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kobyj
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 Posted: 11/15/04 - 18:45 Post subject: For anybody that has any feeling towards Walmart
If you like Walmart or not, you should probably check this show out. For me, it airs at 9pm Tuesday night.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/
| Quote: | | FRONTLINE offers two starkly contrasting images: one in Circleville, Ohio, where the local TV manufacturing plant has closed down; the other--a sea of high rises in the South China boomtown of Shenzhen. The connection between American job losses and soaring Chinese exports? Wal-Mart. For Wal-Mart, China has become the cheapest, most reliable production platform in the world, the source of up to $25 billion in annual imports that help the company deliver everyday low prices to 100 million customers a week. But while some economists credit Wal-Mart's single-minded focus on low costs with helping contain U.S. inflation, others charge that the company is the main force driving the massive overseas shift to China in the production of American consumer goods, resulting in hundreds of thousands of lost jobs and a lower standard of living here at home. |
Right before that is NOVA which is looking for the last remaining tunnel from "The Great Escape" in which some men escaped a German Prison during WWII.
Looks like Tuesday is going to be a good night for learning. 
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Laurie Ellen
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Posted: 11/15/04 - 20:19 Post subject:
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MastrBrewr
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Posted: 11/16/04 - 09:30 Post subject:
CNBC occassionally runs a show on Walmart.
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kristin31
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Posted: 11/16/04 - 10:59 Post subject:
I'll have to check that out. Circleville is very close to COlumbus (well, about 45 - 50 minutes). Every year the have the Circleville Pumpkin Show. So much of southeastern and southwestern Ohio is economically depressed from other businesses pulling out of the area. This is one more reason that I will never set foot in a Walmart again.
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cherylpf
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Posted: 11/16/04 - 11:04 Post subject:
 I missed it
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MechEngDropout
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Posted: 11/16/04 - 11:07 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: | | I missed it |
It's tonight. NOVA plays on Tuesdays at 7 CST.
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sonnylax
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Posted: 11/16/04 - 11:09 Post subject:
| kristin31 wrote: | | I'll have to check that out. Circleville is very close to COlumbus (well, about 45 - 50 minutes). Every year the have the Circleville Pumpkin Show. So much of southeastern and southwestern Ohio is economically depressed from other businesses pulling out of the area. This is one more reason that I will never set foot in a Walmart again. |
So what is the solution Kristin? Should we support business with artificially higher priced goods/services? (Maybe this should go into On-Topic.)
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kristin31
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Posted: 11/16/04 - 11:14 Post subject:
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So what is the solution Kristin? Should we support business with artificially higher priced goods/services? (Maybe this should go into On-Topic.) |
I personally support smaller businesses that don't farm everything out over seas. I boycotted the Limited and it's affiliates (i.e. Abercrombie and Fitch). I don't know what the solution is, but one could argue that the prices of Walmarts, Limiteds, etc are artificially deflated because they are relying on cheap child labor.
Quite frankly, this is a sensitive subject for me. I went through a layoff (and although at the time I was happy to get out of a corporate American hellhole and take the severance, it still stings a bit as I was quite good at my job) along with about 500 others. They farmed some of our jobs out to India, and the rest they filled with younger, cheaper, less qualified (read - more time and effort and $$ spent training them than they were worth) labor.
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bpdou
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Posted: 11/16/04 - 11:16 Post subject:
| sonnylax wrote: | | (Maybe this should go into On-Topic.) |
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cherylpf
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Posted: 11/16/04 - 11:23 Post subject:
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It's tonight. NOVA plays on Tuesdays at 7 CST. |
Right. Of course. I knew that  mental note: buy a calendar 
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Ms. Jenn
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Posted: 11/16/04 - 11:26 Post subject:
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Right. Of course. I knew that mental note: buy a calendar |
I agree this would be good idea for you.
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keltic63
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Posted: 11/16/04 - 11:27 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: |
Right. Of course. I knew that mental note: buy a calendar |
i think I've seen some calendars at Wal-Mart. they sell 'em pretty cheap. 
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phillycat
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Posted: 11/16/04 - 11:31 Post subject:
I think that it is virtually impossible to buy from somewhere that doesn't support foreign manufacturing.
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Cappy
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Posted: 11/16/04 - 12:23 Post subject:
*poof* to bring back from the the black hole
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keltic63
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Posted: 11/16/04 - 12:24 Post subject:
| Cappy wrote: | | *poof* to bring back from the the black hole |
Hey I was gonna do that!
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