pearl jam & walmart!

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  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    DewieCox wrote:
    Still doesnt negate the fact that Walmart is still just selling it. There are plenty of companies out there that don't cheapen their standards just so WM will sell it and WM isn't making them make crappy products.
    They are. You don't see anything wrong with a company putting stipulations on a product in order to be sold in their store? They NOT just selling it, they're saying "We won't sell your product unless we can buy it from you at a much lower wholesale rate. So it forces product makers to lower the integrity and value of their product in order to be put on Walmart's shelves. I see this bad in both Walmart's ethics and any product maker's values. They should never bow to Walmart in order to sell their goods, NO ONE. Because Walmart doesn't play a fair business game. Just ask Green Day.
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    Jeanwah wrote:
    DewieCox wrote:
    Still doesnt negate the fact that Walmart is still just selling it. There are plenty of companies out there that don't cheapen their standards just so WM will sell it and WM isn't making them make crappy products.
    They are. You don't see anything wrong with a company putting stipulations on a product in order to be sold in their store? They NOT just selling it, they're saying "We won't sell your product unless we can buy it from you at a much lower wholesale rate. So it forces product makers to lower the integrity and value of their product in order to be put on Walmart's shelves. I see this bad in both Walmart's ethics and any product maker's values. They should never bow to Walmart in order to sell their goods, NO ONE. Because Walmart doesn't play a fair business game. Just ask Green Day.

    No, I don't. It's on the manufacturer to decide whether or not to "sell out" to WM, just like it's on Green Day to censor or not.
  • LiteTheMatch
    LiteTheMatch Posts: 1,208
    "According to experts, video games are the number one leading cause of violence."



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    A child's rhyme stuck in my head...
    It said "Life is nothing but a dream."
    I've spent so many years in question
    To find I'd known this all along.
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    Jeanwah wrote:
    DewieCox wrote:
    Still doesnt negate the fact that Walmart is still just selling it. There are plenty of companies out there that don't cheapen their standards just so WM will sell it and WM isn't making them make crappy products.
    They are. You don't see anything wrong with a company putting stipulations on a product in order to be sold in their store?

    Of course there's nothing wrong with that. This is America. At least it was last time I checked. Wal-Mart doesn't have to sell anything it does not want to. And a company does not have to sell their product in Wal-Mart if they don't want to.

    That's the way America works.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    slightofjeff wrote:
    This has come up a lot recently, because we began buying diapers for our baby almost literally the day we found out we were pregnant. We didn't care about sizes. Now, we have a bunch of diapers our baby has grown out of.

    Why did you do that?
  • Stephen Flow
    Stephen Flow Posts: 3,327
    kinda sucks for people who live in some areas where all there is to buy a cd is wal*mart.. we have an FYE here but I know a lot of people go to the local walmart b/c FYE is so pricey... I don't buy enough cds to care though and will shell out the few extra bucks to get the dirty version @ FYE if need be.

    All i can think of is rape me by nirvana being changed to waif me. LOL.
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    soulsinging wrote:
    slightofjeff wrote:
    This has come up a lot recently, because we began buying diapers for our baby almost literally the day we found out we were pregnant. We didn't care about sizes. Now, we have a bunch of diapers our baby has grown out of.

    Why did you do that?

    To spread the cost of buying diapers out over a longer period of time, obviously. We're going to be using diapers for years. Might as well get a head start.

    Instead of sitting around until the day our daughter was born and saying, "Oh shit, we better start buying diapers" we started buying a pack here and there during the pregnancy. That way, when our baby came, we didn't have to worry about spending money on diapers. We could spend the money on formula and food and what not.

    My parents gave us that tip, and it was brilliant.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • 12345AGNST1
    12345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    I know im 5 pages late but I just gained a little respect for Green Day. I was pretty surprised they refused to sell their cd in the largest outlet store in the US. Fuck Walmart and their bullshit.
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  • jimbojones1138
    jimbojones1138 Posts: 3,640
    i dont go to walmart
    it's largely due to eddie that i liked to jump off of things as a child...
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    Yeah, I don't want it to get lost here that I don't think bands should censor their music just to get it sold somewhere. I just don't have any issue at all with WalMart asking(not making) bands to censor their music. I agree they are hypocritical by selling some of the movies, but it's their business to run as they wish and obviously most people don't have a problem with it.

    I think think WalMart probably get theirs with all the frivolous lawsuits that come their way.
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    slightofjeff wrote:
    Jeanwah wrote:
    DewieCox wrote:
    Still doesnt negate the fact that Walmart is still just selling it. There are plenty of companies out there that don't cheapen their standards just so WM will sell it and WM isn't making them make crappy products.
    They are. You don't see anything wrong with a company putting stipulations on a product in order to be sold in their store?

    Of course there's nothing wrong with that. This is America. At least it was last time I checked. Wal-Mart doesn't have to sell anything it does not want to. And a company does not have to sell their product in Wal-Mart if they don't want to.

    That's the way America works.
    Some people forget that Walmart is seemingly taking over the country. In many places there are no other stores for people to shop, giving people no other choice where to buy what they need or want. And if you're trying to get your small business off the ground, and then told that you have to lower your price and quality for the only store around (Walmart) to sell it, because they put all the other small stores out of business,...it's clearly WRONG.

    It is the way America works because we seemingly allow them to practice shifty business practices. It's just so much easier to look the other way than to take a stand.
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    edited May 2009
    Jeanwah wrote:
    Some people forget that Walmart is seemingly taking over the country. In many places there are no other stores for people to shop, giving people no other choice where to buy what they need or want. And if you're trying to get your small business off the ground, and then told that you have to lower your price and quality for the only store around (Walmart) to sell it, because they put all the other small stores out of business,...it's clearly WRONG.

    It is the way America works because we seemingly allow them to practice shifty business practices. It's just so much easier to look the other way than to take a stand.

    There's nothing shifty about allowing any store to set the price of the goods they want to sell. Should the government step in and force Wal-Mart to accept higher priced goods?
    Post edited by slightofjeff on
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,871
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh2sWSVRrmo
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    slightofjeff wrote:
    There's nothing shifty about allowing any store to set the price of the goods they want to sell. Should the government step in and force Wal-Mart to accept higher priced goods?

    You really don't know what Walmart is all about, do you?
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    Jeanwah wrote:
    slightofjeff wrote:
    There's nothing shifty about allowing any store to set the price of the goods they want to sell. Should the government step in and force Wal-Mart to accept higher priced goods?

    You really don't know what Walmart is all about, do you?

    Yes, I do. They are about 20 percent cheaper than their nearest competitor.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • reecewg2006
    reecewg2006 Posts: 55
    Walmart has to the be the worst store ever! I hate shopping there! and who needs that store to get good music..
  • Oceans 98
    Oceans 98 Posts: 232
    benjs wrote:
    ARazorbackguy1 wrote:
    This is not a new policy. If you want your stuff sold at Wal-Mart, you follow their rules. If you don't want it sold at Wal-Mart, go sell it at Target. Simple as that.

    Wal-Mart doesn't have to sell what they don't want to sell. It's very much like if you owned your own bar and someone told you you HAD to sell Red Dog Beer. Screw you, I'll sell what I want to sell!
    Unfortunately, if the bar you're at sells crap beer, you can go next door to the next bar. If Wal-Mart doesn't stock an album, you lose the big-box discount and have to go to a smaller retailer if you want to purchase it.


    I think one should want to purchase it at a smaller retailer anyway. The unique experience of independent record stores are slowly becoming a rare commodity and losing to big name retailers like Wal-mart and Target, come on guys... don’t give in to the man! Buy the new PJ album (and all other albums for that matter) at your closest independent record store. Pay a little more, experience the album not edited, guaranteed! :D
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  • bazzer
    bazzer Posts: 3,126
    slightofjeff wrote:
    Instead of sitting around until the day our daughter was born and saying, "Oh shit, we better start buying diapers" we started buying a pack here and there during the pregnancy. That way, when our baby came, we didn't have to worry about spending money on diapers. We could spend the money on formula and food and what not.

    My parents gave us that tip, and it was brilliant.
    It's only brilliant, because Walmart will take back all your extra diapers. What would you do otherwise?

    You'd be better off putting the money you would have spent on diapers in an interest bearing account so that when the time comes to buy diapers you've got a big stash of money to buy the sizes you need. It's kinda like Christmas clubs (don't know if you have them there). Why do I want to give someone else my money now to get something I don't need until later (unless the price is certain to go up)?
  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    bazzer wrote:
    slightofjeff wrote:
    Instead of sitting around until the day our daughter was born and saying, "Oh shit, we better start buying diapers" we started buying a pack here and there during the pregnancy. That way, when our baby came, we didn't have to worry about spending money on diapers. We could spend the money on formula and food and what not.

    My parents gave us that tip, and it was brilliant.
    It's only brilliant, because Walmart will take back all your extra diapers. What would you do otherwise?

    Well, no shit, Sherlock. But they do. So your point is moot.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • Jeanwah
    Jeanwah Posts: 6,363
    slightofjeff wrote:
    Jeanwah wrote:
    slightofjeff wrote:
    There's nothing shifty about allowing any store to set the price of the goods they want to sell. Should the government step in and force Wal-Mart to accept higher priced goods?

    You really don't know what Walmart is all about, do you?

    Yes, I do. They are about 20 percent cheaper than their nearest competitor.
    And you get exactly what you pay for - CRAP!

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