Wal-Mart: the High Cost of Low Price (2005)
Still very relevant.
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2024
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Their prices aren't even low anymore.
Omg. This is horrible. Shop at Target and small businesses.
Fuck Target. It’s just another corpo that’s just as horrible as Walmart.
I’d LOVE to shop small businesses in my town. Guess what. There aren’t any. Our options are Walmart, some shitty Kroger derivative, your pick of something like six shitty Dollar stores, and Aldi.
Edit to add: Even if I did have some decent local/small businesses to shop, I likely couldn’t afford it because like the vast majority of people, I’m an underpaid, undervalued wage slave.
You can shop at small business in your town. Just buy a bunch of crap on aliexpress for cheap, figure out how much Walmart sells it for, mark it up 50% more and give that money to the richest person in your town. Done.
Hate to break it to you, but I doubt Target is that much better. I mean, I still pick them over WalMart tho
think I gotta swindle more from them than I do right now
I love the yellow discount stickers with scanner tags