Wal-Mart

Anyone know how Wal-Mart became such a huge supporter of Bass-Fishing?
Seems like they're pumping in millions of dollars into the sport, and
nothing on fly-fishing.
-tom

Tom Nakashima wrote:
Anyone know how Wal-Mart became such a huge supporter of Bass-Fishing?
Seems like they're pumping in millions of dollars into the sport, and
nothing on fly-fishing.
-tom
Sounds like you have led a fairly insulated life Tom. You need to spend
more time at Wal-Mart. I don't know if there are any on the pensula
but if so those would not be typical. Pick one between Stockton and
Bakersfield.
Wal-MArt doesn't pump money into anything, they suck it out.

Tom Nakashima wrote:
Anyone know how Wal-Mart became such a huge supporter of Bass-Fishing?

Walmart isn't a "supporter" of bass fishing. They're an "exploiter" of
bass fishing.

Seems like they're pumping in millions of dollars into the sport, and
nothing on fly-fishing.

Good, so far.

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Tom Nakashima wrote:
Anyone know how Wal-Mart became such a huge supporter of Bass-Fishing?
Seems like they're pumping in millions of dollars into the sport, and
nothing on fly-fishing.
-tom

Now that the agenda-based responses are in, let me give you my best
guess.
Wal-Mart is HQ'd in NW Arkansas, very near the White River lakes. Of
more significance is the fact that the large majority of WM stores are
located in bass fishing areas, and their clientelle are much more
likely to be bass (and catfish) fishermen than fly fishermen. It has
been my experience that the sporting goods clerks in most WM's are very
knowledgeable EXCEPT in fly fishing.
They exploit fishing like grocery stores exploit hunger.

cheers

oz

BJ Conner wrote:
Tom Nakashima wrote:

Anyone know how Wal-Mart became such a huge supporter of Bass-Fishing?
Seems like they're pumping in millions of dollars into the sport, and
nothing on fly-fishing.
-tom

Sounds like you have led a fairly insulated life Tom. You need to spend
more time at Wal-Mart. I don't know if there are any on the pensula
but if so those would not be typical.

There's one by the Sears at San Antonio and El Camino Real. It's
typical, exactly like the one in Boise. It's full of obese women with
obese children and obese dads wearing NASCAR T-shirts, one paycheck away
from eviction, buying the same cheap ****. Competitive bass fishing fits
their demographic perfectly.

Pick one between Stockton and
Bakersfield.

Pick one between Stockton and
Bakersfield.
Wal-MArt doesn't pump money into anything, they suck it out.

You said it.

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Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

MajorOz wrote:

They exploit fishing like grocery stores exploit hunger.

from "Retailers lure fishermen with tourneys as bait"
Discount Store News, June 23, 1997 by Mike Troy

"[Fishing is] a merchandise-intensive pastime on which 46 million
participants spend more on equipment than golfers and tennis players
combined. That statistic has never been lost on Wal-Mart and Kmart,
which for years have sold licenses in virtually all their stores and
have been top-of-mind destinations among those with equipment needs. To
capitalize and contribute to the trend, Wal-Mart and Kmart are pursuing
a strategy of major bass tournament sponsorships. If successful, the
sponsorships will increase sales by enhancing the retailers' image among
a group of fishing equipment consumers regarded as the industry's
trendsetters and most voracious consumers."

They're not sponsoring bass tournaments to sell fishing tackle. It's to
advertise their entire inventory of low-end consumer crap.

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MajorOz wrote:
Tom Nakashima wrote:
Anyone know how Wal-Mart became such a huge supporter of Bass-Fishing?
Seems like they're pumping in millions of dollars into the sport, and
nothing on fly-fishing.
-tom

Now that the agenda-based responses are in, let me give you my best
guess.
Wal-Mart is HQ'd in NW Arkansas, very near the White River lakes. Of
more significance is the fact that the large majority of WM stores are
located in bass fishing areas, and their clientelle are much more
likely to be bass (and catfish) fishermen than fly fishermen. It has
been my experience that the sporting goods clerks in most WM's are very
knowledgeable EXCEPT in fly fishing.
They exploit fishing like grocery stores exploit hunger.

cheers

Retailing is about sales in $/SqFt/Year. Wal-Mart does pretty good at
it. Target likewise. The average fly shop probably does 1/100 of what
either of those stores do. If there was a fly fishing area in a major
chain store doing what the average fly shop $/SqFt/Year business they
would be gone in a New York minute.
joke
Two fly shop owners split a Power Ball ticket and win. The both get
$50,000,000. The local TV stations interviews them both. Reporter;
Fred what are you going to do with your money? Fred "I am goint to New
Zealand and then the Seychelles and after that who knows but it fish,
fish, fish". Reporter " and Bill what about you?" Bill- " I think I
just keep running the shop until it's all gone"

I accept that there may be a legitimate arguement for not shopping
there based on the fact that much of the stuff is made in slave labor
camps in RedChina.

Other than that, I have never understood the elitism that causes some
people to look down their noses at the store and the people who shop
there.

I can only attribute it to terminal yuppiness.

cheers

oz

MajorOz wrote:
I accept that there may be a legitimate arguement for not shopping
there based on the fact that much of the stuff is made in slave labor
camps in RedChina.

Other than that, I have never understood the elitism that causes some
people to look down their noses at the store and the people who shop
there.

I can only attribute it to terminal yuppiness.

cheers

Well, besides them selling crap, union busting, employing illegal
aliens, destroying the business communities of small towns, squeezing
their suppliers out of business and outsourcing their goods to China --
besides all that -- there's that little detail of Wal-Mart foisting
health care and other essential services for their underpaid employees
onto the taxpayers.

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On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:56:47 -0600, rw
wrote:

BJ Conner wrote:
Tom Nakashima wrote:

Anyone know how Wal-Mart became such a huge supporter of Bass-Fishing?
Seems like they're pumping in millions of dollars into the sport, and
nothing on fly-fishing.
-tom

Sounds like you have led a fairly insulated life Tom. You need to spend
more time at Wal-Mart. I don't know if there are any on the pensula
but if so those would not be typical.

There's one by the Sears at San Antonio and El Camino Real. It's
typical, exactly like the one in Boise. It's full of obese women with
obese children and obese dads wearing NASCAR T-shirts, one paycheck away
from eviction, buying the same cheap ****.

Assuming it to be true, that says as much about the population of Boise
(and wherever the other is located) as it does Walmart...not to mention
that yet again, your positions are at odds with each other. Or are you
just regularly hanging out to make sure there is not any svelte
fartin'-through-silk types in there but you?

IAC, Google up info about Walmart in places like Plano, TX and
Charleston, SC - sushi (with actual sushi chefs), decent wines, suits,
5-8000 title book departments, etc. Hell, Sam's sells more diamonds
than anyone else in the US (and high carat, top quality stones, too).

And I've yet to see Walmart personnel dragging anyone, fat or skinny,
dressed in NASCAR T-shirts or Henry Poole and Co. (or even, should one
possibly somehow manage it, a Poole NASCAR T-shirt...), into a store...