Iowa City Airport in the News

Gig 601XL Builder wr.giacona@coxDOTnet wrote:

"Gene Seibel" wrote in message
Go to http://registry.faa.gov/arquery.asp and search for the names
WAL-MART and WALMART. I heard of a case where an employee complained
of harrassment and WM had an investigation team from headquarters in
the store before the day was over. Sam Walton puttered around from
store to store in the early days in a Tri-Pacer.

Yep there are countries whose Air Forces have fewer planes than Wal-Mart.

(*spit take*)

And BTW, there are few countries with larger navies than Disney.
You can win big money in trivia contests with this fact.

"Blueskies" wrote

and the sad thing is folks still think they follow that mantra...

I don't think so. Made in china is proudly stamped in plane view, on most
things.
--
Jim in NC

"Steve Foley" wrote in message
news:JLd5e.55$ff4.33@trndny08...
I've seen suggestions that when an item has 'too much packaging' you
should
remove the packaging in the parking lot and leave it there to 'send a
message' to the store.

Why?

Can the retailer control how the manufacturer decides to package his
product? I would suggest if you feel this to be a problem, that you
contact the manufacturer and not leave mounds of litter for someone else.
Throwing items on the parking lot only leaves the 'message' that _you_ are
a slob who has no regard for anyone else!

Of course, you probably know that much of what you might consider to be
'too much packaging' is designed to help the product survive transportation
in large sea-going cargo containers, or is a result of attempts by the
manufacturer to provide a more "shop lifter unfriendly" product.

GWK

"videoguy" wrote in message
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"Steve Foley" wrote in message
news:JLd5e.55$ff4.33@trndny08...
I've seen suggestions that when an item has 'too much packaging' you
should
remove the packaging in the parking lot and leave it there to 'send a
message' to the store.

Why?

Can the retailer control how the manufacturer decides to package his
product?

They most certainly can.

I would suggest if you feel this to be a problem, that you
contact the manufacturer and not leave mounds of litter for someone else.
Throwing items on the parking lot only leaves the 'message' that _you_
are
a slob who has no regard for anyone else!

Of course, you probably know that much of what you might consider to be
'too much packaging' is designed to help the product survive
transportation
in large sea-going cargo containers, or is a result of attempts by the
manufacturer to provide a more "shop lifter unfriendly" product.

And just as often it is simply advertising that just adds cost to the
product.


GWK

the onion had a great article a few years back about a guy buying a
phone at radio shack and the process of unwrapping it and how
"entombed" it was in the plastic, styrofoam, etc

i agree some things are ridicously over packed. like things that hang
perfectly well in hard plastic, then a wrapping of printed cardboard
around it, and sometimes wrapped again.

OT - i haven't been to walmart in few years, and last month was at
englewood colorado store looking for vacuum cleaner, i absolutely could
not believe how much trash merchandise was cluttering up the store, end
caps of american idol calendars, cartoon place mats. i can't
understand who would buy that stuff

hate to stereotype but as the t-shirt says WHITE TRASH = ALWAYS

the onion had a great article a few years back about a guy buying a
phone at radio shack and the process of unwrapping it and how
"entombed" it was in the plastic, styrofoam, etc

i agree some things are ridicously over packed. like things that hang
perfectly well in hard plastic, then a wrapping of printed cardboard
around it, and sometimes wrapped again.

OT - i haven't been to walmart in few years, and last month was at
englewood colorado store looking for vacuum cleaner, i absolutely could
not believe how much trash merchandise was cluttering up the store, end
caps of american idol calendars, cartoon place mats. i can't
understand who would buy that stuff

hate to stereotype but as the t-shirt says WHITE TRASH = ALWAYS

On 13 Apr 2005 19:49:08 -0700, "james" wrote:

i agree some things are ridicously over packed. like things that hang
perfectly well in hard plastic, then a wrapping of printed cardboard
around it, and sometimes wrapped again.

Try BJ's Wholesale Club and some expensive small item like Prilosec
(over-the-counter drug beloved of pilots because you don't have to
tell the FAA about it). The little box is encased in a transparent
steel (okay, it's plastic, but it very nearly requires a plasma cutter
to open) sandwich that measures about 10 by 20 inches. The detritus
just about fills up my office wastebasket.



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In article ,
"Matt Barrow" wrote:
In short, the US tried to compete on price instead of quality and wound up
losing on both scores.

It's difficult to hold people accountable for a quality product when
labor laws protect those people who do not produce a quality product.
It's also difficult to stay in business when your wage-earners aren't
producing enough to make their employment profitable.

To be fair, there are unionized companies who are very successful,
produce high quality products, and are profitable. I suspect a
distinguishing characteristic of these companies is good morale, which
is directly tied to the type of management practiced.



JKG

"Jonathan Goodish" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"Matt Barrow" wrote:
In short, the US tried to compete on price instead of quality and wound
up
losing on both scores.

It's difficult to hold people accountable for a quality product when
labor laws protect those people who do not produce a quality product.
It's also difficult to stay in business when your wage-earners aren't
producing enough to make their employment profitable.

I agree with the high wage problem but what labor law are you citing?



To be fair, there are unionized companies who are very successful,
produce high quality products, and are profitable. I suspect a
distinguishing characteristic of these companies is good morale, which
is directly tied to the type of management practiced.


I'll agree with that.

james wrote:

i agree some things are ridicously over packed. like things that hang
perfectly well in hard plastic, then a wrapping of printed cardboard
around it, and sometimes wrapped again.

Personally, I believe that much of the packaging is deliberately designed to
make it impossible for the store to put it back on the shelf if you return it.
My least favorite is the stuff that's in a hard plastic pack that you have to
cut apart in order to remove the item.

George Patterson
There's plenty of room for all of God's creatures. Right next to the
mashed potatoes.