Why WalMart failed in germany...

Far as I know, Mars lost its atmosphere gradually, in part because it lacks the strong magnetic field earth has and in part due to its lower mass, hence its lower gravity.

Disease may cut our numbers down a bit, but it's never been the kind of killer that cosmic and volcanic events are.

 

Exactly; McDonald's tried the 'have a nice day' approach here but we tend to believe that false bonhomie is nauseating. They quickly dropped it. And as for being 'greeted', what the hell is the point of that? To make me feel welcome and more inclined to spend? Evidently Americans don't credit us with having a brain which includes decision-making processes.

 

"It isn't like this at home Elmer". You know what, Elmer, go home with your whining and complaining Amero-centric ignorance.
There's a guy on this forum, an American, who told us he was in Paris loudly demanding service in a restaurant, and then he complained that the waiter was a little less than enthusiastic when he decided threats were the way forward...
In Britain he would have been politely shown the door.

 

I have no problem with most of what you're saying here. But your "stuff" is going to be touched by several people before it gets to you. Do Germans think everyone is dirty and disgusting but themselves?

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No, they (and we) prefer quality over shyte.

 

What about cultural thing did you not understand. The majority of germans don´t want it and go shop in other markets. WalMart goes bancrupt. Thats capitalism. You need a lesson about it? Stop your communist ways. Since when has the customer to follow the wishs of the shop when plenty of other shops are at hand who give me exactly what i want?

 

I´m into fitness and want as much training as possible. I don´t want end up like you guys:

 

The people who would have such a low scale job most likely are...

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exactly. Here i would feel ashamed to buy cheap. I want quality. Quality has a price. Does anyone believe a chicken that costs just 1,5 € has ever seen the sun? I want perfect quality and i have no problem to pay for it.

 

I guess that's why they have amongst the highest standards of living in the world.

 

Thats an EXCELLENT POINT

I often see nasty people in the store or people manhandling the merchandise

Especially the PRODUCE SECTION youll see people sampling stuff I mean take a bite and set it back in the bin

One lady was PUNCHING the heads of lettuce what that determines I dunno I usually go by color

 

Sounds like you're just applying correlation here - so the correlation I already provided would disprove your point, if that's the standard.

The case could much more easily be made for US companies in Germany. We have a ton of companies that compete in your country, (btw, I only recognize 3/6 on your list). We have: Morgan Stanley, IBM, ExxonMobil, GE, Motorola, Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic - we, for example, dominate medical technology even in Germany. And then it also turns out that most of your companies are predominantly foreign-owned anyways.

http://www.amcham.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Publications/Past_CG_Issues/08_cg4_Monitor.pdf



http://www.dw.de/foreign-ownership-in-german-firms-hits-all-time-high/a-3012286

 

Most of my corporations are foreign owned? I didn´t know i have a corporation. Tell me more about it, so i can profit from this unknown corporation i own.

As for the rest of your rant:

"Profitable exports are making German companies attractive to investors"

"Deutsche Aktieninstitut president Rüdiger von Rosen cautioned against seeing the development as a foreign take-over of German firms.
"There are a lot of pension funds and banks among the investors," he said in an interview with ARD. "It may also be that German citizens living abroad (in Switzerland, for example) have purchased massive amounts of Germans stocks."

I find it ironic how americans suddenly become communist when another nation is more sucessful than them. Come back talking when you have a AAA rating...like we have.

 

feigning stupidity is not an argument. The rest of your rant was even less coherent.

 

Since when is foreign investment a bad thing? Why do you endorse communism?

The basic fact is, that our basic corporations are nationalized and not in the hand of foreigners and the system relevant corporations like Lufthansa have special laws on them to not allow foreigners to get owenrship on them.

German corprations always worked that way. Even in old days. You know IG Farben? It was worldwide biggest chemical producer. It was the corporation that made Zyklon B, the gas used in concentration camps. Largest investor was the american DOW Chemical. We live in a globalized world. I´m customer of Allianz, germany largest insurance corporation. Allianze is a main shareholder of Lockheed Martin as well as Boeing. The high interest rates i get from the investments my parents made for me are most likely generated from investment in the american military complex.

Or take our biggest bank, Deutsche Bank. It basicly created the american loan bubble and desaster. It was the Deutsche Bank which started to create more and more bad papers in the USA and earned a fortune with it. Then when they realized it gets too hot, they created jingo papers and placed all the garbage papers into fantasy investment fonds and sold it to american banks and insurance corporations. Deutsche Bank took the profit and the others took the risk. With the known result.

The Deutsche Bank was critisized very harsh for their behavior here in germany. Many germans felt it was unethical what they did. We are able to critisize our corporations here.

But you even defend a bull(*)(*)(*)(*) corporation like WalMart which failed completly on evry market outside the americas. They went down in Japan as well. Same reasons.

 

lol, now anyone who disagrees with you is a Communist?


Maybe you didn't read the links I provided for you, but the largest German companies are, on average, 52.6% foreign owned. And, maybe you missed it again, but Germany's exports are largely made off the backs of Turks and the like, and while you guys treat the Turks worse you call our poor workers slave labor.

And WalMart is doing fine - you've pointed out that it messed up, and? It has over 2.2million employees worldwide, 1.4million of which are in America, meaning that over a third are abroad. And, again, insofar as you say it's messed up in Germany, is NO real obstacle to future success.

Really, you should drop this whole nationalist take on businesses - there's a reason why Germans are usually very cautious to appear nationalistic.

 

Those times are long over. Young germans have no problems with being nationalistic. I personally enjoy in my job to compete against american competitors and drive them against the wall.

I enjoy it always when a Boeing 787 is grounded again for failure and airlines order Airbus en mass.

 

Well most of us don't want to be like you



But maybe we should leave the idiotic generalizations to idiots.

 

The Hitler picture you show is USA today.

USA is too militaristic
USA has concentration camps
USA has a STASI


German nationalism is that:

 

Well, let's see, when you consider that American adults are statistically 35.7% clinically obese I feel you could allow the poster a little poetic license, don't you?

http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html

 

They're working on catching up to us, though

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Germany

 

Evidently. They killed six million innocent people for being the "wrong" race just within the last century. Textbook superiority complex. Which is obviously still palpable in the OP's attitude from his need to be condescending toward America. As we can see, Germany hasn't really changed much since the Holocaust.

 

Show us where we've killed six million Jews. Go ahead. I'll wait.

 

Lol! I can't help but notice I don't see any Jews. Why could that be?

 

No jews, but native americans as well as several million people in middle east. 2 million iraqi alone. Beside that, i don´t care about stuff like that. If you are to weak to defend yourself, you die. Thats how humanity works, so don´t think i would cry a river about it.

 

Because its germany and not israel?