Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Friday 16 March 2007 19:17, Kai Ponte wrote:
On Friday 16 March 2007 06:55:15 pm Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Friday 16 March 2007 18:22, Lee Ross wrote:
... I use an HP PSC 1315 from Sam's Club. How is Sam? Still dead? He's spinning in his grave at the changes...
What? Death changed him from being a capitalist? Into what? I can't imagine that he'd care about sending so much of America's money (that of the lower classes, anyway) to wage slaves in China.
It's WIN-WIN!!
RRS
When I first started working for Wally World it was ALL about American jobs for American people. Sam was big on buying American made products as much as possible. He gave contracts to small AMERICAN companies that gave many several more years of production. In at least one case, that I know of personally, he pulled a small company from the doorstep of bankruptcy. A small clothing manufacturer was on the verge of losing everything when Sam heard about it and gave them a VERY lucrative contract. Kept their doors open for many years making clothing for Wally World. Kept many AMERICANS employed. There "used" to be a huge American flag over every service desk in every Wal Mart in existence. There was also a sign hanging there that told exactly how many American made products we carried. You saw very little of that Chinese yellow cardboard in the back room. It was almost all that good ol 'merican made brown cardboard. Sam was very proud to be an American. He was proud of the fact that he bought as much American made merchandise as was available, regardless of the fact that many times there were "cheaper" foreign made products. He was proud of the fact that he was helping to keep Americans in jobs. Sam was not a "capitalist" in the usual sense of the word. What he did was create a retail formula that is nearly impossible to keep from making money through some VERY shrewed buying and marketing. He lost something on the order of eleven million dollars in one day on the stock market. When asked about it he replied, "It's only on paper." The man was a genius. Take for instance the Ol' Roy dog food we sell. [ Malign it all you want, but it is Purina dog food. ] "We", the warehouse, buy it in HUGE quantities and Purina pays the shipping to the warehouse on Wal Mart trucks. The warehouse marks up the price and "sells" it to the stores. Purina pays the shipping from the warehouse to the store on Wal Mart trucks. "We", the store, mark it up and sell it to the consumer. It retails for about $11+/-. It has already had two (2) markups and two (2) shipping bills by the time it's sold. It's already made a profit, even if we gave it away at the store level. And, it's still about the cheapest priced dog food on the market. [ not cheap in quality, but cheap in price. ] Now! Sam is gone. The bean counters have taken over the company. N.A.F.T.A. is here, and all the "American" manufacturing companies have have fled for greener pastures outside our borders. Now there is no American manufacturing. It isn't Sam's fault that things have turned out as they have. I work for Wal Mart. Have for sixteen years. I am proud of what Sam stood for and built. The Wal Mart of today is NOT the company that Sam built. Sam IS spinning in his grave over the changes that have been made to HIS company. Sam cared about his people and his customers. Sam cared about American jobs for American people. The bean counters will drive the company under. OK, I'll stop ranting. -- (o:]>*HUGGLES*<[:o) Billie Walsh The three best words in the English Language: "I LOVE YOU" Pass them on! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org