Originally Posted by
statjunk
Well I'll leave you to your vices. Just don't cry foul when Walmart runs everyone out of business and then dictates to the customer what they should and shouldn't buy. Case in point, explicit lyric music albumns. Walmart for most of their existence didn't carry them.
As far as Walmart providing benefits, Walmart is the largest consumer of Medicaid and Medicare in the entire country. Some 20 years ago they were a 10,000,000,000, that's 10 Billion dollar line item against the federal government. To clearly illustrate that means that a significant proportion of their employees live below the poverty line and qualify for those benefits. I'd hate to think what that expense is today.
I won't respond to this again since I think I'm already way over the line on this post since it has nothing to do with the original posters comments.
Tom
I can buy explicit lyrics CD's, or pretty much anything I want that Walmart doesn't carry online and those online shops are in no danger of going out of business anytime soon.
We also have a local cd shop that's great. They are still in business even after Walmart. The reason is that they treat customers very very well, and they have decent prices. Now they aren't always as cheap as Walmart. A CD that's $13 at Walmart may be $14 at the local shop, but it's not double the price either.
If gun shops would operate like that and offer great service, decent prices, and a friendly staff, they wouldn't be run out of business by places like Walmart either.