At least I posted both...you on the other hand follow in the fine republican tradition of cherry picking.
-----Original Message----- From: Scott Stroz [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 9:40 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Walmart vs Target/Meijer Did you actually read some of the information you posted? Some of it seems to refute claims yo have made about how bad Wal-Mart can be. > However, > he compared the changes to previous competitors small town shops > have faced in the past-from the development of the railroads and the Sears > Roebuck catalog to shopping malls. He concludes that shop owners who adapt > to the ever changing retail market can thrive after Wal-Mart comes to their > community. Bad Wal-mart for making small town shops adapt their business to handle competition. > It > argued that while Wal-Mart's low prices caused some existing businesses to > close, the chain also created new opportunities for other small business, > and so "the process of creative > destruction<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction>unleashed > by Wal-Mart has no statistically significant impact on the overall > size of the small business sector in the United > States." Bas Wal-Mart for creating new opportunities for small businesses. > For the concern of jobs, a study commissioned by Wal-Mart with consulting > firm Global Insight <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Insight>, found > that its stores' presence saves working families more than US$2,500 per > year, while creating more than 210,000 jobs in the > U.S. Bad Wal-Mart for saving families money and creating jobs. >Another study by Global Insight has found that > Wal-Mart's growth between 1985 and 2004 resulted in food-at-home prices that > were 9.1% lower and overall prices (as measured by the Consumer Price > Index<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_price_index>) > that were 3.1% lower than they would otherwise have > been.[114]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wal-Mart#cite_note-113> > Bad Wal-Mart, again, for saving people money. > Studies of Wal-Mart show consumers benefit from lower costs. A 2005 *Washington > Post* story reported that "Wal-Mart's discounting on food alone boosts the > welfare of American shoppers by at least $50 billion per > year."[116]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wal-Mart#cite_note-115>A > study in 2005 at Massachusetts > Institute of Technology<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technolog y>measured > the effect on consumer > welfare <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_economics> and found that the > poorest segment of the population benefits the most from the existence of > discount retailers. Bad Wal-Mart for benefiting poor people. Wow, I can really see why you hate Wal-Mart so much. What with all the jobs, saved money and benefitting poor people...and all of that without having to use our tax dollars. Wal-Mart should be ashamed of itself. We should all go back to paying more money for the same goods and then have to rely on the government to bail us out when we can't. -- Scott Stroz --------------- You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can wonder what the f*&k happened. - Cpt. Phil Harris http://xkcd.com/386 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:328960 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
