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Post by shortcircuit on Feb 28, 2008 18:46:22 GMT -4
The "small businesses" have overcharged for their goods and underpaid their employees for long enough.
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Post by summerose on Feb 28, 2008 19:03:19 GMT -4
I agree short!
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Post by maddy on Feb 28, 2008 19:38:49 GMT -4
I am certain small businesses don't over charge, they mark up to suggested retail. BUT...a small business can't & should never buy what Wal-mart or any other big box retailer buys. I don't think a small business can hold 50,000 cases of toilet paper, but walmart can & get it cheaper than the SMALL business.
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Post by nataliewood on Feb 28, 2008 20:15:14 GMT -4
Bee, before we moved to Blairsville we were within 15 minutes of a Squall-Mart and never went in except for maybe a c.d. or deodorant. We have always purchased all our tires at a tire store, their books are limited, so we always shop at real book stores or Amazon. They have had a couple of beef recalls within the past year (never buy food there.) Sure some locals will lose business, but I don't think it's going to affect them as much as you are predicting. Maybe we are just different, but we don't like going there. And Maddy something you said about hiring percentages, I don't remember seeing anyone other than whites at the Murphy store when I needed more of my Arrid Unscented. Can't find it here in town. I could be wrong about that because I've only been there a handfull of times. So hopefully locals unable to find jobs here might at least be helped. We get call after call from people looking for work. I'm not going to shop there but Coosa loves Squall-Mart clothes!
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Post by someperson on Feb 28, 2008 21:27:42 GMT -4
They let Kule Kats that are looking for their coffee and litter box!
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Post by bubbadebubba on Feb 28, 2008 23:47:11 GMT -4
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Post by queenbee on Feb 29, 2008 11:05:11 GMT -4
They are cheap and that is what will drive small businesses out. $4 prescriptions, gas cards, cheap clothes. Stores that sell appliances are safe, so far.
Their meat is cheaper, but since seeing the news report using chemicals to make the meat stay red, I try not to buy much.
Like Taylor I am have to shop there, just not the Blairsville one because the Murphy one is closer for me.
Sam's daughter doesn't care about anything but the money. She also owns a major trucking company.
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Post by queenbee on Feb 29, 2008 11:24:18 GMT -4
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Post by queenbee on Feb 29, 2008 11:27:24 GMT -4
Wal-Mart officials claim that 90 percent of its employees are insured either through the company's policies or elsewhere. Wal-Mart spokeswoman Sarah Clark told FRONTLINE that over 500,000 of the company's 1.2 million U.S. employees are insured by Wal-Mart and that the company insures a total of 900,000 employees and their dependents. According to Clark, 29 percent of Wal-Mart associates are ineligible for coverage. Stringent eligibility requirements and the employee turnover rate may account for that 29 percent: Full-time employees must work for six months before they can be covered, and part-time employees must work for at least two years. Wal-Mart's labor turnover rate is 44 percent per year -- close to the retail industry average.
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Post by swissroger on Feb 29, 2008 16:32:33 GMT -4
its clear that the walmart back then was an good thing but sice an couple years its whorse to bad.
but we have also to be happy for those people who love it and plain need it because its cheap. cheap say its not that healthy and made under whorse conditions elsewhere. but still cheap..
also gas is going up an up so many in bville will save on this by not drive up to murphy.
as maddie say, an small or medium busieness is never be able to compete with the big box stores. the manufacturer of any brand good has an suggested mrsp, with an margin the seller can live. because the big boxes buy for tousands of $ they squeeze the manufacturers for the last cents and over the xxx number of goods thats a lot of money! and because the big boxes has to sell xxx numbers of that goods in theyr many stores, they lower the mrsp to an unbeatable level, no small buiseness can compete, its impossible.
so its not to beat the small buisenesses follow the mrsp as suggested and enforced by manufacturers but the big boxes for break it. but again, poor people can buy more for theyr money that way, it all has two sides...
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Post by shortcircuit on Apr 23, 2008 20:51:20 GMT -4
Road construction is going on and tree cutting is taking place on the wal mart property. Supposedly a construction fence will be going up around the property in the next few days. It looks like it might actually happen this time!
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Post by maddy on Apr 23, 2008 21:10:01 GMT -4
gag me with a spoon!
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Post by texie on Apr 23, 2008 21:39:41 GMT -4
there was a letter to the editor in the NGN this week about Mom and Pop stores closing around town. Well, with Walmart coming - now we'll really see them start shutting down. It's a shame.
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Post by ruby on Apr 24, 2008 7:55:38 GMT -4
Road construction is going on and tree cutting is taking place on the wal mart property. Supposedly a construction fence will be going up around the property in the next few days. It looks like it might actually happen this time! From what I've heard, the construction company and subs met on Monday or Tuesday of this week, and construction should begin soon. |
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Post by queenbee on Apr 24, 2008 9:17:51 GMT -4
I noticed it's not a local construction company.
Don't see it has helped us yet, except for whoever owned the land.
They are laughing all the way to the bank.
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