The First One
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed
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It was announced today that the US retail giant Wal-Mart is buying one of the UK's biggest supermarket chains, Asda. For 6.7 billion smackeroos.
I gather, however, that Wal-Mart are not loved Stateside. Anyone wanna expand on this?
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Well, I'm a bit pissed as Kingfisher, the group who owns Woolies were gonna merge with them. Which meant that I would have got a discount at Asda.
Oh well.
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Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Target, Sam's Wholesale Club, I shop at them all. I like the cheap stuff. I can afford it on my meager college student salary.
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Saltah'na
Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
Member # 33
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Welcome to Reality, Lee. Years ago, Canada had a large department-store chain called Woolworth and Co, which goes by the more common name of Woolco. Was swallowed up by the large Walmart giant after several years of losing money. *sniff*
Now there is only Zellers........
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Asda.... I LOVED that store when I was over there!!! ... I still have a reciept from when I bought that bottle of wine and the chocolate orange! Their pizzas are the BEST.
Bought out by Wal-Mart .... i'm not sure that's such a good thing.. are they planning on changing the ASDA's TO Wal-Mart's, or is ASDA staying the same?
I love Wal-Mart, don't get me wrong... but I mean, ASDA is a food store..... and Wal-Mart isn't...
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Wal-Mart censors the albums they sell, often without warning.
To be fair, though, none of the albums I want to buy are ever there anyway.
Things ARE cheap there. There's the whole "destruction of downtown" thing, but that's more of a cultural shift rather than the fault of any one business.
That having been said, I hate the place. Annoying people. But, from time to time, I do go. Partly to simply observe the shoppers.
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Wal-mart's cool. I wish they had one close enough to my house I could actually get there, though. *L*
Jay: i've never had that feeling in a walmart, but try taking a class on Native American studies in the southwest....for a semester i felt like three days a week i was being told "you bad white person! look what you've done to our people!" rather discouraging. honestly, though. racial constructs make me sick. people are people are people. and i still say i'm not responsible for things my ancestors did solely on the fact that they are my ancestors. pleh. oh well.
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Racial constructs are crap. And a very good point Jedi. I guess that part of my feelings come from being the sole liberal in Orange County, a place where the pin the Fascist Party pin on you the moment you move into the county.
Orange County California is a very white and very Republican county. The population consists mostly the young urbanites trying to escape the proliferation of "other colored" people in Los Angeles. There are a few pockets of ethinc folks there, but by in large, the county is dominated by Republicans trying to keep them in their place.
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I never had that problem going into a Wal-Mart.. but the Wal-Mart near me is in an urban area, so there is a mix of culture there. EVERYONE shops at Wal-Mart, 'cause it's CHEAP. (There's also a grocery store right next to it, so that makes it even MORE convenient).
The one problem I DO have on occassion in a Wal-Mart is the fear of bright yellow smiley people watching me. Can anyone identify with that? ... Wherever you go, that smiley face is watching you. You can't escape it!!!.. It's there..... it's everywhere!.. *insane laughter..*
okay, J/K... *L*
But seriously, the feeling I get when I go into a Wal-Mart is "This is a christian owned store, and I'm not Christian". I often wonder what they'd think about MY religion if I told them. I at one time almost had a job there.. I think that would have been VERY interesting. Do you know they do random drug testing and stuff there? They want thier employees to be "as pure as possible". Now I can understand keeping a professional image and all that, but.... it's really NONE of thier damned business....
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First One: The general low regard you may have heard about in referance to Wal-Mart stateside is real in some areas. Probably the biggest PR disaster they tried was right here in my state of Virginia. They wanted to build a new store right near Ferry Farm, the boyhood home of George Washington. The assessment of what this store would have done was that it could have a severe negative impact on the preservation of Ferry Farm, and here in Virginia, history is almost everything. However, they backed out at the last minute and all is forgiven to the extent people shop there because they've just about run K-Mart out of existance. The above episode and the mega-success they've had due to their control over inventory and shipping has made them the store that many love to hate. Hope this clarifies.
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Saltah'na
Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
Member # 33
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David Sands: Actually, I think K-Mart is no longer in existence, bought out by the Hudson's Bay Company of Canada. Or was it some other department store chain? Someone please confirm.........
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