OT: Walmart facing competition!

[benick]

Maybe so...How long did you hunt on Wikipedia for that word??? Do you pick one word everyday and try to use it to impress someone or to try to convince everyone that your the smartest person in the room??? Why , I bet your a legend in your own mind even...That said...You gotta admitt the "fascinated one" was more than a little over the top in bashing Walmart which begs one to wonder why??? So I asked...Perhaps , instead it's WMDS (Walmart Derangement Syndrome)..Sorta like BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome)..LOL...The sales figures speak for themselves...Walmart is the ONLY major retailer making money...No rebuttal needed....

[George]

Seems you only know how to respond by issuing personal attacks. For an educational experience look up an "ad hominem attack" and see how you have invalidated any point you are trying to make. Typically if you want to make a counter point you present a rebuttal. Name calling is just school yard behavior.

.That said...You gotta admitt

[Steve Barker]

What does hominy have to do with it?

[Red Green]

"Steve Barker" wrote in news:i8mdnUT_fdhnEPLUnZ2dnUVZ [e-mail]:

Maybe the rest of it was:

Most of the food I bought there would turn to mold within a day or two before I got to take it out of the car and into the frig.

[benick]

So I guess it's trying to impress everyone , huh?? All while suffering from WMDS....Where did I call anyone names??? I mean , it's not as if I called you an arrogant elitist ass or anything , ya know??? But if the shoe fits , by all means , put it on and wear it with pride...LOL...

[Anonymous]

:Steve Barker wrote: :> You failed to mention that you get the quarter back when you park the :> cart. : :This is universal in the UK - but it's a one-pound deposit (largest coin in :circulation). : :They've got clever little chains that lock the carts together. Put in a :one-pound coin and the lock opens. When you re-lock the cart back to it's :neighbor, you get your coin back.

Clever, but the largest coin in general circulation in the USA is a quarter. I suppose even a quarter is some deterent to cart theft here, which has become a major problem over the last decade or so.

[Anonymous]

:On 1/14/2009 7:31 AM HeyBub spake thus: : :> "German discount grocer Aldi plans to open at least 75 stores in the United :> States in the coming year, hoping to draw traditional Wal-Mart shoppers to :> even cheaper deals during the economic downturn, The Wall Street Journal :> reported on Tuesday." :> :> Prices will be up to 20% less than Walmart! :> :> With pic of graffiti-covered Aldi store: :>

:> Original Wall Street Journal article :> :So where are all those stores? Apparently none in California, according :to their store locator: : :Unless that's the wrong Aldi ...

I've never even heard of them until this thread (I'm in urban N. CA).

[Anonymous]

:>> "German discount grocer Aldi plans to open at least 75 stores in the :>> United States in the coming year, hoping to draw traditional Wal-Mart :>> shoppers to even cheaper deals during the economic downturn, The Wall :>> Street Journal reported on Tuesday." :>>

:>> Prices will be up to 20% less than Walmart! :>>

:>> With pic of graffiti-covered Aldi store: :>>

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:>> Original Wall Street Journal article :>>

:> So where are all those stores? Apparently none in California, according to :> their store locator: :>

:> Unless that's the wrong Aldi ... :>

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:> Because it's only with enemies that one makes peace. :>

:> - Uri Avnery, Israeli writer and peace activist with Gush Shalom. :>

:Aldi Owns Trader Joes with locations all across California (and other :states) : Well, Trader Joe's sounds not much like Albi. Most of what they offer is gourmet items, no bulk whatsoever.

[Anonymous]

:>>>> Prices will be up to 20% less than Walmart! :>>>>

:>>>> With pic of graffiti-covered Aldi store: :>>>>

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:>>>> Original Wall Street Journal article :>>>>

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:>>> I am always fascinated who people think wally is their buddy. We buy :>>> most of our groceries at a very large family owned store. The prices are :>>> quite competitive and they actually have an in store meat department and :>>> none of the meat is that adulterated walmart crap. They also make good :>>> quality sausage (some also smoked on site) that isn't much different in :>>> price from that Hillshire junk wally sells. :>>

:>> Doesn't take much to fascinate ya , huh??? What did you get fired from :>> Walmart or banned for shoplifting?????? :>

:> You can't offer anything meaningful or any form of rebuttal so you went :> for the personal attack. That really gives gravitas to you. : :Maybe so...How long did you hunt on Wikipedia for that word??? Do you pick :one word everyday and try to use it to impress someone or to try to convince :everyone that your the smartest person in the room??? Why , I bet your a :legend in your own mind even...That said...You gotta admitt the "fascinated :one" was more than a little over the top in bashing Walmart which begs one :to wonder why??? So I asked...Perhaps , instead it's WMDS (Walmart :Derangement Syndrome)..Sorta like BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome)..LOL...The :sales figures speak for themselves...Walmart is the ONLY major retailer :making money...No rebuttal needed....

They're not only making money, they're improving their profit in this economy.

[Ed Pawlowski]

The government has been trying to get us to use the $1 coin and will try again. Perhaps they will conspire with the supermarkets to force us to carry some so we can get carts.

[Anonymous]

: :The government has been trying to get us to use the $1 coin and will try :again. Perhaps they will conspire with the supermarkets to force us to carry :some so we can get carts. : Seems to me there used to be a $0.50 cent coin. What ever happened to that? The one dollar coins are kind of big and heavy, seems to me.

[Nate Nagel]

The half dollars are far larger and heavier than current $1 coins, that is probably why they are no longer current and never had much favor. If you carry your change in your pocket, a couple of those makes your pants sag.

nate

[David Nebenzahl]

On 1/17/2009 11:11 AM [e-mail] spake thus:

No; the problem with the $1 coin is that the genius who designed it made it almost the same size and style (milled edges, etc.) as the quarter. I

*hate* those coins.

[David Nebenzahl]

On 1/16/2009 9:14 PM [e-mail] spake thus:

When's the last time you were in a Trader Joes? Certainly not mostly "gourmet items"; they don't have bulk items, but most of it is ordinary stuff, maybe better quality than regular supermarket (some of it not). But definitely not a gourmet shop.

[Rick Brandt]

People always say this, but I don't get the argument. ALL paper money is the same size and shape. That problem is solved by actually looking at your money when you spend it. Same solution applies to coins.

[Ed Pawlowski]

There is a lawsuit by people with sight disabilities for exactly that reason. The Euro coins and bills are different sizes and much easier to tell apart by feel. The smallest Euro bill is the 5 too.

About 40+ years ago I worked as a delivery boy in a grocery store. One of our blind customers kept bills in order by denomination, cut could easily be swindled by anyone. They were a really nice old couple and I'd put the groceries away for them, each item in a special spot so they could tell the corn from the peas.

I hope your eyesight continues to be good so you never have to "get it".

[Clot]

yup, I agree with your post. The coins in the UK are roughly the same as the Euro coins and easy to distinguish. I have found the US coins and notes a problem. A dollar bill seems like a waste of time these days and should be a coin, though I appreciate the historical desire to hang on to the bill. The notes in particular puzzled me in that they are so similar. Don't understand the reason for that.

[Rick Brandt]

Irrelevant to the original point of people not liking the dollar coin. A coin could have braille more easily imprinted on it.

[aemeijers]

Probably because most people, whenever they happen to get one (only a couple times a year the last decade or so, for me) do like I do, and chuck them in a coffee can. Most vending machines and kid cashiers are clueless what to do with them. Most modern cash drawers I have glanced down at while in the checkout line, don't even seem to have a slot for them any more. Pennies/dimes/nickels/quarters. The dollar coins get tossed in with the quarters- one of the reasons, IIRC, that they made all the post-Anthony dollars gold-colored.

Googles- According to the mint, they still make them, but only about 4 million of them a year. According to Wikipedia (for what it is worth), the only customers routinely seeking rolls of them are casinos, and even that is dying down now that most slots use prepaid debit cards. Wiki says that new ones have not been released in bulk since 02, just the carded collector sets.

-- aem sends...

[aemeijers]

Aww! You were a sweet kid, Ed. Being the wrong side of 50 myself, my eyes are starting to go south, at least for close work in dim light. And of course there are those range gaps between no glasses, reading glasses, and normal glasses. Like most aspects of middle age, it sneaks up on you. But I have it good compared to my 80-something year old father- essentially blind in one eye due to a botched glaucoma operation, and not much left of the other. Every visit down there, I have to invent some new adaptive technology for him. He is finally starting to realize he should not be driving any more. At least he sticks to quiet streets and off hours for his errands.

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