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In reply to the discussion: Walmart Is Falling Apart Before Our Eyes [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)48. Only thing we need to help Costco with is their book selection...
They get WAY too many wingnut book titles from publishers that don't care about making money on those titles when they offer them to Costco more at wholesale rates but promote them to promote corporate agenda.
Next time you go in to Costco, make sure to buy a copy of the Flash Boys, one of the few decent non-fiction books they have now, to help encourage them business-wise to improve this selection. And its at a decent price there too.
Tell them to get copies of Elizabeth Warren's new book as well as Thomas Piketty's as suggestions to improve what they have.
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Given the tight credit market and overall sluggishness of the economy I.....
Swede Atlanta
May 2014
#27
Small independents do not have corporate boards and stockholders to feed..
busterbrown
May 2014
#121
This type of job would also be full time not seasonal. Crops would not be
A Simple Game
May 2014
#108
Would be nice if some of the organic farmer groups could network to set up a system
Skidmore
May 2014
#109
Yes it would take a few to supply the bigger store chains. And speaking of organic
A Simple Game
May 2014
#110
Walmart will become a poster child on why big companies shouldn't be "inherited"...
cascadiance
May 2014
#15
I've run into this same dynamic at a smaller level many times in the workplace
Populist_Prole
May 2014
#67
And THEY increase our national debt by not paying their employees enough that forces...
cascadiance
May 2014
#47
If they want to rescue their plummeting sales, they need to get behind a substantial wage increase
Warpy
May 2014
#57
National "Neighborhood supermarkets" chains are far more difficult to manage than the box stores.
haele
May 2014
#91
That's true, but the thing to watch now is will the stockholders demand draconian measures, since
djean111
May 2014
#76
That's what happens when you make your employees so poor they can't afford to shop there
eridani
May 2014
#74
They do very well in Mexico & several other countries where they are new & push out small businesses
Sunlei
May 2014
#88