For no particular reason I can relate to wally world does not turn my crank. So I seldom drop into their local store. Or perhaps it is because of their being one of the first to really exploit chinese merchandise. To me they created the mass model.

The busy store in town is the dollar store. Wallmart is talking about putting a simular section in their stores.

They are just too large an enterprise to treat their employees less than fair. Especially with the markups they manage on much of their merchandise no matter that people think it is cheap. Compared to wallmarts cost it is instead really expensive.

I am pretty certain that they really gouge on quite a lot of items. So the consumer is not really the true benificiary of their so called lower priced chinese merchandise... They are.

I buy direct from china from time to time so I have a pretty good guesstimate of what they might pay. Memory chips they sold for 19.95 years ago cost me .60 cents in singles at the time. Perhaps .45 each if I purchased half a dozen. So what was wallmart paying for them in the quantities they buy? In fact I have to thank wallmart for making me originally consider sourcing some things direct from China. Greed beyond belief because of the publics general non awareness of their costs? It has made wallmart very, very wealthy. The north american population needs a real education in the ways of the current world.