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

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From: George
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:44
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Bob Ward wrote:

>>>>--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.

Or they won't talk about it because Walmart is their biggest customer.
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