Quote Originally Posted by Richard View Post
How are you offering no buy comments without doing simple research ?

Nix. International expansion forces domestic expansion , no expansion creats stall,you are forced to explore new markets not looked at before.

Bad economy wal mart does good target does bad,what does that say about a certain economy and where wal mart sees profit.

Target demographic is middle to higher low income,Wal-Mart is based on the mentality of cheapest is better even if cost more buying the same item over and over,but it is cheap today tommorow is another day.

They serve two different markets and two different mind sets and really should not even be mentioned as a comparison as there is none.
WTF did you just say? Middle to higher low income?? Is that even a category?? Regardless, the cheapest stores are not Walmart, but the Dollar shops that offer no return policies. That's your invented lower "low income" category, which means Walmart is in the Target category. At least with Walmart, if a product is garbage, you can return it the following week, so there's at least some motivation for quality control vs. letting the buyer beware with Dollar shops. Most of the stuff sold at Walmart and Target are basically the same items made by the same manufacturers with different UPC codes or a different generic name. It's an apples to apples comparison. Target is not competing with the Macy's category; they are competing with Walmart. Regardless, whatever you just said, did not work because Target had to close all their stores in Canada and is now closing stores in the US.

Quote Originally Posted by Richard View Post
Did the OP say yaaaaa we are getting a Wal-Mart? That would be a leap backwards.
Walmart wouldn't open up in downtown Detroit either. Their loss prevention department couldn't handle the losses....