[AgentR]

Sales, month to month, would be pretty darn hard to fudge in a retail environment as large as Walmart; and a 1% increase is quite anemic.

Just too many solid paths for auditing down to ground truth.

And yes, I spent a few years as a corporate/retail staff accountant. However, I've since moved on to better things.

[Denny]

I can't see an easy way it could be anything but nominal. Wal-Mart can't apply an index against each commodity it sells to discount inflation from the selling price to establish a "real" figure. And, there is no real reporting reason its accounting system would need to do that in the first place.

[Vexed]

But Wall Street is a funny thing.

Dow surges again paced by Wal-Mart to 12100

"The picture being painted is pretty easy to suggest that the pressure on the economy from higher oil prices is easing," said Richard Cripps, chief market strategist at Stifel Nicolaus.

Wal-Mart said it will be more selective about where it will open stores, though it still plans 600 new locations next year. The retailer was the Dow's biggest advancing stock."

If oil drops to 10/barrel maybe eveyone will be shopping at Neiman Marcus and Wal-Mart's stock will go to a thousand.

[AgentR]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Gideon', 'I')f you're right, Denny, then it means that Walmart sales are down 2 to 4 percent from last year. That's, IMO, telling.

[Vexed]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'F')or instance, I used to have only one convenient walmart, now there are three, though I only buy stuff from two of them.

[The_Toecutter]

It's pretty fun to walk into a Walmart while drunk and/or stoned and harass all those inbred-looking or mentally-handicapped appearing people. But I don't shop there.

[Vexed]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('The_Toecutter', 'I')t's pretty fun to walk into a Walmart while drunk and/or stoned and harass all those inbred-looking or mentally-handicapped appearing people. But I don't shop there.

[Vexed]

Sucks to be insensitive. My bad.

[PolestaR]

Walmart... both the epitome of capitalism... and the reason why it's the worst plague since the black death.

Anything which can spread like a virus is well adapted to it's environment... my only question is where does it end? Where does outsourcing end? Are people so naive to not know that loss of jobs can only occur to some extent before problems set in? I have heard no one talk about where the line is.. and it's important to know it isn't it?

[Denny]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Vexed', 'W')al-Marts scare the hell out of me. Maybe its only the lighting that makes them seem dirtier than most discount stores. I have gone to a few (the prices are damn good!) but the parking lots are always maddening, the smell of McDonalds as I enter the door is always fairly nauseating, and on every rare trip I have made to Wal-Mart there has always been one time-stretching moment when I am inexorably pinned down by a family of at least 9 in some god forsaken aisle.

Otherwise, pretty decent shopping experience.

[AgentR]

The amount of liberal elitist fluff on this thread is really eye opening.

A doomer board full of people that will pay $40 for a shirt. I think my head is trying to explode.

Gack.

[JustinFrankl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Gideon', 'I')f you're right, Denny, then it means that Walmart sales are down 2 to 4 percent from last year. That's, IMO, telling.

[ColossalContrarian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR', 'T')he amount of liberal elitist fluff on this thread is really eye opening.

A doomer board full of people that will pay $40 for a shirt. I think my head is trying to explode.

Gack.

[Denny]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR', 'T')he amount of liberal elitist fluff on this thread is really eye opening.

A doomer board full of people that will pay $40 for a shirt. I think my head is trying to explode.

Gack.

[AgentR]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Denny', 'A')nd, if we paid $40 today for a shirt, but it lasts and it kept people in work here, maybe that would not be such a bad trade off. I think my Dad only had about three dress shirts. It worked for him as he only wore them on Sundays or to family formal events.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'w')almart is skeevy. it stinks. and the aisles are paved with plastic that are decomposing and releasing (off-gassing) phenyls and other epoxy resin, hardeners, and additives.

The products (small gift items and appliances) contain salts and other extrudents from the line workers who sweat over them. This perspiration contains odorants 2-methylphenol (o-cresol) and 4-methylphenol (p-cresol). These substances are released when constant fear and stress induced by middle managers reaches psycotropic levels.

The parking lots are designed to trap RV refuse. The policy to allow these traveling circus animals and families to camp outside is designed to breed additional workers. The union regulation forbade child labor but people who are born on the premise age prematurely so the constant pool of RV kids replenish the workforce.

Walmart management comes from Arkansas, America. They have Nascar brains and Walmart slogans in their hearts. They are coming to your town.