Walter E. Williams Quotes

My big places to shop are Wal-Mart and Target - seriously. That is where half of my stuff comes from now.

I'm not one of those people who hates Amazon because they're big. Why pay a third more for the same thing?

Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.

An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers.

Wal-Mart's size and scale is so vast they literally have the ability to change the face of the entire country. If Wal-Mart were to make a decision tomorrow to refuse to sell a single product made with partially hydrogenated oils, for example, we'd probably see rates from heart disease decline a few years later. That's how powerful Wal-Mart is.

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

The easier things are to buy, the more we consume.

I think we are living in a time where the consumer has lots of choices, whether it's coffee, newspapers or whatever it is. And there is parity in the market place, and as a result of that, the consumer is beginning to make decisions, not just on what things cost and the convenience of it.

We women make the lion's share of household purchases in this country. We ourselves drive billions of dollars a year in sales.

In terms of merchandise, you can't force anyone to buy something.

People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.

I'm no editor, no artisan, no expert. And certainly no arbiter of what you should buy, wear, or eat.

I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.

The habits of the American consumer are changing; that's a reality.

Whether it's buying products or researching what you're buying, or just becoming aware of what you're buying, you're saying so much with the money that you're spending.

In a world of niches, we are enchained by our own consumer preferences.

I want consumers to connect the dots, to go to any store and look at the label and connect the dots between buying cheap China products, which is better for the wallet, and all the other things we lose, like jobs.

I don't buy or wear nothing I don't like.

I don't have to go on a tour to find out what's happening in middle America. I just go to Target.

I believe that Amazon is going to destroy the box stores... and when box stores go under, restaurants go under, the movie theaters go under, the gas stations go under. You become ghost towns.

We're going to be selling our product to the American consumer. We want to have Americans who understand American consumers.

After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency.

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