Wal-Mart Ditches Hippy-Dippy-Trippy, Returns to its Core Customer Base

[Two Thumbs]

you are forced to settle for very few options at a sam's club....two or three varieties at most

It's a trade off.

You are unlikely to get everything you are looking for a Sams Club, but you can get most of it.

PLUS

You can order some of it online and pick it up the next day saving A LOT of shopping time.

 

[rightwinger]

you are forced to settle for very few options at a sam's club....two or three varieties at most

It's a trade off.

You are unlikely to get everything you are looking for a Sams Club, but you can get most of it.

PLUS

You can order some of it online and pick it up the next day saving A LOT of shopping time.

If Sams Club doesn't have it.....you don't need it

 

[R.D.]

Makes sense...

Who the hell do they think shops at WalMart?

Yeah, that didn't seem like too bright of a move.

Whole Foods seems to be doing fine.

If yall have space to store things.

Join Sams Club.

Some things in there are twice the size [or you get 2 normal sized taped together] for the cost of just under the price of one.

Paying a fee to buy things at discount just makes no sense to me

 

[strollingbones]

whoa.....them being fat didnt matter to me...them being unfashionable did....

look at my pic on my profile....i am not skinny

 

[Big Black Dog]

Looks like stocking the shelves with organic wheat grass and twigs, and the whole granola head "going green" propaganda went over like a fart in church, with the retail chain's long-time core customer base....Let the sniffing and derision from the usual suspect hoity-toity leftist snobs commence!

After suffering seven straight quarters of losses, today the merchandise giant Wal-Mart will announce that it is “going back to basics,” ending its era of high-end organic foods, going “green,” and the remainder of its appeal to the upscale market. Next month the company will launch an “It’s Back” campaign to woo the millions of customers who have fled the store. They will be bringing back “heritage” products, like inexpensive jeans and sweatpants.

Few may recognize it as such, but this episode should be seen as a cautionary tale about “progressives” and social engineering experiments on low-income Americans. This morning’s Wall Street Journal article is blunt:

That strategy failed, and the Bentonville, Ark., retail giant now is pursuing a back-to-basics strategy to reverse the company’s fortunes.​

The failure, in large part, can be pinned to Leslie Dach: a well-known progressive and former senior aide to Vice President Al Gore. In July 2006, Dach was installed as the public relations chief for Wal-Mart. He drafted a number of other progressives into the company, seeking to change the company’s way of doing business: its culture, its politics, and most importantly its products.

Out went drab, inexpensive merchandise so dear to low-income Americans. In came upscale organic foods, “green” products, trendy jeans, and political correctness. In other words, Dach sought to expose poor working Americans to the “good life” of the wealthy, environmentally conscious Prius driver.

Pajamas Media » Wal-Mart Goes ‘Back to Basics’: A Cautionary Tale for the Left

If I wanted to eat a bale of hay instead of real food I would simply go out to the barn and grab one instead of shopping at Wal-Mart.

 

[Two Thumbs]

Yeah, that didn't seem like too bright of a move.

Whole Foods seems to be doing fine.

If yall have space to store things.

Join Sams Club.

Some things in there are twice the size [or you get 2 normal sized taped together] for the cost of just under the price of one.

Paying a fee to buy things at discount just makes no sense to me

If you have a small family, it may take a while to get your money back, like to whole grocery runs.

Most stores like that have a membership fee. Some, unlike Sams, will let you shop there, but at a much higher cost.

 

[Skull Pilot]

Makes sense...

Who the hell do they think shops at WalMart?

I shop at Walmart all the time.

Why should I pay twice as much for a work shirt at some little store?

I can buy a pair of Wrangler khakis at walmart for 20 bucks. I refuse to pay 35 for the exact same pair somewhere else. I now have $15 I can save or use to buy something else.

Seems prudent to me.

 

[strollingbones]

walmart never got that going 'green' was not as simple....they do not understand how neurotic green shoppers are

 

[Si modo]

Cheese Whiz is back!

Exactly what I planned on saying.

Velveeta, too!

 

[RadiomanATL]

hmmm i find many of the prices at walmart to be the same or more than other places......now on the things they do have the better prices on...it will be a good difference....

i dont trust the meat at walmart

Their meat sucks. At least in my local walmarts.

 

[Oddball]

Cheese Whiz is back!

Exactly what I planned on saying.

Velveeta, too!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXwvL7n7NCQ]YouTube - Where is my cheese whiz boy[/ame]

 

[Two Thumbs]

hmmm i find many of the prices at walmart to be the same or more than other places......now on the things they do have the better prices on...it will be a good difference....

i dont trust the meat at walmart

Their meat sucks. At least in my local walmarts.

On special occasions we will get meat at Wegmans. Best I've ever come across for the price

 

[KissMy]

If every penny counts....WalMart is the place to go

Stretches your dollar about 20%

Have you seen the Multiple Billions of Dollars in sales that the Dollar Stores are bringing in? Wal-Mart started out as a small five and dime much like the Dollar Stores.

Aldi Food has Wal-Mart beat hands down in groceries.

Political Correctness has made Wal-Mart uncompetitive. Most cities large & small prevent Wal-Mart from building stores there. Dollar Stores have filled the void.

Dollar General did $13.04 billion in sales last year in just 9,372 stores in 35 states. US population is 300 million so 35 States would have ~ 210 million people. So if everything is a dollar at Dollar General, that means they sold an average of 62 items to every person in 35 US States last year.

 

[Ava]

Looks like stocking the shelves with organic wheat grass and twigs, and the whole granola head "going green" propaganda went over like a fart in church, with the retail chain's long-time core customer base....Let the sniffing and derision from the usual suspect hoity-toity leftist snobs commence!

After suffering seven straight quarters of losses, today the merchandise giant Wal-Mart will announce that it is “going back to basics,” ending its era of high-end organic foods, going “green,” and the remainder of its appeal to the upscale market. Next month the company will launch an “It’s Back” campaign to woo the millions of customers who have fled the store. They will be bringing back “heritage” products, like inexpensive jeans and sweatpants.

Few may recognize it as such, but this episode should be seen as a cautionary tale about “progressives” and social engineering experiments on low-income Americans. This morning’s Wall Street Journal article is blunt:

That strategy failed, and the Bentonville, Ark., retail giant now is pursuing a back-to-basics strategy to reverse the company’s fortunes.​

The failure, in large part, can be pinned to Leslie Dach: a well-known progressive and former senior aide to Vice President Al Gore. In July 2006, Dach was installed as the public relations chief for Wal-Mart. He drafted a number of other progressives into the company, seeking to change the company’s way of doing business: its culture, its politics, and most importantly its products.

Out went drab, inexpensive merchandise so dear to low-income Americans. In came upscale organic foods, “green” products, trendy jeans, and political correctness. In other words, Dach sought to expose poor working Americans to the “good life” of the wealthy, environmentally conscious Prius driver.

Pajamas Media » Wal-Mart Goes ‘Back to Basics’: A Cautionary Tale for the Left

Walmart* knows HOW to be successful. I wish it was running our country, instead of big-government corruption.

 

[Wry Catcher]

I'd rather (and do) pay a bit more than support Wal-Mart.

Wal-Mart: The Facts

Wal-Mart?s Labor Problem - Campus Progress

 

[Skull Pilot]

I'd rather (and do) pay a bit more than support Wal-Mart.

Wal-Mart: The Facts

Wal-Mart?s Labor Problem - Campus Progress

You'd do better to buy as cheaply as possible and save the difference. Over a lifetime thrift pays you back many times over.