How Walmart Destroyed America and Built China

[55CrushEm]

Originally Posted by Requiem

People don't have priorities.

You aren't kidding.

One of my wife's good friends......nicest lady in the world....her husband works like a dog. But they don't make a ton of money.

They go to Disney World EVERY FRIGGEN YEAR!! Yet they almost had their house foreclosed. WTF.

They come and ask me for some advice (cause I'm a CPA)....and what am I supposed to say? "Don't take a Florida vacation EVERY GOD DAMN year?" How about every OTHER year or every THREE years?

Jesus, I make a lot more than they do.....and I don't spend nearly as much on the "extras" as they do.

Some people just have no idea how to budget.

[Pony Boy]

Originally Posted by 55CrushEm

You aren't kidding.

One of my wife's good friends......nicest lady in the world....her husband works like a dog. But they don't make a ton of money.

They go to Disney World EVERY FRIGGEN YEAR!! Yet they almost had their house foreclosed. WTF.

They come and ask me for some advice (cause I'm a CPA)....and what am I supposed to say? "Don't take a Florida vacation EVERY GOD DAMN year?" How about every OTHER year or every THREE years?

Jesus, I make a lot more than they do.....and I don't spend nearly as much on the "extras" as they do.

Some people just have no idea how to budget.

My wife is a CPA and we just got back from a week in Sunriver Oregon where she was taking some CPE classes. I went fishing on the Deschutes River and played golf on all three of their championship courses.

What was not so good is United airlines misplaced our luggage for 3 days but we were able to go to Walmart in Bend, Oregon and get everything we needed for a couple of hundred bucks. Now had we gone to the local shops the same items would have cost five hundred bucks.

[55CrushEm]

Originally Posted by Pony Boy

My wife is a CPA and we just got back from a week in Sunriver Oregon where she was taking some CPE classes. I went fishing on the Deschutes River and played golf on all three of their championship courses.

What was not so good is United airlines misplaced our luggage for 3 days but we were able to go to Walmart in Bend, Oregon and get everything we needed for a couple of hundred bucks. Now had we gone to the local shops the same items would have cost five hundred bucks.

Nice! I'm actually finishing up my CPE's now to keep my license current.

80 hours every 2 years.

[Pony Boy]

Originally Posted by 55CrushEm

Nice! I'm actually finishing up my CPE's now to keep my license current.

80 hours every 2 years.

She uses a company called WesternCPE, this the trip we just went on.

http://www.westerncpe.com/conference..._id_key=12csun

We we are going on this one to Jamaica in November.

http://www.westerncpe.com/conference..._id_key=12CJAM

[Garcia Bronco]

It's pretty much koc-ka that Walmart destroyed these small businesses. The market did it...aka we did it. Maybe it's more accurate to say we were accessories, but either way it's gone and if one is to surive, one must adapt.

[55CrushEm]

Originally Posted by Pony Boy

She uses a company called WesternCPE, this the trip we just went on.

http://www.westerncpe.com/conference..._id_key=12csun

We we are going on this one to Jamaica in November.

http://www.westerncpe.com/conference..._id_key=12CJAM

For live courses, I've used Western, EEI and CPE, Inc.

For self-study, I use
http://www.mypescpe.com

For this renewal period, I did mostly self study.....it's a lot cheaper and less travel, obviously....even though my company pays for it all.

The last renewal period, I did a 3-day SEC class in NYC....stayed at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square.....that was a fun trip.

EDIT: I have NOT used Western for live courses...only online.

[Pony Boy]

FYI ......... Tailgatenut is sniping negative rep from the shadows again.......... he's lurking but not posting the cowardly p.o.s. ............

[barryr]

Originally Posted by Pony Boy

FYI ......... Tailgatenut is sniping negative rep from the shadows again.......... he's lurking but not posting the cowardly p.o.s. ............

Yep, plus nut job Requiem I think still sends hundreds of them, filled with his usual death threats and violence. They are very stable people. And then there's spider. All 3 share similar thoughts on things, especially politics. Hint: they aren't conservative and all need shrinks to say the least.

[Bronco Yoda]

Has anyone noticed that the prices at Walmart aren't even that cheap anymore.

The other night (It was really late) I needed some kids medicine so I went to the good ol 24 hour Walmart. I picked up a few toiletries and such also. I was surprised at how much the total was. A couple days later I found myself at Target and i compared the prices. Almost every single item was cheaper at Target. I was surprised. Now the wife does most of the shopping and confirmed what I had concluded. I guess it's easy for them to jack up the prices now that they own so much market share.

[cutthemdown]

Target and Walmart compete for customers, we win with low prices.

[cutthemdown]

Originally Posted by Bronco Yoda

Has anyone noticed that the prices at Walmart aren't even that cheap anymore.

The other night (It was really late) I needed some kids medicine so I went to the good ol 24 hour Walmart. I picked up a few toiletries and such also. I was surprised at how much the total was. A couple days later I found myself at Target and i compared the prices. Almost every single item was cheaper at Target. I was surprised. Now the wife does most of the shopping and confirmed what I had concluded. I guess it's easy for them to jack up the prices now that they own so much market share.

Its like half of everything cheaper at the other place lol. Maybe paper towels cheaper at Target, but shaving cream less at Walmart etc etc. I think though if you shop either place you aren't being a big spender and can feel you are discount shopping. But yeah 30 cents here, a dollar there, hard to get 100% cheapest on all products anywhere but the internet.

Amazon makes an app that you can swipe the bar code, and it will tell you where the product is cheapest.