[Vision2020] Wal-Mart a friend to those on a limited budget....

[Sunil Ramalingam]

Donovan,

I'll leave Don to address the remarkably hostile and rude portion of your 
post.

When I was shopping for a cordless drill at Tri State, the gentleman who was 
helping me told me that manufacturers that provide big box stores make a 
different product for those stores; people who bought at those stores were 
not buying the same item that Tri State sold.

This was in '99, and I do not remember if he specifically named Walmart, so 
I won't make that claim here.  Based on what he said, I would not assume as 
you do that what Don wrote was 'ignorant gibberish.'

Sunil


>From: Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com>
>To: DonaldH675 at aol.com, vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Wal-Mart a friend to those on a limited 
>budget....
>Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 17:42:29 -0800 (PST)
>
>Don,
>
>   What ignorant gibberish you write.
>
>  I bet you 100 bucks the Pepcid AC I buy at Wal-Mart is the exact  same 
>Pepcid AC I buy at Safeway on occasion for $2 more. The Sony  Playstation, 
>made the same as the one at ShopKo, as well as the games.
>
>   And Wal-Mart does not FORCE anyone to do business with them, in fact, 
>businesses compete for the privilege.
>
>   Yes, Wal_Mart does sell some inferior products for a lesser price, but  
>not everyone has $80 for a pair of good jeans or needs a pair that well  
>made, $11.50 is all they have and $11.50 is all they need. Should you  not 
>be equally outraged at the retailers that just stick a different  label on 
>a pair of clothing and sell it for 300% more?
>
>Do  you honestly think lower income people do not know how to shop wisely?  
>Your rhetoric, Don, has grown outlandish and to the point where you are  
>writing anything with no regard for reality, truth, fairness or honesty.
>
>
>   _DJA
>
>DonaldH675 at aol.com wrote:          Wrong  again Donovan. Walmart offers 
>cheaper prices by selling cheaper goods.  The items Walmart sells are not 
>there same as the items other stores  sell under the same manufacturers 
>name. Walmart uses its buying power  to force its suppliers to produce 
>cheaper and shoddier goods under the  same name. Take Levi's for example. 
>The Levi's Walmart sells are not  the same Levi's that Tri-State sells, but 
>a lower quality. The fabric  is lighter and the manufacture is not the same 
>quality.
>   It  strikes me that Walmart is to merchandising as Payday Loan places 
>are  to banking; a way to cheat the poor and uninformed into paying HIGHER  
>prices for cheaper goods.
>
>   Don   Huskey
>
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