You can talk shit about Walmart if you want, but.....
Walmart Inc. announced that a basket of Thanksgiving items at retail stores would have prices rolled back to 2021 levels through the holiday season amid the worst inflation in forty years.
I can see the hordes of toothless, white, corncob pipe smoking, hooch-swilling, trailer trash, OxyContin addicts and knuckle dragging, vine swinging baby-momma banging homey apes rubbing their mitts together in drooling anticipation right now. Not for the on-the-cheap thanksgiving goodies, but for the distraction they'll cause as they slip out the doors with HDTVs, laptops and Amazon ear buds.
One thinks back to the last time high gas prices, 12% mortgages, soaring prices and wars going on were the norm, when someone who shoulda stuck with peanut farming became presidunce. Another fucking democrat. They never learn.
Walmart never had to close during the scandemic, and it posted record profits. I'm still sore about all the small businesses who had to close, to stem the spread. That made no scientific sense, funnel everyone into the same big box stores. I wonder how much money went to Congressmen's pockets to favor some stores over others.
No stores closed here in Macon County. About the only things that did were dine-in restaurants and that was for only a few days. I'd say here, Walmart lost business because they required masks while none of the Mom & Pop stores or the Piggly Wiggly did.
Small hardware stores, salons, gyms, restaurants, lots of service industries closed. Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Lowes, Sam's, stayed open; this was in paranoid El Paso. That city was absolutely stricken with panic and fear. I left in July 2021. My parents retirement community in San Antonio opened up to visitors in late Spring 2021. No one was allowed to see the residents. Both parents' health greatly declined that year. As soon as I saw my mom, I called the ambulance. She was 2 units of blood low, had a bleeding ulcer, blocked kidneys, was below a hundred pounds. My mom died in February. My dad had 2 abscessed teeth and required two extractions. He has diabetes. A lot of residents died.
My neighbor's wife works for Lowes in the next county over. They damned near killed her with the hours she was putting in. Everybody in that town was either laid off or on leave and suddenly had plenty of time to do those projects.
Oh, yeah, small restaurants were shuttered, but they kept Taco Bell open (drive thru window only). Liquor stores stayed open, but they closed churches! I really, really felt for the workers who were suddenly considered essential. I am glad Walmart is doing this gesture. Grocery prices are really hitting the budget. I just realized how mad I still am. I am mad for all the people who lost their jobs or quit or who got fired, or suffered loss of health care, suffered loneliness, or died alone.
Walmart lowering the prices for Thanksgiving food is a brilliant move on their part to increase the goodwill of the company. Even if the profit margin on these items is greatly lowered, Walmart will make up for it in increased sales in the future.
That and what walmart considers t-giving food is not the same as everyone else. So they will still be buying other things. I think this is call Loss Leaders selling.
I still went to the restraunts that were open because of the sorry fcks that closed restraunts down. I would tip more for being one few trying to make it. I still tip more because of all the handouts the govt pays not to work.
Sure folks will come in for the cheap food , but how many will stop there? whatever was saved on the meal will get spent x 10 on extra Christmas stuff or other goods .
That is a really amazing thing they're doing.
ReplyDeleteI can see the hordes of toothless, white, corncob pipe smoking, hooch-swilling, trailer trash, OxyContin addicts and knuckle dragging, vine swinging baby-momma banging homey apes rubbing their mitts together in drooling anticipation right now. Not for the on-the-cheap thanksgiving goodies, but for the distraction they'll cause as they slip out the doors with HDTVs, laptops and Amazon ear buds.
ReplyDeleteWhat’s wrong with corncob pipes?
DeleteSmart move.
ReplyDeleteOne thinks back to the last time high gas prices, 12% mortgages, soaring prices and wars going on were the norm, when someone who shoulda stuck with peanut farming became presidunce.
ReplyDeleteAnother fucking democrat.
They never learn.
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Walmart never had to close during the scandemic, and it posted record profits. I'm still sore about all the small businesses who had to close, to stem the spread. That made no scientific sense, funnel everyone into the same big box stores. I wonder how much money went to Congressmen's pockets to favor some stores over others.
ReplyDeleteNo stores closed here in Macon County. About the only things that did were dine-in restaurants and that was for only a few days.
DeleteI'd say here, Walmart lost business because they required masks while none of the Mom & Pop stores or the Piggly Wiggly did.
Small hardware stores, salons, gyms, restaurants, lots of service industries closed. Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Lowes, Sam's, stayed open; this was in paranoid El Paso. That city was absolutely stricken with panic and fear. I left in July 2021. My parents retirement community in San Antonio opened up to visitors in late Spring 2021. No one was allowed to see the residents. Both parents' health greatly declined that year. As soon as I saw my mom, I called the ambulance. She was 2 units of blood low, had a bleeding ulcer, blocked kidneys, was below a hundred pounds. My mom died in February. My dad had 2 abscessed teeth and required two extractions. He has diabetes. A lot of residents died.
ReplyDeleteMy neighbor's wife works for Lowes in the next county over. They damned near killed her with the hours she was putting in. Everybody in that town was either laid off or on leave and suddenly had plenty of time to do those projects.
DeleteOh, yeah, small restaurants were shuttered, but they kept Taco Bell open (drive thru window only). Liquor stores stayed open, but they closed churches! I really, really felt for the workers who were suddenly considered essential. I am glad Walmart is doing this gesture. Grocery prices are really hitting the budget. I just realized how mad I still am. I am mad for all the people who lost their jobs or quit or who got fired, or suffered loss of health care, suffered loneliness, or died alone.
DeleteAnd I don't blame you for being mad. I'd wonder about you if you weren't.
DeleteIf it wasn't for walmart, I would have grown up naked.
ReplyDeleteWalmart lowering the prices for Thanksgiving food is a brilliant move on their part to increase the goodwill of the company. Even if the profit margin on these items is greatly lowered, Walmart will make up for it in increased sales in the future.
ReplyDeleteThat and what walmart considers t-giving food is not the same as everyone else. So they will still be buying other things. I think this is call Loss Leaders selling.
DeleteI still went to the restraunts that were open because of the sorry fcks that closed restraunts down. I would tip more for being one few trying to make it. I still tip more because of all the handouts the govt pays not to work.
ReplyDeleteWon't matter to me. I haven't set foot in a Mall-Wart since 2015, & never will again.
ReplyDelete--Tennessee Budd
A month and a half ago a can of pinto beans at Walmart were 86 cents. Today $1.86
ReplyDelete15# turkey in SoAZ is $40+ at Slaveway (safeway)
ReplyDeleteTom762
Sure folks will come in for the cheap food , but how many will stop there? whatever was saved on the meal will get spent x 10 on extra Christmas stuff or other goods
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Money that will be spent on Christmas presents anyway, but yes, it is a market strategy.
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