quarter mile away? In abandoning their smaller older
stores in a lot of cases they leave smaller dependant stores holding
the bag in an older shopping ctr without an anchor. That is one of
the things they do becasue they can, and no one can stop them.
Something else George cannot or will not address.
Post by george conklinPost by ***@yahoo.comPost by george conklinPost by ***@yahoo.comYes, W-M does some good things, but I believe the bad things they do
out weigh the good.
I will tell you again, W-M does not have to operate the way they do.
And Conk, you can make all of the sniveling comments you want, as you
are prone to do. I just wish for once you would provide a suggestion
for improvement instead of condemnation. You seem to be incapable of
anything like that.
Take care, Randy
You start from the assumption that everything is bad and you are the
self-appointed czar of improvement. Wrong. Wal-Mart is no worse than most
other businesses and you assume they are bad, but YOU are good. Shame on
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George, I wll try this again, you made the statements that Philly is a
failed city,
Yes, because it relied too long on the Pennsylvania RR, the Navy yard,
and Baldwin locomotive, all of which failed due to technology changes.
Upstate NY is failed,
Just look at the population drain from the area and you can see that the
area is no longer economically viable. Kodak is tanking and more viable
companies are taking their place.
If Upstate NY and Philly are so failed as you declare, how come the
surrounding areas remain so very, very wealthy. Much wealthier then
any area you would care to annoint as replacing them.
The south and the Sunbelt remain dirt poor, with a couple of
exceptions like Raleigh and Charlotte.
I will grant you Kodak had some mgmt problems, but Rochester, Monroe
County remain much weathier then most counties in the South/Sunbelt.
Post by george conklinso on and so forth. I am not the
Post by ***@yahoo.comczar of anything, but you make these profound statements, and we
should just accept them?
Other areas have replaced the failing areas. So? Just because Kodak
was good with black and white film does not mean the world should stop
advancing so you can have good urban planning based on old technology and
failed leadership.
What areas, China??? The wealth of the US remains in the Northeast
and Great Lakes. As I said, out
side of Raleigh and Charlotte, there ain't much in the South/Sunbelt
except poverty and ignorance.
You know something else George, textiles were big in the South after
they left the higher cost places in the North. What happened then.
They went to even cheaper places in Latin America and the Far East.
So I guess the South has failed, because they lost the only viable
industry they ever had.
Let me ask you something else, what is going to happen to place like
NC, SC, GA, and FL that depend on low wages and low energy prices as
gas keeps going up and up and up?
Do you know anything about FL. I spent the last year and a half down
there. 60% on the houses in the biggest counties in the state are for
sale. Property taxes are going up and up and up, house/property and
commercial insurance is going in the same direction. Except for the
coastal areas, the state is dirt poor. Palm Beach county is one of
the poorest counties in the US. So I guess FL is a failed state.
FL has grown and grown to become what the fourth largest state in the
nation. My parents moved down there in 75. People expected to
remain a very cheap place to retire. They were wrong.
Post by george conklinPost by ***@yahoo.comI do not think everything is bad. I happend to be very fond of Philly
and upstste NY and a lot of other urban areas you consider failed.
I told you I shop at W-M for convenience. But what do you thing for
forcing Assoc to work off the clock?
That probably should be stopped, but most of us do not keep clocks
anymore. We work until the job is done.
What do you think of the
Post by ***@yahoo.comlawsuits agains W-M, which have been successful. I know, it is
because the federal judges hate W-M also. Why don't you address
that, instead of just saying that I hate W-M.
You say people work until the job is done. So everyone is mgmt
according to you. Hourly workers should work for nothing right? Or
maybe a company that makes the kind of money W-M does should pay them
for every minute they work. Forcing someone to work without paying
them is considered slavery. You do know there are federal labor laws,
but of course W-M wants to see the few that still remain repealed.
But of course W-M is doing them a favor by giving them a job. Such
is life in the US in the 21st century
Post by george conklinPost by ***@yahoo.comSo it is better for W-M to keep low prices and force their Assoc onto
Medicaid where you are paing the bill, rather then W-M so they can
make their huge profits.
Local stores paid their help even less than Wal-Mart. If you want
socialized medicine, then say so. Medicare for All Ages is my motto.
I am in a state of shock at that one, someone please revive me. Are
you serious, suggesting something liberal???
It is not a question of what I want. You should answer the question.
Should W-M assoc be forced on to Medicaid so that
W-M keeps it profits high.?
If you note GM was the largest corp in the world for a long time. No
one that ever worked for them was forced onto medicaid.
Notwithstanding that is the reason they are staring bankruptcy in the
face.
And you know something else, you make it seem like W-M has low prices
on every item they sell. Lower then anyone in business anywhere. I
can assure you that is not true. You can do better at Home Depot and
Office Max. On books you can do better at Barnes and Noble, and they
have a much wider selection.. I have even gotten cheaper prices at K
Mart.
But people want to believe W-M is so dirt cheap and they are not.
They just, like you assume it is such.
Take care, Randy