on Walmart

[Surfah]

Originally Posted by ChinoCoug

Have you guys read anything I wrote? I love Walmart!

I stopped reading after you pigeonholed me for being obese because I live near Richmond and I was like, "Hey! I resemble that!"

[BarbaraGordon]

Originally Posted by ChinoCoug

Second, Walmart chooses its counties based on market conditions, it doesn't choose them randomly.

counties?! We have one on every block! In twelve minutes I can get to five "super centers" and four "neighborhood markets."

I guess my experience with WM is different than the small-town phenomenon you're discussing, in which WMcan come in and provide jobs and completely revitalize the economy.

[ChinoCoug]

Originally Posted by Surfah

I stopped reading after you pigeonholed me for being obese because I live near Richmond and I was like, "Hey! I resemble that!"

sorry dude

[ChinoCoug]

Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon

counties?! We have one on every block! In twelve minutes I can get to five "super centers" and four "neighborhood markets."

I guess my experience with WM is different than the small-town phenomenon you're discussing, in which WMcan come in and provide jobs and completely revitalize the economy.

Just remember the poor are made better off when the stuff they buy is cheap. The benefits aren't all that apparent.

[Solon]

Originally Posted by ChinoCoug

No, have you? If you have, maybe you can tell me if he cites more peer-reviewed studies than the one by Goetz (and the Basker one it attacks) on page 165.

http://books.google.com/books?id=oq2...sult#PPA159,M1

First, why is he citing the one study that studies Walmart's impact on poverty? The Walmart->poverty causal chain is a mile long with an array of intermediate factors. Why no studies on factors Walmart has a direct impact, i.e., wages and prices?

That's probably why Goetz does doesn't even know why he found what he found. He only has three "possible reasons."

http://cecd.aers.psu.edu/pubs/PovertyResearchWM.pdf

Second, Walmart chooses its counties based on market conditions, it doesn't choose them randomly. To keep costs low they may choose areas with lower potential for wage growth (hence slower poverty reduction). That'll bias the results.

Dam apologist is cherrypicking.

Yeah, I've read it. Maybe you should too, before you decide what it says.

I have no interest in defending this book (or attacking it). The author's bias is evident, but the statistics are mind-boggling. Read it yourself before you dismiss it just because it was written by a journalist.

By the way, I love Wal-Mart. I'm too poor for that kind of idealism.

[Frank Ryan]

Originally Posted by ChinoCoug

Just remember the poor are made better off when the stuff they buy is cheap. The benefits aren't all that apparent.

Poor people don't need more 20 dollar dvd players that last a week. wal-mart can go to hell for butting in on the elections. if Obama wins i hope he shoves EFCA up their ass

[ChinoCoug]

Originally Posted by Frank Ryan

Poor people don't need more 20 dollar dvd players that last a week. wal-mart can go to hell for butting in on the elections. if Obama wins i hope he shoves EFCA up their ass

Do they need the food they have to spend 26% of their income on?

[Frank Ryan]

Originally Posted by ChinoCoug

Do they need the food they have to spend 26% of their income on?

maybe they can take those savings and sock it away for a trip to the doctor

[ChinoCoug]

Originally Posted by Frank Ryan

maybe they can take those savings and sock it away for a trip to the doctor

exactly, they can't get those savings w/o Walmart.

[Frank Ryan]

Originally Posted by ChinoCoug

exactly, they can't get those savings w/o Walmart.

I'd rather pay more for produce and food at a place like Smiths and know that the nice cashier lady has access to affordable healthcare than go to Wal-Mart.

Do you think they could or should treat their employess better if it means tweaking their profit margin a bit?

I understand your sentiment about Wal-Mart helping lower income Americans but my problem with them is how they treat their workers. That, and their butting into the election.