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Re: If they can't take the heat...

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From: Bob Ward
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:30
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On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 06:26:14 +0000 (UTC), don@manx.misty.com (Don
Klipstein) wrote:

>In <sjoeh2pqh725khhdnhku4vshd21aqfp6of@4ax.com>, Bob Ward brought to my 
>attention the following that I edited to include what I want to add to:
>
>>On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 14:44:30 -0500, Vic Smith
>><thismailautodeleted@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 06:09:38 GMT, Bob Ward <bobward@email.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 18:37:08 -0700, Abe <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>Why do you feel that it is morally superior for the studios to force
>>>>WalMart to order more DVDs than they expect to sell?
>>>>
>>>>WalMart isn't telling the studios how they can sell their product -
>>>>but they ARE telling the studios that they won't be selling as many
>>>>DVDs through WalMart.
>>>>
>>>Do you consider what you just said "spinning"?
>>>Or just plain old bullshit?
>>>
>>>--Vic
>>
>>Have you stopped beating your wife?
>
>  I say more power to anyone that successfully profits by being a supplier 
>to Wal-Mart!  A bit of research tells me that WM pushes, squeezes and 
>abuses their suppliers at least as badly as the horror stories that I 
>heard about Sears!  It surely appears to me that WM does not abuse merely
>their employees!
>
>  I would suggest seeing how Snapper succeeds in selling lawnmowers and 
>even manufacturing them in the USA by not selling through "Wally World", 
>and how the Vlassic pickle company bellied-up apparently-to-me as a result 
>of becoming a WM supplier!
>
> - Don Klipstein (don@misty.com)


Apparently you are willing and able to swallow anything presented by
anti-Walmart crusaders.  There are certainly thousands of Walmart
suppliers and employees who do NOT feel that they are being abused.
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