Posts Tagged Wal-Mart

I Love Wal-Mart

Yessir, I love everything about Wal-Mart. I’d especially love one of those wall mounted plasma HDTVs from the electronics department. I’m sure with one of those in my possession, I would be able to rhapsodize at great length about Wal-Mart, it’s ability to deliver quality products at a low cost, the unfairness of the union smear campaign against it, the unfairness of Maryland singling Wal-Mart out over employee healthcare. Of course, I could learn to love Best Buy, Comp USA, Target, or another store that sells plasma HDTVs if it somehow managed to come into my possession.

Because as a blogger, I have no code of ethics, ergo I must not have any ethics (or plasma HDTV).

Of course, I could do a review of one, and somehow never return it. Because it’s not like companies never send freebees hoping to get a (good) review. And believe me, I’d love a plasma HDTV (as long as it’s widescreen and has a 3D YC comb filter).

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I’d Be Willing To Pay Real Money

Are some companies famous for their cost cutting reaching the point of doing more harm than good? Megan McCardle has sworn off Dell because of their low cost support. I was in the Wal-Mart in Kirkwood the other day, and even though the store is newer than the one near me in Town & Country (where I haven’t had a bad experience other than their refusal via red tape to honor tax exempt status for the Boy Scouts), it is poorly lit and dirty, the staff is surly and unhelpful. My wife observed we always have a bad experience there – this time it was the clerk in the Photo department who told my wife she had no idea where the film drop off was and then ignored her.

Don’t get me wrong, cheap is good, but there comes a point in cutting costs where service and quality suffer far more than the price comes down. And it may be that at certain companies, the drive to cut cost above all else may have become counter productive.

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