Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 15:32:18 -0400
Reply-To: "G. Matthew Bulley" <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
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From: "G. Matthew Bulley" <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Organization: Bulley-Hewlett
Subject: Re: [Audi-VW-Diesels] Off-Topic (Wal Mart) was: Rotella Synthetic
oil, cheaper now!
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http://www.rotella.com/wheretobuy/index.html
http://www.shell-lubricants.com/distributors_zip.php
If Rotella is what you must have, here is where you can buy it without
darkening the doorstep of Wal*Mart.
Developing business and guiding change since 1996,
G. Matthew Bulley
Bulley-Hewlett
Marketing & Communications
Business: www.bulley-hewlett.com
Phone: +1.919.658.1278
-----Original Message-----
From: Karl M [mailto:THEWESTYMAN@MINDSPRING.COM]
Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 2:53 PM
To: Audi-VW-Diesels@yahoogroups.com; 'VW-TDI'; 'TDI-conversion'; 'Diesel
list'
Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: [Audi-VW-Diesels] Off-Topic (Wal Mart) was: Rotella
Synthetic oil, cheaper now!
Matthew, Matthew.....I hear what you are saying loud and clear, I hate
the
Big Box retailers too, because of all of the reasons you listed and then
some. BUT, I did mention that I would RATHER buy the oil elsewhere if at
all
possible, but where? I'd gladly pay more and not shop at Mall Wart for
my
engine oil. There are no 'community consequences, no other place in
sight
has the stuff. Did Shell plan only to market this oil through Mall Wart?
Thing is, ya see, when one needs said product and no other place carries
it,
what does one do? Use lesser oils that kill his engines? Ideas?
Karl Mullendore
Westy Ventures
1987 Westfalia Syncro 1.9TD
----- Original Message -----
From: "G. Matthew Bulley" <onelist@bulley-hewlett.com>
> Sorry guys, I have to fulfill my civic role as an irascible advocate
of
> a better life.
>
> Big Box retailers, (Wal*Mart/SAMS/HomeDepot/Lowes), and their
> ultra-cheap merchandise is comparable to crack cocaine. Buying
something
> at a super low price makes you feel euphoric for a short while, but
> conglomerate-driven loss-leader pricing is not only addictive, it is
> deadly to our national/local economy.
>
> Not only are producers driven to undercut their own reasonable profit
to
> get on Wal*Mart's shelves, the local community consequences of your
> saving $6 on your motor oil are incredible. I've pasted some links
below
> that I hope you'll visit to fully understand.
>
> I used to shop at Wal*Mart, but then witnessed a few of the hundreds
of
> small towns across the USA in which Wal*Mart killed the local retail;
> shuttered the mom & pop drug stores, tire shops, kids clothing stores,
> optometrists, and IGA's. Today, thanks to conglomerates, entire towns
> full of families who once were independently-employed, making decent
> money, and a controlling their own prosperity are now stuck with $6.50
> Wal*Mart/HomeDepot jobs, few benefits, no inheritance to pass on, and
no
> control of their own fate.
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