Walmart shopper are selfish greedy pigs

Post #128,084 by tuberculosis 11/29/03 2:33:15 PM Reply	Walmart shopper are selfish greedy pigs [link\|http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/South/11/29/sprj.hs03.trampled.shopper.ap/index.html\|http://www.cnn.com/2...per.ap/index.html] Patricia VanLester had her eye on a $29 DVD player, but when the siren blared at 6 a.m. Friday announcing the start to the post-Thanksgiving sale, the 41-year-old was knocked to the ground by the frenzy of shoppers behind her. "She got pushed down, and they walked over her like a herd of elephants," said VanLester's sister, Linda Ellzey. "I told them, 'Stop stepping on my sister! She's on the ground!"' Ellzey said some shoppers tried to help VanLester, and one employee helped Ellzey reach her sister, but most people just continued their rush for deals. ------------- Walmart must die. "I believe that many of the systems we build today in Java would be better built in Smalltalk and Gemstone." -- Martin Fowler, JAOO 2003
Post #128,086 by a6l6e6x 11/29/03 2:51:40 PM Reply	Does Walmart understand its customer or what? Alex "Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves." -- Eric Hoffer
Post #128,088 by Andrew Grygus 11/29/03 3:16:31 PM Reply	The trampled was as guilty as the rest of them . . . . . willing to destroy her community and put her neighbors out of work (and eventually herself) to save a few dollars on a consumer electronics item. Had it been someone else who fell, she'd probably have been a happy trampler. Walmart's success is in fully understanding and exploiting the short sighted consumerism and herd mentality of its customers. Disclaimer: I have never been in a Walmart, never mind bought anything there, nor have I even been in a Walmart parking lot, so my knowledge of Walmart is second hand. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #128,089 by boxley 11/29/03 3:26:24 PM Reply	in a disposable society walmart is essential Do I hit walmart? Yup, I wear black loafers and sandals and am loathe to part with more thn $15 for a pair of shoes. I can and have paid over $100 for quality but the shape of my feet burst the sidewalls at the same rate as the cheapies. Kids clothes made by chinese prisoners and are built to last only months suits growing kids if I cant find the stuff I need at goodwill first. For disposables Walmart is great. For buying something I expect to use in my dotage I shop elsewhere. Now once someone convinced me that the one day sale at the end of thanksgiving needed to be hit. I drove in, looked at the parking lot and determined that since I visited a prison riot once I didnt need to repeat the experience. As for clothes, I havnt bought anything new since about 1967, thrift shops and used is fine for me. If I didnt have kids I would still go and get shoes, asswipe and laundry detergent at Walmart and fully expect to wear the blue vest when I can no longer compute for a living. Either that or work the fastener section at a home depot. thanx, bill "You're just like me streak. You never left the free-fire zone.You think aspirins and meetings and cold showers are going to clean out your head. What you want is God's permission to paint the trees with the bad guys. That wont happen big mon." Clete questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #128,106 by deSitter 11/29/03 10:02:46 PM Reply	Re: in a disposable society walmart is essential For 40 years, KMart, Kresge, Venture... filled that role without resorting to excess. There is such a thing as grace. Walmart is from a different part of the profit map -drl
Post #128,116 by orion 11/29/03 11:06:17 PM Reply	Other stores funny you mention it, Venture was nice but got put out of business by Wal-Mart. KMart is hurt by Wal-mart and had to redesign itself to compete. Kresge, not sure if they are still in business, I haven't shopped there in a long time. Remember Kat's, Woolworth's, Grandpa's, and many others that are now no longer in business. We do most of our shopping at Big Lots and Value City, deep discounts but beware the food items and other items that expire. Also shop at Dollar stores. *"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"*
Post #128,117 by Nightowl 11/29/03 11:09:44 PM Reply	Re: Other stores Yep, I remember Grandpas, and Venture. Grandpas was one of my favorite stores. We mostly shop at Target and Kmart for the discount end. For odd things we'll hit the dollar stores, but not often, and rare occasions we'll check Big Lots. But that's just for general merchandise like toiletries, cleaners, etc. For good merchandise, like clothing as a general rule, we shop at the bigger department stores like Sears, J.C. Penneys, Famous and Dillards. Nightowl >8# "The difference between being immature and child-like is that one is what you are, and one is what you choose to be." Comment by Nightowl {O,O}
Post #128,542 by lincoln 12/2/03 9:08:26 PM Reply	Ancestry KMart, Kresge, Venture Kresge was the original version of K-Mart back in the 1960s and very early 70s. lincoln "Windows XP has so many holes in its security that any reasonable user will conclude it was designed by the same German officer who created the prison compound in "Hogan's Heroes." - Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times [link\|http://users3.ev1.net/~bconnors/resume.htm\|VB/SQL resume] [link\|http://users3.ev1.net/~bconnors/tandem_resume.htm\|Tandem resume] [link\|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net\|contact me]
Post #128,112 by Simon_Jester 11/29/03 10:44:44 PM Reply	No argument...but why is this Walmart's fault... isn't it the customers? Frankly, they're the best reason I know of for not shopping at Walmart.
Post #128,114 by Nightowl 11/29/03 10:56:44 PM Reply	Man after all of that.... And they put a DVD player on HOLD for her? Geesh! They should have GIVEN her the dang thing! Nightowl >8# "The difference between being immature and child-like is that one is what you are, and one is what you choose to be." Comment by Nightowl {O,O}
Post #128,544 by lincoln 12/2/03 9:11:40 PM Reply	But that would cost real $$$$ and you can't expect a multi-national, multi-billion dollar corporation to *GIVE* away a $29 piece of merchandise, can you? I mean, since they're not going to offer anything towards her medical expenses, because that would cut into their billions in profits by selling stuff imported from China... lincoln "Windows XP has so many holes in its security that any reasonable user will conclude it was designed by the same German officer who created the prison compound in "Hogan's Heroes." - Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times [link\|http://users3.ev1.net/~bconnors/resume.htm\|VB/SQL resume] [link\|http://users3.ev1.net/~bconnors/tandem_resume.htm\|Tandem resume] [link\|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net\|contact me]

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