For the Wal Mart Shoppers

[kia027]

Re: For the Wal Mart Shoppers

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mangoskin</div><div class="ubbcode-body">...so is legal to buy life insurance on someone's life w/o them knowing?!
Ugh... </div></div>

yep

[kia027]

Re: For the Wal Mart Shoppers

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: dahJahPawtTwo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Yuh nuh de one word dat keep poppin up chroo out de whool a dis chredd is &quot;cheap&quot;; or was it sheep

</div></div>

cheap sheep?

[kia027]

Re: For the Wal Mart Shoppers

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: _____</div><div class="ubbcode-body">yes CHR does pay crappy </div></div>

and they pay crappy because walmart pays them crappy but see how much they charge for the load to be delivered

[H_O]

Re: For the Wal Mart Shoppers

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Hay_Rolla</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: _____</div><div class="ubbcode-body">yes CHR does pay crappy </div></div>

and they pay crappy because walmart pays them crappy but see how much they charge for the load to be delivered </div></div>
i in my life only ever once got paid well by CH Robinson when i was running a friends truck for a few months.
Went to Nogales Arizona for produce and there were NO Canadian trucks down there to load back to Canada and most US drivers dont want to come to Canada.
all said and done the load of green peppers paid about $4.00(us) a mile other than that CHR tops out at 1.70 mile if your lucky

[missus_vegas]

Re: For the Wal Mart Shoppers

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: H_O</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: J kid</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Yuh drive 18-wheeler truck? </div></div>actually mine has 32 and usually i gross 152,000lbs instead of the uS maximum weight of 80,000lbs

we drive large cars here in Canada J-Kid
</div></div>

a did said truck dat HO? you still a drive fi di same peeps or u change?

[Emperah]

Re: For the Wal Mart Shoppers

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Wendilina</div><div class="ubbcode-body">

OK so unu waan talk bout Wal-Mart saturation strategy. Weh unu sey about:
1. A McDonald’s on every corner
2. A 711 every 200 feet
3. An Exxon gas station every tree stop light
4. A StarBucks here and ova dere
5. A Dollar tree Every odda Strip Mall

Come On now ..Walmart is running a freking business people.
</div></div>


mi did mean fi come back tuh dis cah not one a dem company yuh mention have a mandate to overtly screw de ppl who wukk fi dem an de community in de long run. Now mi done tawk

ETA Wendy a wundah ow yuh wouldan feel if yuh employer did gi yuh sub par wage an benefit an treat yuh like yuh a dawg meat. Sometimes wi haffee put wiself inna oddah ppl shoes even if dem nuh fit wi. If it was you mi wouldan tek up fi yuh sameway

[halfwaytree]

Re: For the Wal Mart Shoppers

<span style="font-size: 17pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">Wal-Mart to expand; other retailers wary</span></span>

<span style="font-style: italic">February 24, 2010

Dana Flavelle</span>

<span style="font-weight: bold">Wal-Mart Canada Corp. says it will open 35 to 40 more supercentres this year, while other retailers remain cautious amid signs consumers aren't ready to open their wallets just yet.</span>

The newer stores will be at least 10 per cent smaller than previous versions, topping out at about 175,000 square feet, the company told investors at a conference in Toronto Tuesday. Wal-Mart opened 28 supercentres last year in Canada.

The stores, which combine general merchandise and a full supermarket, will be a mix of new, renovated and expanded stores, the company said.

Still, Wal-Mart is one of the few retailers in expansion mode, the CIBC World Markets Retail and Consumer Conference heard. <span style="font-weight: bold">The company plans to invest $500 million in the projects to create 6,500 construction and retail jobs.</span>

&quot;We want to be the fastest-growing retailer in Canada,&quot; president and chief executive David Cheesewright said.

The latest additions bring to 124 the number of supercentres the retailer operates, in addition to its existing 200 conventional general merchandise stores, for a total of 324 stores across the country.

The retailer operated 312 stores at this time last year after closing six Sam's Warehouse Club stores, a format that didn't do as well as expected in Canada.

<span style="font-weight: bold">Most Canadian retailers are cutting their square-footage growth, citing continuing nervousness among consumers, said Perry Caicco, a CIBC analyst and conference host.</span>



Last week, the country's largest supermarket chain, Loblaw Cos. Ltd., repeated its concern about the impact of rising household debt loads on consumer spending.

Shoppers Drug Mart said competition in 2010 would remain tough.

However, a U.S. consumer research expert said Canadians are in much better shape than their American counterparts.

&quot;Canada is showing some bounce back to a real good level of consumer confidence,&quot; said Todd Hale, vice-president of Nielsen Co. On most measures, including their belief in their future job prospects, Canadians score much higher than U.S. consumers, he said.

<span style="font-weight: bold">Still, the recession has generally favoured discounters such as Wal-Mart over other retailers, Hale noted</span>.

In Canada, Wal-Mart's decision to add food to its stores helped buoy sales during the downturn as shoppers continued to buy basics and also switched to lower-priced retailers.

Indeed, food remains a key area of competition among retailers of all kinds, the conference heard.

Shoppers Drug Mart said it plans to add more groceries to its aisles after learning consumers who buy food at its stores spend three times more than nonfood shoppers. The drug retailer also plans to develop more store-brand food, saying private labels represent just 14 per cent of its food sales, compared with 18.5 per cent in other categories.

Loblaw said it plans to add more food to its superstores in Ontario. The stores, which like Wal-Mart supercentres carry both food and general merchandise, first opened in 2004 but continue to underperform the company's expectations, president and deputy chairman Allan Leighton said.

Loblaw said it plans to make better use of those stores by adding more food, doubling the amount of Joe Fresh clothing and cutting the amount of general merchandise. &quot;We've got about half a dozen stores that are too big. But we'll just have to live with it,&quot; Leighton said.

As a group, Canadian retailers have emerged from the recession stronger than expected by focusing on cost-cutting and profit margins at the expense of sales, Caicco said.

They've responded by cutting expansion plans, focusing on renovations, placing more importance on loyalty programs and using price promotions more effectively, Caicco said.

&quot;Predictions that hundreds of Canadian retailers would bite the dust during the 2009 recession turned out to be patently wrong,&quot; Caicco wrote in a note before the conference.

[Emperah]

Blind woman angry over Wal-Mart hassles


<span style="font-size: 8pt">Judy Germain says greeters at her local Wal-Mart have stopped her and Mr. Jones, her guide dog, eight or nine times in the last year.</span>

Judy Germain has grown tired of the unwelcome &quot;greeting&quot; she says she and her guide dog receive at her local Wal-Mart.

Germain, who is blind, uses Mr. Jones – a yellow Labrador and golden retriever cross – to get around. She says she is rarely troubled when entering buildings that prohibit other animals, except when she shops at the Wal-Mart store at Islington Ave. and Highway 401.

&quot;It's 2010 – this shouldn't be happening,&quot; says Germain, 49. &quot;It's degrading, it's frustrating, and it's embarrassing.&quot;

The store says it's simply a misunderstanding, and that Mr. Jones was not immediately recognized as a service dog because he was not wearing a service-dog vest.

In Canada, guide dogs are allowed anywhere people are.

Germain says the store's trademark greeters have stopped her and Mr. Jones eight or nine times in the last year, telling her they are not allowed into the store. On every occasion, Germain says, she speaks to a manager who allows her to continue shopping. When it happened again on Wednesday, Germain says she had had enough.

Officers at Toronto Police's 23 Division confirmed Thursday that Germain filed a report of Wednesday's incident with them.

Store manager Hamid Chaudry said that, since the first incident with Germain last year, the store's staff have been trained to recognize guide dogs.

&quot;When we questioned the greeter last night, he did not recognize (Mr. Jones) as a guide dog,&quot; Chaudry said.

&quot;The dog was not fully equipped as a guide dog should be.&quot;

Chaudry says Germain has been stopped two or three times.

Germain, 49, was born with impaired vision. She says she was wearing a jacket with a Guide Dogs Canada logo Wednesday night, and was using a guide-dog harness to walk Mr. Jones.

Andrew Pelletier, vice-president of Wal-Mart Canada's corporate affairs, said the company's head office will review the incident.

&quot;Anybody who knows Wal-Mart knows that we're committed to providing a welcome shopping environment to all of our clients.&quot;

He said Wal-Mart is a large employer of people with special needs and he has never heard of any incident of discrimination involving service dogs.

Germain says she just wants to shop without worrying if she's going to be harassed when she walks through the front doors.

&quot;It's frustrating to walk into Wal-Mart and wonder, `Is it going to happen this time?'&quot;

Anyone found guilty of discriminating against the use of a specially trained guide dog in a public place can be fined a maximum of $5,000.

...

[H_O]

Re: Blind woman angry over Wal-Mart hassles

I like Canadian Tire

[Gen]

Re: Blind woman angry over Wal-Mart hassles

will this chread evah dead out

how would you know if a service dog unless dem a wear dem special outfit ??

mi inna bb&amp;b today and see this 2 ooman in deh a shop wid dem dogs, suh mi ask the manager &quot;wah dog a do in yah&quot;

she seh she juss ask dem to leave the store and mi seh thanks and tell har mi nuh waan shop wid dog unless a service dog

<span style="font-style: italic">transferring to shopping forum</span>

[kia027]

Re: Blind woman angry over Wal-Mart hassles

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Gen</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> will this chread evah dead out

how would you know if a service dog unless dem a wear dem special outfit ?? <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #990000">when they are on duty they have a special harness - and maybe the supa dawk dawkas may have hinted to them she blind</span></span>

mi inna bb&amp;b today and see this 2 ooman in deh a shop wid dem dogs, suh mi ask the manager &quot;wah dog a do in yah&quot;

she seh she juss ask dem to leave the store and mi seh thanks and tell har mi nuh waan shop wid dog unless a service dog

<span style="font-style: italic">transferring to shopping forum</span> </div></div>

if the dogs in BB&amp;B were in handbags dem is service dogs fi curb de ooman dem spending

[Gen]

Re: Blind woman angry over Wal-Mart hassles

boal @ the handbag dog dem woieeeeeeee