The Cook wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:25:34 -0600, Janet Wilder
> > wrote:
>
>> sf wrote:
>>> On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:14:21 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:
>>>
>>>> There's a SAMS but seems the same.
>>> I hope the people who shop at Sam's realize that Sam is Sam Walton of
>>> Walmart fame.
>>>
>> I knew that. I have been to the corporate headquarters in Arkansas and
>> went to the visitors center which is in the old 5 and 10 that was Sam's
>> first store. Very interesting place.
>>
>> They have a special building on the corporate campus where merchants
>> bring their samples to negotiate deals. I didn't get to go in, but I did
>> see many harried people toting huge, wheeled cases up and down the steps
>> to that building.
>
> Gives you a good idea of how they feel about their prospective
> suppliers.

They are Capitalists. That's what Capitalists do. I, for one, am not up
to another round of interfering government regulations and pushy,
self-serving unions. Whatever the retail situation is, the consumer,
through buying habits, made it.


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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
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