Yeah but how can Apple even think about selling their 100% American made products to a company that sells alot of Chinese merchandise.
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Yeah but how can Apple even think about selling their 100% American made products to a company that sells alot of Chinese merchandise.
Are you serious?
I don't get some of you posters, I bought an ipod last year when I was in the states from a Walmart for my daughter while we were traveling, what's the difference? why so judgmental?
I don't get some of you posters, I bought an ipod last year when I was in the states from a Walmart for my daughter while we were traveling, what's the difference? why so judgmental?
BTW, those elite, superior beings on here who are complaining about the iPad coming to Wal-Mart, you guys are some seriously disturbed folk. I hope that the next time you're at your equally elite Starbucks, that $7 cup of hot, steaming coffee accidentally spills all over your chests and Macbooks.
Yeah the disturbing ones are not the people who go to wal-mart, they are the people who take pictures of people at wal-mart and/or look at pictures of people who go to wal-mart. Those are the creeps and weirdos.
lol!
Yeah but how can Apple even think about selling their 100% American made products to a company that sells alot of Chinese merchandise.
The insecure walmart shoppers who feel the need to snark at people putting down walmart are also funny.
Walmart doesn't sell bulk, that's the Sams's Club division. That is a far more tolerable store. But...
Possibly because Walmart has destroyed thousands of businesses in small towns across America?
Possibly because they have treated their employees as chattel, something modern civilizations frown on.
Possibly because that "green" guy earlier in this thread may have been a moron, but there was a ring of truth about the way people behave in this country. And that certainly applies to customers at Walmart, far too often.
This is basically a documentary.
But hey, it's the American dream, right? We should all be happy for the Waltons. They rise via the destruction of others. Forbes list for 2010 includes:
4. Christy $24b net worth as of Sept 2010
7. Jim $20.1
8. Alice $20
9. Sam II ("Rob") $19.7
98. Ann $3.2
136. Nancy $2.6
Total $89.6....Sammy's legacy still beats out ol' Gates, and (most years) anyone else around the world. Basically been the richest since 1982, riding on the back of killing small towns, workers, etc.
But hey, I'm probably just an elitist pig because I don't shop there, anymore.
I tried it again to save a little cash couple years back, just couldn't live with myself. I don't give a flying **** where Apple chooses to sell their products. The point about Walmart is I won't go there because of the company being the dregs of society.
Hilarious. Have you ever been to a Walmart? Walmart sells Sony TVs and Blu-Ray players, Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii consoles, HP printers, Canon & Nikon cameras... Hell, they sell the iPhone and have sold iPods for years. The iPad will fit right in... and sell by the thousands.
Yeah but how can Apple even think about selling their 100% American made products to a company that sells alot of Chinese merchandise.
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Since Wal-Mart is really crappy at store to store inventory control and restocking, I wonder if Apple is taking over or duplicating that function for wallyworld?
Rocketman
hey wallyworld if you want an IC consultant . . .
Rocketman
hey wallyworld if you want an IC consultant . . .
Apple users tend to think of themselves as an "elite" because they can afford Apple tax. The fact that their "stuff" is now being sold in cheap shops is an affront to some. The brand can not be considered to be a premium one if it is sold in WalMart.
Apple does not present their products quite the way you think they do. Ever been inside a Macy's store or an Airport? They have Apple vending machines that you can buy iPods and accessories from, yes a vending machine, the same kind that you can buy a candy bar or a soda from. Apple wants their products to sell, period.
Walmart doesn't sell bulk, that's the Sams's Club division. That is a far more tolerable store. But...
Possibly because Walmart has destroyed thousands of businesses in small towns across America?
Possibly because they have treated their employees as chattel, something modern civilizations frown on.
Possibly because that "green" guy earlier in this thread may have been a moron, but there was a ring of truth about the way people behave in this country. And that certainly applies to customers at Walmart, far too often.
This is basically a documentary.
But hey, it's the American dream, right? We should all be happy for the Waltons. They rise via the destruction of others. Forbes list for 2010 includes:
4. Christy $24b net worth as of Sept 2010
7. Jim $20.1
8. Alice $20
9. Sam II ("Rob") $19.7
98. Ann $3.2
136. Nancy $2.6
Total $89.6....Sammy's legacy still beats out ol' Gates, and (most years) anyone else around the world. Basically been the richest since 1982, riding on the back of killing small towns, workers, etc.
But hey, I'm probably just an elitist pig because I don't shop there, anymore.
Nice collection of ignorance you got there.
Wal-Mart put businesses out of business that were inefficient and ineffective at providing the consumer the best value for goods.
They offer a service to people and provide a level of affordability that did not exist before they entrenched themselves across the country.
We see what happens to businesses that are forced to treat unqualified workers as highly paid and benefited workers, look at the auto industry in this country. People who work at wal-mart make wage and earn benefits in line with the jobs they perform.
People like to blame the fallout from poorly run and managed businesses on wal-mart. From the local retailers who got put out of business because they offered no value and higher prices to consumers, to manufacturers like rubber-maid who idiotically had all their business with Wal-Mart and then could not supply them with what they needed.
I don't know of a single case of Wal-Mart's existence negatively impacting a business that was not very poorly run in the first place.
OMG walmart selling the ipad.
Let's see, if every walmart in the usa sold them that would increase the locations someone can walk in to buy one by over 5000.
BTW there are less than 250 apple stores.
increasing you supply chain by 5000+ outlets, that is a horrible decision.
So will this move devalue the ipad, like it did to the iphone?
Devalued the iPhone? Surely you jest ... er, troll.
Most of the people complaining about selling iPads at Walmart either don't have a Walmart near enough to shop there OR they shop at Walmart often.
That reminds me, I need to check Walmart for their price for the dogs' flea treatment.
Levi's price has done them in with me. My pair of Levis in 1961 for $4 was reasonable. Today it's ridiculously inflated and probably not made in the USA.
Yea because no one could order it online or go to Best Buy before it came to Crap-Mart. GASP wait.....THEY COULD!
Snort. I've traveled to places still too small for a wal-mart. I find it very amusing that people actually pine for those businesses that stock the same mass market stuff at high prices and contribute next to nothing to the local economy because they employ few others than the family, complete with zero benefits to the few employed. Cry me a river. Of course, I shop at the original big box store, Meijer, so I'm probably part of the problem.
Hey, bought my iPad early on, was on the waiting list at my local Apple store. Would have bought it at WalMart if it were available, and would not be enjoying it any less. Maybe WalMart could throw in a weight loss app for free since they are selling it for standard pricing.
If I made a weight-loss app, it would be a white screen with text saying, "Eat sensible portions!" and have a picture of a really skinny guy wearing oversized trousers.
Strange...I was at our Best Buy the other day and I easily saw 20 of them on the shelves...
