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My "only" problem with WalMart is that they REDUCE my choices. As a consumer I find this to be unaccepatble. While I appreciate the fact that they offer cheap (inexpensive and POOR QUALITY) goods, I would prefer to pay a tad more, buy Amercian and get a higher quality good.
It's the same reason I don't shop at Ikea: shoddy goods - I don't care how cheap it is. If I have to keep buying a $30 bookcase every few months cause it breaks, I may as well buy a solid one for $100 or so that will last me years and years.
It's the same reason why I don't buy American cars. Cheap shoddy products made IN MEXICO. Instead, I buy a reliable, solid Honda Civic made IN KENTUCKY (that's the USA) that will last me near 2 decades with zero problems.
If you don't like WalMart, don't shop there. Picket, strike, vote'm out of town, do whatever you want (as long as it's legal).
I would probably go to WalMart for toilet paper but anything else, I'd rather go somewhere else. The problem would be if there is "somewhere else" left. Plus their store are so ugly it really is a blight on the community. I'm surprised it doesn't bring the property values down. Although my guess is that WalMarts are either located in remote areas or poor ghetto areas. Either way, I don't live in either so I have never seen a WalMart except on TV or a picture in the paper (they sure are ugly).
Let the market decide.
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