District residents why are you so against Walmart?

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Oh yeah -- definitely REI.

The long PP highlights some uncomfortable truths about low-cost retailing. I do think, though, that the collective money you save on the weed whacker or sprinkler (I'm the sprinkler PP), you eventually wind up paying per household in gap medical care, food stamps, subsidized child care, and other shifted costs. [No, I have never seen a study proving this dollar for dollar. Brookings has a couple of papers from ~10 years ago on the general topic as it relates to semi-rural areas. At least I think it was Brookings.]

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Anonymous wrote:The truth is that Walmart, more than any other chain I know of, has a sound reputation for treating their employees like absolute shit, and that is why I have chosen to avoid the store. Until recently. Their sheet selection is truly excellent, so I succumed. I still feel a bit bad about it.

Ah! But you let price take the place of your scruples. I bet you live in DC and you come to VA or MD and clog up our roads. You should buy your sheets where you pay 4 or 5 times the price of Walmart.

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I already admitted that I let price override my scruples. Why are you ah'ing?

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Anonymous wrote:Practical question: Is this proposed Wal-Mart going in at the location where they had said there would be a Costco? It's the same general area but I can't tell whether one is off the table and the other is on? thanks.

No, the proposed site for Costco is in Fort Lincoln. That is located at Bladensburg and South Dakota. The now in negotiation site for the Walmart is actually on New York Avenue, between Montana and Bladensburg. That site was initially designated for condos and retail, but the financing fell through when housing market took a turn for the very worst. The proposed site for the Walmart is currently occupied by a strip club and scary looking auto parts or auto front stores.

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Anonymous wrote:You can take something back to Nordstrom's after a few years? You must be one hell of a negotiator. How does that work? I don't think I could pull it off.

Someone I know took back a pair of jeans to Nordstrom that she purchased at a different department store. No tags on the jeans. Nordstrom gave her store credit.

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Someone I know took back a pair of jeans to Nordstrom that she purchased at a different department store. No tags on the jeans. Nordstrom gave her store credit.

Frikin dishonest as hell.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone I know took back a pair of jeans to Nordstrom that she purchased at a different department store. No tags on the jeans. Nordstrom gave her store credit.

Frikin dishonest as hell.
Didn't say she was my friend...

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I would shop at Walmart for their discounted prescription drugs.

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Anonymous wrote:Buy a shirt at Walmart and in a year when it wears out you go back to Walmart and buy another. Buy a short at Norstrom or LL Bean etc and it wears out in a year, you bring it back and get a new one.

Pretty simple to me.

Quality not quanity

I have shirts from L.L.Bean. They were made in China

But if it wears out or you are not satisfied they replace it.

A guarantee is not quality. Every late night TV ad for an onion chopper or food dehydrator comes with a lifetime warranty. It's a gimmick.

The fact is that neither company's shirts wear out in a year with any frequency.

that was an example, I have taken many thigns back to Nordstrom a fews years after purchase, the same with Brooks Brothers, LL Bean, etc. try doing that at Target, Wal Mart, Kohl's etc.

Really???

Because that is just gross and cheap. Clothes are going to wear out. After a few years, when they don't look good, send them on to Goodwill and they will cut them up to be reused somewhere as rags.

I have items I bought from all the stores you mentioned. I never once considered returning them after I wore them. hell I didn't consider returning them even when they sat in the closet with the tag on!

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Anonymous wrote:Someone I know took back a pair of jeans to Nordstrom that she purchased at a different department store. No tags on the jeans. Nordstrom gave her store credit.

Frikin dishonest as hell.

Didn't say she was my friend...

Well yeah. But it's still a far cry than returning something to Nordstrom's that she purchased years ago. I'd love to treat that PP to a cup of coffee and find out more about that.

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Anonymous wrote:Buy a shirt at Walmart and in a year when it wears out you go back to Walmart and buy another. Buy a short at Norstrom or LL Bean etc and it wears out in a year, you bring it back and get a new one.

Pretty simple to me.

Quality not quanity

I have shirts from L.L.Bean. They were made in China

But if it wears out or you are not satisfied they replace it.

A guarantee is not quality. Every late night TV ad for an onion chopper or food dehydrator comes with a lifetime warranty. It's a gimmick.

The fact is that neither company's shirts wear out in a year with any frequency.

that was an example, I have taken many thigns back to Nordstrom a fews years after purchase, the same with Brooks Brothers, LL Bean, etc. try doing that at Target, Wal Mart, Kohl's etc.

Really???

Because that is just gross and cheap. Clothes are going to wear out. After a few years, when they don't look good, send them on to Goodwill and they will cut them up to be reused somewhere as rags.

I have items I bought from all the stores you mentioned. I never once considered returning them after I wore them. hell I didn't consider returning them even when they sat in the closet with the tag on!

They may not have been clothes! Please, let's not shame her, I really want her to come back and tell her more about it. Especially if she is able to do this at a number of stores. Because the only one I've ever even conceived of doing that with is Coach. And that's because they make such a big deal of it. Like, if you don't go back there with your tattered wallet and demand a new one, you're a chump. Short of that, I'm at a loss and would love to learn.

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Anonymous wrote:I already admitted that I let price override my scruples. Why are you ah'ing?

because you are a hypocrite.

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I admitted that too!! Why do you want to repeat everything I already copped to? Are you some kind of sadist? Or are you just stupid?

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So we learned something today. The Nordstrom shopper is more morally flexible than the big box retailer. Go figure.

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Anonymous wrote:The truth is that Walmart, more than any other chain I know of, has a sound reputation for treating their employees like absolute shit, and that is why I have chosen to avoid the store. Until recently. Their sheet selection is truly excellent, so I succumed. I still feel a bit bad about it.

Ah! But you let price take the place of your scruples. I bet you live in DC and you come to VA or MD and clog up our roads. You should buy your sheets where you pay 4 or 5 times the price of Walmart.

You complain about DC residents clogging up your roads? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. VA and MD drivers speed down our residential streets all the time! And you don't pay a commuter tax! DC is overrun by you suburban creeps who refuse to leave your cars to come to work. Get real!