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Sat Apr 15, 2006 9:25 pm Reply and quote this post
Walmart is where I usally buy alot of my computer games from. There is at least one walmart in everytown all over the USA. Walmart is a nice store although ive heard they sometimes mistreat there employees and prices are not always that good. anyone else have a say on walmart?
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Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:06 am Reply and quote this post
I watched a program on british Tv about Walmart exploiting imigrants in their stores over in the states.Over in England we have Asda stores which is owned by Walmart  and basically sells everthing from  Fruit and Veg to your HD Tv's,but Asda is actually a great place to work,and from what Ive heard,the company really take care their employees.
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Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:50 am Reply and quote this post
yeh but remeber ASDA is WALMART and WALMART sell guns over the counter, and if you ask me guns should not be a 'mans right' to keep one in the house.
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Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:53 am Reply and quote this post
Wal-Mart wields its power for just one purpose: to bring the lowest possible prices to its customers. At Wal-Mart, that goal is never reached. The retailer has a clear policy for suppliers: On basic products that don't change, the price Wal-Mart will pay, and will charge shoppers, must drop year after year. But what almost no one outside the world of Wal-Mart and its 21,000 suppliers knows is the high cost of those low prices. Wal-Mart has the power to squeeze profit-killing concessions from vendors. To survive in the face of its pricing demands, makers of everything from bras to bicycles to blue jeans have had to lay off employees and close U.S. plants in favor of outsourcing products from overseas.

Of course, U.S. companies have been moving jobs offshore for decades, long before Wal-Mart was a retailing power. But there is no question that the chain is helping accelerate the loss of American jobs to low-wage countries such as China. Wal-Mart, which in the late 1980s and early 1990s trumpeted its claim to "Buy American," has doubled its imports from China in the past five years alone, buying some $12 billion in merchandise in 2002. That's nearly 10% of all Chinese exports to the United States.

One way to think of Wal-Mart is as a vast pipeline that gives non-U.S. companies direct access to the American market. "One of the things that limits or slows the growth of imports is the cost of establishing connections and networks," says Paul Krugman, the Princeton University economist. "Wal-Mart is so big and so centralized that it can all at once hook Chinese and other suppliers into its digital system. So--wham!--you have a large switch to overseas sourcing in a period quicker than under the old rules of retailing."

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Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:50 am Reply and quote this post
applet wrote:
yeh but remeber ASDA is WALMART and WALMART sell guns over the counter, and if you ask me guns should not be a 'mans right' to keep one in the house.


I agree with that it should not be a 'mans rights' to keep a gun in the house,but we are talking about America,if I lived there I would be keeping one in the House.

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Fri Apr 28, 2006 2:49 am Reply and quote this post
Yeah, good point, it is America, and something like 80% of people belive the world was created in 7 days by one man, and they are fundamental christians, reject all science and believe the bible word for word, (dont interpret it)
Like alot of multinational companys in their sector, they are involved in worker abuse/ cheap labour.

I hear alot of people get their games from Walmart in America, I must say, Supermarkets in the UK dont have the most competitive prices on their games and nor do some out-of-town retail stores, but some of the Highstreet stores are excellent, like GAME and GameStation.

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Wed May 17, 2006 3:46 pm Reply and quote this post
For some people who live in small towns a Walmart is one of the few valuable options a person may have.
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Mon May 29, 2006 3:06 am Reply and quote this post
god created the world in 6 days. he rested on the 7th. apparently.
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Mon May 29, 2006 10:11 am Reply and quote this post
wtf? does God have anything to do with WalMart? No I think not.
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Tue May 30, 2006 12:22 pm Reply and quote this post
I think it may be some kind of metaphorical term.... or spam.
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Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:48 am Reply and quote this post
No it was not spam - it was in support of your above comment:

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it is America, and something like 80% of people belive the world was created in 7 days by one man,


I was merely emphasising the meaning of your statement - by correcting the comment, and therefore making the meaning even more explicit - because 80% of people believe that the world was created in, not 7 days, but 6 days, by one man. It emphasises the meaning by exaggerating the extent to which the fundamentals will believe the "bible word for word, (dont interpret it)".

God does relate to WalMart - why do around 50% of households in one of the most religious nation in the developed world need guns? Surely people must be being taught good moral values? Are there that many murderers, terrorists and criminals in the US for every other person to need a gun?! Perhaps it teaches us something about the superficial society that exists in some cultures.

I assume that you have seen "Bowling for Columbine", by Michael Moore? Isn't it amazing how many people are killed by guns in the Germany (the country with the second-largest number of killings), versus how many are killed in the USA. Germany's population is around 80 million (with 85 deaths), the US's is 300 million. That means that the USA should have only about 350 - 400 gun deaths a year. It has a hell of a lot more than that (to put it mildly).

Obviously, giving people guns for 'protection' has not been a very good idea [Insert "Moronic" emoticon here - we really need one of these].

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Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:46 am Reply and quote this post
Everyone knew what I meant I think, by Seven Days, most americans are creationists. Creationsits are a branch of fundamentalists.
The bible teaches about a Just War, and I think that's wrong, for more on this topic, go to the Great Debates topic, here: http://forum.ivirtuaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=366

People haven't been given guns, but their fundamentalist morals have been taken to the point where they justify keeping a gun in their house.

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Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:52 am Reply and quote this post
Please gents, remind the initial topic is wal mart, and not gun owning.

I'm sure Walmart isn't the only supermarket in the USA that sells guns, so please stick to things that really define Walmart


@Micheal Moore: He managed to get Walmart to stop ammunition sale in stores, they at least took out the 9mm (lol), not sure if they totaly removed all their ammunition offers.

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Thu Jun 15, 2006 1:21 pm Reply and quote this post
A study released today by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) asserts that Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, can offer better wages to its employees while keeping profit margins nearly 50 percent greater than key competitors. The report also disproves a 2005 Wal-Mart-commissioned study by Global Insight (GI), which claimed that American consumers have saved $263 billion because of expansion by Wal-Mart.
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Tue Jun 27, 2006 6:21 pm Reply and quote this post
So it has some good points aswelll...
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