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Skriven 2006-09-26 18:29:23 av John Hull (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 22754 av Gary Braswell (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Pat Buchanan
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Gary Braswell -> VERN HUMPHREY wrote:
 GB> VERN HUMPHREY -> MIMI GALLANDT wrote:
 MG>>> I've never quite understood the animosity against Wal Mart, yes I've
 MG>>> heard "they put mom & pop stores out of business" line, but I
 GB> doubt they
 MG>>> did that more than Sears and Penneys did.

 VH>> Walmart is hated because they are successful.  The Mom and Pop ploy is
 VH>> really disingenuous.  First of all, Mom and Pop are usually quite
 VH>> wealthy -- and the rest of us have no obligation to pay high prices to
 VH>> support a wealthy store owner.  Secondly, if Mom and Pop go out of
 VH>> business, it's the consumer, not Walmart, that puts them out of
 VH>> business.

 VH>> And Walmart haters LIKE to hate.  One of them posted this on an
 VH>> internet forum:

 VH>> **************************************************
 VH>> Originally Posted by davy39

 VH>> showthread.php?p=1517435 - post1517435showthread.php?p=1517435 -
 VH>> post1517435
 VH>> I see on the news that Wal-Mart, not being content with closing small
 VH>> businesses, are going to offer $4.00 discount prescriptions for some
 VH>> generic drugs. Target stores are going to follow suit. There goes your
 VH>> local pharmacy down the drain.
 VH>> **************************************************

 VH>> DANG!  Putting local pharmacies out of business, just to keep old
 GB> folks
 VH>> from having to choose between paying for their medicine and eating dog
 VH>> food!

 VH>> How cruel is THAT?

 GB> I try to shop at Walmart as little as I can, but they do have great
 GB> prices and indeed its the consumers who want those low prices that put
 GB> other businesses out of business.

 GB> The reason I try to shop as little as possible there is probably due to
 GB> their success. The places are packed, they take forever to get out of
 GB> and product is everywhere making for very thin isles and people traffic
 GB> jams. Customer service sucks there as well, but people no longer want
 GB> customer service. Greeters are few and far between and when they are
 GB> there, they are not the smiling elderly folk to give you a smile and the
 GB> kid a balloon, but are there to make sure you are not walking out with
 GB> goodies. I get tired of being treated like a criminal every time I leave
 GB> the store. They used to search you before you left the electronics dept.
 GB> and only allowed electronics to be bought in that dept., you could not
 GB> walk out with a cordless phone and keep shopping. That stopped me from
 GB> shopping electronics with them. They stopped this recently however. This
 GB> was even in the posh west end they did this.

 GB> I prefer Target. Nice big isles, clean and the customer service, while
 GB> not a lot better than Walmart, is a tad better.

 GB> But those Walmart prices...can't beat them.


That's not Wal-Mart policy, Gary.  If such things are going on, its because the
manager is not doing his job properly.  Lemme tell you a story that happened to
me at my standard size Wal-Mart.

Back when King Kong came out on DVD, one of the local pizza joints had a promo:
Buy a King Kong Special pizza and you'd get a coupon good for several dollars
off the price of the DVD.  They ran out of coupons, so their regional office
mailed one to me.  In the meantime, I bought the DVD and was told I could bring
in the coupon when it arrived.  Two days later, I went back with the coupon and
the girl in cust. svc. refused to refund the difference.  She said I had to
return the DVD as defective (it wasn't), then I could buy it again and use the
coupon at that time, and she wasn't pleasant about it.  I got ticked and
emailed corporate customer service.  This was at about 10am.  At 11:30 I got a
call from the manager of my local store - at home - profusely apologizing for
what had happened.  He told me to bring the coupon back and it would be
promptly taken care of - and it was.  He also gave me a Walmart gift debit card
with $20 loaded on it.  We had a rather long discussion about a variety of
things retail, the new store, etc.  He was a nice guy, and truly sorry about
how I had been treated.  Oh, and the customer service chick got the axe.

If you get treated that way, send their corp office an email.  You'll be
surprised at how quick it gets fixed.

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