I just went into walmart for the first time in months... I feel physically ill

[Verto]

Originally posted by General Ludd


Target is the alternative?

Where else am I to shop?

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Verto


Where else am I to shop?

At all of the locally owned buisness that've gone out of buisness in favour of the junk shops.

[Verto]

When I come across one, I'll do that. I don't know of any mom-and-pop stores that sell toilet paper and toothpaste.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by General Ludd
At all of the locally owned buisness that've gone out of buisness in favour of the junk shops.

Why?

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Kucinich


Why?

Because box stores suck the money and culture out of a community and give back nothing. Unless, maybe, if you count poverty.

It turns shop keepers into minimum-wage check out boys, and it takes everyone's money and puts it in the pockets of CEOs and shareholders who couldn't give a rat's ass about the people paying them, or the place they live in.

[Kuciwalker]

Because box stores suck the money and culture out of a community and give back nothing.

Uh, generally you get stuff back for your money. You see, there's this thing called "shopping"....

[Verto]

Originally posted by General Ludd


Because box stores suck the money and culture out of a community and give back nothing. Unless, maybe, if you count poverty.

Or unless, maybe you count the hundreds of people employed because of it.

[Provost Harrison]

I am not averse to the concept of the supermarket though...convenient, everything in one place and cheap...so much less messing...

[Vesayen]

Originally posted by Verto


Or unless, maybe you count the hundreds of people employed because of it.

What is better for the local economy, three dozen various small local shops, from bike repair to a super market to a shoe store, or a walmart super-abortion which employs 150 people at minimum wage?

[Nubclear]

Wal-Mart is another byproduct of capitalism.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Verto


Or unless, maybe you count the hundreds of people employed because of it.

Yes, because box stores are the only buisnesses that need employees.

And they are dead-end minimum wage jobs, let me remind you.

Uh, generally you get stuff back for your money. You see, there's this thing called "shopping"....

You buy from a box store, the money goes flying away to some CEO and you never see it again. You buy at a locally owned buisness and the money goes to your neighbour, keeping the money in the community. The CEOs just want your money, they don't care about you or your community. Your neighbour, on the other hand, does (well, I hope he does). They don't want to see the place they live in turn to scowler any more than you do.

If you buy at a locally owned buisness your community grows. If you buy at a box store, the only thing that grows are the pockets of the share holders, and your community dies a slow ugly death as it seaps into poverty.

[Nylan-Nolan]

I would rather go 2 K-Mart than Wal-Mart (which is saying something since our K-Mart went out of business)

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by General Ludd
You buy from a box store, the money goes flying away to some CEO and you never see it again.

So? The idea is that I give them money and they give me stuff.

You buy at a locally own buisness and the money goes to your neighbour, keeping the money in the community.

So? I don't have it anymore. What if the CEO lives in my neighborhood?

The CEOs just want your money, they don't care about you or your community. Your neighbour, on the other hand, does (well, I hope he does). They don't want to see the place they live in turn to scowler any more than you do.

So? Unless the end result is that I get more stuff, somehow for the same amount of money, why should I buy from them instead of Walmart?

If you buy at a locally own buisness your community grows. If you buy at a box store, the only thing that grows are the pockets of the share holders, and your community dies a slow ugly death as it seaps into poverty. [/QUOTE]

[Vesayen]

The point is you getting your stuff, puts lots of people in your community out of buisness. See how nice a place your community is when alot of good jobs go out of the area and it seeps into poverty.

[Nylan-Nolan]

Originally posted by Kucinich

If you buy at a locally own buisness your community grows. If you buy at a box store, the only thing that grows are the pockets of the share holders, and your community dies a slow ugly death as it seaps into poverty.

True, oh so true