Walmart in Viroqua WI no fishing depatment???

please don’t get me started on Kwik Trip.. because Wal Mart is a saint when compared to this local robber barron.

but if you want crappy gas and for your car or truck to ping like BIG BEN, then Kwik Trip is the place for you.. oh and while you are at it, go to http://www.wisconsingasprices.com and see the lowest price of gas in the state.. You will never find La Crosse there, Nor will you find LaCrescent listed as one of the lowest prices in the state of Minnesota.. in fact LaCrescent is usually as high as 20 or 30 cents from the lowest in the state..

all thanks to you good friends at Kwik Trip.. by the way the price of oil dropped as least 10 cents this week.. but it didn’t drop in LaCrosse or LaCrescent..

and again Thanks to your good friends at Kwik Trip.

Gas hasn’t dropped anywhere in the last two weeks. I was in Marshfield Friday price was the same $1.89 Tomah $1.88. I was in the Cities last week and it went up $.07 in one day $1.85 a gallon. Oil dropping 10 cents not sure what that means?? Did you mean by the barrel or by the drop? You have got to hate those companies that create 1000’s of good jobs for our local economy.

I wasnt going to reply anymre to this, but Amwatsons post is hard for me to understand. He is hard on somebody that buys tackle at wally, but himself will buy alot of other things from there? my mother has been a manager at a local grocery store,walmart has since put in a supercenter. it has driven 1 smaller grocery store out and made it very difficult for hers to survive. seems like the same arguement to me,just like kwik trip.

Ummm, no that is not what I posted

I was simply asking if LE was against or for Wal-Mart.

The reason I do not buy tackle from WM is the simple case of selection…..there isn’t one.

I myself am NOT a WM basher or a KT basher. The prices at WM for groceries and everything else are what makes me shop there. as far as KT goes, I shop there due to convenience.

If mom and pop can get me the same products as WM and for the same price, I will shop there, until then I will continue to patronize WM and not think twice about where small stores are headed.

For the record, I could give a flip where people buy there tackle.

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Bret, Just a heads up … in the Walmart in Lake Wales Fl (Kisssimee/Toho tourney) last February the Thursday before the tournament at the end of the fishing day the line in sporting goods took me almost 1/2 an hour.

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To far for me to drive just to shop WalMart

Welcome to the Northern States

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I agree, if you want to fish early AM in the La Crosse area you need to buy your bait the night before.

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I’m lucky coming from Sparta to fish La Crosse. Mel is the owner of the bait/convenience shop in West Salem on Neshonoc, he’s there by 4:30am and if you wait till 5am the coffee is ready

Well I started by scolding Walmart for not making full use of their fishing sponsorship by not even offering the product line that was targeted by their sponsorship, mentioned myself as having selfish reasons and motives, for wanting them too, and I inferrred that other companies do the same and then that I wondered via a question basically what end effect this all would eventually have on Major National fishing tournaments series, and I don’t believe a single person answered the question.

It might clear things up a little bit if I mentioned the three things I do for the meager living I make… Fish, farm ,(this year a total of 22 acres of vegetables),almost all of which I raise all by myself and some meat animals,(and market them successfully against Walmart), and on the top of my resume it says since 2002 I have been the Owner and operator of Lawrence Ecklor Consulting a Marketing and Computer Project Consulting Company.

Basically I started doing that for something to do from October to March since until the last few years I have hated ice fishing because of the cold ,( kinda a bummer for a guy who was born and raised in Wisconsin and grew up loving winters), due to a 20 year old injury and have not always been able to afford to go south to fish tourneys in the winter. I have done projects for the recognised leaders in several industries as well as the USDA and also small businesses. THAT’S WHERE MY DISGUST OF COMPANIES INVESTING MONEY IN SPORTS SPONSORSHIPS AND NOT FULLY UTILIZTING IT COMES FROM And the comment I made about my own selfish reasons was clearly me stating I might not have a profitable place to play.(fish tournaments)????

And then another post on the internet gets hijacked

MR Watson it shouldn’t surprise you that I said I agreed with that tiny piece of Old Rats post because I said in my very first post that one of my motivations was selfish… he was just reinforcing that.

So I will try and ask the question one last time and see if there are any takers because I meet the guide customers in 90 minutes and I have to get going:

This is the third time I have asked it and the third time it has been in bold type…

So what do all of you see as the future of fishing tourneys especially national series and how much of the prospective possible problems do you think may come back to poor utilization of the marketing and profit opportunities missed by sponsors, especially now when fields may be down because of economic situations of competitors. These organizations, FLW in particular run fantastic tournaments and their staff and officials are amazing so in my opinion that isn’t part of the picture Happy Hook-ups Lawrence

This actually probably should have been asked under one of the Tournament Forums , but regardless it yielded a enjoyable spirited discussion, (even though it had little or nothing to do with the original question), so I think it yielded something positive and it certainly was amusing at points and tragic at others????



But yah know what I always say “Don’t hate me cause I’m so pretty. “because there are plenty other good reasons to.”

Happy Hook-ups Lawrence

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So what do all of you see as the future of fishing tourneys especially national series and how much of the prospective possible problems do you think may come back to poor utilization of the marketing and profit opportunities missed by sponsors, especially now when fields may be down because of economic situations of competitors. These organizations, FLW in particular run fantastic tournaments and their staff and officials are amazing so in my opinion that isn’t part of the picture Happy Hook-ups Lawrence

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I didn’t answer this question because I am not interested in tournaments, nor do I care about the profit opportunities and the marketing missed by sponsors. Tournaments are great for those who like it, for me fishing isn’t a competition, it is an enjoyable and relaxing way to spend time.

it was my fault and I knew it .. the WHOLESALE PRICE OF GAS dropped from 1.33 per gallon to 1.23 per gallon.. and it had been as low as .94 cents per gallon like 10 days ago..

and Kwik Trip is the first to raise the price of gas. and the last to lower it..

and when the price dropped at the end of the week, Kwik Trip DID NOT drop their prices..

and I didn’t exactly see you discussing how LaCrosse, a state border town, is NOT competing against the Minnesota price.. but of course now that Kwik Trip has two stores within 6 blocks of each other in a town of less then 5000, its not hard to compete against your self..

and why aren’t you commenting on the fact that LaCrescent is between 5, 10 15, and some times 20 cents a gallon higher then WINONA? the kwik trip truck that fills that Winona store comes from LaCrosse every morning. How can Winona sell gas that comes from LaCrosse, right past the LaCrescent stores, for 20 cents a gallon cheap then the La Crescent stores? go ahead.. explain that to me..

go ahead keep defending some of the highest prices of gas in TWO STATES.

we want to hear your justification..

I can answer that.

WI gas taxes are higher. It’s the same for Hudson WI and Lakeland MN.

Freedom Stations.

LaCrosse has been Higher then almost any other place in the state..

But LaCrescent and WINONA are in the same STATE..

there is no justification of the 5, 10, 15 20 cent a GALLON difference between stations within 25 miles of each other and the gas coming from the LaCrosse Kwik RIP terminal.

trust me Kwik RIP deserves its place in this Wal Mart discussion.. they are as dirty as Wal Mart and equal in predatory action.

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So I will try and ask the question one last time and see if there are any takers because I meet the guide customers in 90 minutes and I have to get going:

This is the third time I have asked it and the third time it has been in bold type…

So what do all of you see as the future of fishing tourneys especially national series and how much of the prospective possible problems do you think may come back to poor utilization of the marketing and profit opportunities missed by sponsors, especially now when fields may be down because of economic situations of competitors. These organizations, FLW in particular run fantastic tournaments and their staff and officials are amazing so in my opinion that isn’t part of the picture Happy Hook-ups Lawrence

This actually probably should have been asked under one of the Tournament Forums , but regardless it yielded a enjoyable spirited discussion, (even though it had little or nothing to do with the original question), so I think it yielded something positive and it certainly was amusing at points and tragic at others????

But yah know what I always say “Don’t hate me cause I’m so pretty. “because there are plenty other good reasons to.”

Happy Hook-ups Lawrence

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Interesting thread… Well Lawrence, I believe we are going to see more sporting event sponsors pulling up anchor. Look at NASCAR, the sport has grown by leaps and bounds over the last 10 years and now you see cars running around with a white hood on them, because they cannot get a sponsor. Tourney fishing, does not have near the following of NASCAR, so I would say, you will see it basically become less supported as the years go on. Especially in this economy. Walmarts projections for this holiday season were off as well, they only grew by 2% this after most places reported 15-20% down…. I would venture to guess, Walmart executives figured out they cannot sell enough tackle on a friday night before a tourney at one store, to justify having the retail space in all of their stores… space is like gold in there & its real easy to shop at Cabelas or BassPro on line. I know the southerners love their BassPro too, maybe the other Walmarts in the south are not far behind.

big G

Perhaps I shouldn’t have brought in the comparison of Kwik Trip. But, my point was this: When possible, I try to support the entrapreneurial spirit of small business. Growing up in the far Northern reaches of WI, there wasn’t and for many things still isn’t any competition from big business. I’m as frugal as they come, but saving a nickle or dime on a lure, gallon of gas, boxer shorts, or loaf of bread by buying it from a box store isn’t worth it to me. I can save much more money by not buying needless things. I’d rather support “mom and pop”. They work their butts off.

Nope Cpetey once the post was Hijacked it made sense with what was being posted. If Old Rat is who I think he is, he also knows that the main reason I closed my Gun Shop was because it was a rare occasion when we could compete price wise with Walmart. I wasn’t a skilled gunsmith, basically a parts changer and hunting rifles were our main business and Walmart was killing us on price on the items us average Joe hunters want, (I can’t wait to hear the comments on that). But hey I’m a businessman , and when you can’t compete successfully and profitablely, you go on , regroup and for pete’s sake get over it instead of letting it contol the rest of your life like an obsession. But ofcourse thats the reponse of me one of those awful, greedy , stealing, ruining American small businessmen.

But I have a choice, I already have experience and know how to start and run a new business , and those folks that choose to work as and employee and earn an honest wage, and not put up with some of the insane crap small business owners do, don’t have that option. They want too work theie 40 or so hours, earn an honest wage and then spend the rest of their time enjoying life, instead of being in it 24 hours a day like a small business owner basically is. Like in the case of Dobbers mom and others that find themselves in a situation beyond their control and I can understand their anger and disgust…

BUT BECAUSE I SPEND SO MUCH TIME ON THE INTERNET AND DIFFERENT DISCUSSION SITES, I AM NOT AT ALL SURPRISED THE POST WAS HIJACKED … AND after all this is America and freedom of speech and all