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I'd be more concerned about its buying drugs from third-world
countries, or having its underpaid and untrained clerks filling the
little bottles with the wrong stuff, even though they are not supposed
to be doing that at all. It is Wal-Mart, after all.

--
Email sent to is never read.


At the end of a 92-hour work week, even a pharmacist can make a mistake. "It's
a Wonderful Life."

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"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...


Probably right...but, sheesh, the CIA Handbook?


Quick & easy, as long as you don't need a ton of detail.

A ****load of people at the CIA have extremely boring jobs.



I didn't mean that...I meant trusting anything presented by the CIA.

I guess I've chosen to believe that they're not going to spin information
that can be confirmed elsewhere in the web with just a few keystrokes.

Besides, the present chimp in chief and his crew make the CIA look like a
bunch of Mr. Spocks. You know: Vulcans who are unable to lie. :-)

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On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 16:59:48 +0000, Gould 0738 wrote:

Arrogant Worms have a sketch about a Mountie getting accosted by US tourists:

"Where do you keep all those guns?"
"In our tank."
"You have a tank??"
"We didn't WALK here!"
"Where did you get a tank?"
"Wal-Mart"

("The Mountie Song" from Live Bait)

Lloyd Sumpter

Oh oh. There's a career killer for Arrogant Worms. Sheryl Crow CD's were
banished from WalMart for a time due to a similar, one-line reference to the
chain.


He He...First, it's funny to see "career" and "Arrogant Worms" in the same
sentence. But more seriously, WalMart doesn't have the impact here in Canada
that is does in the US. A news story saying WalMart is refusing to carry an
Arrogant Worms CD would probably be a major boost in their "career".

Now, of Sams, or A&B Sound, or even Superstore or Costco refused, that would be
a different story...

Lloyd - (just bought 3 DVDs at Superstore)

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I wonder if there would be any interest nationally in boycotting those
companies that are exporting American jobs to places like India.


None. People substitute their wallets for their brains as it is, no hope that
they'll avoid making the same substitution (in large numbers) for their social
consciences.

I learned an interesting thing about human nature several years ago. Seattle is
a pretty liberal place, with a lot of greenies.
Back in the early 90's I offered electric cars for sale on my used car lot. A
local co-op built "kit cars" and installed electric motors and batteries. They
releid on me to sell them. I used to drive one back and forth to work, and on
company errands. Great little vehicles for 20-30 mile, round-town runners.
"There will be a lot of interest in these," I thought. I was right!

I must have had 600 greenies on the lot in just a few months. Every time I
showed the electric cars, the conversation when something like this.

"Wow, dude! This is way cool that you've decided to offer these electric cars.
We got that hole in the ozone, all this pollution, people getting sick on fumes
everywhere, and we're going to run out petroleum some day. This is just
bitchin!
Everybody ought to buy one!"

When we 'd get around to asking for the order, the conversation always went
from
"everybody ought to buy one" to "everybody except me ought to buy one. I've got
some special personal reason why I'm forced to continue to drive my gasoline
car- but the rest of the world? They ought to get with the program and go
electric!"

Sigh.

We all have a long list of social goals we'd like to see accomplished, if only
*everybody else* will make the sacrifices we're unwilling to make ourselves.

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Doug Kanter wrote:

I'm not disputing the fact that they sell a lot. I'm saying that for many
products, they are NOT cheaper. They've just created an image. Tell me this:
Faced with a 5 mile commercial strip packed with weekend traffic, are you
going to go back and forth between WM and two supermarkets to determine
whether you're getting the best prices? Of course not. This is what WM
counts on.

That's what supermarkets counted on, too, when they added lots of 'store
within the store' operations to the basic foodstuffs. Going further
back, the supermarket counted on convenience to compete with delis,
bakeries, butchers, and the like.

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"RJ" wrote in message
...
Doug Kanter wrote:

I'm not disputing the fact that they sell a lot. I'm saying that for
many
products, they are NOT cheaper. They've just created an image. Tell me
this:
Faced with a 5 mile commercial strip packed with weekend traffic, are
you
going to go back and forth between WM and two supermarkets to determine
whether you're getting the best prices? Of course not. This is what WM
counts on.

That's what supermarkets counted on, too, when they added lots of 'store
within the store' operations to the basic foodstuffs. Going further
back, the supermarket counted on convenience to compete with delis,
bakeries, butchers, and the like.

And yet, many of these places still survive, some of them in highly unlikely
locations. They do so by offering something different, not just the same old
white bread.

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Doug Kanter wrote:

"RJ" wrote in message
...
Doug Kanter wrote:

I'm not disputing the fact that they sell a lot. I'm saying that for
many
products, they are NOT cheaper. They've just created an image. Tell me
this:
Faced with a 5 mile commercial strip packed with weekend traffic, are
you
going to go back and forth between WM and two supermarkets to determine
whether you're getting the best prices? Of course not. This is what WM
counts on.

That's what supermarkets counted on, too, when they added lots of 'store
within the store' operations to the basic foodstuffs. Going further
back, the supermarket counted on convenience to compete with delis,
bakeries, butchers, and the like.

And yet, many of these places still survive, some of them in highly unlikely
locations. They do so by offering something different, not just the same old
white bread.

Not nearly as many today as there were in, say, 1960 (per capita).

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"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
...
"Calif Bill" wrote in message
hlink.net...
I guess Wal-mart is falling on hard times. The business report for
sales
on
Friday for the Country was an amazing $7.5 Billion. A record. Wal-mart
only took in $1.5 Billion is sales. About 1/7 of all the Xmas shopping
done
the day after Thanksgiving.

I'm not disputing the fact that they sell a lot. I'm saying that for many
products, they are NOT cheaper. They've just created an image. Tell me
this:
Faced with a 5 mile commercial strip packed with weekend traffic, are you
going to go back and forth between WM and two supermarkets to determine
whether you're getting the best prices? Of course not. This is what WM
counts on.

Around here, WalMarts will match any price of any product advertised by any
other store with exceptions of coupons or buy 1 get 1 free items. Most of
the time they will match the "special card" prices also.
Ed

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| Finally, I notice in two WM stores here that about 1/3 of the groceries
| don't have unit pricing stickers on the shelves. That's another reason
| customers think they're getting a low price. Unless you walk around with a
| calculator, it's tricky to compare two jars of salsa, on of which contains
| 17.38 oz and the other 32.50 oz. Real grocery stores here have unit
pricing
| on everything, and it's NOT required by law in this county.

Wal-mart does not have an exclusive on that option. Last we were in
Houston we visited a high end market (they have a self proclaimed 'three
star' restaurant on site). Unit price on any number of various size jars
and packages was 'per each'

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thunder wrote:

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 05:35:01 +0000, Jonathan Ball wrote:


Calif Bill wrote:


Former Swiss customer of mine was one of the largest newspaper
typesetting equipment suppliers in Europe.

That's nice.

Look at the numbers: services accounts for about double the percentage of
"industry" in the Swiss economy, and a substantial part of "industry" is
service anyway.


I would suggest that does make them a manufacturing economy.

I would suggest you have an undefined, incoherently
imagined dividing line. Did you not read that
Switzerland's service sector is DOUBLE the size of
their "industry" sector? Furthermore, most of what's
included in "manufacturing" is actually services, as
the experience of General Motors in acquiring EDS and
them moving all of their IT staff to it demonstrates.
At the stroke of a pen, those employees suddenly were
reclassified as "service" employees. The same number
of cars were still being manufactured, but the
"manufacturing" sector, as measured by number of
employees, shrank, while the "service" sector grew.

That
breakdown is equivalent to Germany's, and only slightly less than Japan's.
We on the other hand are a service economy.

Switzerland, Germany and Japan also are service
economies; the weighting is roughly 2:1 in favor of
services.


Germany:
industry 33.4%, agriculture 2.8%, services 63.8% (1999)

Japan:
agricultu 1.4% industry: 30.9% services: 67.7% (2001 est.)

USA:
agricultu 2% industry: 18% services: 80% (2002)

Numbers taken from CIA Factbook:

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/