is it me?
05-20-2010, 09:44 AM
#21
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Southeast Ohio
Posts: 2,584
Maybe the gov't needs to come in like they did AT&T and break them up???????????????? You have heard when they went in; it would be the downfall of the small stores. TRUE TRUE TRUE. What really grips me the most is now they have run the SBO out they have also quit selling products!! We have to drive a long distance to go to a normal store.
05-20-2010, 10:48 AM
#22
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: North Canton, Ohio
Posts: 1,403
This is their MO. I worked for them for years. They really did me wrong and now I refuse to shop there and try on a daily basis to convince people not to waste their money there. YES! Sam Walton is doing cartwheels in his grave for what his children have done. My father knew him, I've met him and his wife was a very lovely woman. I can't believe what they've done with his dream. I could go on forever about all the wrongs they've done me, but what's the point? Just don't shop there and don't give them your money!!!
Originally Posted by hazeljane
Walmart is the devil. I never give them my money if I can avoid it. In the last small town I lived in, they came and drove every grocery out of business, then K Mart, and then jacked the prices.
05-20-2010, 10:58 AM
#23
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Posts: 4,413
I am sooo in agreement with you all. I hate walmart. I swore when they removed their fabric I wouldn't shop there anymore. Unfortuneatly, I've had to eat my words alittle but I only go there if *absolutely* neccessary.
05-20-2010, 11:24 AM
#24
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Ohio, USA
Posts: 604
I am not a Walmart shopper. I do not like Walmart's "fake" low prices. I am a coupon addict and have managed to save quite a bundle at our local more expensive grocery store. It takes persistence and time but it is well worth the effort. This week I saved $60 with my coupons!! Honest. The cashier was totally shocked. Before my DH retired I wouldn't waste my time clipping coupons.... I don't like off brands, I said. I'm not running all over creation to save a couple of dollars. Well, I don't have to run all over creation and I'm saving far more than a couple of dollars. And coupons are for brand name products. I keep track of my monthly grocery bill on excel and the coupon savings too. (See, I told you I was addicted to this!) So far this year I have saved over $600 with coupons alone, but I do buy off brands also and save even more.
Here is a link that changed my shopping life!
http://www.leadingtheweigh.com/2010/...n-madness.html
Here is a link that changed my shopping life!
http://www.leadingtheweigh.com/2010/...n-madness.html
05-20-2010, 12:40 PM
#25
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 1,039
I won't shop at Walmart, they have destroyed the small businesses. I was a floral designer for 25 years, worked in small mom and pop owned shops and then opened my own shop. They would buy in huge quanitites of flowers at holiday time..and I just couldn't compete with their cheap roses. They didn't last..were low quality..I carried premiun roses. I don't trust their brand either..had to come from over seas. I am blessed to live in an area with some really wonderful grocery stores...so..I buy only from the other markets. Walmart is the downfall of America..greed, greed, greed. I am now done my ranting about Walmart...Buy American!
05-20-2010, 12:44 PM
#26
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Wishing I was in the Sierra Nevada's
Posts: 739
Originally Posted by Pam
Go buy your own chicks and raise them and slaughter them your selves. Not all that much fun, I agree, but that is what I do! We eat venison and have a big garden. I was just out there hoeing 25 tomato plants and covering the growing potatoes. Next year we are going to get 12 beef calves to raise, then off to the slaugher house they go.
If you are not willing to do these things, do not complain about where your food comes from, because unless you handle it yourself, you never really know.
If you are not willing to do these things, do not complain about where your food comes from, because unless you handle it yourself, you never really know.
05-20-2010, 12:53 PM
#27
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Northern Virginia
Posts: 506
Originally Posted by Pam
Go buy your own chicks and raise them and slaughter them your selves. Not all that much fun, I agree, but that is what I do! We eat venison and have a big garden. I was just out there hoeing 25 tomato plants and covering the growing potatoes. Next year we are going to get 12 beef calves to raise, then off to the slaugher house they go.
If you are not willing to do these things, do not complain about where your food comes from, because unless you handle it yourself, you never really know.
If you are not willing to do these things, do not complain about where your food comes from, because unless you handle it yourself, you never really know.
I am sure you want to mean well but, be careful, it is gonna hurt when you fall off your high horse. :(
05-20-2010, 01:06 PM
#28
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Trifid Nebula
Posts: 1,304
I don't shop there (not sure if there are any around here anyway) but I love how riled up people get over the store. My friend and I like to share some of the more colorful anti stories. For that, Wal-Mart, I am thankful.
Of course, we also like to fun on the worshipful Target shoppers. Good times.
Of course, we also like to fun on the worshipful Target shoppers. Good times.
05-20-2010, 04:45 PM
#30
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Back home in Louisiana for now....where next?? who knows....
Posts: 3,180
I have also noticed that the brand selection has changed dramatically at wal mart. I never have liked their meat or produce departments and refuse to buy any of it. But I try to buy less and less from them. I very seldom go there anymore for many of the same reasons the rest of you don't. The wal mart of today is not what Sam Walton intended.
