When Walmart can’t afford to operate in your environment

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J. Lane Easter, DVM

A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House

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15 April 2023, 06:10

Mike Mitchell

Well, shit. If Walmart is out.....

You're an idiot.

15 April 2023, 06:16

ledvm

quote:
Originally posted by Mike Mitchell:
Well, shit. If Walmart is out.....

You're an idiot.

Mike,
You should thank God daily that He made a brain stem to remember to breathe for you.

The point is that Walmart is the best in the world at making money. When an urban environment is so screwed that they can’t make it work…it is horrible place.

15 April 2023, 06:18

Mike Mitchell

quote:
Originally posted by ledvm:
quote:
Originally posted by Mike Mitchell:
Well, shit. If Walmart is out.....

You're an idiot.

Mike,
You should thank God daily that He made a brain stem to remember to breathe for you.

The point is that Walmart is the best in the world at making money. When an urban environment is so screwed that they can’t make it work…it is horrible place.

Lane, you are a brainless idiot who thinks that how much money Walmart makes this year is important.

15 April 2023, 06:20

shankspony

genuinely interested. If Its not money, then what is it?

15 April 2023, 06:21

ledvm

quote:
Originally posted by Mike Mitchell:
quote:
Originally posted by ledvm:
quote:
Originally posted by Mike Mitchell:
Well, shit. If Walmart is out.....

You're an idiot.

Mike,
You should thank God daily that He made a brain stem to remember to breathe for you.

The point is that Walmart is the best in the world at making money. When an urban environment is so screwed that they can’t make it work…it is horrible place.

Lane, you are a brainless idiot who thinks that how much money Walmart makes this year is important.

Well then I am one up on you then as you are a brainless idiot who can’t even get the gist of a simple post.

But we have know that for years already.

15 April 2023, 06:25

Mike Mitchell

quote:
Originally posted by ledvm:
quote:
Originally posted by Mike Mitchell:
quote:
Originally posted by ledvm:
quote:
Originally posted by Mike Mitchell:
Well, shit. If Walmart is out.....

You're an idiot.

Mike,
You should thank God daily that He made a brain stem to remember to breathe for you.

The point is that Walmart is the best in the world at making money. When an urban environment is so screwed that they can’t make it work…it is horrible place.

Lane, you are a brainless idiot who thinks that how much money Walmart makes this year is important.

Well then I am one up on you then as you are a brainless idiot who can’t even get the gist of post.

But we have know that for years already.

As usual, you flatter yourself (because nobody else will) about your idiotic posts that nobody but you can get the deeper meaning of. You're whining about Walmart's profit margin. Idiot.

15 April 2023, 06:32

JBrown

The article points out they Walmart tends to do poorly in urban areas due to the “bodega-class clientele(no cars, more smaller purchases, etc.).

It’s crazy to think that Walmart is pulling out after a couple of decades. I wonder what the long term impact will be on the mom-and-pop stores that they competed with in these urban zones.

Jason

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15 April 2023, 06:49

ledvm

quote:
Originally posted by Mike Mitchell:
quote:
Originally posted by ledvm:
quote:
Originally posted by Mike Mitchell:
quote:
Originally posted by ledvm:
quote:
Originally posted by Mike Mitchell:
Well, shit. If Walmart is out.....

You're an idiot.

Mike,
You should thank God daily that He made a brain stem to remember to breathe for you.

The point is that Walmart is the best in the world at making money. When an urban environment is so screwed that they can’t make it work…it is horrible place.

Lane, you are a brainless idiot who thinks that how much money Walmart makes this year is important.

Well then I am one up on you then as you are a brainless idiot who can’t even get the gist of post.

But we have know that for years already.

As usual, you flatter yourself (because nobody else will) about your idiotic posts that nobody but you can get the deeper meaning of. You're whining about Walmart's profit margin. Idiot.

Damn you are dumb.

I will dumb it down for you.

Walmart is a damned efficiently run company with major resources. The point is that the societal environment combined with the city’s regulatory climate is so horrible in Chicago that even a company with Walmart’s business acumen and resources still can make a profit. Running Walmart out of Chicago is not a good thing for the poor of Chicago.

Walmart and Costco are rated as the two best retailers the country has ever known.

No Mike…Walmart is making plenty of profit. They are just abandoning a shithole. A shithole created by Democrats.

Maybe just maybe you can now get at least a small grasp.

15 April 2023, 06:59

Saeed

MM has proved he is as intelligent as the

15 April 2023, 08:34

crbutler

I would question how much it is that they can't operate vs. they can operate more profitably in their ring suburban locations.

Yes, Wally world is extremely efficient.

They also play these games rurally... set up a Walmart in a small town, drive all the competition out of business, then shut down that store and tell the customers to go to the store that's "only" 30 minutes away. They are very much a poster child of greedy capitalism.

In this case, they are able to make more money by shutting down stores in a very unfavorable operating area and expect the clientele to go to the stores in the suburbs. It screws the local people who don't have much money... but its largely because these same people voted for such a group of s-birds that put "social justice" above the rule of law and simple economics.

15 April 2023, 10:48

Saeed

quote:
Originally posted by shankspony:
genuinely interested. If Its not money, then what is it?

Everything IS about money.

Anyone who tells you otherwise is an idiot.

Donations?

Reparations?

Refusing to pay their student fee debts?

Trump in court about his criminal money activities?

Hunter Biden laptop with all the Chink paying him and his father?

Yes.

It IS about money!

Hey MM, would you work for nothing?

15 April 2023, 12:43

shankspony

Yep you are right Saeed. Thats what I think too. You did forget some though. like,

Letting Russian billionaires into your country.

15 April 2023, 14:47

Saeed

quote:
Originally posted by shankspony:
Yep you are right Saeed. Thats what I think too. You did forget some though. like,

Letting Russian billionaires into your country.

Because we make money out of them!

America supports their warmongering puppet, because their masters in the military industry make money for them!

15 April 2023, 15:27

ledvm

Back to the OP.

Fix the environments and stores stay.

If the environments weren’t hostile they would be open.

BTW: I hate going in Walmart. I gladly pay more to not endure. But many need them.

15 April 2023, 15:54

buckeyeshooter

quote:
Originally posted by crbutler:
I would question how much it is that they can't operate vs. they can operate more profitably in their ring suburban locations.

Yes, Wally world is extremely efficient.

They also play these games rurally... set up a Walmart in a small town, drive all the competition out of business, then shut down that store and tell the customers to go to the store that's "only" 30 minutes away. They are very much a poster child of greedy capitalism.

In this case, they are able to make more money by shutting down stores in a very unfavorable operating area and expect the clientele to go to the stores in the suburbs. It screws the local people who don't have much money... but its largely because these same people voted for such a group of s-birds that put "social justice" above the rule of law and simple economics.

Absolutely correct! I saw them ruin Auburn Alabama when they came to town over 3 years when I was there. They totally wiped out all retail in a 10,000 person town at the time. This gave me a quite negative opinion of them and I have never shopped there.

15 April 2023, 17:09

JTEX

quote:
Originally posted by ledvm:
Back to the OP.

Fix the environments and stores stay.

If the environments weren’t hostile they would be open.

BTW: I hate going in Walmart. I gladly pay more to not endure. But many need them.

Lil Mikey knows this....he like all democrats just won't admit that their idea of liberal utopia is A total disaster.

In other words they are doubling down on dumbassery!

15 April 2023, 22:27

shankspony

quote:
Originally posted by Saeed:
quote:
Originally posted by shankspony:
Yep you are right Saeed. Thats what I think too. You did forget some though. like,

Letting Russian billionaires into your country.

Because we make money out of them!

America supports their warmongering puppet, because their masters in the military industry make money for them!

So if thats the case then everything is even.

16 April 2023, 19:31

Huvius

Just wait.
Soon we will have government run exchanges and commissaries to replace the stores that shut down.
Mass scale subsidized retail.

16 April 2023, 19:41

TomP

quote:
Originally posted by ledvm:
Back to the OP.

Fix the environments and stores stay.

If the environments weren’t hostile they would be open.

BTW: I hate going in Walmart. I gladly pay more to not endure. But many need them.

I doubt Pinedale will ever get a Walmart, I just go to Ridley's when I'm there.
They have the overalls and wide sneakers that are hard to find here.
The Richfield UT ACE Hardware has the overalls but not the sneakers.