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To: "Killer Bs Discussion"
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 12:37 AM
Subject: Re: Wal-Mart efficiency (was Re: My annual Xmas tirade...)
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> Are you seriously saying that walmart sells for
> From: Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> From: "The Fool"
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> > Do you exclude food from your calculations? (Most food isn't grown
in
> > Red China)
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> No, I didn't realize that certain things "didn't count" as products
for
> you. But, I'll be happy to look at non-food items as a catagor
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From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: Wal-Mart efficiency (was Re: My annual Xmas tirade...)
> Do you exclude food from your calculations? (Most food is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote,
One of the basic precepts of free market economics is competition
between suppliers. ...
Many of these companies (eg Walmart) are growing so huge and
powerful that they are endangering that. Here in Australia we
have basically two large food etc super
On 12/24/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
wrote:
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> > ... ignoring the impact on people who are
> marginalized
> >by the changes brought about by Wal-Mart's tactics is bad, in my opinion.
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>
> But, isn't the fact that Wal-Mart cut prices by innovation good? Isn't
> making the nation, a
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> Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Stores are ecconomic entities. Forcing people to buy from less
efficent
> stores is an ecconomic decision. What other factors, that are not
tied to
> jobs, prices, income, etc. are you thinking of? I kno
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From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 12/23/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>
>The fact that Wal-Mart can make money and people end up driving
farther
doesn't
>make it good that they've driven smaller businesses out of bus
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From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 09:14:35 -0800
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: Re: Wal-Mart efficiency (was Re: My annual Xmas tirade...)
On 12/23/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> For example,
On 12/23/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> For example, you brought up that cost is not the only measure, the
> distance
> needed to travel to shop is a factor that has to be included. The counter
> would be that shoppers at Wal-Mart have already made this
> tradeoff. People
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>> And cutting unnecessary costs. Wal-Mart has driven up
>>_productivity_.
>'Productivity' is just another word for the 'efficiency' that you
>worship like a supply sider.
Like Brad Delong and Paul Krugman?
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Who both argue for the joys of 'free trade' as
>> And cutting unnecessary costs. Wal-Mart has driven up
>>_productivity_.
>'Productivity' is just another word for the 'efficiency' that you
>worship like a supply sider.
Like Brad Delong and Paul Krugman? Are you seriously arguing against the
notion that improved productivity has been the fo
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From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:08:30 -0800
To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
Subject: Re: Wal-Mart efficiency (was Re: My annual Xmas tirade...)
On 12/22/05, Dan Minette
On 22 Dec 2005, at 6:01 pm, Dave Land wrote:
On Dec 22, 2005, at 9:08 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
On 12/22/05, Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And cutting unnecessary costs. Wal-Mart has driven up
_productivity_.
Again, by one measure. Who is measuring the productivity of the
fami
On Dec 22, 2005, at 9:08 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
On 12/22/05, Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And cutting unnecessary costs. Wal-Mart has driven up
_productivity_.
Again, by one measure. Who is measuring the productivity of the
families
and communities that are impacted by Wal-Ma
On Dec 22, 2005, at 3:50 AM, Dan Minette wrote:
Small businesses offer less in the way of health insurance than big
businesses.
And Wal-Mart offers even less than most small businesses. Are you
sure you're helping your case?
Dave
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> From: Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> On 12/21/05, Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > >That it drives out small businesses that create qualitative and
> > >hard-to-quantify benefits?
> >
> > Sure, it drives out small businesses. S
On 12/22/05, Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> But, the efficiency improvement from Wal-Mart is documented. It is really
> efficiency.
That's only one measurement. Surely you don't think that prices and profits
are all there is to evaluating Wal-Mart? Are you unwilling to consider
o
At 09:39 PM Wednesday 12/21/2005, The Fool wrote:
> From: Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: "The Fool"
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> > --
> > From: Dave Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > And no, I don't want us to be communist or something else,
> > I just don't want my economy destroyed by rapacity.
> >
> >
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From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Killer Bs Discussion"
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: Wal-Mart efficiency (was Re: My annual Xmas tirade...)
On 12/21/05, Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: "The Fool"
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> > --
> > From: Dave Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > And no, I don't want us to be communist or something else,
> > I just don't want my economy destroyed by rapacity.
> >
> >
> > Since most products sold at walmart are
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Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 6:42 PM
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> From: Dave Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Dave Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
And no, I don't want us to be communist or something else,
I just don't want my economy destroyed by rapacity.
Since most products sold at walmart are made in china, shopping there
is proping up and supporting red communism.
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On 12/21/05, Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> >That it drives out small businesses that create qualitative and
> >hard-to-quantify benefits?
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> Sure, it drives out small businesses. Small businesses are rather
> inefficient at selling, and have to pass the cost on to the customer.
> T
On Dec 21, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Dave Land wrote:
...
Forgot the one about underpricing competition until it goes
out of business so that it is free to claim the 'lowest prices'
in town, because nobody else is in town. They even installed
gas pumps at some of their stores so that none of the gas
sta
On Dec 21, 2005, at 12:35 PM, Nick Arnett wrote:
On 12/21/05, Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Wal-Mart's latest (fiscal year ending 1-05) profit margin was 3.6%.
They make a good deal of profit, 10 billion, but on slim margins.
This is in contrast with Microsoft, which has a profit marg
Dan Minette wrote:
>a wearable shirt costs...at Walmat
To me, that's a contradiction in terms. My personal experiences with
clothes purchased at Wal-Mart is that you get *exactly* what you pay
for. Cheap clothes that look like crap after just a few washings.
Maybe others have had different
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From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: Wal-Mart efficiency (was Re: My annual Xmas tirade...)
On 12/21/05, Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 12/21/05, Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Wal-Mart's latest (fiscal year ending 1-05) profit margin was 3.6%. They
> make a good deal of profit, 10 billion, but on slim margins. This is in
> contrast with Microsoft, which has a profit margin of ~32% and about 13
> billion in profi
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From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Killer Bs Discussion"
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: Wal-Mart efficiency (was Re: My annual Xmas tirade...)
Whoops, forgot the source for much of my info...
http:/
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From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Killer Bs Discussion"
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 10:20 AM
Subject: Wal-Mart efficiency (was Re: My annual Xmas tirade...)
On 12/20/05, Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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On 12/20/05, Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> So, I'm not sure why Wal-Mart is singled out as evil. Is there some
> reason
> that inefficiency is inherently moral?
Do I understand you correctly -- your premise is that Wal-Mart is efficient
and its competitors aren't?
Nick
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