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

#394
From: gamer
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:23
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Bob Ward wrote:

>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.
>  
>

like P&G ?
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