It sounds like Walmart is doing everything right and living the American dream. So what's the problem.
Safeway closed their stores around here long before we ever got our first Walmart store. That was their coice to close the stores. Winn-Dixie bought the old Safeway store, remodeled and expanded the building and then closed their doors in about a year
Walmart never built a store where it would compete directly with K-Mart, until they knew they could beat K-Mart and that's exactly what they did.
Walmart did not get as big as they are by bing stupid. Like it or not, they built a better buiness model than their competitors did and made it work. Not so different than what the foreign automakers have been doing to GM, Ford and Chrysler. Instead of making better cars at a lower price, they want to build the same old crap and whine to the government that they need a bailout because the Japanese, Koreans and Germans are kicking their buts.
...Rich
Safeway closed their stores around here long before we ever got our first Walmart store. That was their coice to close the stores. Winn-Dixie bought the old Safeway store, remodeled and expanded the building and then closed their doors in about a year
Walmart never built a store where it would compete directly with K-Mart, until they knew they could beat K-Mart and that's exactly what they did.
Walmart did not get as big as they are by bing stupid. Like it or not, they built a better buiness model than their competitors did and made it work. Not so different than what the foreign automakers have been doing to GM, Ford and Chrysler. Instead of making better cars at a lower price, they want to build the same old crap and whine to the government that they need a bailout because the Japanese, Koreans and Germans are kicking their buts.
...Rich