Walmart can blame whatever they want, the truth is
their buyers are lousy.  The place is like a giant
Dollar General.  Even the employees are complaining, to
the customers!

We better wake up before we run out of a country.

Memo to America: Stop waiting for Democrats and Republicans to save you.

“WAKE UP!”  -  JOIN THE REVOLUTION
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FIGHT THE CAUSE - NOT THE SYMPTOM

Well, by ‘god’, as predicted, ‘god’ came through for the Waltons in their time of need. Last night ‘He’ sent them a vision, to ‘Give your poor customers what they want’.
So this morning, WalMart announced it is greatly expanding gun sales in it’s SuperStores throughout the US. Monday it will announce that it is going to ‘Take over the Afghan War’. Wow, what a relief that will be for US taxpayers!. (Won’t help the rich much, ‘cause they don’t pay taxes anyway). But it is not an altruistic move on the Walton’s part, and has nothing to do with their new gun sales policy.
They just want to assure a firm supply for the Speedballs, Heroin, and Hash they plan to start selling in their pharmacies, as ‘Medical Dope’, so no prescription is needed. As soon as they firm up their Samoan Meth Lab deal, their dope line will be complete, until the next pharmaceutical fad/rage hits the market.
But wait!, you say. If the problem is that WalMart customers are too poor to by their normal products, how are they going to afford to buy firearms and drugs? The WalMart spokesperson answered this softball question with a bit of a sneer:
‘Hey, the typical US WalMart customer may now be too poor to buy food and clothing, but will always have plenty of money to get what he/she really want and needs, like guns and dope’.

Bottom feeders.  I’m surprised Wal-Mart isn’t buying up foreclosed homes and re-selling them.  Their down-town-business killing strategy is finally coming home to roost.

Even 19th century robber barons recognized you had to have jobs if you wanted people to buy stuff. Ultimately, you, as the robber baron, had to produce SOMETHING of value, or it would all fall apart…as it has.

fastest growing retail segment is the dollar store format: Dollar Tree, Family Dollar, etc.

THAT is where the “loyal” walmart shopper is going.

I’m always amazed when it is assumed that people who shop at Walmart are poor. One day (I’ve never been in a Walmart) I drove around a Walmart parking lot and looked at the cars. I saw a lot of expensive vehicles (Audis, BMWs, Avalons). What is it about white Americans? They’ll fill their homes with the cheapest junk, feed their kids the cheapest junkiest food, but they just LUUUUUV to drive fancy German cars!

WalMart has several choices. It can start selling Rolex and Phillippe Patek watches, Azimut-Benetti and Ferretti yachts, Lamborghini and McClaren autos, etc. ...those customers have lots of money. Or, it can become a ‘Nothing Over 99 Cents Store’, close it’s Chinese and Taiwan factories, and start selling only American-made products. Or it can plead hardship, move it’s headquarters from Arkansas to Wall Street, and get on the BailOut bandwagon, and become ‘GovernmentMart’. Or it can start a ‘Going Out Of Business’ sale, reduce it’s prices to below cost, making everything 25 cents or less, and keep it up for however many years it’s homeless sucker/customers keep buying their schlock.

Or John-Boy and the rest of the Waltons can buy billions of gold coins with their $Trillions, build their own private island in Dubai, retire to a chain of penthouses, and amuse themselves by trying to crown peasant-tourists by flipping their coins down 200 stories onto their heads.

In which case, they could do the right thing by converting all their vacant SuperStores into homeless shelters, while waiting a few centuries for the Goldman, Chase and B of A Figmental Mortgage Derivatives to regain their value. And hope and pray (the Waltons are very religious, you know) that the descendants of today’s homeless, already in-place in the SuperStores, will again become viable WalMart customers.

Don’t worry about the Waltons. Their ‘god’ will see them through this crisis. Just as it says on their WalMart script, aka US currency, ‘In ‘God’ We Trust’.

So what do folks do when they can’t afford Walmart?
Perhaps they start thinking about why.
Perhaps they start adding up the numbers and coming to certain conclusions.
Of course, fuel costs will carve into other corporate profits - all the chains, franchises, big boxes, and the host of other corporate vultures that want their pound of flesh.
But as long as Walmart shoppers live in Autopia, those vanishing profits will go to feed the Big Wheel Machine. That’s just how it is.
What do you suppose? 75% of all Walmart shoppers drive there? How about over 90%?
Talk about feeding the hand that bites ya!

Perhaps the time is long past due to consider just why the population has become so vulnerable to rising gasoline costs - just as they became so vulnerable to tanking real estate values, not to mention vulnerable to less-than-perfect educational course of study choices. How many college grads can afford to shop at Walmart, or anywhere else, these days?

Anyhow, I think you find a lot of Walmart junkies these days haunting Dollarama…

Yep, the “good times” are over.

So, whatcha gonna do aboudid?