from the rtm toybuzz…
Posted by sean (connery) on May 12, 2004 at 22:45:07:
In Reply to: How dare Walmart provide service for lower cost! All prices should be same!
posted by President of Toymania’s Joseph Stalin Fan Club on May 12, 2004 at 20:59:08:
you do know that those low prices can cause serious problems for their suppliers, right?
problems like, in order to meet walmart’s painfully low prices, being forced to export labor overseas, use cheaper materials, or else just bleed money until they go out of business, only to be replaced by an independent chinese factory that can sell jeans for a quarter a pair?
low prices are good for you but not for the world. it’s one thing to be competetive, it’s another to be so competetive nobody else can compete. that’s what we call a ‘monopoly’ and in the 20s we created some laws to try to prevent companies like walmart from putting entire industries under one roof…
i could be wrong, maybe walmart cutting prices so hard nobody can even pretend to compete with them AND turn a profit is good, and maybe the world will be better off when every store is a wal-mart and all products are manufactured in china out of rice paper.
i’d kind of like to have my kb back though.
I'm a 30-year-old 
Rice Paper Action Figures will be great!!!
When two kids are setting up an epic action figure war in their living room, and one of them says “and then this guy pulls out his lazer pistol and blasts your general to smithereens”, he can simply pick up the general and eat him, so the other kid can’t say “Nuh-uh! My general has a secret Inviso-Shield, so it bounces back and destroys your entire army! I win!”
Eventually, your “green” and “tan” army men will only refer to the flavor of the filling inside their rice paper shells!
May 14th, 2004 at 4:26 pm