Wal Mart

[mrmitchell]

I've heard some horror stories about them not paying their suppliers and treating their employees badly.

You have heard wrong. Wal Mart has a perfect record with paying its suppliers the agreed rates. Every Wal Mart supplier will tell you this, they pay their bills on time and in full, while dealing with other large retailers is usually a fiasco.

[Q Classic]

Exactly. While my Libertarian tendencies shy away from supporting any sort of legal/government restriction on how businesses do their thing, and while I personally don't exactly hold labor organizations in that high regard, any company that does right by its employees as well as its customers automatically gets bonus points--and usually, my money.

[Max Webster]

Funny of all the Box stores mentioned above and few more I will mention here. Home Hardware,Canadian Tire, Zellers, Home Depot etc. It seems the majority of the people I hear from hate Walmart yet like or show indifference to the rest.

Somebody must like it, they do a booming business.

[Ninot]

Originally posted by Max Webster
Funny of all the Box stores mentioned above and few more I will mention here. Home Hardware,Canadian Tire, Zellers, Home Depot etc. It seems the majority of the people I hear from hate Walmart yet like or show indifference to the rest.

Somebody must like it, they do a booming business.

Home Hardware and Home Depot I have no problem with, as they specialize in something and need to be kinda big to house some of the things they have.

I dislike Canadian Tire alot, because they have absolutely horid customer service (atleast where I live) and seem to just wanna get your money in alot of ways. Only reason i ever shop there is cuz i have a friend who works in the paint department. He helps me pick good paints.

Zellers is almost as bad as Walmart, but atleast around here they seem to limit themselves to where there is already strip malls, and i've never heard horror stories about their employees or anything.

[pchang]

Suppliers and Walmart

Walmart really beats up on suppliers to negotiate the prices and payment terms they want. In some cases, they have driven their supplier's margins to almost 0. However, once the terms are set, Walmart follows them to the letter (e.g. net 30 days are electronically deposited on the 30th day).

[Dis]

we discuss walmart waaaaayy too much here.

Let's talk about Target instead. I prefer Target over walmart. Vive la France!

[Kontiki]

Vive la France?

[Barinthus]

Walmart is evil incarnated. End of discussion.

[Dis]

I may be wrong, but I thought they were owned by a French company. But I looked it up, and that doesn't seem to be the case. Too bad, I liked them better when they were French.

Yes I like France better than I like Arkansas.

[Kontiki]

You didn't actually think it was pronounced "Tarzhay", did you? Or did you think Wal Mart was owned by a French company?

[Dis]

Walmart is owned by satan.

[DanS]

Originally posted by Kontiki
I doubt that's really the case. Wal Mart's business model is to build big box stores in relatively low rent, quazi-(or actual)suburban areas. They tend to like mid-sized towns and/or suburbs. You wouldn't find too many Wal Marts in the inner city anywhere.

Those places are already saturated with Wal Marts, so they are now trying to expand into the cities.

I take negative things said about Wal Mart with a grain of salt. Mainly, I think it's Wal Mart's competitors and the unions propagandizing against the company.

[Ninot]

Originally posted by DanS


Those places are already saturated with Wal Marts, so they are now trying to expand into the cities.

I take negative things said about Wal Mart with a grain of salt. Mainly, I think it's Wal Mart's competitors and the unions propagandizing against the company.

i emailed a letter of complaint to Walmart

they replied with exactly what you said there in the 2nd paragraph.

Didn't provide much to rebuff my complaint. Simply said "The competitors are out to get us".

Actually, they very clearly said it was the small-business owners trying to reduce their profits.

Like i'm gonna have sympathy for that.

[DanS]

Not knowing the nature of your complaint, how would I be in a position to judge Wal Mart's response?

[Dis]

Originally posted by DanS


Those places are already saturated with Wal Marts, so they are now trying to expand into the cities.

I take negative things said about Wal Mart with a grain of salt. Mainly, I think it's Wal Mart's competitors and the unions propagandizing against the company.

and for good reason. Walmart should hire unionized workers.