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Report: Wal-Mart Public Image Sucks

Author:	boz
Dated:	Friday, December 02 2005 @ 05:37 PM EST
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According to the results of this Zogby Poll commissioned by WakeUpWalmart.com, Americans are viewing Wal-Mart less favourably these days. The results show that 56% of the 1,012 randomly selected adults agreed with the statement "Wal-Mart was bad for America. It may provide low prices, but these prices come with a high moral and economic cost."

Now, one might wonder how many of these respondents actually don't shop at Wal-Mart for that reason.

I've seen market research (namely in the book "Call to Action" by Jeff Eisenberg and Bryan Eisenberg) that suggests that people's responses on a survey don't necessarily match their actual behaviour. People tend to take the path of least resistance (and price) when shopping for things like commodity items, which Wal-Mart has a lot of. I'd be willing to bet that many people would buy from Wal-Mart on the basis of low price and convenience alone no matter how strongly they agree with the statement that Wal-Mart is bad for America.

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Report: Wal-Mart Public Image Sucks

Authored by: Strawberry on Tuesday, December 06 2005 @ 03:22 PM EST

People can poo poo WalMart, and say it's bad. Yes,it can be fun joking about the clientele, but when you get right down to it, the store has many items at great prices. Also, if WalMart is supposedly dissed by so many, then why is it that our local store is patronized by so many people, even from the next state over? Location and good prices. You can't go by that store and not see huge numbers of cars any day of the year. :o)