.:Wednesday, September 9, 2009:.
What Will YOU Do?
| When the evil empire has wiped out every shopping option in your town but theirs? Destroyed your friend's business? Closed your favorite boutique? Price gouged you on items you need/want just because they can due to the fact that they have already run every other business out of business? Just how long will YOU stand for this? Wal-Mart's Project Impact: A Move to Crush the Competition Walmart loves to shock and awe. City-size stores, absurdly low prices ($8 jeans!) and everything from milk to Matchbox toys on its shelves. And with the recession forcing legions of stores into bankruptcy, the world's largest retailer now apparently wants to take out the remaining survivors. Thus, the company is in the beginning stages of a massive store and strategy remodeling effort, which it has dubbed Project Impact. One goal of Project Impact is cleaner, less cluttered stores that will improve the shopping experience. Another is friendlier customer service. A third: home in on categories where the competition can be killed. "They've got Kmart ready to take a standing eight-count next year," says retail consultant Burt Flickinger III, managing director for Strategic Resources Group and a veteran Walmart watcher. "Same with Rite Aid. They've knocked out four of the top five toy retailers, and are now going after the last one standing, Toys "R" Us. Project Impact will be the catalyst to wipe out a second round of national and regional retailers." (See 10 things to buy during the recession.) Click here to see the rest of the story. Don't take my word for it. Do your own research. You can literally spend weeks going through all of the websites full of information about Wal-Mart underpaying their employees (most of which can't even afford to shop there...and they pay so little that they help their employees fill out the paperwork for food stamps and other federal assistance programs), paying differently based on sex, injuries on their property, refusing to pull recalled items off the shelf, closing up small town stores and then shutting down their store forcing the people in the small town to travel for any kind of shopping, filling in lakes to build on, shutting down stores when the employees in that store have voted in the union, refusing to provide full time work to avoid paying for health care, taking out life insurance policies on employees without their knowledge or when they employee doesn't even have life insurance on themselves for their family. The list goes on and on and on. Remember, support the businesses/people that support YOU! That isn't Wal-Mart! |
