Sunday, September 24, 2006

The force of Wal-Mart

It appears that every month or so, Wal-Mart is in the news for doing something "wrong."

In local news this month citizens on the south side of town are outraged at the news that their new Wal-Mart store will not offer lay-away, self checkouts, or be open 24 hours.

Wal-Mart cited reasons such as a lack of response and inadequate benefits from using these programs at this store. While it may make sense from their perspective, I believe it would make sense for them to possibly attempt a pilot program using these in addition to using a control study not using these programs. Comparing these results will provide a semi-scientific evaluation of the data.

Also, it must be kept in mind that if enough people become dissatisfied with the lack of these programs, they could even turn to Wal-Mart's competitors.

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