Wal Mart Quotes
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“...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles.”
― Special Topics in Calamity Physics
― Special Topics in Calamity Physics
“I feel guilty looking at those "People of Walmart" photos you see on the Internet. It's not cool to make fun of pitiful people. You really think anyone who wasn't batshit crazy would walk out of the house in a camouflage mankini and a Confederate flag ball cap to go buy some new furnace filters? No, he's cray-cray.”
― You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl: Observations on Life from the Shallow End of the Pool
― You Don't Sweat Much for a Fat Girl: Observations on Life from the Shallow End of the Pool
“He hung his head. “Am I punished?” “Yes. I’m too mad to punish you right now. We’ll talk about it when we get home. Go brush your teeth, comb your hair, put on dry clothes, and get the guns. We’re going to Wal-Mart.”
― On the Edge
― On the Edge
“How do I like to spend my day off? I like to hit up the juice bar, the bookstore, tan, and then flirt with the pharmacy tech at Walmart.”
― Write like no one is reading
― Write like no one is reading
“Wal-Mart’s relationship to place has become so abstracted that the company views even its own stores through the conquistador’s eyeglass. Like temporary forts built solely for purposes of territorial conquest, any one of them can be abandoned at any time.”
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“Every time you see the Wal-Mart smiley face, whistling and knocking down the prices, somewhere there's a factory worker being kicked in the stomach. - Sherrie Ford”
― The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
― The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
“The small stuff matters. The company that became the largest and most powerful in history isn't a military contractor or a car company. It isn't the result of savvy lobbyists in Washington, or the happenstance of controlling the supply of petroleum, or some kind of cabal that is beyond the understanding of ordinary people. The largest and most powerful company in history is built by each of us handing over three single dollar bills over and over again.”
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“Wal-Mart can't seem to grasp an essential fact: in 2006, the company has exactly the reputation it has earned. No, we don't give the company adequate credit for low prices. But the broken covenant Sam Walton had with how to treat store employees, the relentless pressure that hollows out companies and dilutes the quality of their products, the bullying of suppliers and communities, the corrosive secrecy, the way Wal-Mart has changed our own perception of price and quality, of value and durability--none of these is imaginary, or trivial, or easily changed with a fresh set of bullet points, an impassioned speech, and a website heavy with "Wal-Mart facts".
If Wal-Mart does in fact double the gas mileage of its truck fleet, and thereby double the gas mileage of every long-haul truck in America, that will be huge. It will change gas consumption in the United States in a single stroke. But it hasn't happened yet. And even if it does, it will not make Wal-Mart a good company or a good corporate partner or a good corporate citizen.”
― The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
If Wal-Mart does in fact double the gas mileage of its truck fleet, and thereby double the gas mileage of every long-haul truck in America, that will be huge. It will change gas consumption in the United States in a single stroke. But it hasn't happened yet. And even if it does, it will not make Wal-Mart a good company or a good corporate partner or a good corporate citizen.”
― The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
“Wal-mart has done such a superb job of austerity, from start to finish, that austerity is all that's left.”
― The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
― The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
“We want clean air, clean water, good living conditions, the best health care in the world. Yet we aren't willing to pay for anything manufactured under those restrictions.”
― The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
― The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
“If you know nothing about maintaining a [lawn] mower, Wal-Mart has helped make that ignorance irrelevant ... the lawn mowers at Wal-Mart are cheap enough to be disposable.”
― The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
― The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
“How many companies can say that the amount of customers who use their services second most often, and spend the second most amount of money with them, are “very negative”?”
― The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
― The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
“Wal-Mart benefits from the impression that globalization is some kind of unmanageable economic weather system out of the control of everyone, affecting all players with indifference, benefiting those who happened to be properly prepared.”
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“Wal-Mart is so large, its reach so great, that it has created an ecosystem in which its suppliers and competitors, and their suppliers and competitors, and their customers, all operate. Wal-Mart sets the metabolism, it sets the rules, of that ecosystem. Wal-Mart has inexorably changed our expectations as shoppers—and the Wal-Mart effect also extends to consumers who never shop at Wal-Mart. Likewise, Wal-Mart has reshaped the companies that supply it—and it has also reset the pace and the competitive landscape even for companies that try to do business outside the Wal-Mart ecosystem.”
― The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
― The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
“Sometimes cheap is inexpensive. Sometimes it's cheap.”
― The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
― The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
“Wal-Mart's business in the United States is stagnating, growing only because the company continues to relentlessly open new stores. But if Wal-Mart takes environmental responsibility seriously, if its stores become models for energy conservation and for doing minimal environmental harm (they are known for the opposite right now), that will be pioneering, and it might also be attractive to some Americans who have avoided Wal-Mart. If those stores are filled with products made by factory workers who are treated in a civilized fashion, products that do not damage the environment in the course of being made, products made in sustainable ways with minimal packaging,
that will represent a pivot point, not just for Wal-Mart, or for retailing, but for capitalism. Nothing could do more to jump-start Wal-Mart's business than for Wal-Mart to find its soul.
And of course, Wal-Mart's scale means that if it starts to take the design of its buildings and the impact of its products seriously, all its competitors will have no choice but to do the same. The virtuous Wal-Mart effect would ripple widely. It would ripple around the world.”
― The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
that will represent a pivot point, not just for Wal-Mart, or for retailing, but for capitalism. Nothing could do more to jump-start Wal-Mart's business than for Wal-Mart to find its soul.
And of course, Wal-Mart's scale means that if it starts to take the design of its buildings and the impact of its products seriously, all its competitors will have no choice but to do the same. The virtuous Wal-Mart effect would ripple widely. It would ripple around the world.”
― The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
“Who better than Wal-Mart, after all, to make a kilowatt of electricity go twice as far, or a gallon of fuel move our trucks move three times the distance?" -Wal-Mart ad”
― The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
― The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
“For all the folks whose job it was to be ready for [Hurricane] Katrina, but who weren't, from the Oval Office, right down the chain of command to the New Orleans police department, Wal-Mart was a vivid reproach.”
― The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
― The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
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