Wal-Mart Tops $1.52 Billion in One Day (AP)

Only a two paragraph story, so: http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA2D7U3MND.html

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Costco, people... COSTCO!!!

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is in bulk! also, they don't always have what i want... not too much into varying brand names. but for things like chromed steel wire shelving and electric goods and kitchen appliances, wow.

People sure love their cheap crap made in China by communists. It reminds me of a Santurday Night Live sketch, "Happy birthday Jesus, I hope you like crap!"





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These slack-jawed minions of our debtor society trample people ahead of them in line. Just read the story of the lady who was knocked unconscious because she was between some $29 DVD players and a herd of thundering sasquatches.

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this holiday season, but wal-mart cooks their books. Don't buy their bullshit or their products.

I just came back from a full day of shopping. There was NO traffic, pitiful crowds and hardly anybody buying anything. I only waited twice to pay for my stuff and there was only one person before me both times.

I hope this isn't their idea of better than last year, because what I witnessed today was just downright depressing!

I guess I don't live where you live. I got to the local mall with my two girls around 7:15 and the entire parking lot was full. Left there around 9;30. The line at Belks was annoying but Penney's line moved at a good clip. Then onto Target and other stores.

Everywhere here was full , now I didn't notice if they were shopping with a credit card or what. I did notice most of the shoppers were women but did see a few families with babies in tow.

I think lots of Americans are depressed this year and be it hell or high water they are going to do what must to make this Christmas season the ideal "American" Christmas. I say let them, the world and job market is so mean right now.

There are tons of stores around. There are two Wal-Marts each about two miles from my home. The stores I went to were no more crowded than a normal Saturday, but maybe I missed all the crazed early morning shoppers.

of a major office supply retailer. My store was up about 17% over last year. The region was probably up 8%. Looks like it may be a pretty strong holiday season in the Northeast.

probably cheaper too as the season sinks into panic.

I swear to God ... as soon as everyone in my family is an adult, I'm going to start giving all of them the gift of a charitable contribution in their names. This Wal-Mart stampede crap (and Dubya's previous directives to go out and buy stuff to improve the economy and be good patriotic 'muricans) makes me never want to buy another Christmas present.

The ghosts of Christmas past can be found all over town, every Saturday morning, on garage-sale tables across America!

I knew there was something deeply sick in the soul of this country back during the Cabbage Patch Wars.

the retailers haven't ordered the extra merchandise as they've done earlier years because of the economy. They've also said the economy has picked up and aren't having those bigger discounts as last year.

I patronize locally owned businesses. Wal-Mart has NOTHING I need or want.

because earlier today I saw that the entire retail sales for yesterday were 7.2 billion. The idea that Wal-Mart scoffed up a seventh of all the money that was spent is downright disgusting.

As an aside,I'm pretty sure that I saw somewhere that last years 'black friday' sales(I think that included the entire weekend) were 15.3 billion for all retailers,but I'm not positive if that's correct. if that IS correct,then this years shopping season is off to a slow start.

earnings? After a full 3 years of financial lies by the biggest corporations? After all the cooked books and the restatement of earnings?
I remember reading somewhere that the Nazi's also purportedly stated strong economic growth but the German economy was in the shitter for almost the entire period of Nazi horror. Also, luxury goods (furs, autos, radios etc) were conspicuosuly consumed to paint the picture of a healthy economy...will search for documentation.

A frickin' FIFTH. MORE than a fifth, even.

much a part of the Corporate Bush Crime Family...they are not above false reports or scams to get people in the door that one day to raise numbers, probably both.

How many people shop at WalMart because "I can't afford to shop anywhere else"? How many of those people are victims of WalMart's deliberate strategy to bust unions and drive wages down?

How many people who shop at WalMart would be the first to benefit if WalMart disappeared from the face of the earth?

Then why not STOP SHOPPING FOR SHIT AT THIS MOST EVIL OF CONGLOMERATE MONSTERS? Since when is shopping a requirement, except maybe for the "consumer/addict" (are we just eaters of shit for the sake of feeling full?)? Take control of your lives and STOP FUCKING SHOPPING! It's that goddamn simple, but then what are we to expect from the sheep we are becoming? And we want to be treated like adults...sheesh, by koresh!!!

apples and oranges.

KMart, Target and small buisnesses compete directly with Walmart.