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

You want to pay high prices while everyone else pays low prices? Go
ahead and be a Wal-Martyr if you want.
-- 
Gene Seibel
Gene & Sue's Flying Machine - http://pad39a.com/gene/




> 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!
> 
> - 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