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Thought Provoking
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 Posted: 11/09/05 - 05:51 Post subject: If Wal-Mart sold inexpensive health care and energy
would you buy it? After all, someone is going to have to move your cheese to fix the markets for these commodities.
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AlaninTX
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Posted: 11/09/05 - 08:40 Post subject:
I am not sure I am for turning over energy and healthcare to China's US consessionaire.
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megawill
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Posted: 11/09/05 - 09:21 Post subject:
| AlaninTX wrote: | | I am not sure I am for turning over energy and healthcare to China's US consessionaire. |
I don't think I can top that summation...
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jrjo
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Posted: 11/09/05 - 10:29 Post subject:
Like any business model, WalMart is right-place-at-the-right-time endeavor. Another ten years, cycles will change and that business model won't be the market leader it has been. IF Walmart tried something like healthcare or energy, I'd avoid it like the plague because it's leagues away from what they do now and it would fold them like a house of cards.
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runaroundsue
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Posted: 11/09/05 - 11:40 Post subject:
| jrjo wrote: | | Like any business model, WalMart is right-place-at-the-right-time endeavor. Another ten years, cycles will change and that business model won't be the market leader it has been. IF Walmart tried something like healthcare or energy, I'd avoid it like the plague because it's leagues away from what they do now and it would fold them like a house of cards. |
I agree. right now everything is about lower cost. I know I am starting to say "where's the customer service?", and I think even some small mom and pop are losing the "please the customer" attitude. I think it will become a factor again....especially as our boomers age.
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