Wal-Mart War Room

[Miulang]

Re: WalMart also strikes fear in Mexico

we have got some of those;
hawaiian royalty as well as tiki theme russian nesting dolls here in waikiki.

You can't call them Russian if they're not made in Russia! (Semionovo). If you want to read about the evolution of the matryoshka, go here:http://russian-crafts.com/nest/history.html#name

Dem dere tiki thangs would be called "Hawaiian nesting tikis".

Miulang

[Miulang]

Re: WalMart also strikes fear in Mexico

Shoot..this news story says they're building in St. Petersburg (formerly known as Leningrad). Wonder why they bypassed Moscow? Could Vladimir Putin be against WM?

Miulang

Da link from da Moscow Times: http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?x203073287

[kimo55]

Re: WalMart also strikes fear in Mexico

You can't call them Russian if they're not made in Russia! (Semionovo). If you want to read about the evolution of the matryoshka, go here:http://russian-crafts.com/nest/history.html#name

Dem dere tiki thangs would be called "Hawaiian nesting tikis".

Miulang

well, they are russian hawaiian nesting tikis.

[Miulang]

Re: WalMart also strikes fear in Mexico

well, they are russian hawaiian nesting tikis.

Heh. I know da Russians wanted to annex Hawaii long time ago. You telling me dis how dey going succeed???

[kimo55]

Re: WalMart also strikes fear in Mexico

Heh. I know da Russians wanted to annex Hawaii long time ago. You telling me dis how dey going succeed???

maybe; they send over these lil
trojan horses for us to have in our homes....

come ta think of it. really should look insai all of these nesting tikis!

[Miulang]

Re: WalMart also strikes fear in FL

You just knew there would be more news about Walmart from some part of the world, didn'tya?

Well, this time it's from Dubya's bruddah Jebbie's state. Jebbie and his cabinet stayed a decision by an administrative judge who determined the 24hour megamart that WM wanted to build in downtown Jacksonville didn't meet the requirements of the city's growth management plan. Hmmm...that ole Jeb Bush is turning out to be quite a little rebel, isn't he? Going against all that is American (like Dubya and the flag)?

Read on: http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-onlin...858AR500.shtml

Miulang

[Miulang]

A Day without a Walmart mention is a day without...

some new observation or conflict!

This from The Chicago Tribune this morning. I had to copy it in its entirety because you can only access this story if you have an account...

Never even thought about the fact that the big box stores might also be killing off local printed newspapers (aw, who cares about them anyway? Just go digital...get rid of all the advertising...)

Miulang

Growth of Wal-Mart bad news for papers
Study shows drag on ad spending
By Leon Lazaroff
Tribune national correspondent
Published September 22, 2004

Newspaper advertising this year has been a major disappointment to both the papers and their investors.

But while everything has been blamed, from the war in Iraq to a struggling economy, a study Tuesday said the problem is deeper and will continue.

Call it the "Wal-Mart effect."

"Wal-Mart and stores like them don't simply advertise in newspapers the way traditional department stores do," said Paul Ginocchio, a Deutsche Bank Securities media analyst and the report's chief author. "Most troubling for newspapers is that this isn't going away. It's actually accelerating."

Since the early 1990s, as big-box stores expanded from small and midsize towns into the suburbs of major U.S. cities, they have changed the face of retailing. By extension, their success cut away at the advertising revenues of newspaper companies.

Coming out of the 1991 recession, big-box retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Costco Wholesale Corp. accounted for about 16 percent of general merchandise sales nationwide; today the figure is nearly 50 percent. That jump in market share, Ginocchio said, is the main reason retail advertising growth at the nation's newspapers is expected to be less than half the 4 percent that the industry forecast at the beginning of 2004.

Newspaper executives have known that some big-box retailers prefer television and radio advertising over print publications. But the Deutsche Bank study quantifies the trend, demonstrating that as those retailers have expanded, their spending preferences have had a big drag on retail advertising.

Between 1993 and 1997, the study said, big-box retailers slowed retail advertising growth by one-half to 1 percentage point. Between 1998 and 2000, the figure reached 1.5 percent. Today, the drag is 2-2.5 percent.

Ginocchio estimates that as big-box retailers continue to take 3-5 percent of market share away from traditional and discount department stores, they will drag down newspaper retail advertising by about 2 percent. Retail advertising accounted for 47 percent, or about $21 billion, of total advertising in 2003.

"The correlation between Wal-Mart exposure and local advertising revenue growth over the last two to three years has been extraordinary," he added.

Wal-Mart, said Deutsche Bank, spends 0.3 percent of its sales--$259 billion worldwide in 2003--on advertising and allocates 3 percent of that budget to newspapers. By comparison, traditional department stores spend 4.6 percent of their sales on advertising, and most significant, appropriate 85 percent of that to newspapers.

Wal-Mart marketing director Troy Steiner said the retailer spends about $100 million a year on newspaper advertising, the bulk of which are inserts.

"Wal-Mart is not reliant on advertising to drive its sales," he said. "We certainly see the value in all advertising media, but we do things based on what's effective."

The chief executive of one of the country's largest media buyers said most advertisers would love not to have to spend money on advertising. "But their reality is much different than Wal-Mart's," said Scott Harding of Downers Grove-based Newspaper Services of America.

Unlike the country's department stores, which largely began in big cities, Wal-Mart grew in rural areas far from metropolitan centers. As the company expanded, it discovered it could drive sales through television advertising and monthly inserts in local newspapers.

"Wal-Mart created a brand and reputation that became larger than life," Harding said. "As they grew, advertising was judged to be an expense that didn't have to be as large as their competitors'."

For newspaper companies with large numbers of Wal-Mart stores in their markets, the drag on retail advertising has been greatest. Media General Inc., a newspaper chain based in Richmond, Va., and E.W. Scripps Co., based in Cincinnati, have been most affected, said the report.

Conversely, newspaper companies that predominantly operate in large cities, such as Tribune Co., owner of the Chicago Tribune, and The New York Times Co., have experienced less of a jolt.

To compensate for big-box retailers, the newspaper industry has countered with a variety of programs aimed at small and medium-size companies. In addition, larger retailers and national advertisers have been targeted with campaigns that mix Internet and print advertising.

"The newspaper community has been dealing with this for a number of years, especially the past three to four years," said Jim Conaghan of the Newspaper Association of America. "When a Wal-Mart comes into a market, the effect on local retail and local advertising is pretty apparent."`


Copyright © 2004, Chicago Tribune

[Glen Miyashiro]

Re: A Day without a Walmart mention is a day without...

Miulang, one of the web's most convenient ways to get around the mandatory registrations at some websites is BugMeNot.com. If you run across a site that demands that you register, check BugMeNot to see if someone else has already registered a bogus username for that website, and use that bogus name instead of giving out your real name.

[Miulang]

Re: A Day without a Walmart mention is a day without...

Miulang, one of the web's most convenient ways to get around the mandatory registrations at some websites is BugMeNot.com. If you run across a site that demands that you register, check BugMeNot to see if someone else has already registered a bogus username for that website, and use that bogus name instead of giving out your real name.

Ho! Tanks foa da tip, anden, Glen. Us guys gotta be sneaky, yeah, foa stay unda da advertiser's radar, yeah?

Miulang

[Miulang]

Re: Wal-Mart War Room

Oops! They've done it again! Your WalMart news for today.

http://www.forbes.com/home_asia/feed...ap1557102.html

[Miulang]

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Walmart decides to be a little humble and sends out an open letter in 15 local newspapers to the citizens of Southern CA, hoping to quell the opposition that has prevented them from realizing their manifest destiny of building up to 40 supercenters in the next few years.

In the letter, they also issued a veiled threat of sorts: "...Southern California households can expect to save at least $589 per year, but only once Wal-Mart reaches 20 percent market share in the area."

So let me get this straight: The citizens of Southern California can't expect that whopping $589 per year savings unless they allow WM to build all the stores it wants to????

Miulang

Read here: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.j...toryID=6317702

[Miulang]

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Your WM news for the day. Could you survive on $10-11 an hour?

Read here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...UG4I8TRD61.DTL

[Miulang]

Re: Wal-Mart War Room

Oy gevalt and holy gefilte fish, even!

Walmart.com bows to the angry protests of the Jews and removes from its sales racks a tome called "the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" , an anti-semitic book which has long been proclaimed a fake.

The book talks about an international Jewish conspiracy that is supposed to take over the world. According to critics, WM described the book as being genuine (rather than a fake).

Mighty WM kowtowing to the Jews? Hmmmm...perhaps WM is not so dumb after all...after all Jews are notorious for their thriftiness and it looks like WM didn't want to continue to offend the Jews who might want to buy their schmattas from WM online.

On a related front, the conservatives are also lobbying WM to start selling a movie that will counter Michael Moore's Farenheit 911.

Geez...some days WM can't win for losing. Gosh, being PC is sooooo tough when you have your paws in every part of the world, you know?

More here: http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?x206266893

Miulang

[kimo55]

Re: Wal-Mart War Room

Oy gevalt and holy gefilte fish, even!
who might want to buy their schmattas from WM online.


Miulang

speak english! or at least pigin!

[Miulang]

Re: Wal-Mart War Room

speak english! or at least pigin!

OK, oy gevalt=Jewish slang for Jesus Christ!
schmatta=clothes
kvetch=complain (bitch)
verklempt =choked up
And dat. Bruddah Kimo, is your first Yiddish lesson! Hey, if Bette Midler can say dis kine, den so can I!!!

Miulang