Your Opinion on Wal Mart Please

[Esther]

Originally Posted by Ferd

Did you alert the authorities? or were these nice looking people taking a field trip?

[rgcraig]

You know Walmart is one place that you can run in to and grab that ONE thing you need and not worry about how you look.

[Traci]

Wal-Mart & Piggly-Wiggly is our only choices in our little town so we usually go to Wal-Mart but we do try to buy things made somewhere else besides China even if we have to pay a few more dollars. I would shop at Target if we had one. And Kroger. I miss having a Kroger.

[Steve Epley]

WalMart is great for the consumer. Most folks I have known who work there like it.

[Baron1710]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

You know Walmart is one place that you can run in to and grab that ONE thing you need and not worry about how you look.

If you run into Walmart for one thing you must have a lot of time on your hands. It seems like you are in line there forever. I avoid Walmart as much as possible. I hate waiting in line, and I despise their total lack of customer service.

I don’t care if they treat their employees well or not. If they don’t wanna work there, get another job.

[vrblackwell]

Originally Posted by StMark

I've read and heard stuff about how we shouldn't shop at Wal-Mart with various reasons why....

Here's some of the reasons I've heard about why I should not shop at Wal-Mart:

- they treat employees poorly
- they are responsible for poor working conditions and child labor/sweat shops in 3rd world and developing countries
- they have destroyed American towns and commerce (mom-n-pop shops)
- they represent everything that is ugly about America

What are your thoughts?

Do you shop at Wal mart??
Is there anything that would stop you from shopping there ?

Thad, please stop reading liberal, socialistic material.

[augustianian]

- they treat employees poorly

The employer has the right to distribute labor as he/she sees fit. The employee has the right to distribute his/her labor as he/she sees fit...like if he/she doesn't like the way he/she is treated then, get another job. (see Adam Smith). Besides, couldn't the same complaint be made about every employer at one time or another??

- they are responsible for poor working conditions and child labor/sweat shops in 3rd world and developing countries

And yet this country was built on such labor practices. It's probably not a valuable nor charitable endeavour to take jobs, and money, away from 3rd world families because Western do-gooders don't like the fact that they and their children are sweating.

- they have destroyed American towns and commerce (mom-n-pop shops)

Ahh small town America nostalgia...which is responsible for how many jobs?? I don't think it's right to make a family of four suffer because mom and pop want to keep selling their limited products for higher prices.

- they represent everything that is ugly about America

So...it's not art...it's business.

Yeah...creating a new market, selling cheaper products, making convenience a business necessity for the customer, all the while turning a profit.

You're right...that is what's "ugly" about America.

It's called the free market...and you might think it's ugly, but it is the most American of ideas.

Do you realize that Wal-Mart is responsible for more production and profits than most countries?? Take that out of the American economy...do you think the mom and pop shops could fill that void??

[CC1]

Originally Posted by Baron1710

If you run into Walmart for one thing you must have a lot of time on your hands. It seems like you are in line there forever. I avoid Walmart as much as possible. I hate waiting in line, and I despise their total lack of customer service.

I don’t care if they treat their employees well or not. If they don’t wanna work there, get another job.

Almost immediately after Sam Walton died the service went down a lot. I think he must have been the only force on the board insisting on good customer service.

For awhile I avoided Wal Mart because of the lines but the last few years they seem to have staffed back up to handle the crowds and I don't have any problems with the ones in my area.

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by CC1

Almost immediately after Sam Walton died the service went down a lot. I think he must have been the only force on the board insisting on good customer service.

For awhile I avoided Wal Mart because of the lines but the last few years they seem to have staffed back up to handle the crowds and I don't have any problems with the ones in my area.

Some of the newer Walmart's have self check out and that's really nice!

[Blubayou]

I shop Wal Mart most of the time because it is convenient and the prices are better. In our community it is the biggest "game" in town. But I do not buy meat there- the meat there is terrible. If I have a few groceries to purchase or buy meat I go to a local mom and pop grocery.