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Skriven 2006-09-25 07:53:00 av MIMI GALLANDT (1:275/311)
     Kommentar till en text av JOHN HULL
Ärende: Pat Buchanan
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John Hull wrote:

JH>MIMI GALLANDT -> ED HULETT wrote:
JH> MG> Ed Hulett wrote:

JH> EH>> On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 08:36:00 -0400
JH> EH>> "VERN HUMPHREY -> ED HULETT" <1:123/140> wrote:

JH> VH>>>>> That's their stock in trade.  I had a discussion with a
JH> VH>>>>> woman who says people "waste their money at Wal Mart."  She
JH> VH>>>>> got really huffy when I asked, "What makes YOU so much
JH> VH>>>>> smarter than everyone else?"

JH> EH>>>> Heh heh... a friend of mine is a very vocal opponent to
JH> EH>>>> Wal-Mart but still shops there because he wants to save
JH> EH>>>> money.

JH> EH>>>> I asked him, after one of his rants about Wal-Mart, why I
JH> EH>>>> should listen to his rant if he still shops there. He didn't
JH> EH>>>> have an answer.

JH> VH>>> Right.  I had one tell me "Wal Mart engages in price fixing."
JH> VH>>> When I said, "With whom?" he had no answer at all. :-)

JH> EH>> The above friend has made the claim that Wal Mart put
JH> EH>> Rubbermaid out of business. I asked him why I see Rubbermaid
JH> EH>> products still for sale at Wal Mart and he had no answer.

JH> EH>> His claim was that Wal Mart went with some Taiwan company
JH> EH>> instead for their plastic storage devices. I did a little
JH> EH>> Google search and among the vicious anti-Wal Mart rhetoric I
JH> EH>> found the truth. Wal Mart went with a Boston based company
JH> EH>> called Sani-Seal or some such. No Taiwan based company.

JH> MG> I've never quite understood the animosity against Wal Mart, yes
JH> MG> I've heard "they put mom & pop stores out of business" line, but
JH> MG> I doubt they did that more than Sears and Penneys did. Here in
JH> MG> San Diego there used to be two big local department stores. One
JH> MG> was gone before I was born called Marstons, George Marston, the
JH> MG> founder of Marstons, was a big philanthropist here, the other,
JH> MG> Walker Scott's, had several stores around the county. If I'm
JH> MG> remembering correctly that Tim lives in SD county he may
JH> MG> remember Walker Scott's. Marston's closed before WWII (it could
JH> MG> possibly be argued that WS's ran them out of business), but WS
JH> MG> hung on until the last one closed in the 80s or 90s. It wasn't
JH> MG> WalMart that did them in, more likely it was Sears and Penneys. 
Most peo
JH> MG> ple (except teen age girls) prefer to do their shopping in one
JH> MG> place. Malls, Wal Mart, Target and KMart do that for their
JH> MG> customers. We've had KMart in SD county since the 50s, Target
JH> MG> since the 70s or 80s and Wal Mart since the 90s. There were
JH> MG> very, very few mom & pop stores by the 90s. Another thing I like
JH> MG> about Wal Mart is that they hire the handicapped.

JH>I remember Walker Scott.  There was one in North Park about a block
JH>east of 30th & University if I remember correctly.  That was back in
JH>the early 70's.

Yes, I remember that one, too. Do you remember the one that used to be 
at 6th and Broadway downtown? It was such a beautiful building.

JH>Don't believe any of the crap you hear about Wal-Mart.  There is tons
JH>of documented evidence that shows that the economy improves in nearly
JH>every area they open a store in.  Chicago recently tried to slap a
JH>tax on them to prevent them from building inside the Chicago city
JH>limits.  Wal-Mart built several stores - a block outside the city
JH>limits in the burbs. At one of them, they were getting well over
JH>200,000 shoppers a week, mostly minority black and hispanic, who
JH>crossed the city limits from Chicago to shop at Wal-Mart.  Not only
JH>is Wal-Mart making money, but all those suburban towns get the tax 
reven
JH>ue and the boost to their economy, and Chicago gets squat.

I've heard that California has a law against those super Wal Marts. 
Undoubtedly pushed by the Grocery store chains. Apparently they're 
afraid of the competition. I went to one of those super Wal Marts in 
Great Falls. It was great! It makes me angry that we can't have one 
here.

JH>I've talked to the manager of our Wal-Mart (we're getting a new super
JH>Wal-Mart next year), and he told me that each customer represents
JH>about $250,000 in revenue to his bottom line, and that even the
JH>current small store provides over 200 jobs that pay above the average
JH>wage for our area.  The new store will add at least another 150 jobs.
JH>In addition, a couple of new stores have announced they will be
JH>building right next to the new Wal-Mart to take advantage of the
JH>traffic it generates, which means even more jobs and revenue for the 
cit
JH>y.  They are going to make a big difference in this area, giving us
JH>an economic boost that is long overdue.

I believe that most of the negative talk about Wal Mart is generated by 
jealousy.

L'Chaim

Mimi

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