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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: billt on January 17, 2011, 05:55:53 AM
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http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=5A4B5D4B84344D5D9CBD262A53D8B071
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If I ever get to the states I have to goto walmart.
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If I ever get to the states I have to goto walmart.
Right up there with Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon and the Capitol Mall. One of our national treasures. :P Be sure to hit a Hooters and drink a Bud Light and watch the Jerry Springer or Dr. Phil Show while you're at it. :-[
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If I ever get to the states I have to goto walmart.
Right up there with Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon and the Capitol Mall. One of our national treasures. :P Be sure to hit a Hooters and drink a Bud Light and watch the Jerry Springer or Dr. Phil Show while you're at it. :-[
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And if you get to Hot-lanta, climb Stone Mountain, visit The General & Texan locomotives, have a hot dog at The Varsity and visit Sweetwater brewery. I'll buy
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And if you get to Hot-lanta, climb Stone Mountain, visit The General & Texan locomotives, have a hot dog at The Varsity and visit Sweetwater brewery. I'll buy
I'll take you up on Stone Mountain, the trains and the brewery. ;D
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PS Do they still have that Civili War Diorama thing? I wanted to see it when I was a kid, but the exhibit was closed. I hadn't thought about it since till just this minute.
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Right up there with Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon and the Capitol Mall. One of our national treasures. :P Be sure to hit a Hooters and drink a Bud Light and watch the Jerry Springer or Dr. Phil Show while you're at it. :-[
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I prefer Wing House to Hooters better girls, better wings and a full bar. I hate Wal Mart, they've done more damage to this country than most people realize but at the same time they've become a necessary evil. Now that they've run all the mom & pop type businesses out of town you have to go out of your way not to shop there. The fact that they have cheap ammo (and long guns at a few remaining locations) doesn't help either.
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PS Do they still have that Civili War Diorama thing? I wanted to see it when I was a kid, but the exhibit was closed. I hadn't thought about it since till just this minute.
Yep, it's located at the City of Atlanta's Grant Park along with the city zoo. They've just refurbished it again. In the same building is the locomotive, Texan, which was half of the Great Locomotive Chase. Up in Kennesaw, near where I live, they have a museum with the other engine, The General.
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You've just seen photographic evidence of the reason the wife doesn't want me carrying at Wally World. She calls it a "Target-rich environment". ;D
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IIRC it's called "The Atlanta Cyclorama", the General was stolen by Yankee's ( ;D ) and chased by the Texan (The first car chase ;D ).
Alf, How far are you from the Kennesaw Mountain battlefield ?
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I prefer Wing House to Hooters better girls, better wings and a full bar. I hate Wal Mart, they've done more damage to this country than most people realize but at the same time they've become a necessary evil. Now that they've run all the mom & pop type businesses out of town you have to go out of your way not to shop there. The fact that they have cheap ammo (and long guns at a few remaining locations) doesn't help either.
+1, bafsu....I've said the same thing in almost those same exact words several times.
As to the video, welcome to what America has become. People have no standards and many apparently have no shame any more. I've missed several opportunities to have provided pics to POWM if I'd only had a camera handy.
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I've not been in a walmart in about 16 years.
just a FYI, I know a bunch of contractors that have been screwed over by them. They are known for being super slow payers and they want you to pay for every thing. I beleave they try to ruin people finacally in order to pay less then they owe or not at all. Just to give you a idea of how bad it is, there are nation wide banks that will not give you biz loans if you have a contract with walmart. Think about that for a second.
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I'm having this feeling Wal-Mart is on the downside and playing CYA in the process. I say that because the Supercenter by me has just gone through an extensive remodeling and reorganizing effort. The problem is it was for the worse. They eliminated departments altogether, and greatly cut down on product in the ones they kept. Sporting goods for example, doesn't have 2/3rds of what it used to. Automotive is down by a couple of isles. The food department has gotten so bad Melanie has quit shopping there except for non food items like laundry soap, paper towels and such. Their meat is total crap as far as quality. It's just is starting to look like it's not doing too well. Bill T.
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http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/
People of Wal Mart unite.
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http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/
People of Wal Mart unite.
I feel like a need to speak up here in defense (or at least the best I can muster). As an Auburn alum and proud fan, we had no say so in the fact that the trophy got put on display in Wal-Mart; it was contractual bcs crap. If that's the price we pay for winning; I'll take it. With that said, insert your favorite team into the situation and it probably wouldn't look a whole lot better. The rest of the pictures speak for themselves. Although, I couldn't quite find everything on the shopping cart list.
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I'm having this feeling Wal-Mart is on the downside and playing CYA in the process. I say that because the Supercenter by me has just gone through an extensive remodeling and reorganizing effort. The problem is it was for the worse. They eliminated departments altogether, and greatly cut down on product in the ones they kept. Sporting goods for example, doesn't have 2/3rds of what it used to. Automotive is down by a couple of isles. The food department has gotten so bad Melanie has quit shopping there except for non food items like laundry soap, paper towels and such. Their meat is total crap as far as quality. It's just is starting to look like it's not doing too well. Bill T.
Same thing happened to ours too. I hated the place before, but now it is even more worthless...but as Bafsu said, a "necessary evil".......
The upside was that the 'new and improved' wal-mart has finally driven my wife (after years of badgering from me, to no avail) to shop for food-stuffs at a local area-owned grocery store.
I try to keep my $$ local when I can without hurting my bank account too much......and it's do-able if you shop around. Perfect example is Lowe's vs the local lumber yard. After years of being the highest price for lumber in town, one of our local guys found a new supplier and now consistently beats Lowe's on price...and has better lumber to boot. Win for the guy that makes a few phone calls before buying lumber.
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Food and guns I buy local. everything else I buy at Wal-Mart. It's the only place I can afford. Shoes at the Shoe store around the corner are $60+ the exact same shoes at Wal - Mart $20. My prescriptions, at the "local" Pharmacy's (Rite Aid, Walgreen's, CVS, ) $200+/ month at Wally world ? $24 per month.
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Food and guns I buy local. everything else I buy at Wal-Mart. It's the only place I can afford. Shoes at the Shoe store around the corner are $60+ the exact same shoes at Wal - Mart $20. My prescriptions, at the "local" Pharmacy's (Rite Aid, Walgreen's, CVS, ) $200+/ month at Wally world ? $24 per month.
Same here with the prescriptions. I just hate getting 1,867 E-Mails along with 146 phone calls for every prescription my doctor phones in. They must be faced with a ton of people who don't pick them up. They are unbelievable nags! Bill T.
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I unsubscribed to the notifications.I'd get them 2 weeks or less after refilling the script, it was a PITA.
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Our wal-mart pharmacy was a PITA...bunch of idiots. Every time I needed a scrip filled it was the same old song and dance. Something in their system triggered a need to call my insurance company for this reason or that reason....got old quick because most of the time I had to call my insurance company to get them to call wal-mart to straighten out a mistake made by wal-mart in the first place. Too much BS.
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Its still Wally world, but its cheaper. If you have one, use Sams for your prescriptions. If you buy the "busiess" membership, for a few bucks more, you save even more. I don't like them, but I can't afford not to use them. :-\
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Wal-Mart a couple of years ago began reforming itself to compete more effectively with the likes of Target, which started taking market share in a big way, especially with younger shoppers, and especially in the more urban or "sophisticated" markets.
To do this, WM has very quietly dropped a number of lines, firearms being among them, as well as fabrics, sewing materials, etc., while ramping up things like electronics. Wally Worlds in the more rural markets still have some of the items noted above, but in greatly reduced space and quantity. Whereas before they had 20+ sewing machines, they now have maybe 6-8. I'm sure consolidation due to inflation is another reason to cut the number of options.
I also noticed that in the latest revamp of one of the older local super WMs, they made the aisle spaces wider. Very nice for negotiating around the crowds, but it removes shelf space - at least 1 whole line of shelves in fact. When they put them on a bias, it is even hard to notice, but it's there.
I've never had any problems with the pharmacy, but mine is a rural MN super-WM (ND has a law against chain pharmacies - they must be owner-run). I do like the $10 90-day scripts, but my new insurance company refuses to allow it, they will only approve 30-day, so I just pay WM and ignore the insurance co. Never ever get email notices - maybe because I refused to give them my email address?