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+1 more reason to fall in love with Wal-mart.
That's fucking awesome, I think I'm going to try to utilize that method!
who's more at fault here, Wal-Mart or the fucked up legal system we have that allows this?
Hey man, if it saves me .15 cents on a Nestle's cruch, I'll all for it.
Both.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dyne
Say what you will, but when we were 16 we'd hit the 24-hour Wal-Mart, buy rollerblades, have a blast, and return 'em for full price when we were done.
Wal-Mart being a terrible employer MADE THAT POSSIBLE.
lol, so awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
So Wal Mart being immoral but legal allowed your dumb asses to be immoral and criminal. Yeah, I'd be hugely proud of that.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
I'm sorry you were never 16.
Health care in general is a fucking joke. I'm spending more a month on it than I am on my mortgage, and it's just insane. I'm changing later this semester, but I might eventually just go back on the government health plan again.
yoshi is such a cranky old man.
Yoshi did not grow up with walmart, he's from the sticks.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
What law did they break, counselor?
General Shenanigans are illegal in NC.
LOL
Bigger truth: our country's healthcare is awful.
I was going to ask you the same question, seems like they have a legit right to the cash imo.Quote:
Originally Posted by burgundy
That's fraud.Quote:
Originally Posted by burgundy
:wtf: I live in St. Louis when I was 16.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey
Hey, those rollerblades weren't rad enough. We had to try 'em out to know that.
This is the most ignorant statement I've read here in a while, and that's a very powerful statement.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowutopia
Okay change sticks to Ghetto hellhole thenQuote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
I haven't shopped at Wal-Mart in years for reasons like this.
Stop shopping there. They're bad for America.
Don't even front. Perhaps I should specify "Insurance" from "Care."Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
That makes it much less idiotic, yes. The root of the insurance problem is lawyers, of course. The idiots in government that started the HMOs didn't help.
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Originally Posted by icarusfall
I don't know that they're bad for America, as that's a tough thing to measure, but I sure as hell don't support their practices by shopping there. That's the beautiful thing about a (relatively) free market. Sometimes, the cut rate prices don't win when the consumer values something else more.Quote:
Originally Posted by icarusfall
Their HDTV commercials that prey on consumer ignorance irritate me too, but it's the responsibility of the consumer to educate themselves, so there's nothing truly wrong happening.
If I can't shop at walmart where will I buy spongebob sweatshirts?
The Internet.
When Yoshi realizes he can return his clipped tag one-size-too-small Cosby sweaters at any time of night, he'll be singing a different tune.
Elastic waistline slacks imo
No, they abused Walmart's return policy. The only way fraud would become involved is if they lied about something during the return process. Last time I returned something there they didn't even ask me why, they checked the contents, and gave me my refund.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
Not from Walmart, but my friend will go purchase every new electronic toy (GPS's, mp3 players, etc etc) that do not carry a restocking fee to try them out, and then returns them for a full refund before the return period is over.
It's like renting them, really.
The cut-rate prices also really do get you cut-rate products. Walmart makes working at a consumer goods company absolutely awful, let me tell you. Walmart really does stock cheap and watered down shit because there is no way a CPG company can make Walmart happy with their products as they sell them to anywhere else while still keeping afloat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
As Yoshi does, I avoid Walmart like the plague, as does pretty much everyone where I work because we can't support the practices and tactics of a company that is such a huge pain in the ass to us.
potdQuote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
Sometimes the world bums me out.
That's true. I was making an assumption that they were mis-representing why they were returning them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wildkat
:lol: :lol: :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
I hate sweaters.
walmart is a evil empire, soon everyone will be forced to shop there against there will.
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Originally Posted by Mardin
Such horrible savings!
I miss having a Wal-Mart nearby. Paying a fair price for items is kind of bogus when you're on a shoestring budget.
I go to the mall looking for something and if Wal-Mart has it, I'm buying it. Until Target gets off its ass and decides not to let the competition own the market here, I only have Wal-Mart and K-Mart for mega stores of that ilk. Best Buy is finally opening 3 stores here by next year, but in a land devoid of Frye's, FYE, Circuit City, and other stores of that type, I use Wal-Mart. I really don't care if they enslave Chinese children to make sneakers for $.2 an hour. Until I have other options, I'm shopping there.
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Originally Posted by Flight of the Conchords
Then just go downtown and buy your shit from Felipe. Now that the name brands are made from the same place the knocks are, what difference does it make if your Nikes are spelled with one 'e' or two?
Wal-mart tried to open a store in my hometown of Crofton - boy, were they in for a surprise. The residents all basically told them, "Fuck you. Get the fuck out. No way in hell will we approve your store being built in our town."
I got a hard on when I heard this.
FUCK WAL-MART!!!
I like Target.
Target has nicer stuff and comparable prices. Walmart has a terrible produce section too. Another thing I don't understand is they sell censored CDs but sell unrated DVD. WTF is the difference?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kidnemo
Music is DANGEROUS.
The difference is that Felipe doesn't offer half the products Wal-Mart does, and he can't compete with their prices. Trust me, I know what it's like to have to purchasing options here. Until 1995, Felipe and other local merchants were your only option, and they price gouged and had shit for selection. Basically, the attitude was "buy what we say for the price we say or fuck off."Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc Holliday
That's why I have zero sympathy for the local merchants here. They have no variety and outrageous prices and sit and whine that Wal-Mart is driving them out of business. Take pharmacies here, for example. Most have united to take on Walgreens, which they say is destroying the local pharmacy network. What they fail to tell you is that most pharmacies here close at five on a Saturday and don't open at all on Sunday, while Walgreens is open 24 hours every day. Ask anyone with small children what a valuable asset a 24-hour pharmacy is. Moreover, the local selection is shit and their prices suck. I don't even bother to go anywhere else anymore. I just go straight to Walgreens. Fuck the local businesses if they won't offer a viable alternative. It's not 1960 anymore, and no one is forcing consumers to go to the mall to buy.
To be fair, there are local businesses here that have adapted, and they actually have better deals sometimes than Wal-Mart. The problem is that too few actually accept that there's a bigger fish in the pond, and they don't even realize they need to change their practices until it's too late.
IBTN.
The only way to compete for a buisness that can't price match Wal-Mart (and most can't) is to up the quality of the product or to improve the services that they offer. It's pretty simple on the face of it.
Supermarkets have the right idea here. One local chain called Mr. Special, revamped all their stores to mimic Wal-Mart's super centers. They upped variety and services and expanded the size of their stores but managed to keep prices down. While other more expensive SM like Pueblo Xtra went banktrupt here, Mr. Special has expanded and prospered.
The problem is that too many local businesses still don't offer any reason to shop there over Wal-Mart or other mega stores. I don't give a shit about WM as a company, but I can't deny that 99% of the time they have what I need for a decent price over the local stores.
Some people here bitch about it and want Wal-Mart to leave, but that's never going to happen. What needs to happen is for other companies like Target and Best Buy to expand here and offer people alternatives to Wal-Mart. Local businesses need to get their shit together and realize it's 2007, or soon they'll go the way of the dodo.
I know it sounds like I hate the little guy, but that's not it. Puerto Rico didn't really experience a retail explosion until the mid '90s, and until then the mom and pop stores in town were your only choices. Things have changed, but the local stores refuse to adapt. They think they can cover their ears and "LALALALALALA" the malls and shopping centers away.
They're all going the way of the dodo. Internet ftw.
That's a pretty raw hand she was dealt. I'm more angry at politicians, however, for allowing guidelines like that to exist in the first place than I am at Wal-Mart for actually using it.
Now you have to drive 4 miles down rt.3 TO BOWIE TAKE THAT!Quote:
Originally Posted by Type Ryan
It's very simple. As a worker you waive your right to sue in exchange for guaranteed preestablished care/treatment/money if you have a work-related accident. This is a shitty application of this very basic tradeoff, but that's why it makes the news, right?
Walmart is not a fan of MMORPG, Rollback!
Steve & Barry is awesome. Got some generic Starbury sneakers for $10. They don't look horrible either, perfect for commute.Quote:
Originally Posted by burgundy
Those sneakers rock. $15 for sneakers that only last a few months less than those priced above $100? Fuck, why not.
Because they're not brand name yo. /highschool
Actually, one of the news channel did a test and the $100+ Nike/Reebok sneakers were make pretty much exactly the same as the Starbury ones. Other than the style, you are getting the same shit. I got 2 pairs on sale for $10 each and I am still wearing them to work everyday (and change into my ridiculously expensive $40 Sketchers).Quote:
Originally Posted by Razor Ramon
Every black person I know thinks this way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
Its important to spend your money on stupid shit so everyone knows you have money son.
And most Asians.Quote:
Originally Posted by Razor Ramon
I paid $30 for CHUCK TAYLOR ALL STARS wtf. Why aren't these things cheap anymore?
$30 is cheap. I wanted to buy my girlfriend the leopard fur Chucks and they were $100. What the fucking fuck?
I've never heard of Steve & Barry or Starbury in my life but I may have to check one out when I'm in PA. Cheap, nice looking, durable shoes sound good.
If Converse would make blue/white lowtop Weapons for eternity, I would still pay whatever ridiculous price they asked for them. Assholes sold me the best pair of shoes I've ever owned and won't let me get another. :(
MUSIC IS THE WEAPON!Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
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I thank Wal-Mart for making my month-long Xbox 360 rental a free and easy experience while I was waiting for my repaired 360 to come home from the MS repair center.
$30 is not cheap for black hi-top chucks that cost less than one dollar to produce.
This is how I felt about the One Star hi-top, or the suede Easy Chuck. All I have are the memories.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grave
Doesn't Nike or somebody own Converse nowadays?
Yeah.
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Originally Posted by wiki
That explains the price. :cry:
I've worn out every pair of Chucks that I've owned, usually at $10-$15 a pair. Prices shot up in the last few years.
Also makes their obnoxious new TV ads doubly insulting.
They're not hurting too much. In Montgomery, AL, Wal-mart bought and plowed over a whole poor neighborhood because there really needed to be 4 Super Wal-marts within 15 miles of each other. Now there are 5.Quote:
Wal-mart tried to open a store in my hometown of Crofton - boy, were they in for a surprise. The residents all basically told them, "Fuck you. Get the fuck out. No way in hell will we approve your store being built in our town."
My dad's the reason Wal-mart did this. About 15 years ago, he took my brother to return a Super Soaker 100 which was clearly several years old. And it worked.
And Target shoes.
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Originally Posted by Kidnemo
MUSIC POISONS THE MIND!Quote:
Originally Posted by animegirl
I particularly love the placement of those unrated DVDs, which has resulted in stuff like Hostel being near the kid's section, with its robust selection of Dora the Explorer DVDs.
FEAR IS THE MIND KILLER!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeremy
I like Wal-mart. It's a store I don't want to shop in, but it acts exceptionally well as an absorbant for all the people I don't want to shop with.
If Wal-mart went away, those bitches that contest the price of every goddamn item in their carts would have to migrate somewhere.
It's shitty that they sued for more money than they got after lawyer fees, but as much as I don't like walmart, I don't see anything wrong with this. When you get into a car accident, you can't have your insurance company pay to fix the car and collect from the other insurance company at the same time. The lesson is they should have gotten more out of the settlement.
Read what you sign next time dumb ass. Wal-Mart on the whole does more good than harm. This is a pretty scummy thing to do, but she agreed to it so tough shit. (no pun intended towards the cripple)
If you go to the second basement (not the first) of each Wal-Mart, you will there find a giant, black beating heart. It is quite a sight. I admit I pooped my pants when I saw it.
I'd like it explained to me how this is even remotely true.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drewbacca
Wal-Mart sucks.
US health care sucks.
This is not news.
Economic stability, true bargain pricing and hundreds of thousands of jobs (that pay well above minimum wage on average) is a start. Wal*Mart definitely has some evils to it, and I'm definitely not exonerating them from stupid shit like this lawsuit, but all in all it brings more to the table than what was lost with its rise.Quote:
Originally Posted by icarusfall
And before you bring up the tired and completely idiotic "but they're killing mom&pop shops!" argument -- please don't. It's incredibly flawed and has been beaten to death. The moment America decided to move its shopping from Main Street USA and in to the conglomerate malls of America is when their days were numbered. On top of that capitalism isn't a friendly game. If you can't find a way to keep up you're not worth consumer money or time. That's how business competition in capitalist economies work.
Their reasoning is that the music industry doesn't have a "ratings system" like movies or games, and that it's too hard to program their registers to flag titles that kids shouldn't be buying. This is BS, as every "mature" CD in existence has a Parental Advisory sticker on them thanks to Tipper Gore. All they would have to do is flag every one of these titles to prompt the "Are you 17?" message on the registers and leave it at that. I'm pretty sure the real reason is they get a discount from the record labels for buying up the edited CD's that nobody else can sell.Quote:
Originally Posted by animegirl
And, yeah. Makes perfect sense when they sell Caligula DVD's and have Gia floating around in the $5.00 dump-bins.
As someone else mentioned, the existence of national "general merchandise" stores, which is really what Walmart, Target, etc. are, allows the local stores focus on niche markets that have offerings simply not available at the big stores.
For some things, such as white socks, general household stuff, flour, milk, etc., I don't care where I get it from. Other things, such as cheese, metric hardware, and other specialized things where I may actually need an associates' help, I go to a local place, where I can actually get what I need and want.
the south is a funny backwards place sometimes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Finch
so many delicious sad ironies. Like how the south used to make the country's cheep shit, but walmart helped send a lot of those cheep shit factories to china and Mexico BUT the south has more walmarts than any other place in the world probably. Hell, there are towns that are nothing but a walmart and a hardies.
Oh and then there is the sad irony that the south takes in more money from government than any other part of the nation AND yet keeps voting republican.
sad backwards place the south.
At least you guys have good fried chicken.
wow...what?...wowQuote:
Originally Posted by Drewbacca
Walmart ushered in the age of cheep Chinese goods, which in turn caused a down turn in US production of cheep basic luxury goods. Many jobs that paid better than working at walmart have been sent to foreign countries because of the business practices that Walmart helped pioneer.
The reach of walmart goes far beyond just the mom and pop stores it screws over.
there are many things about the south I like. But like all states, the people here have their own odd stupid things they like to do >_>Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
hmm chicken
I don't see the problem with this suit.
She got paid to cover her injuries. Her injuries were already being covered, to avoid double pay, one of the two payments was removed.
If your argument is she needs more money to cover her injuries, then fine, either the health insurance or the settlement should have been larger. I don't see anything even morally wrong with what they did though.
She's can't afford her medical payments now, or has to be downgraded from the gist of the article. Ok, well she should have had better health insurance. She had poor health insurance, so her care is poor.
It was not her fault that she got in the accident? Then the settlement should have covered more.
If the settlement was actually intended to be an addition to her insurance, then the law should word it like that. The jury was awarding her money to pay for the medical costs according to the current laws. If you don't like that, the laws need to be fought.
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I don't have health insurance because I take far better care of myself than the average person, and considering profit and overhead, its a losing system for me to be in. Fuck that.
Cheep?
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/a...1&d=1198072535Quote:
Originally Posted by burgundy
THIS. Insurance is not some fucking pay out lotto, its supposedly to cover your expenses and damages when you are injured and need money for critical care, family expenses that would otherwise shatter a limited income/support structure. Thats the whole point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Schlep
The sad part is the family is going to need that money in the longterm. Caring for a brain damaged/disabled adult for the rest of their lives is a HUGE burden. Unless some miracle comes along they better hope their insurance doesn't give them shit about it (it would be in their best interest to deny coverage, as she's just grand a day or more loss, economicly) or they could they will have to abandon the patient as a ward of the state, which will pass all expenses to the state (thats what we do in Texas, since everyone here gets critical care regardless of ability to pay, but you have to be a pauper first and exhaust all other methods of payment)).
I don't see why people are focusing on Walmart in this thread. This is more of an insurance issue.
I always thought insurance was retarded. Insurance is a buisness. Their goal is to make money. It would be backwards if a buisness tried to run any other way.
So here's me, Joe Little Guy who has no say in the insurance company's policies, rules, or practices, depending on this company to give me money and not try and fuck me over.
And here's the insurance company who cares nothing about me and is only bound to do for me what the contract says they have to do. Do they take the extra effort to make my life easy and take from their shareholder's pockets, or do they do their damdest to make money like a buisness should?
So I'm not surprised when people with coverage get the shaft.
I dunno. Insurance of any kind seems to me like paying taxes to a government that I have no representation in.
All of this insurance crap should just fall under our real government. We already pay them to look out for us anyway. Their whole reason for being is to look out for us. Take existing insurance payments and send it to the govt. as taxes and let them be our security net. At least they won't be trying to maximize profits when they should be pulling our asses out of the fire.
Our government would be horribly inefficient in handling health insurance. You should see Medicare, it is so easy to cheat them for money that people are now screaming for some kind of reform/practice to prevent fraulent charges.
It wouldn't be impossible and I think that some form of middle-ground is the best way to handle health care in this country. The government should hand out some form of stipend to every person/family in the country (get the money by charging a tax every year or something), have those people choose whether their money is better spent on government health insurance (which needs a dire upgrade but it can be done) or a private health care company.
Sort of like the No Child Left Behind Act, except with health care and in need of some major tweaking before actually working.
It's an example of just how soulless Wal-mart can be. Was it their right to go after that money? Sure, but practically no company ever does (that point was made in the article) under those circumstances.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cheebs
I think most companies wouldn't sue because of bad publicity, not necessarily out of some humanitarian goal (although the end result amounts to the same thing). Walmart clearly subscribe to the notion there is no such thing as bad publicity, and to get a few bucks back so they can slash prices on toilet paper that disintegrate upon contact with air.