WAL-MART RESPONDS TO RUMORS

I've been thinking about what retail stores are going to do when a) China wants to cash in their bonds and b) when they stop shipping Chinese made goods to the US. Mexico doesn't have the capacity. Our entire economy is going to tank within a week.

But I don't think that's whats happening here. This is just 5 stores, which happen to be in interesting areas, with regard to fault lines, talks of secession and FEMA regions.

It did occur to me that these stores could have been closed due to excessive shrinkage.

Yeah, I TOTALLY believe you had 7.7 million dollars invested in walmart. TOTALLY.

It did occur to me that these stores could have been closed due to excessive shrinkage.

Well technically Wal-Mart is still saying plumbing....its the workers speculating pay. Wal-Mart says they are going to be getting permits, but you don't close down a store prior to planning it out...not in 5 hours notice. Nope, no way.

No tornadoes near Midland or Livingston.

Let me add this little tid-bit to the rumor mill:

Yesterday I drove over to the Brandon, FL store to see for myself (I was going to Tampa anyway, so it wasn't really very far out of the way, but it is quite a haul from where I live - about 3 hours).

So I pulled into the parking lot, and there is a Rent-a-cop standing right outside the one front door. There's a sign on the other front door, giving people the hours the pharmacy is open, and for how many day (it listed the dates and hours, I don't remember exactly what it said). I was more focused on the imitation cop/guy. His car was parked right next to him. It had the name of the "security" company.....it was something I'd never heard of before. In fact, it was sort of a "hispanic" sounding name - something like: Securitad.

Anyway, the car was a sub-compact, RED - and the logo of the company was a RED CIRCLE inside a white black square.

I didn't think too much of it until the next morning when my subconscience told me "It looks a lot like the Japanese flag, don't you think?"

And it does!

Yeah, I TOTALLY believe you had 7.7 million dollars invested in walmart. TOTALLY.

Let me add this little tid-bit to the rumor mill:

Yesterday I drove over to the Brandon, FL store to see for myself (I was going to Tampa anyway, so it wasn't really very far out of the way, but it is quite a haul from where I live - about 3 hours).

So I pulled into the parking lot, and there is a Rent-a-cop standing right outside the one front door. There's a sign on the other front door, giving people the hours the pharmacy is open, and for how many day (it listed the dates and hours, I don't remember exactly what it said). I was more focused on the imitation cop/guy. His car was parked right next to him. It had the name of the "security" company.....it was something I'd never heard of before. In fact, it was sort of a "hispanic" sounding name - something like: Securitad.

Anyway, the car was a sub-compact, RED - and the logo of the company was a RED CIRCLE inside a white square.

I didn't think too much of it until the next morning when my subconscience told me "It looks a lot like the Japanese flag, don't you think?"

And it does!

Why didn't anybody ask them about the family selling shares a week before?

Securitas is the name. I drove by today. He definitely made note of me, how about you?

Oh, most definitely he noticed me! I drove through to the frontage stores, and tried to get a picture of the car. But it was raining cats and dogs, and the pics I got don't show the logo on the car (it was hidden behind a tree), but I did NOT want to drive back past him.

Also, several other cars drove into the parking lot when I was getting ready to leave the area. I thought at first that they were all "curiosity seekers," like me, but they weren't!! One of them parked. I didn't see what happened to the others, as I would have been very conspicuous had I just sat there, so I had to move on.

funny you mention this. i know someone in the livingston,tx area and they said although the store was pretty busy, they heard they had a pretty bad theft problem there. i don't think walmart would close a store for this though.

I'm not buying their explanation. You don't close your top performer over perceived wage increases...you'd have to be barely breaking even to close a store for this reason. You lose far more by closing that Midland store than fixing a payroll issue. Not buying it.

I'm a project manager for a big general contractor in Ca.
Listen Tards, you dont need a "permit" to repair plumbing....

maybe its an orchestrated move to destabilize china.

I sold my 100,000 shares anyways.. too risky Walmart is not to big to fail..