Mr. Hansen,<br> <br> Thanks for the link. Yes, I did listen to the radio broadcast, it was interesting, but I did not learn anything new. I do no find it shocking that a company that sells a high end product would not want to sell to Walmart. People do not go to Walmart for high end products. The business owner was not FORCED to work for Walmart, he CHOSE to stay in the US and not do business with Walmart. <br> <br> That seems to be a concept BJ Swanson and many others do not seem to understand. Many do not want nor can they afford high end goods. <br> <br> BJ has made many false statements about Walmart, one being about Gillette, another being that the majority of products are being made in factories overseas. The majority of products sold at Walmart are made in the US. She has done this making up stuff about Walmart, in the past as well, such as with employee health insurance, and pay. <br> <br> I do not disagree that Walmart needs improvement !
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some nasty habits in the way it does business, but please, making crap up about businesses and people is just unacceptable behavior to try and win an argument.<br> <br> Take Care,<br> <br> _DJA <br> <br> <br><b><i>Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <!--[if !mso]> <style> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} </style> <![endif]--><o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"!
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<o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"> <!--[if !mso]> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Tahoma; panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple; text-decoration:underline;} span.EmailStyle17 {mso-style-type:personal-reply; font-family:Arial; color:navy;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:.3in .5in .5in .5in;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> </o:SmartTagType></o:SmartTagType></o:SmartTagType></o:SmartTagType><div class="Section1"> <div class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font col!
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face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Arnold</span></font></st1:City></st1:place><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> –<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Ms. Swanson was referring to the “quality” of the product, not the price comparison.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;!
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navy;">It is my impression that Wal-Mart will contract manufacturers to produce, and sell to them (Wal-Mart), a lower quality product. In this manner Wal-Mart retains the manufacturer’s label on the product while they (Wal-Mart) continue to under-cut competition.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Now, before you go off on some long, boring dissertation about how well the Duracell batteries worked that you purchased at Wal-Mart: this retail “approach” is not applied to ALL products at Wal-Mart.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color:
navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Ms. Swanson is not the first person to make such a suggestion. On February 3, 2006, David Gardner (host of NPR's "Motley Fool") interviewed Charles Fishman, author of "The Wal-Mart Effect". Like I had stated earlier, this interview is well-balanced; the good, the bad, and the ugly.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Sounds/MotleyFool_020306_WalMartEffect.wma">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Sounds/MotleyFool_020306_WalMartEffect.wma</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></d!
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<div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">You will notice that Charles Fishman does not come across as, nor is he, a campaigner against Wal-Mart. His claims are substantiated by references he makes in the course of the above interview.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Please listen to the interview, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Arnold</st1:City></st1:place>. You may just learn
something.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Until then . . .<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Seeya round town, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div
class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Moscow</span></font></st1:City><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">, <st1:State w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State></span></font></st1:place><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy;">"The Pessimist complai!
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the wind, the Optimist expects it to change and the Realist adjusts his sails." <br> - Unknown <o:p></o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <hr tabindex="-1" align="center" size="2" width="100%"> </span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Donovan Arnold<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, March 05, 200!
6 12:31
AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">bjswan@moscow.com</st1:PersonName>; 'Vision 2020'<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> RE: [Vision2020] Goodnight Goody, Goodnight Ridge</span></font><o:p></o:p></div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">More rhetoric from BJ Swanson.<br> <br> Take this line for example:<br> <br> </span></font><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">"Compare the Gillette Mach 3 razors purchased at Wal-Mart with those purchased at non-Wal-Mart stores. Notice the color is different even though the name is the same? Notice the Wal-Mart Mach 3 doesn’t last nearly as long as those purchased from Cos!
tco,
Rite-Aid, Hodgins, Marketime?"<br> <br> Sorry BJ. I am afraid you are confusing the Gillette Mach 3 with the Gillettee Mach 3 "turbo" which has a different color handle and lasts longer. Both of which are cheaper at your local Wal-Mart. <br> <br> A Wal-Mart is significantly cheaper than even a local discount store like Winco. For example, Hefty Serve and Store plates 22 count $2.00 at Wal-Mart. At Winco, $2.78 but 20 count. Aleve Pain medication, $12.48 for 200 count. Winco $20 if you buy 2 100 bottles, they do not ha! ve 200.<br> <br> Heinz Tomato Ketchup 36 oz, $1.78 at Wal_Mart, $2.12 at Winco.<br> <br> 3 bars of Irish Spring soap, 75 cents. The same three bars at Winco, over $2.<br> <br> 12 Pack of any Pepsi or Coke, $3 at Wal-Mart $3.78 at Winco. Safeway $4.50<br> <br> I could not find one item that was sold at both Winco and Walmart where Wal-Mart was not at least 15% cheaper.<br> <br> On average I save 20% off a price of an item IF I can find it !
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Wal_Mart. I would save $1000 a year on groceries alone plus they would bag my groceries for me and take my debit card. $1000 a year probably ain't worth the trips for BJ Swanson with her salary. But for me and many college students that is a huge chunk of cash we can use toward the dental care she helped cut from the UI health insurance program.<br> <br> The Diet Coke, Heinz Ketchup, and Aleve I buy at Wal-Mart is the EXACT same product I buy at Safeway, Winco, and ShopKo. <br> <br> Many businesses are taking your money a! nd ripping you off OR have a lousy business model if they are selling the same product for a price 25% higher than Wal_mart. Our local businesses do NOT pay workers more than Wal_mart. <br> A Super Wal-Mart would not only force prices lower for everyone, which benefits us all, but it also would supply us with more goods that Moscow is not providing that so many of us leave town to get. Not to mention the added benefits of being able to shop!
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<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City> outside the hours of 11AM to 4 PM. <br> <br> _DJA<br> <br> <br> </span></font><br> <b><i><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"B. J. Swanson" <<st1:PersonName w:st="on">bjswan@moscow.com</st1:PersonName>></span></i></b> wrote:<o:p></o:p></div> </div> <u1:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"><u1:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"><u1:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"><u1:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"><u1:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"><u1:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"><u1:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"
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