Comments on: Watching the growth of Walmart – now with 100% more Sam’s Club

By: kamonasish aayush mazumdar

kamonasish aayush mazumdar — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:25:26 +0000

Its just another pissed off fox nathan ;)

By: kamonasish aayush mazumdar

kamonasish aayush mazumdar — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:20:44 +0000

BRN: sorry, but the premise of the argument is it reduces obesity in “in low-income neighborhoods starved for affordable fresh food.” :)
Which is obvious, low-income neighbour hoods that STARVED for fresh food won’t get obese. its the ones with disposeable incomes that will…..

By: Mad Jayhawk

Mad Jayhawk — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:06:23 +0000

Both of them are beautiful states with great people. I had a hard time choosing between living in Conway or in the Phoenix area when I retired. Both have nice Walmarts.

By: Mad Jayhawk

Mad Jayhawk — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:01:55 +0000

No Walmarts on the International Space Station until they open a Starbucks on it. They haven’t have they?

By: Mad Jayhawk

Mad Jayhawk — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:56:37 +0000

Jonathan. This is off topic a bit. As a former drug company employee I can tell you assuredly that every product made by drug companies is manufactured according to Good Manufacturing Practices, a standard that is developed by the company and approved by the FDA. The company’s records of each batch of drugs is open to inspection and if deviations in the procedures used to make and test the drug are found, the company can be fined, its officers jailed, and the company’s doors padlocked. It has happened. The company I worked for had a quality control department that was entirely independent of the manufacturing department and its decisions were final and non negiotiable when it came to quality issues. You might think otherwise but you are wrong. Poor quality in our case could kill thousands of people. It is possible that something could slip through all the checks and balances but highly unlikely. The FDA would have surprise inspections of our records, our plant, and our production and heaven help us if any major problems were found. We had a semi-major record keeping once problem they gave us a week to remediate or they were going to lock the doors. The person responsible was fired. The problem was fixed. If the government had exercise the same diligence in their licensing and inspecting the oil rig in the Gult that accident would have never happened. Even competent, well-,meaning, and honest people have to have a little fear built into their systems in my opinion when the stakes are so high. Those irrational people who want to have our drugs cheaply manufactured in other countries have never been to those countries to witness what their standards, if any, are for manufacturing drugs. Fellow employees visiting Mexico had just one word for how they did things there: Scary. It is very very easy to screw up a batch of drugs.

By: Hog Fan

Hog Fan — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:51:13 +0000

FYI – Arkansas is AR, not AK (that is Alaska).

By: Mad Jayhawk

Mad Jayhawk — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:29:41 +0000

Most excellent job Dan!!

By: Mad Jayhawk

Mad Jayhawk — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:27:52 +0000

Dumb rich people do not shop at Walmart. Smart rich people do. A jar of Skippy peanut butter in Walmart is the same as the jar in the upscale market that offers valet parking and fancy lighting. Why pay for ambiance, services you don’t need or unionized workers with crappy I-do-not-care-you-can’t-fire-me attitudes? I see lots of Beemers in Walmart parking lots.

By: Mad Jayhawk

Mad Jayhawk — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:21:54 +0000

You are 100% right. Involuntary servitude in this country ended in 1862. People shouldn’t work there if they do not like how they are paid, their benefits, or how they are treated. They are free to work wherever they like. The stores are very benefitial to the working class. Decent products and very good prices. If there was no Walmart and everyone had to shop at Safeway or Target our standard of living would be in the dumpster because our money could not go as far. Walmart forces everyone’s prices down and that benefits us all. The unions just want to get in so they can have clerks just standing around shooting the bull and getting paid so they bad-mouth Walmart. The public would not benefit at all from Walmart being unionized. Prices would have to go up to pay for worthless union work rules and wages for work not done. Someone would have to be insane to want that.

By: Mad Jayhawk

Mad Jayhawk — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:12:58 +0000

I understand that Walmart’s sales in China are greater than in the US. Sam initially built new stores within a day’s drive of Bentonville, AK so that the stores could be serviced from one distribution center. I visited the first Walmart in Arkansas in the 1970s and our little town in Missouri got one somewhere around 1973. It was small and packed to the rafters with merchandise. Sam stopped in often. The checkout counters were made of plywood. If you were an employee in the 1960s and 1970s and bought stock from the company you’d be a multi-millionaire now. There are stories of check-out clerks buying a little stock at a time during that period becoming millionaires. A real success story. I think they are on the way downhill now. The store makeovers for older stores are crap. They have eliminated one of the biggest reasons for shopping at Walmart – selection. The world does not need another stupid Target store.