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Skriven 2006-09-25 01:26:03 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 22680 av MIMI GALLANDT (1:275/311)
Ärende: Pat Buchanan
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On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:32:00 -0400
"MIMI GALLANDT -> ED HULETT" <1:275/311> wrote:

 MG> Ed Hulett wrote:

 EH>> On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 08:36:00 -0400
 EH>> "VERN HUMPHREY -> ED HULETT" <1:123/140> wrote:

 VH>>>>> That's their stock in trade.  I had a discussion with a
 VH>>>>> woman who says people "waste their money at Wal Mart."  She
 VH>>>>> got really huffy when I asked, "What makes YOU so much
 VH>>>>> smarter than everyone else?"

 EH>>>> Heh heh... a friend of mine is a very vocal opponent to
 EH>>>> Wal-Mart but still shops there because he wants to save
 EH>>>> money.

 EH>>>> I asked him, after one of his rants about Wal-Mart, why I
 EH>>>> should listen to his rant if he still shops there. He didn't
 EH>>>> have an answer.

 VH>>> Right.  I had one tell me "Wal Mart engages in price fixing."
 VH>>> When I said, "With whom?" he had no answer at all. :-)

 EH>> The above friend has made the claim that Wal Mart put Rubbermaid
 EH>> out of business. I asked him why I see Rubbermaid products still
 EH>> for sale at Wal Mart and he had no answer.

 EH>> His claim was that Wal Mart went with some Taiwan company instead
 EH>> for their plastic storage devices. I did a little Google search
 EH>> and among the vicious anti-Wal Mart rhetoric I found the truth.
 EH>> Wal Mart went with a Boston based company called Sani-Seal or some
 EH>> such. No Taiwan based company.

 MG> I've never quite understood the animosity against Wal Mart, yes I've
 MG> heard "they put mom & pop stores out of business" line, but I doubt
 MG> they did that more than Sears and Penneys did.

Locally we have a small "mom & pop" hardware store. A few years ago
Lowes opened a store less than a mile away. People who rarely shopped
at the "mom & pop" lamented that Lowes would put the little guy out of
business. Interestingly enough, the "mom & pop" are still at it with no
sign of closing down.

 MG> Here in San Diego
 MG> there used to be two big local department stores. One was gone before
 MG> I was born called Marstons, George Marston, the founder of Marstons,
 MG> was a big philanthropist here, the other, Walker Scott's, had several
 MG> stores around the county. If I'm remembering correctly that Tim lives
 MG> in SD county he may remember Walker Scott's. Marston's closed before
 MG> WWII (it could possibly be argued that WS's ran them out of
 MG> business), but WS hung on until the last one closed in the 80s or
 MG> 90s. It wasn't WalMart that did them in, more likely it was Sears and
 MG> Penneys. Most people (except teen age girls) prefer to do their
 MG> shopping in one place. Malls, Wal Mart, Target and KMart do that for
 MG> their customers. We've had KMart in SD county since the 50s, Target
 MG> since the 70s or 80s and Wal Mart since the 90s. There were very,
 MG> very few mom & pop stores by the 90s. Another thing I like about Wal
 MG> Mart is that they hire the handicapped.

Around here we have a mega store called Fred Meyers (now owned by
Kroger). My good friend's daughter is the Nursery Manager and her
husband is the Produce Manager there. The daughter used to live in
Spanish Fork, Utah and Wal Mart caused the Fred Meyers she worked at
there to close. She is now worried that Wal Mart will do the same here
with the new store that is going in less than a mile away.

I think that the mega stores do more harm to other mega stores than
they do to "mom & pop" stores.

Ed

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