Yahoo News: Walmart's Project Impact; a move to crush the competition.

[WhoRUSupposed2Be]

Would this just eliminate all of these clothing and pharmaceuticals retailer fronts therefore making Walmart the exception.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090909/us_time/08599192069800

Thus, the company is in the beginning stages of a massive store and strategy remodeling effort, which it has dubbed Project Impact. One goal of Project Impact is cleaner, less cluttered stores that will improve the shopping experience. Another is friendlier customer service. A third: home in on categories where the competition can be killed. "They've got Kmart ready to take a standing eight-count next year," says retail consultant Burt Flickinger III, managing director for Strategic Resources Group and a veteran Walmart watcher. "Same with Rite Aid. They've knocked out four of the top five toy retailers, and are now going after the last one standing, Toys "R" Us. Project Impact will be the catalyst to wipe out a second round of national and regional retailers."

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[wantarace17]

paging Toe Jam lol

[HOF44]

paging Toe Jam lol

Yep, this will turn him into a Walmart customer again for sure!!

[MattFancy]

Sounds like there might not be any place to shop but Wal-Mart soon...

[GoSkins561]

All we need is more government regulation.

[mardi gras skin]

"One goal of Project Impact is cleaner, less cluttered stores that will improve the shopping experience. Another is friendlier customer service."

Yeah, that sounds awful.

[The Evil Genius]

"One goal of Project Impact is cleaner, less cluttered stores that will improve the shopping experience. Another is friendlier customer service."

Yeah, that sounds awful.

So, they want to become Target?

[skinfan133]

I hate Wal-mart so much, words cannot describe it. I have to go shop there this afternoon too, it is literally the only place I can get what I need here in lexington :mad::mad::mad:

I wish Wal-Mart would just perish.

[ljs]

I can proudly say that I am over 1 year Walmart free.

[The 12th Commandment]

When they kill off the all the competition will there be Baby Wally's?

[KNGwithOUTaCrwN]

theres a new one being built right by my house which is just gonna cause a cluster**** of traffic. theres already one walmart less than 5 minutes down the road. but this one theyre building is supposed to be a 'high end. up-scale' walmart.

[mjah]

This is part of Wal-Mart's answer to the loss of their major business expansion model, previously known as "opening one new store per week."

Turns out the US has borders, Canada/Mexico are limited markets, and international inroads are harder to come by than North American opportunities.

So for a few years now Wal-Mart has been staring at expanding business less by increasing store count, and more by improving sales within the stores they already have.

Good luck, fellas. Most communities only have a certain amount of money in them for consumer products, and Wal-Mart is already getting a huge chunk of that. Even killing Toys R' Us entirely and taking every dime of their business will net "only" $13B in revenue -- a huge sum, but a pittance vs. Wal-Mart's current annual revenues of over $350B.

So, 4% if it's done perfectly.

And I suspect the actual recovery of Toys R' Us business will be less than perfect. So more like 2-3% over half a decade or so.

When they're aggressively courting this level of improvement, largely in existing stores, it's clear that their business expansion planners are playing in smaller leagues than they used to.

Growing more turnips is always easier than getting more juice from turnips that have already been grated and pressed one. Yet any garden is only so big...

[TheLongshot]

So, they want to become Target?

Yeah, really. Walmart has become as bad as the K-Mart I used to work at when I was in high school. It just feels trashy.

I only go to Walmart when I absolutely have to go. Target is closer to me anyways.

[The Evil Genius]

You can only put so much lipstick on a pig.

*ducks from cover from angry red state mob*

[BurntToast]

Does "Project Impact" have a plan for keeping more than two lanes open while the 23 other one remain closed?

[HailYeah]

IMO, the main problem with their stores is there are just too many damn people. I have to look both ways when I cross an aisle for fear of being run over. I cant see how wiping out the rest of their competition will solve this.

[WhoRUSupposed2Be]

Does "Project Impact" have a plan for keeping more than two lanes open while the 23 other one remain closed?

Nice one.

[Toe Jam]

Thread title needs work.

Yahoo/TIME: Wal-Mart's Project Impact: A move to crush competition

EDIT: And no. I will not support the Evil Empire.

[mardi gras skin]

I hate wal mart. We drive longer to go to Target. But I've been in one of these new stores in ****eysville, MD and its really great. Wide isles. Nice paint job in more neutral colors rather than the garish red, blue, and grey. Plenty of cashiers. CLEAN!! Really, a good place to shop.

And I just heard they were remodeling the Wal Mart close to me. Not sure if they will magically transform their apathetic workers in the remodel but I hope it happens. If they change, my attitude towards them will change. And I'll start shopping there again.

[DButz65]

How in the hell will remodeling improve the shopping experience when these kind of people shop there??? http://peopleofwalmart.com/

:hysterical: :hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:

[Tastes Like Chicken]

Target > Walmart

[Thiebear]

i dont go there because there is 1 person at the electronics counter.

There are 9 people in line.

I want to look at games/ etc... you can't they have to unlock it, take it back to the register and you are then allowed to get in line.

No thanks..

[GibbsFactor]

Its just wrong for us to support them when they openly admit to crushing any and all competition.

How many countless mom and pop stores have gone down from the beast, and now, not even Jeffrey is safe.

Sad day indeed.

[TMat184]

If it benefits the consumer with lower prices on the things we need I'm all for it.

[wysknz1]

Its just wrong for us to support them when they openly admit to crushing any and all competition.

How many countless mom and pop stores have gone down from the beast, and now, not even Jeffrey is safe.

Sad day indeed.

You could say the same about Home Depot, McDonalds General Motors etc etc. Big coporations have been forcing the mom and pops out for more years than WM has been around. They just did it right.:mad: