[Jewelry making - Article 00443] - Re: [Orchid] Weapons of mass-destruction

[Kenneth Ferrell]

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    "Do we as consumers appreciate what we're doing?" Larrimore asks. "I
    don't think so. But even if we do, I think we say, Here's a Master
    Lock for $9, here's another lock for $6--let the other guy pay $9." 

    Just my opinion but as American consumers we are giving them the
    goldmine and we get the shaft, For those non vegetarians in this
    group, If you buy your meat at Wal-Mart notice that in small print
    that most meat has a (variable percentage usually 20%) solution
    added, No where on that package have I been able to find WHAT IS IN
    THAT SOLUTION. let's see Black Angus roast sells for $ x per pound,
    Water sells for much less, so if x= 4.79 per pound then you are also
    paying 4.79 per pound for this solution , (turns out that this
    solution is primarily water) guess why they can undersell the local
    meat market by 10% or more, so a 5 pound roast will have 1 pound of
    this mysterious solution added to it a 5.00 pound of water, OK now
    don't we feel stupid. 

    In my opinion no terrorist needs to over throw the American
    Government, just let the Government negotiate with Wal-Mart. 

    As for me, I think I want to move to Jamaica, eat Jerk Chicken drink
    lots of rum, consume mass quantities of other things , sit on the
    beach with a steel block do a bit of silver stamp work and fleece
    tourists, 

    On a serious side this lets call it the Wal-Mart syndrome is
    spreading , My wife manages several sandwich shops that got famous
    because some 1/4 ton idiot decided to get off his keester walk to the
    restraint and only eat one sandwich at a time,, Well the franchise
    holders own 30 stores in western Tennessee. Now these eastern
    gentlemen recently tried to hold Coke a cola's feet to the fire by
    telling them what members of their  business association would pay.
    This is a group of around 150 merchants from Arkansas, Tennessee and
    Mississippi. they also tried the same with two tobacco companies,
    After the laughing subsided, they were informed that Only Wal-Mart
    can tell us what they will pay and just because they owned 400
    convenience stores and fast food shops, it was thought that they had
    acquired some rather large glands to even think about doing business
    like that with them.Bottom line is they are now having distribution
    problems, I guess if you are going to act like a corporate giant,
    you'd better have a BIG foot to back it up. 


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