Walmart for auto supplies

[GTO]

Mobil 1

 

[anndel]

Mobil 1, Orange hand cleaner, polish, cotton shop rags, etc.

 

[anndel]

I have two Napa stores within 10 minutes of my house.
They have been my sole source for automotive consumables, but lately it's getting mighty difficult...for instance, last week I needed a Gates 7420 fan belt. It was $23.95 at the Napa stores. The same belt is $9.95 on Amazon, with free next-day shipping.



That's a HUGE difference, too much to ignore. And quite frankly the Napa stores make no effort to match (or come close to) Internet pricing.

I will still try to give them my business, but frankly Amazon is now my first choice.

PS Closest Wal-Mart to me is 45 miles away, so it's not in the picture.

Well our local NAPA stores don't even loan tools out as I needed a spring compressor when I was replacing the struts in my wife's car. O'reilly's was the same and they were trying to sell me the unsafe spring compressors. I found a local shop that replaced the springs and only charged me $25 for all 4.

 

[tdkkart]

Has anyone ever notice that their Walmarts are all located within eyesight of a trailer park? Of the 5 Walmarts closest to me, 4 of them are within rock throwing distance to a trailer park.

I guess you keep your customers and employees as close as possible.......

 

[moon_tanner]

Are you smiling? Because you are on video.
I know what you mean because that has happened to me in the past and i have seen it happen to many others while I am waiting in line to check out. Annoying!

To those who say the Chinese products are the consumers fault I will have to say it is more the Voters fault. We don't have a true supply and demand economy which they teach out about in high school economics.
Our politicians in Washington set this up to happen under the guidance of the large multi-nationals. Most boycotts would not work because your options become too limited due to your bank account dwindling or there just are not viable choices. What are you going to do? Not buy a car because there are some Chinese parts in it? Or not replace a broken tool because every store around has stuff made in china..... or some other 3rd world country.

I don't want to sound too negative but every eligible voter is responsible. Do you know how your senator has been voting? Democracy takes work. If you don't want to do some work then you get what you get.

Right now China is our largest creditor. If their economy crashes it will greatly effect us. Again, thank your Senator and congress person for supporting deals like NAFTA, CAFTA and a bunch of other lousy trade deals. They could have said NO to that nice lobbyist who plays golf with them and helps them get reelected.

I agree that global markets highly influence our local economy, however it is a necessary evil. If anything, we need more trade with lower tariffs to encourage other countries to compete with the current manufacturing countries.

 

[nine4gmc]

Thats mostly a zoning thing, its controlled by the city. Trust me, if walmart were allowed, they'd be in every high income subdivision in every state. That's why they created "walmart neighborhood groceries", those have a loser zoning requirement than the super stores that carry everything. At least that's how it is around here. "Grocery only" stores in higher class areas with other grocery stores and the super stores on the outskirts with the home improvement type box stores.
Same with trailer parks, there are zoning regulations that prevent them from being in nicer neighborhoods.

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[theoldwizard1]

Has anyone ever notice that their Walmarts are all located within eyesight of a trailer park? Of the 5 Walmarts closest to me, 4 of them are within rock throwing distance to a trailer park.

Zero for 3 near me.

 

[theoldwizard1]

Mobil 1, Orange hand cleaner, polish, cotton shop rags, etc.

The universal supplier of shop rags/towels in mainland China has decided that there were too main thread per inch. All new shop rags I have seen for the past year look like CHEESE CLOTH !

 

[skyking]

I love Wal Mart and buy everything there.

Never could afford to shop at the MOM & POP shops. And don't like to go to 10 stores to do all my shopping.

 

[skyking]

Has anyone ever notice that their Walmarts are all located within eyesight of a trailer park? Of the 5 Walmarts closest to me, 4 of them are within rock throwing distance to a trailer park.

I guess you keep your customers and employees as close as possible.......

You obviously live in a depressed part of the country. You are surrounded by 5 trailer parks.

 

[nbpt100]

Has anyone ever notice that their Walmarts are all located within eyesight of a trailer park? Of the 5 Walmarts closest to me, 4 of them are within rock throwing distance to a trailer park.

I guess you keep your customers and employees as close as possible.......

Not with in eye sight but there are several with in a 4 mile radius.

Wal-Marts and other big box stores want a lot of concessions by the town before they build a store. You know, like tax breaks, roads widened, exits off of highways built.......All for the promise of jobs that ultimately pay squat and have no to little benefits. In the mean time they put the smaller stores out of business and those jobs go away. Require the town to hire more cops and Emergency First responders. The effect has been documented by Stacy Mitchell in her book The Big Box Store Swindle. Take a look at it.