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- From: wizard@galstar.com (David Templeton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga Marketing...WAL-MART!
- Date: 4 Feb 1996 18:29:01 GMT
- Organization: Galaxy Star - Northeastern Oklahoma Internet
- Message-ID: <1332.6608T721T1391@galstar.com>
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- >>Hey, let's get some input here...
-
- >>What would it take to get the Amiga into Wal-Mart?
-
- >[major snipping....] ;^)
-
- >>Anyway, after babbling on like this, the main question I want to ask
- >>is, How do we get Wal-Mart to look at selling the Amiga? Do we have
- >>to leave it up to Amiga Technologies to approach them, or do we all
- >>write Wall-Mart and ask them ourselves? This is a serious
- >>question...I need to know or the Amiga may never come back to
- >>Newfoundland.
-
- We don't want the Amiga sold at WallyWorld. Look at the product
- lines carried by Wal-Mart. El-Cheapo crap! Murrey lawnmowers,
- Weedeater brand and worst of all Packard Bell PC's. What ever Wal-
- Mart touches goes to shit! The quality would be out of the Amiga in a
- very short time given any association with Wal-Mart.
-
-
- >Well, according to CNN this morning, Wal-Mart and Microsoft are
- >entering into a WalMart shop-at-home-on-the-Internet cooperative
- >venture within the next few months. Seems Gates and the CEO of
- >WalMart are big buddies.
-
- Very good for Amigians, Macaphiles and anyone except Microslop
- and Packard Bell. <see above comment>
-
-
- >Yikes... makes the prospect of Amigas in WalMart seem even less
- >likely, don't you think?
-
-
- Excellent!
-
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