Watching Us Save, One Cart At A Time

I don't like to buy at Walmark for the simple reason that most of their shopping carts are in the parking lot uncollected and if I have to return something I can except to wait in a huge line. There also is a better than even chance that if I do not watch the clerk very carefully that they will overcharge me. I once had 25 separate bottles of water and they tried to charge me for 32. The prices are good but you have to be so very careful.

"Walmart saves me money and thus improves my standard of living"

Obviously, your idea of a good "standard of living" is pretty meager if you think the cheap, poorly-made products at Wal Mart are improving it.

Ed Weller's head is up his behind. Guess he doesn't downshop at Wal-Mart. The biggest problem with Wal-mart is consistency of items carried. You buy an item there for a month or two and then if they can't squeeze the supplier for any more concessions it's gone. We used to go to Wal-Mart twice a week, but then would have to go to another grocery store to get items they didn't carry anymore or were out of stock. The produce is absolutely third world quality and origin. However, for staples, like napkins, toilet paper, facial tissue, mouthwash, toothpaste and the like you can't beat Wal-Mart's prices most of the time (sometimes target does and regular grocers sale items do).

Mr. Weller seem to miss analyze Wal-Mart's sales increases. As a regular shopper I can attest that the average year over year increase in items we regularly buy are up just under 20%. They never lowered price increases as fuel costs came down. So a 3 or 4% year over year increase shows a tremendous decrease in unit volume. That does not bode well for when the economy turns up for the average consumer. I'll be short Wal-Mart.

Here in Las Vegas the store are open 24/7 but if you shop at night, as we do during the hot summer months, you can't navigate your cart around the stores because they are filled with overbrimming pallets of items to be restocked. If you shop after 6PM the shelves are half bare of the popular items. I don't care how much they are modernizing their stores, they still feel like wharehouse shopping. You can't make a race horse out of a mule.

Ed Weller's head is up his behind. Guess he doesn't downshop at Wal-Mart. The biggest problem with Wal-mart is consistency of items carried. You buy an item there for a month or two and then if they can't squeeze the supplier for any more concessions it's gone. We used to go to Wal-Mart twice a week, but then would have to go to another grocery store to get items they didn't carry anymore or were out of stock. The produce is absolutely third world quality and origin. However, for staples, like napkins, toilet paper, facial tissue, mouthwash, toothpaste and the like you can't beat Wal-Mart's prices most of the time (sometimes target does and regular grocers sale items do).

Mr. Weller seem to miss analyze Wal-Mart's sales increases. As a regular shopper I can attest that the average year over year increase in items we regularly buy are up just under 20%. They never lowered price increases as fuel costs came down. So a 3 or 4% year over year increase shows a tremendous decrease in unit volume. That does not bode well for when the economy turns up for the average consumer. I'll be short Wal-Mart.

Here in Las Vegas the store are open 24/7 but if you shop at night, as we do during the hot summer months, you can't navigate your cart around the stores because they are filled with overbrimming pallets of items to be restocked. If you shop after 6PM the shelves are half bare of the popular items. I don't care how much they are modernizing their stores, they still feel like wharehouse shopping. You can't make a race horse out of a mule.

Walmart did not start out as a global giant. It took a person with foresight and determination to make something happen. Although I agree with the small business entrepenuer about how they hurt small businesses, you have to give them credit on a job well done.

The way of the world. Unfortunately the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, but it also goes to show that good foresight means good profits. Walmart did not start off as a global giant, they had to work hard for it and it shows. Of course outsourcing does stink and I would hate to see retarded children working slave hours and dead pets will smell after awhile......

Does anyone ever stop to consider the real cost of what you buy at wal*mart, or any of the other places that sell products from China. I hope you all are prochoice, don't care about freedom, and enjoy seeing retarded children and dead pets. I personally will buy something that is more expensive ( I don't mean only US products) if I know that the person that made was not essentially a slave!!!

They should try providing more cashiers if they want to keep customers.

Does anyone ever stop to consider the real cost of what you buy at wal*mart, or any of the other places that sell products from China. I hope you all are prochoice, don't care about freedom, and enjoy seeing retarded children and dead pets. I personally will buy something that is more expensive ( I don't mean only US products) if I know that the person that made was not essentially a slave!!!

here's a tip: watch the few rollbacks in the store, but what you don't notice it that they have raised the prices throughout the departments to not only make up the difference but catch a huge profit...

I keep reading pleas to boycott Exxon/Mobil, boycott Wal-Mart, or boycott XYZ. Kinda hard to do when they're the only business in town. If American businesses want American custom, they have to opperate in American towns.

Hey I control the interest rate. I did put the oil to $147, then $40,
not $200 -it was a choice I made.

Kristina Brooker (126 395 086)