SouthernN'Proud
Southern Discomfort
One last chance.
me said:
I could not possibly care less if they get a tax break on it or not. The money comes from their collective pocket. They get it back as I described. Like all the others. Comprende?
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
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One last chance.
I could not possibly care less if they get a tax break on it or not. The money comes from their collective pocket. They get it back as I described. Like all the others. Comprende?
2minkey
bootlicker
i really don't think that has anything to do with their pricing models or practices. though i s'pose that does not make them any less of fuckheads in a more general sense.
SouthernN'Proud
Southern Discomfort
If they don't do it they'd be in a vast minority.
2minkey
bootlicker
so tell me about the majority. you're saying that there is a direct link, and figurin,' between pricing to consumers and charitable donations? who is doing this? how do you find these things out?
SouthernN'Proud
Southern Discomfort
Christ in a chariot driven sidecar.
It's called opening your fuggin eyes. Economics 101. Using your hotdamn brain. You want validation? Peel's yer boi for that. I prefer actual thought to playing "My search engine is better than yours".
If you owned a multi-million dollar company...household name...all that...fuggin THINK. Yes you want your company's name listed as a major charitable donor. Sheeples loves that. Yes, that takes money out of your pocket. What to do, what to do...how can I donate 2.6 million to the Free Tibet in a Cloud of Glory Fund and still keep what I would have been able to keep for m'DAMN self?
Jiminy jacked up Cricket dude, you of all people on this place oughta be able to figure it out if your past claims are anywhere near reality.
It's called opening your fuggin eyes. Economics 101. Using your hotdamn brain. You want validation? Peel's yer boi for that. I prefer actual thought to playing "My search engine is better than yours".
If you owned a multi-million dollar company...household name...all that...fuggin THINK. Yes you want your company's name listed as a major charitable donor. Sheeples loves that. Yes, that takes money out of your pocket. What to do, what to do...how can I donate 2.6 million to the Free Tibet in a Cloud of Glory Fund and still keep what I would have been able to keep for m'DAMN self?
Jiminy jacked up Cricket dude, you of all people on this place oughta be able to figure it out if your past claims are anywhere near reality.
2minkey
bootlicker
okay, that's what i thought.
i just wonder how wal-mart would be figuring that. you know, let's raise the price on watermelon bubble yum by fifty cent so we can give an extra $500 to jerry's kids. something tells me it's neither so direct nor so sinister. um-specially with their particular pricing strategy. now maybe operational efficiencies (i.e. paying employees poot and beating up suppliers, perhaps?) put them in a position to have extra money lying around, that they can donate to the fucked up kids network or whatever. but it ain't by "jacking up" shit.
and by the way, there's a shitload of charitable work that a lot of companies do that the never toot their own horn about, at least to the public. lots of it. how does that fit in to econ 101? nope, doesn't. though probably fits more into psych 101, as corporate types, fully aware they sell shit grade products and make sleazy decisions damned near every day, attempt to make themselves feel better about what they do.
SouthernN'Proud
Southern Discomfort
It's almost a guilt-driven system. Our competitor sponsors a program to send autistic kids to summer camp. We better do somethin to keep up, or a certain segment of the sheeples will start carrying torches around HQ.
So we set up a program to provide computers to inner city schools. That feel-good enough for ya?
Now we have a decision to make. We can foot the cost of 700 laptops, plus the people to install em, plus a nice little ad campaign to let the sheeples know we're doing it so they won't surround HQ...or we can add $1.25 to Product A's selling price. $1.25 multiplied by the last quarter's sales data equals the price of the laptops, IT, and ad campaign, with maybe a little wiggle room to cover the "unexpecteds".
You honestly think these CEOs got there by losing revenue?
So we set up a program to provide computers to inner city schools. That feel-good enough for ya?
Now we have a decision to make. We can foot the cost of 700 laptops, plus the people to install em, plus a nice little ad campaign to let the sheeples know we're doing it so they won't surround HQ...or we can add $1.25 to Product A's selling price. $1.25 multiplied by the last quarter's sales data equals the price of the laptops, IT, and ad campaign, with maybe a little wiggle room to cover the "unexpecteds".
You honestly think these CEOs got there by losing revenue?
2minkey
bootlicker
no, of course not. eventually it all comes out of somewhere. i just don't think there's quite the direct linkage between thems donations and intentionally jacking johnny average that you seemed to assert a few posts ago. meh... guess it's just "academic" at this point.
TexasRaceLady
Active Member
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4619734&page=1
From the tough anti-union talk to the wilder side of men in drag, videos of Wal-Mart corporate meetings are being sold to willing buyers, and the corporate behemoth is not happy about it.
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Very interesting. Not as good as the F1 sex tapes, but could be fun to watch. hehehe
From the tough anti-union talk to the wilder side of men in drag, videos of Wal-Mart corporate meetings are being sold to willing buyers, and the corporate behemoth is not happy about it.
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Very interesting. Not as good as the F1 sex tapes, but could be fun to watch. hehehe
spike
New Member
Now if you could actually show that Target, Sear, Kroger, etc had no difference in their business practices you might be on to something. Right now it's just wishful thinking.
SouthernN'Proud
Southern Discomfort
One of the network newscasts ran a piece on this tonight. Hard to see through the spin to tell whether it's a case of extortion by the videography company or sweeping under the rug by WalMart. Either way, I see a decent out of court settlement in somebody's near future. Wonder what THAT'LL do to peel's insurance premiums, and to the cost of Vietnamese throw pillows on aisle 160.
jimpeel
Well-Known Member
No biggie here, there, or anywhere. Businesses do silly shit all the time for fun and the entertainment of the assemblage.
At one of the Christmas parties that Odetics put on they had a video that was based on the old Brooke Shields Calvin Klien commercial where the camera pans up from her feet, over her hips, up her tastefully naked upper torso to her face where she says something like "I wouldn't be caught dead without my Calvin Klien jeans."
In this case, however, the end result is the president of the company -- a man.
Let's move along, folks. Nothing to see here.
At one of the Christmas parties that Odetics put on they had a video that was based on the old Brooke Shields Calvin Klien commercial where the camera pans up from her feet, over her hips, up her tastefully naked upper torso to her face where she says something like "I wouldn't be caught dead without my Calvin Klien jeans."
In this case, however, the end result is the president of the company -- a man.
Let's move along, folks. Nothing to see here.
SouthernN'Proud
Southern Discomfort
I'll be there in a few minutes. I wanna see if they's any carnage here first. You go on ahead though. ComPLETEly understandable why you'd want to...
SouthernN'Proud
Southern Discomfort
I swear it wasn't me
"Attention WalMart shoppers...today only we have a special on body armor, located on aisle 301 across from the jigsaw puzzles...first come first serve..."
"Attention WalMart shoppers...today only we have a special on body armor, located on aisle 301 across from the jigsaw puzzles...first come first serve..."
2minkey
bootlicker
"Attention WalMart shoppers...today only we have a special on body armor, - no, not the low grade shit we sent our folks to iraq with, but a higher, walmart-approved grade, made with pride in indonesia - located on aisle 301 across from the jigsaw puzzles...first come first serve..."
jimpeel
Well-Known Member
If 2minkey was in charge of Wal-Mart he would only buy from the most expensive high-end suppliers at American based companies. Of course, he would be looking for other gainful employment -- along with the other 1.3 million Wal-Mart associates -- within a few months; but he would have made a very powerful statement against cheap goods.