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

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From: Bob Ward
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:05
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On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:23:54 -0400, gamer <edc4h@cox.net> wrote:

>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 ?


Was that supposed to mean something?
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