<![CDATA[Thoughts on Wal Mart]]>So Saturday after I left the track I decided to do some grocery shopping. Since Wal Mart opened their grocery section, I have done most of my shopping there, typically making a trip over there about once every ten days.

I don't think I'll be making another trip there any time soon. The isles are always clogged with slow traffic, people seem to be more rude there, and since it always so busy parking is a bitch.

How do you feel about saving a little bit of money by shopping at Wal Mart in comparison to places like Target, KMart, Hornbachers, Cash Wise, and Sunmart? Is the few dollars you save worth the hassle?

]]>https://fargostreet.com/topic/4372/thoughts-on-wal-martRSS for NodeThu, 28 May 2026 13:28:43 GMTMon, 10 Oct 2005 16:52:23 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Thoughts on Wal Mart on Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:50:44 GMT]]>What wes said

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/79505https://fargostreet.com/post/79505Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:50:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thoughts on Wal Mart on Wed, 09 Nov 2005 05:38:24 GMT]]>I shop at both pretty equally. They both have something to offer everyone. And before there was Walmart, Kmart was the scurge of big mass retail markets. And if Walmart wasn't here to bitch about, then there would most certainly be a different one. It's one big viscious cycle and there's not a damn thing we can do about it. It's not like Walmart alone is going to end America or it's freedoms nor its job market for that matter. I'm not sticking up for them either. they don't need little old me for that. What they are doing is making the most $$$ possible for as little investment possible. welcome to free enterprise and good old American Capitalism.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/79481https://fargostreet.com/post/79481Wed, 09 Nov 2005 05:38:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thoughts on Wal Mart on Wed, 09 Nov 2005 04:09:16 GMT]]>Target usually has their prices within a few cents of wal-mart but just the overall atmosphere there more than makes up for it.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/79466https://fargostreet.com/post/79466Wed, 09 Nov 2005 04:09:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thoughts on Wal Mart on Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:53:10 GMT]]>Back on topic Wal-mart is the Devil. I take pride in knowing I dont shop at the largest trailer park warehouse supplier in the nation.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/79377https://fargostreet.com/post/79377Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:53:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thoughts on Wal Mart on Tue, 08 Nov 2005 01:24:43 GMT]]>the only good thing bout walmart is that its open late but other than that target has the huge advantage... especially the girls

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tjamz wrote:
nope Drake is just a douche

EDIT: I have nothing against Devon, he's always been decent to me. This is at least the 2nd account that Drake has gotten banned besides his own (Kuvas, Drake, Devon)

Are you sexually frustrated chuck? 🙂 JK

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/79163https://fargostreet.com/post/79163Mon, 07 Nov 2005 20:22:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thoughts on Wal Mart on Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:31:37 GMT]]>considering that spoolude is now banned, i guess any response that i make won't do any good... bummer.
one would think that anyone with as much knowledge as he claims to have, he would understand how to make money using stock as nitrous and not an engine. obviously, one can make a lot of money just by buying and selling stock (warren buffet anyone?), so the comment on buying bush's company with the political change of current is accurate. at the same time, anyone that knows anything about investing knows that you're practically planning to lose money if you're only looking at the short-term. i just rolled over my pizza hut 401k with my mom's friend from edward jones (if anyone is planning on doing the same, pm me); let me tell you, in the 1yr market, more than half of the investment lines that edward jones offers LOSE, but will make anywhere from 4-17% in the 5-10 yr range.
what does this tell you boys and girls?
today's financial lesson is to stick it out for the long run with a fortune 500 company, because most of the time they won't capsize without months/years of telltale signs.
is anyone familiar with the history surrounding martin luther? started the lutheran church? anyway, in religion 100 we are watching a film about luther's life (i'll try to find out the title), and i noticed a very interesting connection to the modern world that i think applies to this thread: the roman catholic church is very similar to what i think wal-mart could turn into.
going against what the catholic church declared to be truth was blasphemous, so perhaps it's only a matter of time until buying somewhere other than wal-mart is "blasphemous?" i'm sure i can explain it better, but i think i should save that for a 5-7 page philosophy paper in the near future...

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/79150https://fargostreet.com/post/79150Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:31:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thoughts on Wal Mart on Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:54:41 GMT]]>nope Drake is just a douche

EDIT: I have nothing against Devon, he's always been decent to me. This is at least the 2nd account that Drake has gotten banned besides his own (Kuvas, Drake, Devon)

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/79135https://fargostreet.com/post/79135Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:54:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thoughts on Wal Mart on Mon, 07 Nov 2005 13:56:16 GMT]]>Little angry are we?

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/79128https://fargostreet.com/post/79128Mon, 07 Nov 2005 13:56:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thoughts on Wal Mart on Mon, 07 Nov 2005 13:51:34 GMT]]>[SIZE=7]OWNED![/SIZE]

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spoolude wrote:
So let me get this straight, you got that much stock lying around. When the SEC just ruled several filings against them. The stock is on a current downtrend, and your going to sit on it? They don't teach much about market trading over in Harvey do they? I mean it doesn't take a genius to look at the graph and go "hmmm I bet there next quarter is going to suck" for gods sake they JUST STATED an expected 3-5% loss of revenue over last years expectations. There's a god damn link on NYSE right in the front main page (probally change now, but just symbol look up Wal-mart if you want, doesn't take a market guru to figure it out) and if your going to say "I sit on my stock" - your a fucking idiot. Maximize your profits and rebuy it once the old fogeys acquire the "Econo-Supercenter" franchise coming in Q2. Heck even then I won't give my money and help a company that pays there employees some of the lowest wages in the market, with the highest benefit costs, and a company that has the most detremental effect on the economy (debatable about the effect on economy, not detable on employee treatment) - wanna talk about stock, if you were smart you would've bought ENB right when Bush got elected. Whether you like bush or not, you being the political genius that you are should've realized "Hey, this oil company is Bush's #1 campaign financer/donation, I wonder if there going to have a good few years" now there opening up a new oil pipeline, record profits and record market shares in the oil industry. $16,000 over 15+ years AINT SHIT!

One word. Fuck you Drake. I've never met you and I've never liked you. I'm willing to bet that financially I'm 100x more stable than you with a stock porfolio that is very diverse and has NEVER seen a loss on a year-to-year basis cumulatively. So I have a shares of a company that does the things you list above....I work for a company that once had its CEO throw a $2million b-day party for his wife that the company paid for. I'd like to be able to say "yes, I just invest in churches, it will give my soul the best return on its investment" but unfortunately, I need to eat and taking care of myself and my family financially is a big priority for me. As for ENB and other oil companies....who said I'm not invested in them? Again FUCK YOU DRAKE YOU WORTHLESS MOTHERFUCKING PIECE OF SHIT!

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/79125https://fargostreet.com/post/79125Mon, 07 Nov 2005 13:50:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thoughts on Wal Mart on Mon, 07 Nov 2005 13:43:14 GMT]]>ok....thanks for the heads up Tony...letting a banned member back by letting them use your account. PERMA-BANNED.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/79124https://fargostreet.com/post/79124Mon, 07 Nov 2005 13:43:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thoughts on Wal Mart on Mon, 07 Nov 2005 07:46:10 GMT]]>you do realize that its drake...

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/79120https://fargostreet.com/post/79120Mon, 07 Nov 2005 07:46:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thoughts on Wal Mart on Mon, 07 Nov 2005 05:52:08 GMT]]>Spoolude you are in way over your head and you have nooooooooooo idea what you are talking about.

Shut up.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/79108https://fargostreet.com/post/79108Mon, 07 Nov 2005 05:52:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thoughts on Wal Mart on Mon, 07 Nov 2005 05:23:59 GMT]]>

tjamz wrote:
I was thinking more along the lines of the stocks that I bought (ok...had my dad by, but it was my money for working for him all year, only reason he bought them is cuz I wasn't old enough/know any stock brokers back then but did pay attention to the markets and always wanted to make more money) back in 1988. Lets see...had (going off memory here) 2 or 3 2-for-1 splits in that time, bought them for approx $15/share...bought 100 shares...thats what $1500 investment? 2 for one splits means I had 200 then 400 shares....even if stock prices never went up I'd have $6000 worth of stock. But since they did go up and they are at around $40/share now I have about $16,000 worth of stock.

Tell me again how this was a bad investment for me Devon? Thats not including any dividends paid either.

So let me get this straight, you got that much stock lying around. When the SEC just ruled several filings against them. The stock is on a current downtrend, and your going to sit on it? They don't teach much about market trading over in Harvey do they? I mean it doesn't take a genius to look at the graph and go "hmmm I bet there next quarter is going to suck" for gods sake they JUST STATED an expected 3-5% loss of revenue over last years expectations. There's a god damn link on NYSE right in the front main page (probally change now, but just symbol look up Wal-mart if you want, doesn't take a market guru to figure it out) and if your going to say "I sit on my stock" - your a fucking idiot. Maximize your profits and rebuy it once the old fogeys acquire the "Econo-Supercenter" franchise coming in Q2. Heck even then I won't give my money and help a company that pays there employees some of the lowest wages in the market, with the highest benefit costs, and a company that has the most detremental effect on the economy (debatable about the effect on economy, not detable on employee treatment) - wanna talk about stock, if you were smart you would've bought ENB right when Bush got elected. Whether you like bush or not, you being the political genius that you are should've realized "Hey, this oil company is Bush's #1 campaign financer/donation, I wonder if there going to have a good few years" now there opening up a new oil pipeline, record profits and record market shares in the oil industry. $16,000 over 15+ years AINT SHIT!

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/79101https://fargostreet.com/post/79101Mon, 07 Nov 2005 05:23:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thoughts on Wal Mart on Mon, 07 Nov 2005 04:51:40 GMT]]>o i forgot bout that paper u wrote

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/79087https://fargostreet.com/post/79087Mon, 07 Nov 2005 04:51:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thoughts on Wal Mart on Mon, 07 Nov 2005 04:45:24 GMT]]>walmart makes like 244 billion a year and accounts for 10% of chinese exports to the US. walmart sucks.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/79086https://fargostreet.com/post/79086Mon, 07 Nov 2005 04:45:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thoughts on Wal Mart on Mon, 07 Nov 2005 04:40:33 GMT]]>i was jsut there tonite. but as far as it being worth the money. honestly depends on the day. if im poor yes if im in a bad mood no.
you have to be mentally and emotionally stable to go in there.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/79084https://fargostreet.com/post/79084Mon, 07 Nov 2005 04:40:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thoughts on Wal Mart on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 10:38:24 GMT]]>

MisterCMK wrote:
This wal-mart is actually very clean compared to some of the ones in the Twin Cities.

thats cause everyone hates walmart down there...I did love how there was a super target on every corner...so much cleaner

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TsiTom wrote:
Not only are they building another store south of town....there is serious talk about dilworth becoming a supercenter as well....

We according to the higher ups. Moorhead isnt going supersized. Plus the south walmart is more and likely going to be just a strip mall.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/78983https://fargostreet.com/post/78983Fri, 04 Nov 2005 06:26:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thoughts on Wal Mart on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 06:22:43 GMT]]>Me and My dad contract for walmart/sams club. We installed and take care of their phone systems and pa systems. Walmart is a cash cow for us. One of our biggest accounts. We take care of the Fargo,Bemidji,Fergus Falls and Detroit Lakes walmarts and Sams Club in Grand Forks and Fargo.

The people in the back offices in every store, are very nice and helpful. That goes for the management department too.

I buy my food from Cash Wise. Buying food from walmart is not cheaper! Look around their prices are sometimes higher. I also found out that clothing is higher priced in moorhead compared to the fargo store. Why wouldnt they be the same? whocares I just think thats wack.

The walmart planner for fargo from bentonville,ar told me. The Fargo Walmart is the biggest in the US. I also chatted with the manger of the grand forks sams club. He told me what sams club and walmart make in a day. Grand Forks location and Fargo. All I can say is I shit my pants! I can see why they have so many locations. Its huge!

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/78980https://fargostreet.com/post/78980Fri, 04 Nov 2005 06:22:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thoughts on Wal Mart on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 03:39:39 GMT]]>

spoolude wrote:
http://www.nyse.com/about/listed/lcddata.html?ticker=WMT

You mean this stock? Funny how did you make money off of it?

I mean with a 1.26% yield - you must be making bank off of this. PUHLEASE don't feed me with that you guys are making money off of there stock. Charts dont lie, and I don't think any of you have your own brokerages/partner based firms and are buying/trading on the hour so you guys didn't make jack squat off of it. No one has - 70% of Walmart's stock is privately held, they could care less about what the price is selling at - it's just a way (extremely not accurate) of displaying company health for potential franchisee's (future option that they are looking into)

I was thinking more along the lines of the stocks that I bought (ok...had my dad by, but it was my money for working for him all year, only reason he bought them is cuz I wasn't old enough/know any stock brokers back then but did pay attention to the markets and always wanted to make more money) back in 1988. Lets see...had (going off memory here) 2 or 3 2-for-1 splits in that time, bought them for approx $15/share...bought 100 shares...thats what $1500 investment? 2 for one splits means I had 200 then 400 shares....even if stock prices never went up I'd have $6000 worth of stock. But since they did go up and they are at around $40/share now I have about $16,000 worth of stock.

Tell me again how this was a bad investment for me Devon? Thats not including any dividends paid either.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/78954https://fargostreet.com/post/78954Fri, 04 Nov 2005 03:39:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thoughts on Wal Mart on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 02:00:48 GMT]]>Funny how in Bismarck on a Saturday afternoon, the parking lot will be more crowded than Kirwood malls parking lot. Its a freaking mad house here. Every hillbilly from around this neck of the coughs prarie, comes here on the weekends and loads up on commodity walmart trash. Sad that a community as small as this they are building two large Super (ghetto) Walmarts. Just ridiculous.

On a lighter note, Movie releases on Tuesdays, only reason I will go there.

]]>https://fargostreet.com/post/78939https://fargostreet.com/post/78939Fri, 04 Nov 2005 02:00:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Thoughts on Wal Mart on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 02:00:16 GMT]]>i guess I was referring to the Moorhead one, its really dirty, the fargo ones not to bad

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