I am not the one claiming they are evil, you are. Just trying to highlight some of the godo things that come out of Wal-Marts existence.
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Eric Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > At least I posted both...you on the other hand follow in the fine republican > tradition of cherry picking. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Stroz [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 9:40 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Walmart vs Target/Meijer > > > Did you actually read some of the information you posted? Some of it > seems to refute claims yo have made about how bad Wal-Mart can be. > >> However, >> he compared the changes to previous competitors small town shops >> have faced in the past-from the development of the railroads and the Sears >> Roebuck catalog to shopping malls. He concludes that shop owners who adapt >> to the ever changing retail market can thrive after Wal-Mart comes to > their >> community. > > Bad Wal-mart for making small town shops adapt their business to > handle competition. > >> It >> argued that while Wal-Mart's low prices caused some existing businesses to >> close, the chain also created new opportunities for other small business, >> and so "the process of creative >> destruction<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction>unleashed >> by Wal-Mart has no statistically significant impact on the overall >> size of the small business sector in the United >> States." > > Bas Wal-Mart for creating new opportunities for small businesses. > >> For the concern of jobs, a study commissioned by Wal-Mart with consulting >> firm Global Insight <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Insight>, found >> that its stores' presence saves working families more than US$2,500 per >> year, while creating more than 210,000 jobs in the >> U.S. > > Bad Wal-Mart for saving families money and creating jobs. > >>Another study by Global Insight has found that >> Wal-Mart's growth between 1985 and 2004 resulted in food-at-home prices > that >> were 9.1% lower and overall prices (as measured by the Consumer Price >> Index<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_price_index>) >> that were 3.1% lower than they would otherwise have >> been.[114]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wal-Mart#cite_note-113> >> > > Bad Wal-Mart, again, for saving people money. > >> Studies of Wal-Mart show consumers benefit from lower costs. A 2005 > *Washington >> Post* story reported that "Wal-Mart's discounting on food alone boosts the >> welfare of American shoppers by at least $50 billion per >> year."[116]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wal-Mart#cite_note-115>A >> study in 2005 at Massachusetts >> Institute of > Technology<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technolog > y>measured >> the effect on consumer >> welfare <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_economics> and found that > the >> poorest segment of the population benefits the most from the existence of >> discount retailers. > > Bad Wal-Mart for benefiting poor people. > > Wow, I can really see why you hate Wal-Mart so much. What with all the > jobs, saved money and benefitting poor people...and all of that > without having to use our tax dollars. Wal-Mart should be ashamed of > itself. We should all go back to paying more money for the same goods > and then have to rely on the government to bail us out when we can't. > > > > -- > Scott Stroz > --------------- > You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can > wonder what the f*&k happened. - Cpt. Phil Harris > > http://xkcd.com/386 > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:328964 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
