Wal-mart Deals

gotta love the wal-mart fishing section, although I try to shop at the local bait shops as often as possible and for a wider selection, but…..Sometimes you can pick up some sweet deals at walmart! I picked up some bags of plastic-finess worms at 20 per pack for 50 cents and 10 packs of lizards for 25 cents a pack.Yum Zellamanders were also marked @ 2.00 I also wanted to pass on that the rumor of wal-mart closing down the fishing section is false for the southside walmart in La Crosse..They said they were getting rid of their guns, but going to be actually making their sporting good section larger. Thats good to hear, I don’t mind paying 1/4 of the money I should be paying

(although I will be hitting ACE later for their 2 dollar frenzy’s )

Walmart

Thats all I have to say

I seen them plastics at the Onalaska store, but passed on them. I went there looking for some reels they had on clearance, but they had already sold them I missed out on all the clearanced electronics

im with eyebuster…Wal-Mart

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Walmart

Thats all I have to say

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I know, Like I said I try to patronize the bait shops, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do and dang Should i get a gumball or a bag of lizards??

So what is wrong with Wal-Mart? Too many deals?

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So what is wrong with Wal-Mart? Too many deals?

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Are you serious? Those deals seem really good with more and more mom and pop shops ging out of business.. hope your area wally world carries minnows after the bait shops go down, and the bait shop owner can pay his mortgage at minimum wage wally-world wages because that was the only job open. Wont be able to get health insurance because wally-world only lets him work just enough hours not to be declared full time for benefits.

Good prices.. maybe
Good for area business or society in general? Answer that yourself.

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So what is wrong with Wal-Mart? Too many deals?

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If you like to support the chinese economy there is nothing wrong with Walmart

You support walmart and probly dont even know it.
Wal-Mart gets more money in the form of goverment grants them you can imagine. All that is tax money you and I pay. So why not get some of that back on the big sell? Do not misunderstand,I fill the pain of the mom and pop shops.But you and I passing on the good deals are not going to save thr world. My 2 cents

the walten kids have destroyed somthing a good man made. a store that gave you a choice between chinese and american no matter what, he made it happen. for all of you that complain about prices and where things come from i hope you look around your house before making comments….

I don’t really care for Wal-Mart in a lot of ways. My wife worked there for a couple years and they treat employees pretty bad by paying poor wages and terrible insurance. But, I also won’t pass up a good deal if I can find it and get there quick enough

I say as far away from wal-mart as I can. I will pay the extra buck at the other places.

lots of choices in life.

you can choose not to shop/work/be insured there.

but for many americans the value that walmart brings to their quality of life is a great one.

say what you want about it but nobody can deny walmart is truly the pinnacle of retail sales.

Dave, Just for the record I work for the mega giant, not the retail end the distribution end. Did you know that Sam Walton started it all in a five and dime and just made his business more appealing to shop at thru deals that he outgrew his competition. I understand what you say about the small people but then why don’t people gripe about specialty places like Gander, Scheels, Cabela’s. Or how about big restauraunts putting the little guys down. So why not get mad at Target? Don’t you think they’ve put their fair share of mom and pop stores out of business? Don’t get me wrong I don’t like it but, it’s the way our society has gone.

Well said muskyman. Wallmart, like it or not represents what makes America great. If you don’t care to do business there. Perfectly fine. If you don’t want to work there, find a new job or just quit.

Here is a question for you Wallmart haters. If Wallmart did not exist today and you were asked what you want in a store. The answer would be: Huge selection, Low Prices. Careful what you ask for I guess……

-J.

It’s not just Wal-mart it is all of the big retail stores more and more products are coming from overseas and unfortunately allot of our jobs are going overseas. The sad fact is that most if not all of us spend our dollars on something that was not made in the US weather we realize it or not.

Huh? Let me see, Gamakatszu, Daiwa, Daichi, Okuma, Shimano…

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If you don’t want to work there, find a new job or just quit.

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She did, once she graduated from college and got a real job
My wife loves Wal-Mart for the grocery prices, just not their work conditions. But, I wouldn’t and don’t buy our meat there It is safe to eat, just far from fresh and not the best quality.

don’t forget LUCKY CRAFT one of the most raved about lures in the industry of bass fishing…Aren’t they made in Japan too???

Interestingly enough, the plastics that I bought tonight are “walmart flw plastics” and are “100%” made in the USA. same goes for the yum zellamanders

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. But, I wouldn’t and don’t buy our meat there It is safe to eat, just far from fresh and not the best quality.

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Yeah we just had steak from there last night It definitely wasn’t St. Joes ridge steak…

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Huh? Let me see, Gamakatszu, Daiwa, Daichi, Okuma, Shimano…

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ABU GARCIA ROCK ON SWEDEN

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Wal-Mart gets more money in the form of goverment grants them you can imagine. All that is tax money you and I pay. So why not get some of that back on the big sell?

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I’d be interested to see the info you have on the government grants to Walmart. Please post them or send them to me.

-J.

Walmart produces many of those enrty level type jobs in the US. I don’t think they want people making a career at those positions. By the way the company is what? Top 5 employers in the US. (Maybe top 10, didn’t feel like googleing it) And growing at a steady pace.

Anyway. Another thing to consider. Most post high school economic courses would argue that Wallmart is more of a result of the economy than the reason for it. In other words, if Walmart didn’t do it someone else would have. The Ben Franklin on the corner of many city blocks here in the 70’s didn’t keep up and got ran over. Good, bad? Probably inevitable. Populations increasing so fast. It all in the “Economy of Scales” chapter I think.

I’d really like to see two sets of shopping isles in Wallmart. The one like it is right now. And the one where everything is produced in the USA, costs a little more to cover full heath coverage for all of the employees and pays more than union scale. Which isle do you shop? Point is businesses need to operate as efficiently as possible or they go under. Big companies exist in the US because they have to.

-J.

Like Wahlmart or not , I’ts an example of Capitalism at its finest. But Capitalism has never been pushed to its limits like Wahlmart is pushing. It started out like any other small business starts out, to make $$$. In order to stay profitable (in most business’) you must grow, expand your product line,etc. I don’t think 20 years ago anyone could have imagined what Wahlmart has become today….. I’m rambling !! It’s how they do business with there vendors that gets me: Example–Lets say you’ve got a small business manufacturing fishing lures. Wahlmart says the want to test them in a few locations, so they order 50,000 @ $3.00 each and need them in 2 months. Your happy as heck. A few months later Wahlmart calls back and asks for 2,000,000 @$2.50 each in 3 months. You tell them you don’t have the equipment or manpower to produce them that fast. They tell you to make it happen and they will order more next time. So you go out and get a few loans, putting your house and everything else you own on the line, hire 8-10 more people and think life is wonderful. You make the deadline with Wahlmart and everyone is happy Business is booming! Then they tell you they want 25,000,000 by NOON ON FRIDAY AND THEY’RE ONLY PAYING $.50 EACH. AND IF THEY DONT GET IT THEY ARE DONE DOING BUSINESS WITH YOU..There’s no way possible for that to happen-you cant even make them for that amount of money. So you tell then NO. Then you remember all your loans you took out to accomedate Wahlmart, everything you own is on the line, not to mention your employees. Now your in bankrupcy and S.O.L.
Your employees are now unemployed. This has happend many times with Wahlmart… Look what they did to LEVI’s a couple years ago.
The first time I was in Wahlmart I was greeted by an elderly gentlemen, “That’s nice, the hire retirees for greeters” I thought. Then I find they take out LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES on “some” employees …

I try to avoid Wahlmart as much as possible, even though they saved my when I blew a tire on the trailer around 9:30pm on a Saturday evening and they had the replacement IN STOCK.

That example sounds a little exagerated. But that stuff happens every day to every business. Shoot me the story on Levis. Missed that one.

-J.

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Then I find they take out LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES on “some” employees …

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I wanted to take a moment to respond to this comment. I am in the life insurance marking business. (20+ years) I work in design the types of insurance a company like Walmart might buy on a “Key Employee”. What you need to understand is this. If a company loses an employee to death (usually un-expected in the working years) who is so “key” to the operation, it will cost a company like Walmart several million dollars to replace him/her. Yes, we are not talking about the person stocking the shelf. We are talking about people who have masters degrees in business. 20-30 years experience in the business. Established professional in the industry. Usually recruited from similar fields. We are talking about top tier staff here. The transition after the death of a “Key Employee” is staggering to a business and the cause of many businesses going under. Proper planning for this event is prudent and required by many regulatory and investment firms.

-J.

…so, Walmart has some rubber worms on sale ….eh?

Just for the record they are the #2 employer in the US…..second only to the US gov. Jon don’t forget the Lizards and Zellamanders

The first thing to kill Mom & Pop stores was putting interstate highways around a town taking Main Street out of the retail business. Just snowbaled from there.
My two cents.

yeah thats what I bought. And for the price of what I would pay for one bag of GYCB or Reaction innovations…There were many other great deals there as well, just didn’t want to blow a hole in the pocket just yet