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    Default Walmart raises wages... closes stores.

    who saw that coming?

    http://news.walmart.com/news-archive...lio-management

    10,000 US jobs... gone
    6000 more outside the US
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    They use mean annual and five year means in trend analysis. Don't tell me I have to explain the difference to you. "

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    wow... thanks for posting the same link I already posted. Working on your parroting skills?
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    They use mean annual and five year means in trend analysis. Don't tell me I have to explain the difference to you. "

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    Default Walmart raises wages... closes stores.

    Will liberals praise Obama? More people out on the streets and this means we need more immigrants to do the work nobody wants to do. I mean how many oranges are there to be picked?

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    Only if they all get food stamps, because more food stamps means we care more.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Superfreak View Post
    who saw that coming?

    http://news.walmart.com/news-archive...lio-management

    10,000 US jobs... gone
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    Do you shop there?
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    Maybe those stores tried to unionize. That's usually why Walmart closes stores.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    Do you shop there?
    A few times a year. Get most of my stuff from Amazon these days. Prime rules.
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    They use mean annual and five year means in trend analysis. Don't tell me I have to explain the difference to you. "

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    Quote Originally Posted by Superfreak View Post
    A few times a year. Get most of my stuff from Amazon these days. Prime rules.
    I have prime to...and it does rule. I don't shop at Wallmart. Not for any ideological reasons...but mainly cause I can get better elsewhere. My wife used to buy me cheap clothes from Wallmart and I wouldn't wear them cause it looked cheap and I looked cheap wearing it. I told her not too cause I wouldn't wear it but she kept on buying it. So I bought her a cheap imitation diamond tennis bracelet for her from Wallmart and she got mad at me for buying her jewelry from Wallmart. Go figure?
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    Oh...I forgot...I buy fishing bait at Wallmart. It's the only place close to where I live that sells fishing bait.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr.Badguy View Post
    Maybe those stores tried to unionize. That's usually why Walmart closes stores.
    Good. Fuck unions

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    I have prime to...and it does rule. I don't shop at Wallmart. Not for any ideological reasons...but mainly cause I can get better elsewhere. My wife used to buy me cheap clothes from Wallmart and I wouldn't wear them cause it looked cheap and I looked cheap wearing it. I told her not too cause I wouldn't wear it but she kept on buying it. So I bought her a cheap imitation diamond tennis bracelet for her from Wallmart and she got mad at me for buying her jewelry from Wallmart. Go figure?
    Yeah... I don't buy clothes there. It is actually cheaper in the long run to buy quality.
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    They use mean annual and five year means in trend analysis. Don't tell me I have to explain the difference to you. "

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    Quote Originally Posted by Superfreak View Post
    Yeah... I don't buy clothes there. It is actually cheaper in the long run to buy quality.
    It is and Amazon prime you can go both direction. They meet a wide array of quality from inexpensive (cheap) to luxury. In fact I'd argue that Amazon and its services like Prime, and services like those, are doing more damage to Wallmart brick and mortar stores than organized movements by employees to pay higher wages. In addition Wallmart is also now a player in online retail. Probably not a stretch to consider that this business model is impacting their brick and mortar stores too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Superfreak View Post
    Yeah... I don't buy clothes there. It is actually cheaper in the long run to buy quality.
    And cheaper still to buy quality clothes at Goodwill.
    Hard to beat four bucks for $80-120 Orvis shirts.
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