Can Wal-Mart take over the U.S.? - Page 8

**Skip Towne** · 01-14-2005, 10:33 AM

Considering that any one of their stores can make a man fabulously wealthy, what's to stop them from taking over.

WilliamTheIrish · 01-15-2005, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by siberian khatru

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's noticed that. It used to be, I'd see maybe one a month. In the last 2-3 years now I run into 2 or more each time I'm at a store.

Try working in a hospital. It's lard-ass central. People come into the ER complaining of knee pain, while weighing in at 400#.

Well no shit. It's a knee joint, not a support girder for a goddamn hi-rise building, you bon bon eating machine.

Wish I'd have gotten in on the ground floor of that motorized wheelchair company.

Hammock Parties · 01-15-2005, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by RINGLEADER

It's funny, in the early drafts of Joss Wheadon's Alien: Resurrection script it had Wal-Mart taking over the universe via a buy-out of Weyland-Yutani. Didn't make the final movie though...

Nerd alert! For future reference please throw Ringleader in the NERD category. Thank you, that will be all.

badgirl · 01-15-2005, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

Try working in a hospital. It's lard-ass central. People come into the ER complaining of knee pain, while weighing in at 400#.

Well no shit. It's a knee joint, not a support girder for a goddamn hi-rise building, you bon bon eating machine.

Wish I'd have gotten in on the ground floor of that motorized wheelchair company.

I understand where your coming from. I used to work on the med surg floor of the hospital and when I would get to work we would get our list of patients, and I would sometime get 2 morbid obesity patients, who had their stomachs stapled, one lady, it took 4 of us to get her out of the bed to walk her.

I don't understand how they can let themselves get that big!! If I get really busy and don't eat very much for a couple of days I lose about 5 pounds. Can't they see they are getting fat before they get out of control with their weight?

**Skip Towne** · 01-15-2005, 12:52 PM

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Originally Posted by badgirl

I understand where your coming from. I used to work on the med surg floor of the hospital and when I would get to work we would get our list of patients, and I would sometime get 2 morbid obesity patients, who had their stomachs stapled, one lady, it took 4 of us to get her out of the bed to walk her.

I don't understand how they can let themselves get that big!! If I get really busy and don't eat very much for a couple of days I lose about 5 pounds. Can't they see they are getting fat before they get out of control with their weight?

Just kill 'em all.

badgirl · 01-15-2005, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Skip Towne

Just kill 'em all.

Yea, I agree, Kill 'em all and let God sort their fat-asses out', see Skip great minds do think alike.

Deberg_1990 · 01-15-2005, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by siberian khatru

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's noticed that. It used to be, I'd see maybe one a month. In the last 2-3 years now I run into 2 or more each time I'm at a store.

yea, it makes me sick to see these people driving around the store in those things. Its different if its Grandma Johnson driving it, but when its Aunt Betty whos like 40 years old and weighs about 350, it makes me sick to my stomach just a little bit.......I see more and more of these people everytime i go out.

go bo · 01-15-2005, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by frazod

As long as the consumer isn't mom or pop, or mom and pop's landlord, or an employee of mom and pop, or the guy who owns a restaurant next to mom and pop who loses walk-up business because mom and pop go out of business, and so on, and so on.

But they can all find minimum wage/no benefit jobs at Walmart, right?

And when Walmart succeeds in running EVERYBODY else out of business, do you really think the prices will continue to stay low?

badgirl · 01-15-2005, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

yea, it makes me sick to see these people driving around the store in those things. Its different if its Grandma Johnson driving it, but when its Aunt Betty whos like 40 years old and weighs about 350, it makes me sick to my stomach just a little bit.......I see more and more of these people everytime i go out.

and usually they have their oxygen tank hanging on the back. Lazy asses, they need to walk and try to lose some of that weight, I guess how they got there to start with Lazy, Lazy. I guess they think to themselves they are handicapped, probably even got a handicapp tag.

siberian khatru · 01-15-2005, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

Try working in a hospital. It's lard-ass central. People come into the ER complaining of knee pain, while weighing in at 400#.

Well no shit. It's a knee joint, not a support girder for a goddamn hi-rise building, you bon bon eating machine.

Wish I'd have gotten in on the ground floor of that motorized wheelchair company.

Frazod stole WTI's log-in.

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