I don't understand why Wal-Mart is the biggest seller of anything. Especially computer products. They do not have the lowest prices. You can get an iPod for cheaper at Amazon. And you can get DVDs cheaper at so many other places. And the entire shopping experience at Wal-Mart generally sucks. There are always too many people in there, and most of them are white trash with like 5 kids each buying diapers and food, not iPods. People that work there never seem happy to help you out when you ask them a question. It doesn't make any sense to me.

"mustn't undercut the price of DVDs in its stores"

So they continue to insist that a lower-quality, no extras, limited viewing options, 5-hour download should cost MORE than DVDs which have added cost for manufacturing and shipping?

Someone drank the kool-aid...and it wasn't the good kind!

chirpy22,

I’m a IT professional with two degrees in technology from a Big Ten university, and my family shops at Wal-Mart. Sure, I’d never buy a computer or an iPod or anything like that from Wal-Mart—you’re right, online is definitely the place to go—but for groceries and a lot of other items, you just can’t beat them.

On a related note, my wife is one of seven kids and we’d be more than happy to have five (or more) of our own. A lot of our friends have at least that many, and at least one of those families has a dad who’s pulling in like half a million per year. (And I think they shop at Wal-Mart, too.)

If you want to badmouth Wal-Mart, fine by me, but please don’t badmouth individuals for wanting to have a decent-sized family and/or save money. That’s just not cool.

Guess that means you went to number ten. Otherwise it'd be top five or whatever, and clearly your qualifications are in IT and not responsible reproduction! You see what can be gleaned by reading a post thoroughly! You should have inferred from his post that unless you are indeed white trash, chirpy22's comments do not apply to you. Newsflash, you are not the only person on the planet. Take a pill!

In my view, it is fine to badmouth people for 1) shopping at Walmart, 2) wanting to have a large family, and 3) wanting to blindly save money.

First, at our planet's current growth rate, in twenty years our planet will be three times as populated as it is now. In my view, the world is already too crowded and tripling it is a bad idea. Consequently, I think having a large family 1) is selfish because you are doing so only for yourself, and 2) is just mean to the unnecessary children you bring into this world because it is they who will have to live in that overcrowed world.

Second, saving money is fine, provided it is ethical to do so. For instance, I could save a lot of money if I went around killing people, taking their money, and spending it instead of my own. Nonetheless, I think it is questionable about whether I should take this approach.

Similarly, you can save some money at Walmart (not always), but it is debatable about whether Walmart's business practices are socially conscionable and thus deserve the patronage it receives. If you find Walmart is morally corrupt, then I think it is fine to consider the people who shop there as equally at fault.

Third, last time I checked, this is still America, and people are entitled to give their opinion on whatever they choose regardless of whether or not one finds the comments offensive or not.

PS:

I did not go to a big ten university, do not have two IT degrees, do not know anybody who makes a half million dollars a year, but still think I am qualified and entitled to voice my opinion on matters.



If you want to badmouth Wal-Mart, fine by me, but please don’t badmouth individuals for wanting to have a decent-sized family and/or save money. That’s just not cool.

Chirpy22 and Feathers are completely off!! Insulting Wal-Mart is one thing but going after poor people-"white trash" or otherwise-is wrong, elitist is more than a little ignorant!!

Keep your biases to yourself! Stuff like that is just unneccesarily insulting...plus it make me insult you even more! (pun intended)

I don't understand why Wal-Mart is the biggest seller of anything. Especially computer products. They do not have the lowest prices. You can get an iPod for cheaper at Amazon. And you can get DVDs cheaper at so many other places. And the entire shopping experience at Wal-Mart generally sucks.

Its not about the shopping experience at wal-mart (save that for Apple). Shopping experience costs money. Wal-mart is about cheap prices and selling everything it can. They want to be your one stop shopping center.

They get you there on cheap prices for most of their stuff, and, while you're there, get you to buy stuff you could possibly get cheaper if you knew where to look. But you can also get them there, saving you the time to track them down elsewhere (and time is money).

Best Buy used to sell CDs cheap, using them as a 'loss-leader' to get people into their stores and then buying other stuff. All companies do it (well, not apple, but they are about the experience, not sales).

There are always too many people in there, and most of them are white trash with like 5 kids each buying diapers and food, not iPods. People that work there never seem happy to help you out when you ask them a question. It doesn't make any sense to me.

Yeah, most companies strive to make sure there aren't too many people in their stores. Who would want that?

And if you all don't like the "white-trash", 5+ child families who make Wal-mart their home because its the only place you can buy anything, maybe you should put your money and energy into stamping out poverty in this country and around the world. Then people wouldn't have to buy stuff from Wal-mart, and maybe they would then disappear.

Of course, you would never do that, because your prejudices would just prevent you from helping those you so look down upon, because they might end up moving next door to you.

Similarly, you can save some money at Walmart (not always), but it is debatable about whether Walmart's business practices are socially conscionable and thus deserve the patronage it receives. If you find Walmart is morally corrupt, then I think it is fine to consider the people who shop there as equally at fault.

Ah, but can everyone take this approach? What if shopping at Wal-mart is the only way you can avoid becoming homeless or on welfare (and putting a drain on your local tax dollars)? What if you don't have the ability (due to various circumstances) to go to any other store. You may have no store but a wal-mart within any distance, and/or have no way of reaching an alternative.

Not everyone is as well off as you seem to be to be able to make such more judgements. They may hate Wal-mart, but they have no choice except starvation/eviction.

-maybe you should put your money and energy into stamping out poverty in this country and around the world-

The only way to stamp out poverty and hunger is for humans to stop having so many freakin children. Have you guys checked out the world's population growth rate? When people have huge families they always say, "Oh, God has blessed me with many healthy children. Etc. Etc." But God isn't feeding those children...they are. They have to go to work and make money so that they can buy food for them and give them shelter. And the more kids they have, the more blessed they feel. Like someone else said, without regard for the rest of humanity. We all have to live on this planet. I suggest that everyone that shops at Wal-Mart buy the Cosmos DVD series and watch it.

I am speaking from MY experiences with Wal-Mart. There is one right down the street from where I live. I have been there 5 times in the two years I've lived here and I've decided to never go back because I see and experience the same things every time I go there. Rude employees and people yelling at their screaming children. Now I am not saying that you won't find this anywhere else. Oh, you will. But it is much more prevalent at Wal-Mart.

It's great that they employ so many people in the US, but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of those people used to run mom and pop stores that used to compete with Wal-Mart. Maybe that's why the employees are so rude? Hmm.

i dont care who is in friggin talks. just tell me when they have something.