Text 13965, 65 rader
Skriven 2010-07-07 21:41:41 av Ross Cassell (1:123/456)
  Kommentar till text 13964 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
Ärende: Dependence
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Hello Bob!

07 Jul 10 06:08, you wrote to me:

 RC>> People such as you should also stop villifying a companies
 RC>> pursuit of profits, companies do not purposefully exist to lose
 RC>> money.

 BA> Nor do they exist solely to screw their help, their suppliers or their
 BA> customers (Wal-Mart being a salient exception to that rule).

I am not going to join in on any criticism of Walmart... Let me tell you why...

I worked for Kmart for 7 years, it was my first job, I worked for Kmart during
the time when they were the nations second largest retailer, second only to
Sears, and Sears only had the number one position because of its then Catalog
operations.

Where I lived then, in the 1980's in Northern Virginia, we didnt have Walmarts
within a 100 miles, I only heard of them in name only and I never stepped foot
into one until I moved down here in 1987. I wasnt to impressed with Walmart, it
didnt have the standard ambience of a Kmart, no bluelight, no Deli and no
Grill, say what you want about Kmart then, the Deli and the Grill were good.
Other than that, there wasnt too much to differentiate the two, except I
believe Kmart merchandised the Sporting Goods Dept alot better.

Kmart got complacent, they thought themselves at then 2000 stores strong,
uncatchable, unstoppable and unbeatable.

One thing that Walmart did to make themselves the juggernaut they are today, is
they put stores in smalltown USA, whereas Kmart stayed only in the suburbs or
in major towns.

Example, the town to my Southeast, Union South Carolina, same town Susan Smith
lived in when she killed her two boys, it rates a Walmart Super-Center, but not
lets say an AutoZone.

Kmart once had the buying power to dictate terms to its suppliers, but no more
like it did.. Although I find it poetic that Kmart and Sears eventually got
married.

When you have a retailer that has however many thousand stores that do whatever
volume, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, they are in a position to dictate
terms. With the presence they have, any supplier would love to get on a Walmart
shelf, its economics 101.

As to how they treated their help, cant disagree based on what I have read in
the past.

What would be killer is, if Walmart ever really really focused on Customer
Service, similiar to Home Depot, they would destroy everybody.

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Ross
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