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<0> gopp, I don't buy clothes there, but most other stuff is good, cookware is good, hygene products are good (shampoo etc)
<1> I like quality not quanity
<0> gopp, the food is excellent
<2> competition is good, monolithic dominance is not
<1> Herzen yea, cloth is the only thing I don't like form costco or walmart
<1> in my opnion
<0> they have a huge fresh produce section
<1> Herzen but I do get underwears
<0> you can buy all sorts of exotic foreign stuff there too
<2> tmi
<1> I don't see why people buy designer underwear
<2> we're too ***y for our shirts
<3> <2> when one business signle-handedly drives many smaller businesses out of town due to their cut throat exclusive contracts with distributors and their ability to offer loss leaders on popular items, its anti-free market
<2> that's why
<3> *you* are anti-free market.
<1> like I just buy fruite and loom
<1> I support thier right to buy polo underwear
<1> but I won't
<4> those are only for fruits and loons ;-)
<3> Why would you try to use anti-free market as some sort of negative?
<5> gopp, it looks good on girls :d
<2> its not free when competition isn't free to purchase from distributors
<0> gopp, yeah designer underwear is nice for women
<0> but for men, *shrugs*
<1> well maybe you have a good arugment on girls, sure victoria secrete looks good
<1> Herzen I mean for men
<6> Linus- what 'products' does walmart not allow others to sell?
<1> Herzen a white shirt, is a white shirt
<2> my definition of free market is not the same as yours obviously
<1> no matter who makes it
<1> but the only arugment is 99 cent store shirts
<1> can rip after first wash
<0> Pepsi will sponsor a corner store here
<0> and they will not be allowed to sell Coke products
<0> otherwise Pepsi will pull the sponsoring
<0> Oh noes, Anti-Free Market!
<0> Its a business deal.
<1> Herzen yea mcd, only server coke
<1> but I don't eat mcds, hahaha
<6> Herzen how do you feel about pepsi having contract with high schools?
<1> so I don't care
<2> bud`, most of the questionable contracts walmart enters set minimal price pts for sales to competition, some set exclusive rights to products
<4> sort of like every major sports stadium - they serve either coke or pepsi, but not both
<1> pizza huts I eat, and they only serve pepsi
<6> Linus- name one
<0> bud`, if the highschools want to sign a contract with one company, all the power to them
<0> they have the freedom, and the choice to do that
<0> which is what free market is all about
<1> and the local pizza shop , has r c cola, from the machine
<4> isn't pizza hut owned by pepsi?
<1> not pepsi
<1> _3Josephs I think so
<2> a corner store is not gonna control the cola market in town
<6> Linus- like computers? you know dell/compaq etc.. have specific model numbers for systems they sell to walmart.. and other model #'s they sell to best buy, is this what you mean?
<1> Linus- sure it is
<1> in those hot humdi days of summer
<2> bud`, no
<1> who do you go and buy soda from
<4> no one, I drink water
<2> walmart does have an exclusive deal with another computer mfr though
<2> forget their name, e-soemthing
<6> Herzen but schools are public, right? do you think its ok for a school district to do it? exclusive pepsi school, a kid can be sent home for bringing in a can of coke?
<1> emachine ****s
<7> hahahahahah 51 inch Phillips TV at Circuit city is 999$ at Walmart the SAME TV is 1,198$
<1> walmart computers, are from idiots
<2> yes
<4> emachine's is gateway
<7> Next!
<1> so people have a right to be an idiot
<0> bud`, I don't think a child has ever been sent home for bringing in a can of coke
<1> and pay 300 usd for a computer
<1> Herzen in my high school
<2> walmart doesnt boast lowest prices
<3> I don't see how exclusive deals are anti-free market when other companies are free to market similar and often higher quality products or even cheaper lower quality products.
<8> `426HemiwHERE DID YOU SEE THAT?
<1> you where not allowed to bring mcd, or a box of pizz
<2> just low everyday prices
<1> Herzen it my high school
<1> it was illegal
<6> Herzen in Colorado, a kid was sent home for wearing a coke tshirt, when the school had signed a deal with pepsi
<1> in the lunch room
<8> gaddamnitall caps lock grr
<7> http://www.circuitcity.com/ccd/categorylist.do?catOid=-12870&Ns=accm_num_unts_sld|1&N=20012866+20012867+20012870&c=1&cm_re=main%20marquee-_-Save%20up%20to%2010%%20instantly%20on%20TVs-_-All%20projection%20TVs
<1> no brand name fast food
<0> bud`, then thats wrong on the part of the school
<0> and they take their contract way to seriously
<1> Herzen I am unsure why
<7> http://www.walmart.com/search/browse-ng.do?ics=20&ico=0&ref=++125875.244125+500748.500764+500921.4293837064+500500.4294144979&path=0%3A3944%3A133276%3A3996
<1> Herzen cafteria company had a contract
<1> that you could not bring other food, like mcds
<4> hmm, that's what we need .... generic fast food
<3> If walmart bought out every computer company and found a way to prevent other companies from building competing products... THEN it would be anti-free market.
<1> under thier contract Herzen
<3> Walmart has done nothing of the sort.
<0> bud`, when I was in highschool, my school had a contract with Pepsi
<1> thier arugment is that it lowered price
<0> I brought a no-name brand soda for lunches
<1> I argued it rose prices
<0> no big deal
<6> I thought e-machines were a best buy thing. Thats where we got my mom a cheap ****ty emachine from, wasnt walmart
<1> but lunch ladys where igonorate of ecomonics
<6> years ago tho
<3> You can buy computers from big companies or small ones... computer-only companies or wide-product companies.
<7> the whole point is, to blows that whole "exclusive" bull**** out of the water
<3> Hell you can even buy the parts and build your own.
<3> ****loads of competition.
<4> emachines is gateway's low end systems
<1> Herzen you where allowed pepsi or coke, but no mcds dominos or subway
<6> _3Josephs how long has gateway owned emachines?
<1> bags
<1> it was not legal
<1> since some stupid contract, or idiots wanted to make money
<0> breakfast time
<0> afk
<4> bud`, 3 or 4 years
<1> but I was a rebel in high shcol
<1> school
<1> I went home for lunch
<1> and atea cheap meal for free
<1> made by my moms
<0> [08:28] <1> but I was a rebel in high shcol
<0> [08:28] <1> school
<0> [08:28] <1> I went home for lunch
<0> lol
<1> didn't spend a dime
<7> at Circuit city an RCA 52" is 1139$ at Walmart the same TV is 988&
<1> Herzen it was legal for student to go home for lunch
<1> but I did
<6> packard bell, theres a company that deserved to die
<1> anways I was 18
<1> so I said **** school lunch
<7> shall we look at Computers now?=)
<6> knowingly selling defective crap as new
<0> afk
<8> it's $1139, sheesh, wtf is wrong with you, the dollar sign is supposed to be in FRONT of the number
<4> so, should ABC show the video of Woodruff getting injured or not?
<7> Emachine computer at walmart 498$ the same computer at Circuit City 339$
<3> And in spite of the decades of big-box stores popping up... mom and pop stores still exist. Many went out of business... but many did not.
<8> Everyone pound Rusty
<7> hehehe
<6> `426Hemi walmart is generally more expensive for a LOT of things. They just lure ppl in with sales on endcap items, that they sell for a loss. like $20 dvd players
<6> a totally fair and legal practice
<6> sell something for a loss, knowing that the rest of the crap the customer will buy, will have a huge profit %
<4> "loss leaders" - a staple of grocery store marketing for decades
<7> bud` i am just proving a point to Linus that his "exclusive contracting" is full of freakin crap because some idiot sticks want to bash Walmart for being successful
<7> he used computers and TV as an example
<3> Get 'em in the door by offering sales on selected items... a wide enough array that will appeal generally to most people... and when the people come in they'll still by a lot of non-sale items to avoid having to go to multiple locations, where a few will come in only for the specific items on sale.
<3> You might break even or lose money on the sale items... but you make up for it with the other items... and make money you would not have made before by getting them in the door.
<3> As opposed to somebody else's door.
<6> well thats just dumb, because tv's and computers often have model #'s specific to the retailor who buys them. So in theory *all* the big name stores have exclusive product that competitors cannot sell
<4> Which is why Black Friday sales are done that way
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