"TomCAt" <tomcatm@copper.net> wrote in message news:429c9c13$1_2@newsfeed.slurp.net...> Did I hear this right. There is going to be a Walmart Invitational PGA > event?>
The way I heard it, the tournament is going to be played in China since > that is where all the junk Walmart sells comes from.>
The great Chinese player Long Wang will be the host.>
The host course is the MoreJunk CC in Whysing.>
Is this for real? Walmart and Golf?>
Will Tiger play? How about KJ Choi.>
When is this tournament.
Wal-Mart has stores in China.
So you don't think the stuff you buy at the higher priced stores comes from China also? You are a fool if you believe that..
"Mark A" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:S42dnWHrFuNFAAHfRVn-3Q@comcast.com...> "TomCAt" <tomcatm@copper.net> wrote in message > news:429c9c13$1_2@newsfeed.slurp.net...>> Did I hear this right. There is going to be a Walmart Invitational PGA >> event?>>
The way I heard it, the tournament is going to be played in China since >> that is where all the junk Walmart sells comes from.>>
The great Chinese player Long Wang will be the host.>>
The host course is the MoreJunk CC in Whysing.>>
Is this for real? Walmart and Golf?>>
Will Tiger play? How about KJ Choi.>>
When is this tournament.> Wal-Mart has stores in China.>
So you don't think the stuff you buy at the higher priced stores comes > from China also? You are a fool if you believe that..
You mean the stuff I buy at LL Chang is from China? Now you tell me.
---------------------------------------------------------- "Mark A" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:S42dnWHrFuNFAAHfRVn-3Q@comcast.com...> "TomCAt" <tomcatm@copper.net> wrote in message > news:429c9c13$1_2@newsfeed.slurp.net...>> Did I hear this right. There is going to be a Walmart Invitational PGA >> event?>>
The way I heard it, the tournament is going to be played in China since >> that is where all the junk Walmart sells comes from.>>
The great Chinese player Long Wang will be the host.>>
The host course is the MoreJunk CC in Whysing.>>
Is this for real? Walmart and Golf?>>
Will Tiger play? How about KJ Choi.>>
When is this tournament.> Wal-Mart has stores in China.>
So you don't think the stuff you buy at the higher priced stores comes > from China also? You are a fool if you believe that..>
"dugjustdug" <prestigerealty@yvn.com> wrote in message news:1117583796.793674.325580@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...>I suppose it would be OK, but, they're asking for a f*&$%ng Greeter at> every Tee Block. I imagine It'll put all the locally-run tourneys out> of business, too.> Someone has to hire those greeters. It is obvious that they can't get jobs anywhere else.
My first really big driver was a 460cc Knight Extreme bought a Walmart in Nebraska for under $30 on sale. Worked fine at the time - a real boomer. Don't knock it until ... You know what I mean... There is an awful lot of pride appeal about knocking mass merchants and the 'common folk' ...
That said, Wally World has killed more small towns than drought and urban sprawl combined. They can rot as far as I'm concerned, from a sociologic view.
-- Jerry Jerry E. Wesch Chicago
"TomCAt" <tomcatm@copper.net> wrote in message news:429c9c13$1_2@newsfeed.slurp.net...> Did I hear this right. There is going to be a Walmart Invitational PGA> event?>
The way I heard it, the tournament is going to be played in China since
that> is where all the junk Walmart sells comes from.>
The great Chinese player Long Wang will be the host.>
"JE Wesch" <jerrywesch@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:WW8ne.5185$iA6.143@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com...> My first really big driver was a 460cc Knight Extreme bought a Walmart in> Nebraska for under $30 on sale. Worked fine at the time - a real boomer.> Don't knock it until ... You know what I mean... There is an awful lot of> pride appeal about knocking mass merchants and the 'common folk' ...>
That said, Wally World has killed more small towns than drought and urban> sprawl combined. They can rot as far as I'm concerned, from a sociologic> view.> Jerry
I have been in a lot small towns, and the downtown merchants all died long before Walmat came around, the first time they built a mall on the outside of town,
I never realized how stupid those Wal-Mart guys are building all those stores in dying small towns.
"JE Wesch" <jerrywesch@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:WW8ne.5185>
That said, Wally World has killed more small towns than drought and > urban> sprawl combined. They can rot as far as I'm concerned, from a > sociologic> view.>
"dsc" <Dudley.Cornman@eku.edu> wrote in message> The towns aren't dying... the small family owned mom and pop type> stores are dying... and the large stores like WallyWorld are a big part> of the reason. A few towns have realized this... and won't let> WallyWorld come in.> If they don't let them in, then the next town 20 miles away will let them in, and they will get all the sales tax and property tax revenue (plus the residents will have drive an extra 20 miles each way). Then the town will really die.
As you travel about, when you visit a rich town, you will not see any Walmarts in these towns. Nope, no Walmarts on Martha's Vineyard, Nantuckett, etc.
Walmart == junk. That is as simple as it gets. JUNK.
They hate unions, pay their help slave wages, and sell JUNK.
Look what happened up in Canada when the employees voted to be represented by a union; Walmart closed the store.
The "Beautiful People" don't shop at Walmart. They know that JUNK is JUNK.
============================================================= "Mark A" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:46-dneBp5fO8MADfRVn-vA@comcast.com...> "dsc" <Dudley.Cornman@eku.edu> wrote in message>> The towns aren't dying... the small family owned mom and pop type>> stores are dying... and the large stores like WallyWorld are a big part>> of the reason. A few towns have realized this... and won't let>> WallyWorld come in.>>
If they don't let them in, then the next town 20 miles away will let them > in, and they will get all the sales tax and property tax revenue (plus the > residents will have drive an extra 20 miles each way). Then the town will > really die.>
"Mark A" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message news:46-dneBp5fO8MADfRVn-vA@comcast.com...> "dsc" <Dudley.Cornman@eku.edu> wrote in message>> The towns aren't dying... the small family owned mom and pop type>> stores are dying... and the large stores like WallyWorld are a big part>> of the reason. A few towns have realized this... and won't let>> WallyWorld come in.>> Consider the number of employees at a Wal Mart versus the number Mom and Pop's employee. Not to mention the low wages M&P's would pay. And the benefits WalMart offers vs. M&P. Our town voted out a new Lowe's that would have employed 225, vs 3 very small hardware stores. Just last week I visited the 3 small hardware stores for a simple item: box cutter blades. Not one of them had them in stock. So I had to drive to the nearest Lowe's or Home Depot. Same for all the contractors in our area. Off to Lowe's! If anything, I live in a boom town where M&P's just don't keep up with the supply and demand.
Forgot to mention that WallyWorld sells golf items.
"Toomanyputters" <rainydays@theswamp.com> wrote in message news:1rine.11006$_z6.1049623@twister.southeast.rr.com...>
"Mark A" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message > news:46-dneBp5fO8MADfRVn-vA@comcast.com...>> "dsc" <Dudley.Cornman@eku.edu> wrote in message>>> The towns aren't dying... the small family owned mom and pop type>>> stores are dying... and the large stores like WallyWorld are a big part>>> of the reason. A few towns have realized this... and won't let>>> WallyWorld come in.>>>
Consider the number of employees at a Wal Mart versus the number Mom and > Pop's employee. Not to mention the low wages M&P's would pay. And the > benefits WalMart offers vs. M&P. Our town voted out a new Lowe's that > would have employed 225, vs 3 very small hardware stores. Just last week > I visited the 3 small hardware stores for a simple item: box cutter > blades. Not one of them had them in stock. So I had to drive to the > nearest Lowe's or Home Depot. Same for all the contractors in our area. > Off to Lowe's! If anything, I live in a boom town where M&P's just don't > keep up with the supply and demand.>
The so called "beautiful people" will also pay in excess of $600 for a pair of $30 shoes........Wal-Mart is a success because "common folk" want reasonably priced items, no matter what country they come from. BTW, having spent some of my youth in the garment industry, I can say for certain that "labels" don't always mean what people think they mean.......
It's not how many times we have tried and failed that matter, but whether we tried at all. TOM G
On 1-Jun-2005, "Mark A" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
If they don't let them in, then the next town 20 miles away will let them> in, and they will get all the sales tax and property tax revenue (plus the> residents will have drive an extra 20 miles each way). Then the town will> really die.
And they do drive the extra 20 miles rather than shop at the old stores. Or in New Mexico, they drive the 80 miles to the next town.
On 1-Jun-2005, "TomCAt" <tomcatm@copper.net> wrote:
As you travel about, when you visit a rich town, you will not see any> Walmarts in these towns. Nope, no Walmarts on Martha's Vineyard,> Nantuckett, etc.
There's one in Beaver Creek. The difference is, the rich people don't live at Beaver Creek except during ski season. The people who clean their houses live there all year round, so they're the ones who vote. Rich people don't want to see the poor folk and try to vote to keep them living 30 miles away - along with their stores.
The "Beautiful People" don't shop at Walmart. They know that JUNK is JUNK.
They shop at Neiman Marcus and don't understand why the servants don't do the same thing.
On 1-Jun-2005, "oconnell@slr.orl.lmco.com" <oconnell@slr.orl.lmco.com> wrote:
It's kinda funny though mentioning all this in a golf group. The> PGA TOUR is an interesting variation on this theme. It has overtones> of unionism by restricting the number of potential "employees" and> definitely working to maximize revenue for the employees as oppose> to the customer. The flip side is that the requirey them to "compete"> with each other for jobs (based upon quality however, not wages). Of> course to some extent, it's an "employee owned" business too. I did> read though that some of the "organizers" in this union are starting> to make noise about some retirement benefits, to match the kinds that> employees in other sports get.
"TomCAt" <tomcatm@copper.net> wrote in message news:429db169_5@newsfeed.slurp.net...> As you travel about, when you visit a rich town, you will not see any > Walmarts in these towns. Nope, no Walmarts on Martha's Vineyard, > Nantuckett, etc.>
Walmart == junk. That is as simple as it gets. JUNK.>
They hate unions, pay their help slave wages, and sell JUNK.>
Look what happened up in Canada when the employees voted to be represented > by a union; Walmart closed the store.>
The "Beautiful People" don't shop at Walmart. They know that JUNK is > JUNK.>
Do the sales clerks who work in those expensive boutiques belong to unions?
