Comments on: I Hate You, Wal-Mart, For What You Have Done to America's Mind

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:55:00 +0000

I only goto matinees, as the movie is the same, no matter what price you pay.

By: The Writing On The Wal » Blog Archive » “Wal-Mart has unleashed an incredibly destructive force on America.”

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:00:29 +0000

[...] I agree with this. [...]

By: Bill Deys

Bill Deys — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:20:49 +0000

What is this discussion saying about Bloggers/Podcasters? Are we more inclined to demand better service and quality and not be Wal-Marts customers. Statistically if you look at even the relatively small number of commenter’s to this post thus far if it was a good mix in demographics there should be at least one person that likes to shop at Wal-Mart. After all they have to have a lot of customers. Also when is the last time you went through a drive-tru and actually got what you ordered? I think at this point we are just used to everyone screwing up. There isn’t a morning in recent memory that my morning coffee order has been right. My dad flips when this happens and most people now just accept that thats the way it is and deal with it.

By: Bill Deys

Bill Deys — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:20:00 +0000

By: Christopher Johnston

Christopher Johnston — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:34:23 +0000

You are correct Chris. I absolutely HATE shopping at Wal-Mart and I’m perfectly happy to pay more for a product if I can get great service from the employees. If you want to see a great example of this go to Whole Food Market. They offer a high quality niche product, excellent service and they charge a premium for it. People generally only complain about price in the absence of value but there seems to be a nationwide trend in the level of poor service and terrible quality people will accept because it’s cheap.

By: Christopher Johnston

Christopher Johnston — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:34:00 +0000

By: Christopher S. Penn

Christopher S. Penn — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:15:50 +0000

Bryce: absolutely. The connection for piracy was intentionally a little sensationalistic – but when you consider it, if you’ll feed your body – for which there is no warranty and you only get one per lifetime – garbage just to save 50 cents, it’s not a huge stretch to say that mindset can taint everything else.

By: Christopher S. Penn

Christopher S. Penn — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:15:00 +0000

By: Bryce Moore

Bryce Moore — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:00:50 +0000

I think Sam Walton would be ashamed of where his company has taken itself. Surely I’m not the only one that remembers Wal-Mart’s “Made In America” campaign from years back?

Sometime between then and now the company turned into the 1000-pound gorilla it is by figuring out it can squeeze its vendors’ prices to the rails, sell at 1% profit margin (or less), and make a mint by selling a simply mind-blowing volume of product.

The value and perception of quality raises proportional to the person’s income, which means Wal-Mart’s hack and slash price mechanics will always have a place with those less fortunate or of less means than others.

I think you’re making quite a leap from “low prices” to “steal this”. Wal-Mart is responsible for a lot of bad things (including a lot of bad things in the music industry), but I can’t make the connection that they actually encourage piracy — at least not with a straight face.

At some point, personal responsibility has to step up and be counted — you’re going to steal someone’s work because of your choices in life, not because something Wal-Mart does.

By: Bryce Moore

Bryce Moore — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:00:00 +0000

I think Sam Walton would be ashamed of where his company has taken itself. Surely I’m not the only one that remembers Wal-Mart’s “Made In America” campaign from years back?

At some point, personal responsibility has to step up and be counted — you’re going to steal someone’s work because of your choices in life, not because something Wal-Mart does.