. . . you can expect to go in for 7 quarts of oil and walk out with a new checking account, a hair cut, a new pair of contacts, 4 foot long Subway sandwiches for dinner, 2 weeks worth of groceries, a few new CDs, a pair of pants, 3 gallons of paint, and the tires rotated on your Jeep. The you get home and realize you forgot the oil and have to go back, and this is the start of the downward spiral. I truly believe it is their evil master plan.
If they open Super Walmarts like they have in the US you can expect to go in for 7 quarts of oil and walk out with a new checking account, a hair cut, a new pair of contacts, 4 foot long Subway sandwiches for dinner, 2 weeks worth of groceries, a few new CDs, a pair of pants, 3 gallons of paint, and the tires rotated on your Jeep. The you get home and realize you forgot the oil and have to go back, and this is the start of the downward spiral. I truly believe it is their evil master plan.

Is that because their sales people are highly qualified and trained and grab you when you enter the store

Is that because their sales people are highly qualified and trained and grab you when you enter the store

Sounds like a lot of the retailers here are going to close their doors when this happens, do they carry all the big name brands

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Wal-Marts business plan is simply this: Be so large, and able to purchase goods in such bulk, that you can arm-wrestle vendors into the lowest prices on the planet. In turn, you can sell those goods at retail prices lower than anyone else. In the U.S., that has made their stores overly large, thus what the above poster stated - you go in for contact solution and come out with $150 worth of stuff. But if you can be disciplined (it helps to go through the garden or automotive entrances) and go directly to what you need and buy only that, you will find a good selection and a good price. Here they have the best price on Mobil 1 5W-40 Turbodiesel Truck oil by about $4/ gallon over any other retailer.

Hey folks

Don't know if this is good or bad news, Walmart have acquired two large wholesalers in South Africa and intend opening their doors shortly.

What can we expect from them, decent prices on lubricants and other goods or is it not worth the excitement

Exactly, and because of the enormous leverage they now have, many companies depend on their contract with Walmart to stay alive. So what ends up happening is they lower their quality in order to meet Walmarts price demands. So the next thing you know, name brands that were once respectable are now putting out utter junk. The Rubbermaid company is a good example. Their stuff used to be indestructable. Have you seen a Rubbermaid container lately? Better not put anything more than newspaper in it or it'll crack. Walmart is KILLING America by forcing tons of companies to reduce quality all in the name of quantity and price.

There is a huge anti-Walmart movement taking shape in the U.S. now. I have two co-workers that I can name off hand that will not step foot in a Walmart store. One of them says he hasn't been inside a Walmart in 7 years.

I hate to break it to ya'.. but there IS an anti-Walmart movement going on. There are many books about it, TV documentaries, it's been on the news, the whole nine yards. It's been a documented fact that they drive quality away from products for the reasons I mentioned above. It's simple economcs. Walmart has to sell things cheap..that's their bread and butter. The companies selling products to Walmart therefore must meet Walmarts pricing criteria. Usually, they can't....unless they lower quality. It ruins products.

Their treatment of employees and particularly their truck drivers has also landed them in a lot of hot water. There is nothing wrong with wanting to grow your business and become sucessful but Walmart has turned into a great monster and many people are revolting against them now. If you don't live under a rock you've seen all this already. Like I said, just where I work alone I know of two people who won't even step foot in one of their stores now.