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Sesshoumaruxjeff asked:


I got a job at walmart, overnight. I have orientation tomorrow, I wanted to know when do I actually start working. Also what is the average amount of hours per week do overnight(I believe I’m stock but the women said I might have to do cashier sometimes) get. The reason I ask is because I need some extra cash for christmas gifts.

Lester

slipknot01299 asked:


The computer I have from walmart has the specs, amd 64 3800+, integrated 6100 graphics on motherboard and 1 gb of ram. How much should I spend to upgrade it for playing most new games on medium settings? I think the card has to be small in size also and the power supply need to be upgraded from a 250w one. Wouldnt any graphics card make a dramatic difference?

Jon

jeffatkins23 asked:


I understand Target and Walmart offer instant credit approval. But I was wondering if I submit a credit application online, upon approval can I go to Target and/or Walmart same day to use the credit and make a purchase.

Vanessa

The Calorista asked:


Lower Calorie “Family & Friend” Friendly Foods

I can’t tell you how many times I hear people say that they want to lose weight over the holidays (or at least maintain their current weight), but it never happens because they have to make foods that family & friends will all enjoy (which means low cal stuff is out the window). I can certainly attest to that…It is pretty tough to throw a dinner party and serve my guests the whole-grain soy pattie wraps that I normally make for myself. Yes, guilty as charged: I load my party dinners chock-full of calories in hopes of pleasing the masses. So what can we do? Well, I’ve come up with what I will call a list of “crossover” foods: Foods lower in calories, but still delicious enough not to scare away the “I don’t do diet food” friends and relatives.

Candies and Chocolates: Don’t let the crazy holiday candy/chocolate grazing get the best of you. Fight back with these light delights:

Gayle’s Miracles: FOR 1: Calories: 30, Fat: 1g, Sodium: 10mg, Carbs: 6g, Fiber: 0g, Protein: 1g, WW PTS: 1, Cals/Gram: 2.73. We all know that the holidays are the time of year when gourmet chocolates make their grand appearance. Make sure you have these little 30 calorie luxury chocolate pieces on hand - they are oh so decadant - despite being at least 1/2 the calories of the other boxed chocolate grinches!

Spangler Sugar Free Candy Canes: FOR 1: Calories: 42, Fat: 0g, Sodium: 0mg, Carbs: 14g, Fiber: 0g, Protein: 0g, WW PTS: 1, Cals/Gram: 3.00. A candy cane for the holiday hall of fame. Now get 23% fewer calories than the regular candy cane, and these still taste candy cane sweet! A pretty slick way to keep the holiday sugar snacking in check.

York Sugar Free Peppermint Patties: FOR 3: Calories: 80, Fat: 3.50g, Sodium: 0mg, Carbs: 28g, Fiber: 1g, Protein: 0g, WW PTS: 2, Cals/Gram: 3.30. York Sugar Free Peppermint Pattie is the Christmas MACDADDY! My all time fav right here people. I’m mad for these mint patties with only 80 calories for 3 whole pieces. These are cheap and available almost everywhere - which is pretty sweet. Slip these into your chocolate dish and go on a short holiday mint stint.

Beverages: Holiday drinks are diet killers. Don’t get lured down this very dark and dangerous caloric beverage alley.

Silk Eggnog: Calories: 90, Fat: 2g, Sodium: 75mg, Carbs: 15g, Fiber: 0g, Protein: 3g, WW PTS: 2, Cals/Gram: 0.75. With soy eggnog this good, you really don’t need the 160 whopping calorie regular eggnog. I personally liked Vitasoy’s Holly Nog better, which has 30 fewer calories (see review below), but Silk is a little better on price and can be found in your regular grocery store, so those are big pluses.

Vitasoy Holly Nog Calories: 60, Fat: 0g, Sodium: 0mg, Carbs: 14g, Fiber: 0g, Protein: 0g, WW PTS: 1, Cals/Gram: 3.00. This definitely takes the low calorie eggnog prize - and is pretty healthful, too! This not only cuts down the amount of calories from eggnog (big time - from 150 on average to 60), but is also organic, a great source of potassium, has no cholesterol or artificial sweeteners and virtually no fat. Pretty egg-celent I must say! You don’t have to sacrifice so much on taste, either, so your whole clan can be a fan - which, as we know, is great for holiday gatherings. Vitasoy is right, it is a “holly” nog!

Alpine Sugar Free Cider: Calories: 15, Fat: 0g, Sodium: 0mg, Carbs: 4g, Fiber: 1g, Protein: 0g, WW PTS: 0, Cals/mL: 0.07. A cider that gives reason to tis’ the season - only 15 little calories for an apple-cinnamon cup of luxury. Now you can sip without the guilt! You can find this just about anywhere - I found it at Super Walmart and Krogers. Random Holiday Ingredients: Make sure to sneak in lower calorie options where they are available. Some good swaps are:

Heinz Fat Free Turkey Gravy: Calories: 20, Fat: 0g, Sodium: 290mg, Carbs: 4g, Fiber: 0g, Protein: 1g, WW PTS: 0, Cals/Gram: 0.33. This turkey gravy tastes groovy, and when mixed in with stuffing and turkey breast, it is unlikely anyone will notice that it is fat free. This shaves 10 calories off of the regular gravy, and we all know that we will go for a couple of servings of this stuff - so it really starts to add up.

Comstock Sugar Free Cherry Pie Filling: Calories: 35, Fat: 0g, Sodium: 15mg, Carbs: 8g, Fiber: 0g, Protein: 0g, WW PTS: 1, Cals/Gram: 0.41. Cut your calories nearly in half with this awesome tastin’ pie fillin’. Nowadays with pre-made crusts and this low calorie pie filling, it is mega easy to spend a little bit of time to make your pies at home…and save 100 - 150 calories! By the way, I spotted a generic Walmart Great Value brand of this with the same nutritional information, so use that and also save a few bucks!

Keebler Ready Crust: Reduced Fat Graham: Calories: 100, Fat: 3.5g, Sodium: 100mg, Carbs: 15g, Fiber: 0g, Protein: 1g, WW PTS: 2, Cals/Gram: 4.76. This reduced fat graham crust is a handy little holiday helper. It cuts off 10 calories and 1.5 grams of fat from the original. No…it’s not much, but the nice part is that it tastes exactly the same, so its kinda low calorie hanging fruit. The bigger benefit (for me anyway) is this easy crust inspires me to make more pies, instead of buying them, and believe me, the pies you make at home can lob off 150+ calories per slice - now THAT’S a worthwhile benefit.

Now if only St. Nick would start using some of these items…I bet his reindeer would be eternally grateful!



Dora

chronicalz21 asked:


I am currently working on making a film that shows the struggles of spanish speakers in small town, USA. I plan to visit local stores and restaurants, speak spanish to them, and see whether they are equipped to handle it.

I’ve been trying to get walmart to sponsor it. I’ve called my local stores, and if they understand what I’m talking about, they give me the 1800 walmart number. When I call there, i’m told that sponsorships are given directly from local stores.

Can anyone give me the real deal on who i need to talk to?

Michelle

Santo Del Monico asked:


I like going to nurseries to shop for my garden every spring, but since the emergence of garden centers in practically every store I regularly shop in, I hardly visit the nursery anymore. Why pay fifty dollars for a new lilac bush at a fancy greenhouse when I can buy one at Home Depot for only twenty-five bucks? I suppose there may be a compromise in quality when shopping for plants at regular stores rather than garden centers, but even if a plant or bush is wilted when you buy it, you can always nurse it back to good health.

There are especially nice garden centers in the Super Walmart and Kmart in my city. Walmart is especially nice because the store itself is huge and even has a whole food section where you can buy groceries or ready-made foods. When I was there recently I decided to check out the garden center to see what I could find, thinking it would be lacking in variety similar to the garden centers in the local grocery stores. I was surprised when I walked outside into the huge chained area that contained every type of plant, flower and seed imaginable. They even had a whole supply of lawn maintenance supplies including fertilizers and bags of special soil.

I bought myself a lilac bush from Home Depot a few weeks ago and I planted it in my front yard as an experiment to see if a cheap bush would grow as well as the nicer ones I’ve bought at greenhouses over the years. So far the lilac is looking great and I expect that it will continue to do well as long as I pay attention to it and take care of it while it takes root. The real test will come next spring when I am able to see if it produces flowers. If it does then I will probably continue to shop for plants at garden centers rather than at expensive nurseries.

The only real reason to go to a nursery for plants and garden supplies is if you need knowledgeable staff to answer your questions. One thing the garden centers don’t have is staff that specializes in plants. The employees working in the garden center are just as likely to be working in the CD section or the household cleaners, and therefore probably won’t know much about plants. But with the wealth of information that is available on the internet this shouldn’t be a problem when planning your garden.



Doris

Madison Lockwood asked:


Two major retailers have moved into the online movie sales business. WalMart and Amazon.com join existing properties in trying to convince the consumer their downloadable wares are more attractive than other, less “official” options. Do their services offer anything significantly different than the current players in the market, or is simply a case of the same limited options with different labels?

WalMart announced its entry into the download field at mediadownloads.walmart.com. At least, that’s one of their promotional sites. WalMart enters the fray trumpeting licensure with all of the “big six” movie studios. That one feature does provide an advantage in that is allows them to offer a selection that eclipses most of the competition.

There is little else that is unique about it, however. There is download software made available much like Apple’s iStore, but it utilizes Microsoft’s DRM piracy protection technology. That means the service won’t operate over Firefox or other browsers and won’t run on Zune, PSP, iPod, or computers running Mac or Linux.

WalMart sells about 40% of the DVDs in this country and says they’ll provide price protection for their products on the shelves. That means you won’t see much of that to-the-bone price cutting on downloaded products. Prices will range from a couple of bucks for a TV show up to close to $20 for a film in recent DVD circulation.

The other challenge for WalMart is their corporate policy that every product they sell should be designed to draw customers into their stores. A product designed to deliver itself to your PC isn’t going to do that. Currently, Walmart spokesmen are saying that their intent to bundle a movie download with the purchase of a DVD will meet that requirement.

That’s WalMart’s answer to delivering your download to the TV screen. It seems somewhat duplicative, but they are chasing the business in a big way. Wal-Mart’s online video-rental service failed to do just that, and the corporation folded up the business after a relatively brief test drive.

Amazon’s version of the video download service is called Unbox. They too are a major retailer for DVDs and see this business as complimentary. Their only marketing responsibility for the product is to drive people to their website - unlike the brick-and-mortar based WalMart.

Amazon launched without Disney, which is a major player in the Apple online video product development. That may have something to do with the fact that, when Steve Jobs sold the Pixar animation studio to Disney, he also became their biggest shareholder. At any rate, Apple’s movie products are limited to Disney and Paramount. The other online services such as CinemaNow and Movielink are all also missing one or another of the major movie houses as partners.

What Amazon has done to bypass the issue of portability with downloaded movies is to develop a partnership with TiVo. The later versions of the TiVo recorder will be able to download Amazon delivered films and play them back on your television. With the rest of the Internet-delivered video companies, the downloaded product pretty much remains trapped on your download device. Apple’s films can be downloaded by some iPod products and other handheld players, while WalMart, at the moment, is wedded to the PC.

It’s a smart move on Amazon’s part - four out of the six major movie studios and a television viewing partner. That relationship is limited, however, by the fact that TiVo’s current distribution base of boxes with internet connectivity is a little over 1.5 million units. It’s a start, but a small start on dealing with getting that downloaded movie to your television. Apple is planning a similar set top box to provide the same viewing capacity.

According to PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Internet video download business is expected to be worth $3.7 billion in annual revenue in 2010, when DVD rentals and sales as a business will amount to about $29.5 billion.



Clarence

Zinn Jeremiah asked:


MySpaces notoriety is truly phenomenal. MySpace is familiar, literally, to people in every corner of the world. This level of recognition might seem to be something admirable or coveted. Further thought about things however might bring about a different perspective. Time and again famously popular brands have seen their appeal plummet back to earth. Theres a fine line in other words between popularity and overexposure. It seems that at some point, people just get plain tired of seeing or hearing about the same old thing.

In the case of MySpace, what was once mostly a virtual gathering spot for teens has been covered from every different angle by the mass media. The media came and told MySpace’s story to millions of people throughout the world. This is the nature of the media, after all. The appearance of the media in MySpace land however may have given core MySpace users the impression that their territory had been intruded upon, and even sold out to mainstream interests.

The feeling of MySpace going corporate may have left a particularly significant impression on MySpace users. Burger King and WalMart, two big companies if there ever were any, once had profiles on MySpace. Both profiles have since been abandoned and at least in WalMart?s particular case their MySpace profile seems to have been removed in response to bad publicity. It seems many MySpace users were not happy with WalMart?s presence on MySpace, and expressed as much through harsh comments left on WalMart?s MySpace profile. So the profile is now gone.

The WalMart scenario may have been a lesson not just that for that company, but for MySpace as well. MySpace has apparently been surpassed in popularity by Facebook, the networking site explicitly for students. Is this due to the general feeling that MySpace had become overrun and corrupted by commercial interests? It?s a possibility certainly. It?s notable that Facebook does show advertising, but under the Facebook format corporate profiles are not allowed: not yet anyway. Perhaps users of any online site have accepted seeing advertising, but not the notion of embracing advertisers as regular members of the community.

All of this isn?t to suggest that MySpace is now somehow irrelevant: there are still hundreds of millions of MySpace profiles, and almost certainly millions and millions of MySpace members. But if there is something to be taken from the response to corporate presences on MySpace it may be that business sites should be presented with a light touch and without an obvious motivation to increase sales or to generate publicity. As with any other community, becoming an accepted part of MySpace takes time and a respectful effort.



Marlene

David Maillie asked:


U.S. auto manufacturers are facing more pressure from import manufacturers every year. They have already been feeling the heat from Nissan, Toyota and Honda, but now with Hyundai taking a larger chunk of the middle and lower range cars, SUV’s and trucks this may be the start of the end of the likes of Ford and G.M.

Ford has already announced a restructuring and a projected cut of 30,000+ jobs. G.M. has recently retired an old name brand Oldsmobile and is posting losses on a regular basis. Delphi Corp., the largest auto parts supplier for U.S. manufacturers has already declared bankruptcy which makes buyers leary of future parts availability. Most of the other parts suppliers are very close to or are currently declaring bankruptcy.

In the 80’s when Chrysler was having severe finacial woes the government stepped in with million dollar loans and other aid. The government is currently reeling from Katrina, New Orleans, and the war in Iraq. It can’t afford to bail out Ford or G.M. The public opinion is against a government bailout as the economy is not its best. George Bush has too many other problems to deal with like high gas prices, natural gas, Iraq, etc…

So, without a government bailout and no proposed new laws to halt the outsourcing and outflowing of jobs and such to overseas giants like China and Japan, it is only a matter of time before Ford and G.M. go bankrupt. Toyota and Honda have been gunning for the number 1 spot and now that they have it are not going to give it up. The only hope left is with the trucks. Both Ford and G.M. have a bustling truck business and it is their only profitable business. The imports have tried to break into this market and after quite a few years they have not had much success. The majority of trucks are bought by die hard Ford or Chevy people. But, that may also change. Toyota has found that the key may be in Nascar. This could and will lead to other imports getting involved and taking the American out of Nascar. That would eventually happen as they have more money and lower costs.

Basically, with the laws the way they are right now, the U.S. auto manufacturers do not stand a chance. So the question is do we restrain trade with countries like China and Japan, possibly hurt foreign relations, Make it more expensive to buy better built and higher quality imports, etc… Or let democracy, free trade, and a capitalist society have its way giving Americans the best, safest vehicles, for the lowest price? Regardless of how we make our laws, Walmarts or their equivalents will always prevail - the basic premise of Walmart’s founder Sam Walton was to sell the best products to consumers at the lowest price possible. Look at what he did. In a period of 40 years he went from one store to being the largest retailer in the world. Walmart has plans for 2500 stores in China. Maybe the U.S. auto manufacturers could learn something here. Take the imports on at their own game, stop paying multi-million dollar compensation packages to executives that aren’t fixing the company. Maybe they need to pay more attention to what brings the best results in advertising at the least expense. Why is it that some companies must spend millions on advertising and others in the same niche get more results for much less?

Ford and G.M. need to rethink and come out with an attack plan. Go after the imports at their own level. Maybe make a marketing ploy of America and what we may lose. The kids of today aren’t growing up dreaming of Shelby Mustangs and Corvettes. They are driving Honda and Toyotas that they fix up like in the Movie The Fast and the Furious. Maybe its too late.



Karen

goober peas. asked:


I was looking at prices. At sport stores football jerseys are $60-$80. At Walmart they’re about $20-$24. Why are the so much cheaper? Are they fake or something? I’m planning on getting one for my boyfriend.

Herbert