onehandle
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Wed Apr-07-10 11:53 PM
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Scary animated map of the Growth of Walmart. |
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Wed Apr-07-10 11:56 PM
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1. It's like watching a virus spread |
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Thu Apr-08-10 12:06 AM
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3. I thought of a bacterial infection |
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but yeah, it looks just like that, out of control and eating up everything in its path.
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Thu Apr-08-10 12:05 AM
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Thu Apr-08-10 12:20 AM
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4. Mom and Pop made me K&R your post. |
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Thu Apr-08-10 12:23 AM
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5. It looks like a cancer. |
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Thu Apr-08-10 12:32 AM
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what will make them stop.. there are at least 5 Wal-Mart's within 5 miles of my house.
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Thu Apr-08-10 01:59 AM
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8. You might notice that they don't infest low population areas as fast |
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I'd like to see a graphic that compares small business closures to Wal-Mart locations.
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Thu Apr-08-10 11:26 AM
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25. Well, it has to do with their approach. |
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They tend to operate on a one-size-fits-all approach with respect to their stores. (Well, two sizes if you count the super centers.) So you basically need to have a large enough customer base to support the store. I'd hazard a guess that their large city suburban locations are probably their most profitable.
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Thu Apr-08-10 02:30 AM
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9. In two years, 3 of them will be closed. |
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The 2 left will vie to suck tax concessions out of the communities "begging" them to stay there.
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Thu Apr-08-10 12:59 AM
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7. I can't decide which is the greater evil, them or Monsanto. |
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Thu Apr-08-10 07:33 AM
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11. Wait til one buys the other and you won't have to decide -nt |
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Thu Apr-08-10 10:01 AM
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This reminds me of the 90 (80s?) action movie Demolition Man...when all restuarants are Taco Bell.
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Thu Apr-08-10 07:29 AM
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I had ethereal music playing in the background while I was watching. It was mesmerizing in a creepy way.
The number of stores added in 2009/2010 was surprising considering the state of the economy. Evidence that the recession is disproportionately affecting the poor and middle classes while the banks and large corporations continue to flourish...?
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Thu Apr-08-10 08:08 AM
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12. You could do a similar graph on any big box store |
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Woolco, WT Grant, K-mart, Caldor, JM Fields, Arlens, Ames, Zayre
All of them would have blossomed out of their point of origin and spread across the nation (or a region). Many of them like Woolco would suddenly be snuffed out.
I would guess a BJs, Costco, Barnes and Noble, Old Navy, Home Depot, Lowes, Office Depot, or Staples graphic would be similar.
Unlike the others, Walmart started out rural and then grew in to the big cities.
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Thu Apr-08-10 08:21 AM
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13. What are you trying to say? Yes. You could do a similar graph on any big box store. |
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Thu Apr-08-10 08:24 AM
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14. This is different. Walmart is massively bigger and sells what all of those chains do and more. |
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Walmart ain't going away. And it's going global.
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Thu Apr-08-10 10:10 AM
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19. Not just big box stores |
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Nations, governments, religions, economies, etc, they all work the same way. All organizations want to grow and make everything identical to itself.
Holy crap! Wal-Mart is acting in the exact way that you would expect it to!
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Thu Apr-08-10 11:02 AM
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21. So it wouldn't matter to you whether this is Wal-Mart or Ben and Jerry's? |
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'Coz I'm pretty sure it does matter.
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Thu Apr-08-10 11:23 AM
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22. Two different animals, but |
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increasing market share is the goal of any organized effort.
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Thu Apr-08-10 09:46 AM
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15. I was never in a Wal-Mart until 1989 when I moved to Texas. Ten years later, I was sitting |
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in their World Home Office in Bentonville, AR (I did not work for Wal-Mart).
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Thu Apr-08-10 10:00 AM
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16. Wow, that's horrifying |
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While I admit to shopping at super-centers like Wal-Mart and Target from time to time I've really rededicated myself to shopping locally as much as possible.
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Thu Apr-08-10 10:05 AM
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18. Like a bad rash across the cultural landscape |
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Thu Apr-08-10 10:14 AM
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20. What makes the growth of Wal*Mart so dangerous |
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is that their strategy from the very beginning was to kill the economic centers of small towns (albeit some that weren't doing a good job) by establishing car-based shopping areas outside of town that were then controlled by a distant corporate office.
The next important move was to keep waving the flag and playing the "folksy" local cousin while building a Chinese supply route. The stores are now designed to feed a pathological shopping-for-needless-crap habit created in part by the deaths of all those once-vibrant town centers.
Of course, people who aren't keenly aware of this and aren't politically committed to resisting it will show up in Wal*Mart, because of low prices (never mind the many hidden costs.) You see plenty of Wal*Mart defenders here on DU, whining about "my only choice."
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Thu Apr-08-10 11:24 AM
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23. 4393 dead Main Streets since 1962 |
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The Russians couldn't have been more destructive if they had invaded the US in 1962.
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Thu Apr-08-10 11:25 AM
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24. I'd rather have more welfare queens than walmart employees n/t |
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