Re: Say NO NO NO to Wal-Mart!!!

Just In Time wrote:
> Say NO NO NO to Wal-Mart!!!
>
> Walmart has gotten too big and it uses its power to exert over us. No
> one can blame Wal-Mart for being abusive afterall, it's us, the
> consumers, who gave the power to them! We are irresponsible and greedy
> because we want the cheapest prices! I have to admit that I am guilty
> as well as I do shop occasionally at you know where! (but that's to
> change from now on)
>
> After reading this article "The Wal-Mart You Don't Know" by Charles
> Fishman (Fast Company) Dec 2003.
> (http://go.jitbot.com/no-to-wal-mart), you'll know that:
>
> - Jobs are lost everyday because of Wal-Mart
> - Factories / companies die because of Wal-Mart.
> - Too much power is given to a single entity, Wal-Mart.
>
> let's stop this madness for a change. Be responsible!


While driving out to shop at another store, Bob heard on the radio that 
factory production in the USA hit an all time high in October.  Despite 
the doom and gloom of leftist media, somebody out there in factory land 
is doing something right.

Let me repeat that for you who missed it.  Factory production in the USA 
is at an all time high.

Bob







> - As a consumer, be reasonable, there is no need to shop everything at
> Wal-Mart. Don't go for cheap...Look for value. Are you getting the
> service you want from Wal-mart? Last time I went, I waited a long line
> to pay at the cash. When I had to return an item...the waiting was
> longer!
>
> - As a supplier, be rational! Increasing short-term sales and profits
> by supplying to Wal-Mart, while squeezing your margins and destroying
> your brands is the quickest way to brankruptcy court. If price is the
> only way you can think of competing, then, you already lost the war to
> the Chineses!
>
> - As an Investor, stop buying the stock of WMT if believe that the
> long-term effects will bear negative consequences to the whole
> economy. There is no pleasure to make money in the stock market, to
> find out how many jobs have lost because of you.
>
> Don't get me wrong, I am a champion of the free-markets. I believe we
> have our responsibilities to take. We don't need the government to
> step in one day like they did to Microsoft. Let's be responsible for a
> change.
>
> By the way, a little more about me, I am a Canadian Chinese, a
> business owner (tech-related company and in no way, a supplier of
> Wal-mart) and I don't own WMT stocks.
>
> Please spread this word around, it's for our own good.
>
> Cheers!
> Jeff