Just how big is Wal-Mart

[THEFERMANATOR]

Originally Posted by Mac_Attack

Walmart is anti worker not just anti union. They also have driven US companies out of the US by dictating what prices they want. I not a Walfart customer. By elimating good paying jobs people are forced to go to Wal fart. Billy Mac

I used to think like you MAC in regards to WAL-MART, but then I stopped and started thinking about it in depth. WAL-MART just simply said they wanted a product for a certain price to keep buyers buying. People could have simply said they wanted US made goods and not bought the imports, but AMERICANS cared more about lower prices than AMERICAN jobs. The other MAJOR issue here is that MANY AMERICANS feel that they are worth MORE than they really are. This also goes back to the automakers and MOST of the other industry out there. The AMERICAN dream is novel and such, but why do people feel that they should get $10 an hour to flip burgers? Or get $30 to work on an assembly line doing nothing but pushing a button? If wages fit work performed, then our industry would have NEVER left? WAL-MARTS rise was simply due to peoples desires. It may not have been all of the peoples actions that caused this, but it was simply the drive of many that brought it about.

[Mac_Attack]

Ferm why do you think people from all over the world want to come and live in the USA, because our wages are regressing? I don't think so. You are right Americans don't care if they buy American made products they just want it at a lower cost. That's where Wal-Fart took the lead. What I don't like what they are doing is telling US companies they have to sell at Wal-Fart's price. Because they are so large US companies were forced by an American company to go overseas. Rubbermaid in Ohio is one such company. Billy Mac

[THEFERMANATOR]

My point is simply that WAL-MART told them to lower there prices because that is what it took to lead in the marketplace. RUBBERMAID could have said no, and then sold there goods for what it costs them to build them. How is it WAL-MARTS fault that RUBBERMAID couldn't compete? If they wanted to compete they should have told there workers either work for X amount and HAVE a paycheck, or you can demand Y amount and have NO wages because WAL-MART will not buy our products? It wasn't that long ago that work was being farmed out to us because we had the cheaper wages and other countries wanted lower prices. I am a firm believer that history repeats itself, and the majority of mankind is destined to fail because it won't learn from it's mistakes. This holds true in ALL industries, not just WAL-MART. WAL-MART is just simply the giant right now. History will show that WAL-MARTS story is nothing new.

I know that my view on this subject isn't that of many, but it is just simply my opinion and view of how I see it.

[Mac_Attack]

That must be the new American thing, you go into your bosses office and ask for a pay cut. Oh heck we could go on and on. Sam Walton would roll over in his grave to see his company now. I leave at I will try my best to stay out of Wal - fart whenever possible. I only say when ever because this spring on a fishing trip to Ohio I had to follow my partners in to get an Ohio fishing licence. Billy Mac