Dan Minette wrote:
> But, the idea that Wal-Mart is an evil giant who put out of business a
> number of wonderful small businesses that treated their beloved employees
> wonderfully is a bunch of nonsense. I was in New England when Wal-Mart put
> a number of stores out of business. It wasn't a question of union vs.
> non-union. It was a question of chains that put their money into expansion
> first, and Wal-Mart that invested in inventory control first.
A number of the smaller chains in New Englnad were in trouble before I
ever set eyes on a Wal-Mart.
We shopped at several more local chain stores before Wal-Mart came in.
One would be good for some things, another would be good for others.
Off the top of my head, I can't think of anything that any of them had
that we looked for specifically that Wal-Mart doesn't carry.
> Small mom and pop stores are inefficient; there is a lot of waste. Around
> here, Walmart pays just fine compared to Foleys or other medium upscale
> stores. Retail doesn't pay well, period. Kroegers is unionized, and its
> pay scale is no better than Randall's which isn't.
I don't know about unionization where I am, but I believe that
Albertson's isn't unionized, I'd guess that the Randall's here aren't,
and I don't think HEB is. FWIW, Randall's is the most expensive of the
three here -- how does it compare with Krogers? (If what you're after
is at HEB, there's a very, very good chance that that's the cheapest
place of the three for that item.)
> So, while I strongly believe a lot more needs to be done to stop the focus
> of wealth and income in the top tier; getting rid of Walmart won't help.
> It would hurt. Poor people need cheap clothing. They don't get it from
> those cute little boutiques that yuppies like.
>
> Better stop before I get into a rant about 16 year old yuppies going to
> spend hundreds on simple clothing that costs 5x what it should because of
> the right name on it in the BMW convertibles their daddies got them for
> their 16th birthday.....too much of that in the Woodlands..
I'm hoping we don't have too much of that in our neighborhood when my
kids reach that age, because *they* sure as heck aren't getting a BMW
convertible. (They're probably getting POS used Chevys.) Having had to
deal with such individuals, I don't want to raise any of my children to
be like that. (It's extremely irritating when you're late to work
because the kid going almost double the speed limit around a curve and
then managing to *almost* not hit you had that sort of car and the sort
of attitude that conveys, 'It's all your damn fault for being where I
was speeding, and my daddy's going to buy you off anyway, so why the
hell are you mad at *me*?')
Julia
hoping the Scot blood isn't too dilute to make cheapskates out of her
kids (at least in some respects)
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