BigOlDave

Walmart Launches Walmart Marketplace

GHIDRA likes The Huffington Post !

As newspapers decay / disappear, we all look to other media for real, credible news coverage. The Huffington Post will be one of the last places I'll ever go -- correct that: I'll never go there -- for truth.

As Wiki notes ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ), it gives a soapbox to the likes of Rosie O'Donnell and John Conyers. I get more opinions than I need from SA, realizing that SA also provides a forum to vapid, fringe thinkers.

Walmart Launches Walmart Marketplace

GHIDRA is one of those fortune-hunters that concoct incidents and then hopes to get paid off. He's the kind that runs up our health care costs with frivolous medical malpractice suits also. Good on Wal-Mart for stiffing him: keeps prices down for when I go shopping there.

My wife avoids shopping at Wal-Mart because of the long lines (as Yogi Berra said: "Nobody shops at Wal-Mart, it's too crowded!"). So I'm there at least 2X/mo. Usually the lines are no more than 2 deep and they have a lot of registers going.

We go to Wal-Mart for rock bottom-priced RXs (consistently beats my health plan's Medco option), other pharma items, groceries, hardware, bird seed ... anything: Wal-Mart seldom has an item with a higher price than what we'd pay elsewhere.

Nobody can compete with the internet for big-ticket items like PCs and TVs. I also think the internet will be the place to shop for a car in the future. We're already using the web to find homes.

So don't go to Wal-Mart for PCs, TVs, cars, or houses. For anything else, protect your standard of living by making a trip to Wal-Mart a regular event in your life.

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Rachael,

Would it be possible to enhance SA's stock site's symbol? Click Ariba (ARBA) and all we get is the chart. If this is too much work, why not forward to Google/Yahoo/MSNBC or another site that at least tells us what sector it is in? Maybe you could even collect some ad revenue for the click!

Dave