Damn you Walmart!!!

Walmart stands for all the things I cannot accept.
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So I decided never to buy there; it's easy. I have never been inside a Walmart store. (or in a MacDonalds junkfood restaurant)

Walmart stands for all the things I cannot accept.
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So I decided never to buy there; it's easy. I have never been inside a Walmart store. (or in a MacDonalds junkfood restaurant)

However, the move may have little, if any, effect on the price consumers pay for their prescriptions. That's because most of the generics on Wal-Mart's discounted list either are not the most widely prescribed or already are heavily discounted by many health insurers.

Wal-Mart today will begin selling 30-day supplies of nearly 300 generic drugs for $4 per prescription at its stores in the Tampa Bay area of Florida. It said it plans to roll out the new prices at other Florida stores by January and to "as many states as possible" next year, though it provided no specifics.

The drugs will be sold for as little as $4 for a month's supply and include some of the most commonly prescribed medicines such as Metformin, a popular generic drug used to treat diabetes, and the high blood pressure medicine Lisinopril.

Late Thursday, rival Target Corp. said it would match Wal-Mart's prices at its stores in the Tampa Bay area.

Many people in rural America do not have a choice. There are towns in which Walmart has crushed any competition and is the only store for miles. Similar thing with McDonalds. I was driving my niece to college and we stopped at a rural town to ask about a local diner for lunch. We were told there were no restaurants in town anymore, but if we went back out to expressway we would find a McDonalds and Pizza Hut.

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It is a good thing cities like Chicago are passing laws that will keep Wal-mart out of poverty stricken areas.

Poverty stricken areas? The ruling in Chicago, had it passed the $13/hr minimum wage law, could have kept Wal-mart out of ALL areas of the City.

Wouldn't the minimum wage law have applied to all Wal-Marts throughout the City?

jpinMilwaukee wrote:

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It is a good thing cities like Chicago are passing laws that will keep Wal-mart out of poverty stricken areas.

Poverty stricken areas? The ruling in Chicago, had it passed the $13/hr minimum wage law, could have kept Wal-mart out of ALL areas of the City.

Wouldn't the minimum wage law have applied to all Wal-Marts throughout the City?

Yes... throuout the city where poverty teds to be highest. As oposed to the suburbs where poverty tends to be lower.

It's a big deal, and probably a bigger percentage of total prescriptions than generics / total inventory would indicate. Keep in mind, Walter, that health care is far from universal in the U.S. If a prescription drug sells for $240.00, there are just a whole bunch of people who have to pay $240.00, or do without. Oh, I wouldn't be surprised to find that people without health insurance do tend to shop at Wal-Mart.

It's the motive and tactics I question. Walmart creates more poverty than it cures. It started the trend of cheap is better. Why pay $25 dollars for an American made sweatshirt when you can pay $12 for one made by poor people in Asia? Heck, you now can afford two sweatshirts instead of one.

Like many Walmarts, the one in my area gives out information to thieir employees on how they can sign up for food stamps and medicaid. If they really want to help poor people they will stop creating them.

Green Witch wrote:

It's the motive and tactics I question. Walmart creates more poverty than it cures. It started the trend of cheap is better. Why pay $25 dollars for an American made sweatshirt when you can pay $12 for one made by poor people in Asia? Heck, you now can afford two sweatshirts instead of one.

How does this create poverty?? If offering lower prices than the competion creates poverty, than would the reverse be true? Does higher prices eliminate poverty?


The definition of poverty is having little or no money.
Wal-Mart sells items for less and helps people save money.

It creates poverty by putting American companies out of business. The American garment industry of the late 20th century paid a living wage. Those workers now work for Walmart - for Less.