On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 21:10:36 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Ken
Sterling (Ken Sterling) quickly quoth:

On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 15:09:41 GMT, Ken Sterling (Ken Sterling) wrote:

Cool. We have a Wally World in town and everytime I go in there I just
feel like I am doing business with satan for some reason.
A few years ago INC magazine had an article on small business that
dealt with WM and how it almost destroyed some of them.
Mike

So WHY go in there??? Myself, my wife, both my boys and their wives
REFUSE to shop at Wal-Mart. PERIOD. I will pay more elsewhere, I
will get quality elsewhere. Until I absolutely cannot find what I
need at other places, Wal-mart will not get my China bound money.
This country needs to WAKE UP - and stop shopping at Wal-Mart !
Ken.

So Ken..can you give me the names of a couple good American made CD or
DVD players? Or perhaps a TV set?

Gunner

Lots of stuff made here (Sony), and lots of stuff made in Japan (Sony)

Ken, the Sony plant over by Los Peñasquitos, CA made sony TVs from PC
boards made in Japan or the USA, all the components were assembled and
soldered by maquiladoras in Mexico, and then sent back across the
border. The tubes were all Malaysian-made and the folks at Sony here
in the USA just -assembled- things. I knew a couple of folks who had
worked there when I lived in Vista.

They're probably all made in Mexico, Malaysia, and/or China by now.

You should probably get used to global goods, though, Ken. They're
here to stay and you and a few others won't even slightly faze the
trend. Boycotting Wally World can only hurt the US job market, but
that's only if you're having -any- effect whatsoever on their sales,
which I highly doubt.


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Larry,
/rant on/
I know I'm not having much effect, but down deep, I feel better about
it. I have to disagree that boycotting Wal-mart hurts the US job
market, as Wal-mart and their methods have shut down many US
companies, including Rubbermaid, and some TV plants. They have buying
power, which they choose to use for Chinese stuff, and the big shots
are simply lining their pockets with the savings (the stuff sells for
just enough less to get the majority of the market share). The
following is not accurate, but as an example, if Wally was buying a TV
made in the US for $125 from a US company and was selling it for $179,
then told the US company that they would only pay $75 for that TV or
they would simply go to China to get it, the US company can't sell
them to Wally for that - so Wally goes to China, buys the China junk
for $75, but *still* sells them for $179... extra lining for Wally's
pockets. Meanwhile, the US company goes out of business, thus a loss
of jobs. I know that I'm being an ass about this, but I simply won't
support Wally and couldn't wish more that a business such as them
would completely fold up, blow up, blow away, drown, burst into
flames, or whatever, just to eliminate this leech.
/rant off/ (and sorry).
Ken.