Wal-Mart Settles Worker Suit for $54M

[carpro]

Costco's attitude and service is far superior too. They also have better products.

And a large percentage of them come from China. :laugh:

They just charge more than Wal Mart for them. Fixed expenses force them to.

 

[Mexdeaf]

>Recently I talked with a businessman and he told me that buying made in China helps the national debt.

If he explained how that works, please teach us.

In the Pacific North West most of the K-Marts are an ugly mess.

They are in S. Texas also.

 

[gb93433]

And a large percentage of them come from China.

Not their meat and cheese.

 

[gb93433]

the fact it is a union shop is enough to send me away. The Walmart shop near me have good service, large supplies and polite staff. Made in China! What isn't? Unless it is made in India.

While at one time WalMart paid good wages to their workers and many of my friends worked there. Today that is not the case.

 

[gb93433]

Recently I talked with a businessman and he told me that buying made in China helps the national debt.

Anyone who is the middle man makes more than anyone else.

I am no expert and he explained it to me. I am not sure I understood everything he told me. The only thing that makes sense to me is that when a middle man buys something for 50 cents and sells it for a dollar he has not had to spend anything to produce the product and makes more money than the supplier.

 

[Crabtownboy]

Not their meat and cheese.

Is the beef from Argentina?

Is the pork from Ireland?

Is the cheese from Switzerland and Belgium?

Seriously, we live in such an interconnected world it is hard to know where the food is comeing from these days. The Irish just had a huge recall of all their pork products produced since September. Note in the quote below some of these products were shipped to the US ... I don't know what stores were selling it, but if they could buy it cheaply enough WalMart surely could have had some, just as Safeway, Giant, Piggly-Wiggly, etc. could have also had some of these products on their shelves.

All pork products made in the Republic of Ireland since September have been recalled by the Irish authorities. The action was taken after dioxins were found in slaughtered pigs thought to have eaten contaminated feed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7769871.stm

The recall applies to all Irish pork products produced since Sept. 1, 2008; up to 25 countries, including the United States, Russia, Japan, China, France and Germany, may have received contaminated pork.

http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cach...+ireland+pork+recall&hl=cs&ct=clnk&cd=9&gl=cz

 

[billwald]

>The only thing that makes sense to me is that when a middle man buys something for 50 cents and sells it for a dollar he has not had to spend anything to produce the product and makes more money than the supplier.

The merchant puts out the 50 cents up front and spends time and money, taking the stuff where he thinks the people will pay him enough to make a profit. In the bad old days people put their stuff in a wagon or cart and went door peddling their stuff. Many, many people who came thru Ellis Island started out by buying cheap goods and selling the stuff on the street.

Anyone remember the Fuller Brush Man? That was a step up the food chain for him. Cloverine brand salve ads on the back of comic books?

In Bangladesh and other poor countries some people stayed alive by picking up bottle caps and selling them to people who had bottles but lost the caps.

Most living Americans don't have a clue about the bad old days. I worked with a guy who was born in a one room dirt floor cabin in Alberta (British Columbia?) - he was about my age. Some may discover hard times in the next few years.

 

[carpro]

Not their meat and cheese.

I hope not, but are you really all that sure?