WAL-MART

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Originally Posted by Nebe

Our country is in the mess it is in today because of walmart and walmart like principles used by many companies. The true moron here is the person who can not see this. :P
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Come on Nebe, without companies like Wal-Mart you wouldn't have a single location to purchase from a limited selection of cheap crap produced in third world countries.

Instead, you'd have to waste time in and out of small business who are only able to cater to a local or specific needs. And since those people are closer to their products and customers they care about quality...and quality is EXPENSIVE.

And think of all those jobs Wal-Mart has sucked up and replaced with fewer lower paying jobs?

How do you deliver shareholder value if you have all that overhead?

You have a lot to learn about business, or America for that part.

-spence

[striperman36]

It unfortunately seems to be the way of commerce, 'shareholder' value not product value

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Originally Posted by striperman36

It unfortunately seems to be the way of commerce, 'shareholder' value not product value

One area where you do see more focus on product value is the electronics industry. Moore's Law pushes the pace of innovation.

-spence

[striperman36]

Originally Posted by spence

One area where you do see more focus on product value is the electronics industry. Moore's Law pushes the pace of innovation.

-spence

I think that's different though as Moore's law implies obsolence at the same it pushes the pace of innovation, so why make a device that can last 7 years when the lifespan will be less that 3?

I finally upgraded to a smart phone after 3 years, a milspec smartphone even I probably can find a way to break, but its going to be hard to do

[detbuch]

Originally Posted by spence

Come on Nebe, without companies like Wal-Mart you wouldn't have a single location to purchase from a limited selection of cheap crap produced in third world countries.

Similar to the progressive continual transformation of the U.S. government into a centralized control and command system rather than the federalist idea of sovereign states forming a compact for mutual protection and cooperation.

Instead, you'd have to waste time in and out of small business who are only able to cater to a local or specific needs. And since those people are closer to their products and customers they care about quality...and quality is EXPENSIVE.

Sounds, again, like the progressive big government solution to our "problems"--efficient centralization rather than the cumbersome and often contradictory weilding of power from local representatives who are familiar with the specific "needs" of their constituents (who have greater power to influence their local reps than they do to influence the central gvt.)--the cheap one size fits all solution you seem to like, rather than than the greater quality of customized governance.

And think of all those jobs Wal-Mart has sucked up and replaced with fewer lower paying jobs?

Or think of all the jobs destroyed by centralized government regulation and taxation and myopic, diversty destroying plans to "help" the "people."

How do you deliver shareholder value if you have all that overhead?

You have a lot to learn about business, or America for that part.

-spence

How do you deliver tax value when you create a massive bureaucracy loaded with redundant, wasteful overhead, and you spend more than you take in?

[RIJIMMY]

Originally Posted by spence

Come on Nebe, without companies like Wal-Mart you wouldn't have a single location to purchase from a limited selection of cheap crap produced in third world countries.

Instead, you'd have to waste time in and out of small business who are only able to cater to a local or specific needs. And since those people are closer to their products and customers they care about quality...and quality is EXPENSIVE.

And think of all those jobs Wal-Mart has sucked up and replaced with fewer lower paying jobs?

How do you deliver shareholder value if you have all that overhead?

You have a lot to learn about business, or America for that part.

-spence

from the same guy that said "innovate or die" in the Borders thread

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Originally Posted by RIJIMMY

from the same guy that said "innovate or die" in the Borders thread

Huh?
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