Why WalMart failed in germany...

You said "I don´t want random people to touch the stuff i buy. Thats disgusting." Random people have already touched the stuff you buy whether you "accept" it or not. There is no difference between a cashier touching an item at the register to charge you and that same cashier then turning and putting the item in a bag. Now, if you had said something like "we use our own bags because it is more environmental, perhaps you would have an argument". This far, all you seem to have is a phobia.

 

no, i have a cultural identity. I put my goods in the bag myself. Its as simple like that. I would not allow that person to do that.

 

Germany is overall very conservative in other aspects. The reason average German people are prospering while America is filled with working poor is not the Germany's companies make more money, it's that German workers are less willing to take crap. American businesses are not failing.

 

I think you're exactly right. I might have been misinformed about the min wage, but I tend to believe the stories I hear from people who've lived there... and say Germans live very frugally. Walmart is successful because they sell a large variety of goods & services at one location. From food to car parts, from pharmaceuticals to dog food, from eye doctors to garden centers, from beauty salons to baby beds. I mean, it's not exactly German culture to buy a 55" flat screen and 5 sets of new towels while they're doing the family's grocery shopping. That kind of excess is strictly American.

So Walmart took a risk and failed. Must've happened at least once or twice on their way to becoming the 15th largest company in the world.

I'm sure they'll get over it.

 

Does your cultural identity include considering people who work to supply you your goods and services "disgusting"? If not, then you simply are a victim of a phobia.

 

im just happy that (*)(*)(*)(*) got kicked out of our nation. I dont want them here.

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The majority of germans feels harrassed and uncomfortable with that kind of "service". I dont want be greeted when i go into a shop.

 

You mean the Obama economy, don't you?

Nothing he'd like better than a 50% payroll tax. Please don't give him any ideas.

 

Of course not. People with a phobia often try to avoid others. Do you wear gloves when you shop and wash the containers before you open them?

 

Walmart failed in Germany because the country legalized third-world whores years before they got there.

 

Yes, I say it's pretty obvious you're glad they failed. But I find your aversion to people touching your goods hilarious. What do you think you're gonna catch if somebody touches stuff... cooties?

 

You really don't get it right? I don't want fake friendliness. Its a cultural thing. Germans don't avoid others. We hate fake friendliness. I'm young and healthy. I can put my stuff in the bags myself. I also dont want be greeted when i enter a store.

 

Is that why when you go to places everyone looks at you like "damn another customer", and drags ass serving you? Honesty?

 

This German guy is seriously just a massive poser. The Germans will let third world people come in and legally f- them for money in their legalized prostitution industry that is mostly run by immigrants, but he pretends that Germans can't handle them touching their consumer products. The real reason that Wal-Mart failed in Germany is because there was already similar competition there, not because Germans are too good for the "likes" of Wal-Mart. The bald-faced hypocrisy of Europeans never ceases to amaze me.

 

No you just go about speaking English to everyone and they speak it back. Everyone in Germany speaks English except the gypsies.

 

Everyone spoke English. Even at those crappy currywurst stands. Curry powder and ketchup do not go together. Neither do mayo and French fries.

 

What reason could there be to have a useless job that annoys customers? Maybe Americans feel entitled to have personal assistants in every store but Germans find that insulting to themselves and the worker.

 

This has little to do with partisanship so no ... I do not mean the Obama economy.

Is Obama culpable .... absolutely but, no more so than those that came before.

Regardless of who gets in Dem or GOP, they are there to support the oligopoly. It was the oligopoly that paid the cash to get them there in the first place and it is the oligopoly who they serve.

Regulations and laws are make to stifle competition and serve the oligopoly. Tax laws are created to serve the oligopoly. Health policy, be it obamacare or anything before it is structured to server the oligopoly (hence why we have the highest health care costs in the first world despite not having universal health care), foreign and domestic policy is to serve the oligopoly.

God forbid we don't have a war going on somewhere such that people might figure out that we do not need to spend more than 1/3 of our income on some pretend fantasy of protecting the nation. This of course serves to maintain one of the biggest oligopolies and largest welfare cases on the planet, the US military.

 

So you never even attempted to speak their language? I'll bet you'd have a hissy fit if someone spoke Spanish around you huh?

Wow. He loves the crap at Wal Mart but hates the beloved schnitzel stands????

 

Customer Service is also an American thing... although some say it's dying here, too.

Face it, Germans are grumpy. Even young Germans. YOU DAMN KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN.

(do they have lawns in Germany)

 

No need to learn. German is a dying language with no purpose outside of Germany. I know all I need to know. Crappenhoussen and Danka.

No, I just speak back in broken English slowly and loudly. Works fine. I live in Florida. Plenty of Spanish and creole speaking people.

Curry and ketchup is gross. Say what you want. Bratwurst is fine. The rest of it is good, but ketchup and curry at a stand up cafe sucks.

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They have frozen tundra only.

Very nice lawns actually. You can tell kids have never played on them, or if they did it was lightly and without joy.

 

Isn't it strange, though, how they succeed economically where we fail miserably? Somehow, that $22 translates into healthy consumerism and a lack of need for government-funded welfare at the expense of other working people, all without leading to unaffordably high prices. Doesn't it make you think that maybe, just maybe, we're either being lied to like crazy by American business leaders and their puppet politicians, or those people genuinely fail to understand economics? Maybe we too would have a decent minimum wage if our politicians were forced to live on it.

 

Don't beg for it, demand it. Germany's workers were not granted wage increases from benevolent politicians or businessmen.

 

"French" fries are served with mayo in their home country, Belgium. American culture may have corrupted them, as with Budweiser, into a pale copy of the real thing.
Their employment practices are less alien in England, though the fake scripted "customer experience" still jars. Anyone in England telling you to "Have a nice day!" is recognised as a deferential wage slave or a sarcastic pipsqueak, thoroughly deserving of a casually violent response.

 

No... actually it makes me think I was wrong. If you read further, you'll see that I admitted being misinformed about Germany's $22 min wage. However, I'm not wrong they pay nearly 50% in payroll taxes. I'm sure our politicians would be happy to adjust to a 50% tax rate for wage earners.

 

When you factor in health care costs (god forbid you have a kid or two in college http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Germany ) and all the other taxes we are pretty much 50% as well for most folks. The difference is that the Germans are actually getting something for their money.