Year 2020 Prediction

[kdown]

By the year 2020 your ONLY shopping choice will be WALMART !!

KMART gone !
Home Depot gone !
Lowes gone !
Kroger gone !
and numerous others - gone !

Get used to it folks

[dpolley]

What do you base this on? I'm just curious....

[nickleahevan]

I'm wondering too and wouldn't this mean that Wal-mart has to get at least most of what the stores have? I mean, I know they equal Kroger's and K-Mart when it comes to products, but they are not big in the home improvement department.

[Chuck]

Everyone can't work for Wal-Mart. Not and have to shop there too. Also, Lowe's is Wal-Mart.

My dad said the same thing about K-Mart in the 70's and Target in the 80's Lost track of who he said in the 90's.

[Jeremy]

eBay!

[kdown]

They are trying now to get into the banking business.
Can a WALMART credit card be far behind ?
Then they will open HOME MARTS to compete with Home Depot, etc. How long will it be before they are selling automobiles and pickup trucks ?
As yet they haven't really gotten in the acquisition business but whos to say they won't buy KMART/SEARS.
Their last quarter net earning was $ 2.08 BILLION.
They can buy ANYTHING they want

[Foxy]

There are walmart credit cards.
And NO ONE BETTER TOUCH MY LOWE'S!!! lol

K-Mart seems to be on it's last leg. The employees are rude, and taking something back is a HUGE ordeal. I rarely shop there.
I love Target, we need one of those here too...lol

[bubbysgarage]

I agree with Jeremy. I love Ebay and there is a place you can do your one stop shopping. You can buy a house and a car at the same time. As well as pretty much everything else.

[kcredden]

Personally I hope not. Ug, I won't buy any electronics from Wal-Mart, and like Jermey I'll go though E-bay first. They have them beat, when it comes to medical supplies like diabeties strips. I can get a box of strips for as little as $10US ($13 - 15 total w/shipping), while at Wal-Mart or even Sams, it's at least $30

Lets face it, Wal-mart may be king locally, but the net is where they can't compete. Look around and you can find many places that sell products FAR cheaper.

Overstock.com
Amazon.com
Abebooks
Ebay

I tend to buy books, music CDs, DVDs used since they don't wear out. Especially if you get them from reputable dealers like the ones I listed above. They also are priced a fraction at what you pay elsewhere. As an example, I just bought all three of Stephen Baxter's "Destiny's Children" series in hardback for $22.95 from abebooks. All used, but all are in near-mint condition! The fourth and final in the series, will cost about $25. Pretty sweet.

I forgot about one thing that Wal-Mart wants to bring in; low cost clinics! Ran by PAs, they can handle things like screenings (colesteral, diabeties, blood pressure testing, etc), minor injuries, and the like. Prevention seems to be their driving goal, another thing I'm totally for. For far less cost. I'm for this, but also I can see the dangers too. But lets face it, if someone doesn't do something, medical costs are going to be out of the price range of a lot of folks. This might be the vanguard of sweeping change in the medical fields.

Yeah...and maybe horses will fly too (hehe) Just wait and see.

[Foxy]

Kroger is also in the business of bringing the clinics to their stores, as well as looking into becoming a Super Kroger, like when walmart added food, only the opposite...

[mark]

By the year 2020 your ONLY shopping choice will be WALMART !!

KMART gone !
Home Depot gone !
Lowes gone !
Kroger gone !
and numerous others - gone !

Get used to it folks

Yeah, it seems you're right.

Here's some more predictions:

Gasoline: $19.95 per gallon ....if....you can get it.
minimum wage: Too high at 11.00 per hour.
New average size car price: Too high at $95,000
College costs: Waaay too high at $300,000 per semester
Ebay fees: Entirely too high at 18 %
19" TV from Walmart ( from China ) $39.00
Full Computer systems ( built the size of a cell phone ) $99.00
Man's Haircut $119.95
Average size 1000 sq ft house -- 1.2 million in Maysville alone
Home mortgages --30 yr fixed will be 26%

Average wage increase -- 2% annually

Hmmmm, wage prediction is about right, huh??? LOL............see ya mark

[kcredden]

Oh brother...next we'll see a super-lowes, with food, and more stuff.."You can build it/eat it/buy it, we can help"...

Maybe in 2020, Lowes, and Wal-Mart will merge for a Wal-Lowes? Lets hope not.

Kroger is also in the business of bringing the clinics to their stores, as well as looking into becoming a Super Kroger, like when walmart added food, only the opposite...

[Foxy]

LOL.. but... the "You can build it, we can help" is a Home Depot slogan... but point taken...lmbo
I may be a girl, but I like watchin my hubby buildin' stuff
{snickers}

[kcredden]

After reading Stephen Baxter's "Transcendent", Gas and car prices sounds about right there, Mark :)

Gasoline: $19.95 per gallon ....if....you can get it.
New average size car price: Too high at $95,000

[kcredden]

D'oh! Got me there! :)

LOL.. but... the "You can build it, we can help" is a Home Depot slogan... but point taken...lmbo
I may be a girl, but I like watchin my hubby buildin' stuff
{snickers}

[Foxy]

So if gas is $19 a gallon, if you can get it. What will we be using?




{note to National Sarcasm Society members, I was actually being serious.}

[ponto]

Also, Lowe's is Wal-Mart.




Lowes is traded independently of Wal-Mart on the NYSE.

[tkcomer]

No need to worry about 2020. Congressional Budget Committee says the country will go under in 2016. As foreign governments demand the USA to repay it’s debts, the government will have to print money. Hyperinflation will start. The price of oil will come down though. As the economy collapses and businesses fold, the demand for oil will go down immensely. There will be no $39 TVs at Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart will fold in this country. I do see some good things in this. No more illegal immigrants. They’ll be going home in droves to find a job. And our soldiers will all come home. They won’t be able to fight other people’s wars if there is no money. All this courtesy of our federal government that is too arrogant to read history. This has happened to every empire that ever existed. Now it’s our turn.

[dpolley]

No need to worry about 2020. Congressional Budget Committee says the country will go under in 2016. As foreign governments demand the USA to repay it’s debts, the government will have to print money. Hyperinflation will start. The price of oil will come down though. As the economy collapses and businesses fold, the demand for oil will go down immensely. There will be no $39 TVs at Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart will fold in this country. I do see some good things in this. No more illegal immigrants. They’ll be going home in droves to find a job. And our soldiers will all come home. They won’t be able to fight other people’s wars if there is no money. All this courtesy of our federal government that is too arrogant to read history. This has happened to every empire that ever existed. Now it’s our turn.
"Gloom, despair, & agony on me (OHHHHHH!!!)"
"Deep dark depression, excessive misery (OHHHHH!!!)"
-
Give me a break!

[tkcomer]

Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

[Chuck]

Lowes is traded independently of Wal-Mart on the NYSE.

I was talking mentality and business practices. You cannot tell the ideology apart.


Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.


It is true. But this is normal American History. There is no news flash in this thread.

My Grandfather bought a new car. The cost was $1100 in the mid 50's.
In the early 70's my father bought a new car, The cost was $5500.
In the mid 90's I bought a new car. the cost $12,000 and the same styles car today would cost me about 23,000.

The chain store in my grandfather's days was Montgomery Wards. It was replaces by Sears. Cause Sears had everything. Then it was K-Mart, the next chain to take over the world. We had a few small chains during this along with a place called Sam's Club, aka Wal-Mart and the next segment in a legacy business.

Each generation has there guess of what corporation would take over the world. No one would have guess it would be Microsoft.
While oil company's and walmart stayed in the front pages. Microsoft gain so much ground no other single corporation will catch them in our life time.

[FreeOurPOWs]

And...

The lines at the checkouts will go from 7 - 10 in each line to 15 or more as Wal Mart increasingly tells these chinese product worshipers that their time means nothing to Wal Mart. Last night in LEFTington, at Wal Mart, I dropped my things on the floor and walked out after standing in the shortest line for 10 minutes and seeing only a two position advance. I was only there because I needed some plumbing supplies for a repair and nothing else was open. They don't care about customer service and the sheeple don't seem to mind. What sheep!

The American Dream of owning a small business will be all but forgotten as Wal Mart, Applebees, Fridays, McDonalds, Subway, Quiznos, Wendys, the movie plex conglomerates, the mall stores, and all the other huge corporate monsters have made it impossible for the little guy with a family to open a family business and succeed.