Text 22776, 110 rader
Skriven 2006-09-26 19:24:33 av Gary Braswell (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 22772 av John Hull (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Pat Buchanan
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John Hull -> Gary Braswell wrote:
 JH> Gary Braswell -> VERN HUMPHREY wrote:
 GB>> VERN HUMPHREY -> MIMI GALLANDT wrote:
 MG>>>> I've never quite understood the animosity against Wal Mart, yes I've
 MG>>>> heard "they put mom & pop stores out of business" line, but I
 GB>> doubt they
 MG>>>> did that more than Sears and Penneys did.

 VH>>> Walmart is hated because they are successful.  The Mom and Pop
 JH> ploy is
 VH>>> really disingenuous.  First of all, Mom and Pop are usually quite
 VH>>> wealthy -- and the rest of us have no obligation to pay high
 JH> prices to
 VH>>> support a wealthy store owner.  Secondly, if Mom and Pop go out of
 VH>>> business, it's the consumer, not Walmart, that puts them out of
 VH>>> business.

 VH>>> And Walmart haters LIKE to hate.  One of them posted this on an
 VH>>> internet forum:

 VH>>> **************************************************
 VH>>> Originally Posted by davy39

 VH>>> showthread.php?p=1517435 - post1517435showthread.php?p=1517435 -
 VH>>> post1517435
 VH>>> I see on the news that Wal-Mart, not being content with closing small
 VH>>> businesses, are going to offer $4.00 discount prescriptions for some
 VH>>> generic drugs. Target stores are going to follow suit. There goes
 JH> your
 VH>>> local pharmacy down the drain.
 VH>>> **************************************************

 VH>>> DANG!  Putting local pharmacies out of business, just to keep old
 GB>> folks
 VH>>> from having to choose between paying for their medicine and eating
 JH> dog
 VH>>> food!

 VH>>> How cruel is THAT?

 GB>> I try to shop at Walmart as little as I can, but they do have great
 GB>> prices and indeed its the consumers who want those low prices that put
 GB>> other businesses out of business.

 GB>> The reason I try to shop as little as possible there is probably
 JH> due to
 GB>> their success. The places are packed, they take forever to get out of
 GB>> and product is everywhere making for very thin isles and people
 JH> traffic
 GB>> jams. Customer service sucks there as well, but people no longer want
 GB>> customer service. Greeters are few and far between and when they are
 GB>> there, they are not the smiling elderly folk to give you a smile
 JH> and the
 GB>> kid a balloon, but are there to make sure you are not walking out with
 GB>> goodies. I get tired of being treated like a criminal every time I
 JH> leave
 GB>> the store. They used to search you before you left the electronics
 JH> dept.
 GB>> and only allowed electronics to be bought in that dept., you could not
 GB>> walk out with a cordless phone and keep shopping. That stopped me from
 GB>> shopping electronics with them. They stopped this recently however.
 JH> This
 GB>> was even in the posh west end they did this.

 GB>> I prefer Target. Nice big isles, clean and the customer service, while
 GB>> not a lot better than Walmart, is a tad better.

 GB>> But those Walmart prices...can't beat them.


 JH> That's not Wal-Mart policy, Gary.  If such things are going on, its
 JH> because the manager is not doing his job properly.  Lemme tell you a
 JH> story that happened to me at my standard size Wal-Mart.

 JH> Back when King Kong came out on DVD, one of the local pizza joints had a
 JH> promo: Buy a King Kong Special pizza and you'd get a coupon good for
 JH> several dollars off the price of the DVD.  They ran out of coupons, so
 JH> their regional office mailed one to me.  In the meantime, I bought the
 JH> DVD and was told I could bring in the coupon when it arrived.  Two days
 JH> later, I went back with the coupon and the girl in cust. svc. refused to
 JH> refund the difference.  She said I had to return the DVD as defective
 JH> (it wasn't), then I could buy it again and use the coupon at that time,
 JH> and she wasn't pleasant about it.  I got ticked and emailed corporate
 JH> customer service.  This was at about 10am.  At 11:30 I got a call from
 JH> the manager of my local store - at home - profusely apologizing for what
 JH> had happened.  He told me to bring the coupon back and it would be
 JH> promptly taken care of - and it was.  He also gave me a Walmart gift
 JH> debit card with $20 loaded on it.  We had a rather long discussion about
 JH> a variety of things retail, the new store, etc.  He was a nice guy, and
 JH> truly sorry about how I had been treated.  Oh, and the customer service
 JH> chick got the axe.

 JH> If you get treated that way, send their corp office an email.  You'll be
 JH> surprised at how quick it gets fixed.

A friend had a similar problem with a DVD and the manager did indeed take care
of the problem.

There are 6 Walmarts in my area. They are all exactly the same, save one. An
old one was made into a Super Walmart. Its clean and open.

I hope it will not fall into the same rut.

I guess its some kind of regional thing.

A friend who shops there on a daily basis calls Walmart: Prozac Nation. The
employees walk around like zombies.

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