Most Hated U.S. Businesses

[Foxfyre]

That's why I don't shop at Wal*Mart and encourage as many folks to do likewise. I love this country too much to allow one retailer to call the tune for every potential entrepreneur.

Meh...I've yet to see a town with only a Wal-mart, and no other entrepreneur's business

Granted. But how many small retailers survive after Wal*Mart opens?

Almost all good ones do who use the Wal-mart as an anchor store to draw customers into the area. Every Wal-mart around here is amidst a bunch of small businesses all that would probably have a much tougher time of it if the Wal-mart was not there. They have to provide products and services different than what Wal-mart offers, of course, but they need the anchor store there.

When we still lived on the mountain, I depended heavily on several businesses in a shopping center at the first exit as you come into the city. Wal-mart was the anchor store but there was a photo service, shoe store, great pizza place, dry cleaners, pet groomer, etc. all there. When Wal-mart relocated though, all those little businesses started struggling and one by one also moved elsewhere. Much to my consternation of course.

So there's always a flip side. Most small businesses can't compete with Wal-mart and would be foolish to try. But Wal-mart also provides an anchor for many other small businesses who don't directly compete with it. It isn't all negatives.

 

[Samson]

That's why I don't shop at Wal*Mart and encourage as many folks to do likewise. I love this country too much to allow one retailer to call the tune for every potential entrepreneur.

Meh...I've yet to see a town with only a Wal-mart, and no other entrepreneur's business

Granted. But how many small retailers survive after Wal*Mart opens?

By "small retailer" I'm thinking of the 5-Dime, mom-and pop General Mechantile Store.

None Survive.

But, I don't think of Wal-Mart as being the main cause of the demise of these stores. I see them disappearing a long time before Wal-Mart appeared on the scene. Their doom was the rise of the Gas-Station/Convenience Store. ExxonMobil, Chevron, Sinclair, etc.

In my area, I've mourned the loss of one store, Tru-Value Hardware, which couldn't compete with Wal-Mart. But this wasn't a small retailer.

 

[Yukon.]

Enron is a good business.

 

[Samson]

Enron is a good business.

Enron's been defunct for the past 9 years.

Genius.

 

[editec]

WALMART is the sympton, not the disease.

I don't know why so many people hate that company.

They basically sell the same crap as everybody else.

They just sell one hell of a lot of it.

Sure they're in part responsible for the continued erosiion of small businesses and downtowns in the USA, but that erosion of small businesses and downtowns was happening decades before most of us ever heard of WALMARTS.

Malls started killing downtowns in the 1950s.

Superstores are merely the next logical step in retailing just like DEPARTMENT stores were the logical step in the early XXth century.

I don't think WALMART is a good company, or a bad company, either.

They are playing by the rules that our government demands of them.


If we want to change WALMART, change those rules.

They'll play by them and they'll probably STILL keep winning......until somebody invents a newer business model that puts WALMARTS OOB, just like has been happening to Sears Roebuck since the mid 1970s.

This anti-WALMART nonsense is why many of fellow liberals make me nuts.

Their complaints make like zero sense.

 

[Samson]

This anti-WALMART nonsense is why many of fellow liberals make me nuts.

Their complaints make zero sense.

I believe Socialists hate any example of Private Business Success.

 

[Nosmo King]

Meh...I've yet to see a town with only a Wal-mart, and no other entrepreneur's business

Granted. But how many small retailers survive after Wal*Mart opens?

By "small retailer" I'm thinking of the 5-Dime, mom-and pop General Mechantile Store.

None Survive.

But, I don't think of Wal-Mart as being the main cause of the demise of these stores. I see them disappearing a long time before Wal-Mart appeared on the scene. Their doom was the rise of the Gas-Station/Convenience Store. ExxonMobil, Chevron, Sinclair, etc.

In my area, I've mourned the loss of one store, Tru-Value Hardware, which couldn't compete with Wal-Mart. But this wasn't a small retailer.

Just an example; at one time prior to Wal*Mart, there were seven (7) different stores offering bicycles here. After Wal*Mart there is but one~ and that's Wal*Mart itself. My sister-in-law knits and crochets. She said five years ago, she could shop at at least five different retailers for yarn. Now, she only has Wal*Mart.

 

[Nosmo King]

This anti-WALMART nonsense is why many of fellow liberals make me nuts.

Their complaints make zero sense.

I believe Socialists hate any example of Private Business Success.

But editec said "Liberals" I know because I read it. You jump inexplicably to Socialists and an assumption of "hate" among those Socialists. why?

Trying to poison a thread or pick a fight?

 

[Samson]

This anti-WALMART nonsense is why many of fellow liberals make me nuts.

Their complaints make zero sense.

I believe Socialists hate any example of Private Business Success.

But editec said "Liberals" I know because I read it. You jump inexplicably to Socialists and an assumption of "hate" among those Socialists. why?

Trying to poison a thread or pick a fight?

I said Socialist because that's what I meant.

I don't equate "liberal" with socialist.

 

[Yukon.]

To the Conservatives all Liberals are socialists. They have such poor education they dont know the difference. Consider idiots like CornHolio, a card carry GOP moron.

 

[Foxfyre]

Meh...I've yet to see a town with only a Wal-mart, and no other entrepreneur's business

Granted. But how many small retailers survive after Wal*Mart opens?

By "small retailer" I'm thinking of the 5-Dime, mom-and pop General Mechantile Store.

None Survive.

But, I don't think of Wal-Mart as being the main cause of the demise of these stores. I see them disappearing a long time before Wal-Mart appeared on the scene. Their doom was the rise of the Gas-Station/Convenience Store. ExxonMobil, Chevron, Sinclair, etc.

In my area, I've mourned the loss of one store, Tru-Value Hardware, which couldn't compete with Wal-Mart. But this wasn't a small retailer.

We did have a Tru-Value out there on the mountain that did a pretty fair business, but eventually went belly up. None of us minded paying a bit more to buy out there locally because it was nice not having to drive all the way into town to get some picture hangers or a bucket of paint. But they kept racheting up the prices sometimes to unacceptable levels and their service deteriorated. Before long everybody was driving in to the big box building supply stores.

I don't think it was Wal-mart that did in Tru-Value. I think it was Tru-Value taking their customers for granted when they had to compete with stores like Lowe's and Home Depot. The only homegrown stores that have been able to compete with those is a local company called Sammons. They have two or three store but are big enough and do enough volume to keep their prices competetive with Lowe's and Home depot, and offset their slightly higher prices by providing highly knowledgeable and personalized superb service. They aren't going to sell you the wrong kinds of screws or nails or paint for your project. They're holding their own.

 

[Samson]

They have two or three store but are big enough and do enough volume to keep their prices competetive with Lowe's and Home depot, and offset their slightly higher prices by providing highly knowledgeable and personalized superb service. They aren't going to sell you the wrong kinds of screws or nails or paint for your project. They're holding their own.

But....But.....

How can this be???

A local business competing with Wal-Mart on the basis of offering superior service???


You must be mistaken: Nothing can stand in the way of the Evul MultiNational Wal-Mart.

 

[GHook93]

The coffee blows, but I spend a fortune their because my wife is addicted Grande Vanilla Skim Lattes and my kids are addicted to Strawberries and Cream!