Hello Bob!

07 Jul 10 06:08, you wrote to me:

 RC>> People such as you should also stop villifying a companies
 RC>> pursuit of profits, companies do not purposefully exist to lose
 RC>> money.

 BA> Nor do they exist solely to screw their help, their suppliers or their
 BA> customers (Wal-Mart being a salient exception to that rule).

I am not going to join in on any criticism of Walmart... Let me tell you why...

I worked for Kmart for 7 years, it was my first job, I worked for Kmart
during the time when they were the nations second largest retailer, second
only to Sears, and Sears only had the number one position because of its
then Catalog operations.

Where I lived then, in the 1980's in Northern Virginia, we didnt have
Walmarts within a 100 miles, I only heard of them in name only and I never
stepped foot into one until I moved down here in 1987. I wasnt to impressed
with Walmart, it didnt have the standard ambience of a Kmart, no bluelight,
no Deli and no Grill, say what you want about Kmart then, the Deli and the
Grill were good. Other than that, there wasnt too much to differentiate the
two, except I believe Kmart merchandised the Sporting Goods Dept alot
better.

Kmart got complacent, they thought themselves at then 2000 stores strong,
uncatchable, unstoppable and unbeatable.

One thing that Walmart did to make themselves the juggernaut they are
today, is they put stores in smalltown USA, whereas Kmart stayed only in
the suburbs or in major towns.

Example, the town to my Southeast, Union South Carolina, same town Susan
Smith lived in when she killed her two boys, it rates a Walmart
Super-Center, but not lets say an AutoZone.

Kmart once had the buying power to dictate terms to its suppliers, but no
more like it did.. Although I find it poetic that Kmart and Sears
eventually got married.

When you have a retailer that has however many thousand stores that do
whatever volume, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, they are in a position to
dictate terms. With the presence they have, any supplier would love to get
on a Walmart shelf, its economics 101.

As to how they treated their help, cant disagree based on what I have read
in the past.

What would be killer is, if Walmart ever really really focused on Customer
Service, similiar to Home Depot, they would destroy everybody.

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