pandalover25: Sounds like you plan to be a corporate lawyer. That's sad.

haha. I know plenty about economics, thank you. I understand the country is struggling but that doesn't mean that we should become xenophobic protectionists. The world buys our computers, machinery, aircraft, bombs, guns, food, and we buy products from other countries. This is the new world economy and everyone either needs to accept it and learn to thrive in it- or simply get run over buy it.

It is hard to accept but no one in the world can afford to buy products built by unskilled, unionized, American workers. The industries with skilled- unionized American workers are doing well(not as bad...). The fact is, if someone can do the same job as you for half the money, the job will find that person.

As for being good-hearted….thank you

pandalover25 - No offense, but you really need to learn more about economics and less about being good hearted when your own Country is massively struggling.

We are a global community now. Who are any of us to say that a job in China or India is not as beneficial as a job in Janesville or Madison. People in China need to feed their families, need to support their children, and they have found a market for their goods.

If you want to buy only American made products...go ahead- no one is stopping you. However, the free market will lead the majority of the people to the cheapest goods and those goods are at wal-mart.

Enjoy!

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Walmart - Shutting down local businesses near you.
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Walmart sucks. Period.

Be careful what you wish for because, in far too many small towns Walmart comes in and brings competition, local business can no longer compete so they lock the doors, and then Walmart can raise prices to whatever they'd like....or outright leave the community entirely. Always, always reflect upon the hidden costs if you must shop at Walmart based solely on cheap prices for those costs are enormous in a myriad of other ways.

Walmart provides cheap goods. Why do we need cheap goods? Because people are out of jobs or have low-paying jobs. What is one reason for that? Walmart comes into town and other businesses go out of business. Also, nothing is manufactured in America, because it's cheaper to make things overseas. That way Walmart can sell us our cheap items. Its a big circle, we wouldn't need the cheap items so much if we would pay a little more for them, and allow things to be made in America, giving people better paying jobs.

I haven't been a big fan of Wal-mart for a long time because all they sell is stuff made in China. Yeah we're a global community, but that stuff is junk. You know it and I know it. It's cheap for a reason. And then there was the Wal-mart store in Michigan who fired one of their employees of the year because they found marijuana in his system. He's battling cancer and medical marijuana is LEGAL in Michigan. Strike two. And finally, after watching "Capitalism: A Love Story," I'm completely done with them. They take out life insurance policies on their employees WITHOUT the employees' knowledge. So they benefit from an employee dying. Wow. That's America.

Sarah: Remember when Walmart first opened they only sold "American-made", but then they heard their customers who said they could care less where it is made as long as it is cheaper. And they have listened. GM vehicles are not made in america, but Toyotas are, so what should a person buy?

We are a global community!

I know the ever shrinking budget thing as well. I've got young kids, who are very picky as well. Nothing wrong with Aldi, but my overall bill for what I buy is about $10 less at woodmans, almost 20 cheaper than wal-mart. As far as kids clothes, socks, etc, arent they all pretty much made overseas? Hell, I dont even think Levi's are made in the states anymore.

I have to echo the comments about finally having some grocery competition with Sentry. The prices at Sentry in Whitewater are absolutely outrageous, and other than some dry and canned goods, the current wal-mart has no other grocery items.

Kudos to walmart for planning this expansion.

1924grant: I shop at locally owned businesses if possible and tend to find more American-made products in those places. I don't always get the lowest price by doing that, but I feel the principle is more important than that. The fact that I rarely shop (except for groceries) keeps me within by shrinking budget. As far as groceries, I will challenge you to a shopping faceoff. You take Woodman's and I will go to Aldi's. The latter may not have all of the different choices of the former, but it has almost everything that I need. Except for a specific cat food or a few rarely needed baking ingredients (extracts for example), I pattern my cooking to fit the products available to me at Aldi's or grown by area farmers.

Wal-Mart is the biggest retailer in the world sarah. The fact that much of thier "junk" is made overseas means nothing. Where do you shop that nothing in the store is made in china, vietnam, mexico, thailand, etc? Actually, Wal-Mart does have a policy that allows local crafters to sell thier wares with managment approval. The problem is, people never seem to use that option, and it's hard to compete with the prices of the overseas made "junk". Don't look for cheap groceries either. I've donr some extensive comparison shopping in Janesville and beloit, including Aldi's, shop and save, sentry, piggly wiggly, woodmans, wal-mart and pic n save. Woodmans is by far the cheapest, even cheaper than aldi. Wal-mart is actually one of the more expensive places to buy groceries, although cheaper than the sentry in which I comparison shopped.

As a former Whitewater resident, I can say that the Sentry there is definitely more expensive than grocery stores in other nearby towns where there is some competition. They could definitely use some local pressure.

Its about time, Sentry has been screwing the customer long enough in that town. They need a second store in town.

pandalover25: Make sure you share that attitude with millions of Americans who have lost their jobs to those overseas.

Yes....overseas is defiantly a scary place full of goblins and trolls. You need to protect yourself from what happens over there....what with terrorism and everything

Aisles and aisles of junk made overseas.

I agree, Walmart in Whitewater is substandard. Don't think they can upgrade it enough though.

College town, that says it all.

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