Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Walmart is the world's largest corporation. It's size dictates the way the global economy does business -- period. My father ran a household name (everyone in the US knows it) manufacturing company in the US. When they lost their contract with Walmart because they refused to continue to lower the cost of their product, which was already causing a loss at the company or to make a cheaper product, Walmart said good riddance. They then gave the contract to a small manufacturer in Indonesia.

What happened to this extremely large manufacturing company? Well, after the loss of the Walmart contract, my father laid off 400 employees immediately. Over a two year period, he oversaw the shut down of the last US manufacturing plant of this company.

The plant was put up for sale. An Indian manufacturing company purchased the guts of the plant. They literally bought almost everything inside the plant, including bricks that were needed to make certain items. What didn't they buy? Anything that protected the environment. The left behind the machines that took the lead out of the air, they left behind the equipment that tested the water before it left the facility which would monitor for mercury, etc.

This is just one example of a once premier US brand that no longer exists in the US. This is what we are paying for in the lower prices. Study after study shows that most Americans just want their cheap socks and underwear.

Was this household name manufacturing company perhaps unionized and unwilling to lower wages? Almost all manufacturing companies in the US went belly up due to high labor costs.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I went shopping at Walmart and they have all the same stuff you'll find at a Target, Harris Teeter or wherever. All the major brands: P&G, Johnson & Johnson etc. So why do DCUMers say that the store is full of crap? It's exactly the same stuff you buy at Giant on Conn. except you don't see pretentious people flaunting their dual degrees from HYP in poli sci/history.

Actually, many of the name-brand products you see at Wal-Mart are a lower quality than you see at other stores…the manufacturers produce a separate line for Wal-Mart to meet its price demands. They use more cardboard than plastic and more plastic than metal, thinner fabrics, single rows of stitching instead of double, glue instead of fasteners, etc. etc. Electronics have fewer features. Products have shorter warranties. And once manufacturers change what they do for Wal-Mart, they often start doing it for other stores, which is why the quality of so many consumer goods is shoddier today than it was 20 years ago.

Citation please.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Walmart is the world's largest corporation. It's size dictates the way the global economy does business -- period. My father ran a household name (everyone in the US knows it) manufacturing company in the US. When they lost their contract with Walmart because they refused to continue to lower the cost of their product, which was already causing a loss at the company or to make a cheaper product, Walmart said good riddance. They then gave the contract to a small manufacturer in Indonesia.

What happened to this extremely large manufacturing company? Well, after the loss of the Walmart contract, my father laid off 400 employees immediately. Over a two year period, he oversaw the shut down of the last US manufacturing plant of this company.

The plant was put up for sale. An Indian manufacturing company purchased the guts of the plant. They literally bought almost everything inside the plant, including bricks that were needed to make certain items. What didn't they buy? Anything that protected the environment. The left behind the machines that took the lead out of the air, they left behind the equipment that tested the water before it left the facility which would monitor for mercury, etc.

This is just one example of a once premier US brand that no longer exists in the US. This is what we are paying for in the lower prices. Study after study shows that most Americans just want their cheap socks and underwear.

Was this household name manufacturing company perhaps unionized and unwilling to lower wages? Almost all manufacturing companies in the US went belly up due to high labor costs.

You say this with a sneer. Tell me how shit wages for a majority of Americans has worked out for our economy. Honestly, Republican "thought" is so short-sighted as to be practically blind.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Walmart is the world's largest corporation. It's size dictates the way the global economy does business -- period. My father ran a household name (everyone in the US knows it) manufacturing company in the US. When they lost their contract with Walmart because they refused to continue to lower the cost of their product, which was already causing a loss at the company or to make a cheaper product, Walmart said good riddance. They then gave the contract to a small manufacturer in Indonesia.

What happened to this extremely large manufacturing company? Well, after the loss of the Walmart contract, my father laid off 400 employees immediately. Over a two year period, he oversaw the shut down of the last US manufacturing plant of this company.

The plant was put up for sale. An Indian manufacturing company purchased the guts of the plant. They literally bought almost everything inside the plant, including bricks that were needed to make certain items. What didn't they buy? Anything that protected the environment. The left behind the machines that took the lead out of the air, they left behind the equipment that tested the water before it left the facility which would monitor for mercury, etc.

This is just one example of a once premier US brand that no longer exists in the US. This is what we are paying for in the lower prices. Study after study shows that most Americans just want their cheap socks and underwear.

Was it Huffy?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Was this household name manufacturing company perhaps unionized and unwilling to lower wages? Almost all manufacturing companies in the US went belly up due to high labor costs.

You say this with a sneer. Tell me how shit wages for a majority of Americans has worked out for our economy. Honestly, Republican "thought" is so short-sighted as to be practically blind.

Reading enough similar stories about Walmart's business practices put my parents off Walmart two decades ago, having a family member who suffered as a Walmart manager for ten years cemented it. And their stuff is just cheap. Not inexpensive, cheap. Enjoy the cheap crap you don't need, although you buy way too much of it.

Although I'll give them this: they are bright and dingy, not dark and dingy.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Walmart is the world's largest corporation. It's size dictates the way the global economy does business -- period. My father ran a household name (everyone in the US knows it) manufacturing company in the US. When they lost their contract with Walmart because they refused to continue to lower the cost of their product, which was already causing a loss at the company or to make a cheaper product, Walmart said good riddance. They then gave the contract to a small manufacturer in Indonesia.

What happened to this extremely large manufacturing company? Well, after the loss of the Walmart contract, my father laid off 400 employees immediately. Over a two year period, he oversaw the shut down of the last US manufacturing plant of this company.

The plant was put up for sale. An Indian manufacturing company purchased the guts of the plant. They literally bought almost everything inside the plant, including bricks that were needed to make certain items. What didn't they buy? Anything that protected the environment. The left behind the machines that took the lead out of the air, they left behind the equipment that tested the water before it left the facility which would monitor for mercury, etc.

This is just one example of a once premier US brand that no longer exists in the US. This is what we are paying for in the lower prices. Study after study shows that most Americans just want their cheap socks and underwear.

Bummer. The brand just went belly up, huh, rather than move overseas and continue operation?

Regardless, yes, I like my cheap Tylenol, ziplock and cotton blend socks. I do not wish to overpay .30 more an item for these things so 1. "Your father" can maintain an executive salary of x+1 and (2) so that Kenny in Ohio can hang onto his job manufacturing socks. Kenny needs to retrain in IT or health care.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Walmart is the world's largest corporation. It's size dictates the way the global economy does business -- period. My father ran a household name (everyone in the US knows it) manufacturing company in the US. When they lost their contract with Walmart because they refused to continue to lower the cost of their product, which was already causing a loss at the company or to make a cheaper product, Walmart said good riddance. They then gave the contract to a small manufacturer in Indonesia.

What happened to this extremely large manufacturing company? Well, after the loss of the Walmart contract, my father laid off 400 employees immediately. Over a two year period, he oversaw the shut down of the last US manufacturing plant of this company.

The plant was put up for sale. An Indian manufacturing company purchased the guts of the plant. They literally bought almost everything inside the plant, including bricks that were needed to make certain items. What didn't they buy? Anything that protected the environment. The left behind the machines that took the lead out of the air, they left behind the equipment that tested the water before it left the facility which would monitor for mercury, etc.

This is just one example of a once premier US brand that no longer exists in the US. This is what we are paying for in the lower prices. Study after study shows that most Americans just want their cheap socks and underwear.

Was this household name manufacturing company perhaps unionized and unwilling to lower wages? Almost all manufacturing companies in the US went belly up due to high labor costs.

Anonymous wrote:Walmart is the world's largest corporation. It's size dictates the way the global economy does business -- period. My father ran a household name (everyone in the US knows it) manufacturing company in the US. When they lost their contract with Walmart because they refused to continue to lower the cost of their product, which was already causing a loss at the company or to make a cheaper product, Walmart said good riddance. They then gave the contract to a small manufacturer in Indonesia.

What happened to this extremely large manufacturing company? Well, after the loss of the Walmart contract, my father laid off 400 employees immediately. Over a two year period, he oversaw the shut down of the last US manufacturing plant of this company.

The plant was put up for sale. An Indian manufacturing company purchased the guts of the plant. They literally bought almost everything inside the plant, including bricks that were needed to make certain items. What didn't they buy? Anything that protected the environment. The left behind the machines that took the lead out of the air, they left behind the equipment that tested the water before it left the facility which would monitor for mercury, etc.

This is just one example of a once premier US brand that no longer exists in the US. This is what we are paying for in the lower prices. Study after study shows that most Americans just want their cheap socks and underwear.

Anonymous wrote:Walmart is the world's largest corporation. It's size dictates the way the global economy does business -- period. My father ran a household name (everyone in the US knows it) manufacturing company in the US. When they lost their contract with Walmart because they refused to continue to lower the cost of their product, which was already causing a loss at the company or to make a cheaper product, Walmart said good riddance. They then gave the contract to a small manufacturer in Indonesia.

What happened to this extremely large manufacturing company? Well, after the loss of the Walmart contract, my father laid off 400 employees immediately. Over a two year period, he oversaw the shut down of the last US manufacturing plant of this company.

The plant was put up for sale. An Indian manufacturing company purchased the guts of the plant. They literally bought almost everything inside the plant, including bricks that were needed to make certain items. What didn't they buy? Anything that protected the environment. The left behind the machines that took the lead out of the air, they left behind the equipment that tested the water before it left the facility which would monitor for mercury, etc.

This is just one example of a once premier US brand that no longer exists in the US. This is what we are paying for in the lower prices. Study after study shows that most Americans just want their cheap socks and underwear.

Anonymous wrote:Walmart is the world's largest corporation. It's size dictates the way the global economy does business -- period. My father ran a household name (everyone in the US knows it) manufacturing company in the US. When they lost their contract with Walmart because they refused to continue to lower the cost of their product, which was already causing a loss at the company or to make a cheaper product, Walmart said good riddance. They then gave the contract to a small manufacturer in Indonesia.

What happened to this extremely large manufacturing company? Well, after the loss of the Walmart contract, my father laid off 400 employees immediately. Over a two year period, he oversaw the shut down of the last US manufacturing plant of this company.

The plant was put up for sale. An Indian manufacturing company purchased the guts of the plant. They literally bought almost everything inside the plant, including bricks that were needed to make certain items. What didn't they buy? Anything that protected the environment. The left behind the machines that took the lead out of the air, they left behind the equipment that tested the water before it left the facility which would monitor for mercury, etc.

This is just one example of a once premier US brand that no longer exists in the US. This is what we are paying for in the lower prices. Study after study shows that most Americans just want their cheap socks and underwear.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I went shopping at Walmart and they have all the same stuff you'll find at a Target, Harris Teeter or wherever. All the major brands: P&G, Johnson & Johnson etc. So why do DCUMers say that the store is full of crap? It's exactly the same stuff you buy at Giant on Conn. except you don't see pretentious people flaunting their dual degrees from HYP in poli sci/history.

Actually, many of the name-brand products you see at Wal-Mart are a lower quality than you see at other stores…the manufacturers produce a separate line for Wal-Mart to meet its price demands. They use more cardboard than plastic and more plastic than metal, thinner fabrics, single rows of stitching instead of double, glue instead of fasteners, etc. etc. Electronics have fewer features. Products have shorter warranties. And once manufacturers change what they do for Wal-Mart, they often start doing it for other stores, which is why the quality of so many consumer goods is shoddier today than it was 20 years ago.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I went shopping at Walmart and they have all the same stuff you'll find at a Target, Harris Teeter or wherever. All the major brands: P&G, Johnson & Johnson etc. So why do DCUMers say that the store is full of crap? It's exactly the same stuff you buy at Giant on Conn. except you don't see pretentious people flaunting their dual degrees from HYP in poli sci/history.

The left loves to villainize them since they don’t have starting wages at over $15.00/hour. Plus, they are non-union - a big no-no for the left. I think they have good deals as well. I go there for specific items, and their prices are good. Going during “off hours” works to avoid the crowds.