--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So have you ever actually been to Costco? If you had > you would know that > your statement about the stores customers is absurd.
I have. I particularly remember the $15,000 diamond ring right in the front of the store. You don't see too many of those at WalMart. Do a little bit of research, Bob. _CostCo_ trumpets the demographics of the people who come there on a regular basis. What do you think their relatively high membership fee is all about? > What is > your proof that dislike of > WalMart equates with dislike of poor people? It > fits your stereotype and so it > is convenient to blow off someone else's opinion as > bigotry. I would suggest > that if you actually went to the various discount > stores you would find that > the peope are all pretty much the same. The > products do value in quality. > Costco and Target have good stuff that is well > presented in stores that are > bright and organized with employess that are > helpful. In my experience this is > not always true for WalMart or KMart. The market would not seem to agree with you on this one. Once again, you're putting your values (those of a rich doctor) and saying they're the only acceptable ones. They aren't, though, and why you might shop at a place and other people do might, you know, be different. As a graduate student on an $18,000 stipend, I find that the relative attractiveness of WalMart's discounting has gone up a little bit. As for my proof - go read anything by any major WalMart critic. All the horror of the $39 DVD players (something that's been expressed on this list) and so on. As if people who can't afford $2000 sound systems should just do without. Or our own dear Doctor's stuff about NASCAR. I note that (unsurprisingly) the only person on the list who raised an objection to that was...wait for it...me. What a shock. No enemies to your left, right Bob? ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
