Walmart in Cottonwood AZ

tomman58 wrote:

big whitey wrote:

tomman58 wrote:

2gypsies wrote:
Do you stay out of Home Depot, Lowes, Target, K-Mart, Meijer's in Michigan, etc.?

HD not so much. Lowes is owned by WM, target no, k-mart stores are gone. Meijers was the last store to have mostly USA products but do not go there often.

WM has the largest impact, there are many others on my list but then that is my list of business' that are not employee friendly or just horrible with constant threats to their employees.

Lowes owned by WMT, you're nuts. Lowes is owned by Lowes.

Get your facts right WM owns the most shares in Lowes and the tother way lowes own most shares in WM. FACT!

Just because you say it is a fact, doesn't make it so. There are no individuals who own a large percentage of both Walmart and Lowes stock. As a matter of fact (from Morningstar) the only individuals who own 5% or more of Walmart are members of the Walton Family and no individual owns 5% or more of Lowes stock. The largest non-individual holders of both companies are Mutual funds like Vanguard, Blackrock and T Rowe Price, meaning there are millions of individual owners of those blocks of stock and only Vanguard has a 5% or greater share of stock in either of those companies. Lowes and Walmart are about as separate as entities can be.