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Old 09-07-2006, 08:43 AM   #26 (permalink)
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The same happens when a Wallmart store kinda forces its way into a town (just a business aspect, but when you humanize the Wallmart entity this action takes on belligerence or rudeness). Then, by price cutting with non-american goods and tough labor practices (no health care and minimum wage), causes a local store to go out of business (seems like a maliceful attack on the small town entity).
Show me where Walmart has "forced" itself on a community. It goes in, finds a seller, and buys land. It doesn't take over the local grocery store with guns drawn as is implied. And said labor practices? Show me a grocery store or retail store that gives insurance or pays more than a few bucks over minimum wage and you'd have an argument. When it comes down to is the people CHOOSE Walmart. It's not as if they have a secret blacklist of anyone who doesn't shop there loses their jobs.

Personally our small town was glad when we finally got a Walmart. We were sick of driving an hour to the nearest small-city to buy cloths, and we really didn't like paying the huge prices that the locally owned stored gouged us with. It was a mom and pop store, but it was owned by the richest family in the county... and their children would brag about their 400% markup and how much profit they made. Naturally it was that family who went to the news agencies and cried that they were being forced out of business by the big and evil Walmart. The rest of the town was more than happy to do our business there.
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