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Originally Posted by Victoria Kemsley  But Walmart had/has a rather ingenuis plan, and has been quite successful at it. They moved into all the small/medium sized towns, under priced and consequently drove the existing stores out of buisness, then raised prices back up when thier was no competition.
So you have a situation like I am in for many items, patronize Walmart or jump in the car and drive for an hour.
The old business district here in town has a couple specialty stores, but by and large is a ghost town. |
No argument there they have effectively screwed over most of the smaller/medium sized towns by driving their local stores out of business. Gone are the days of the local hardware chain and even the local grocery stores in some instances where they are 'lucky' enough to have a super Walmart.
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Originally Posted by Victoria Kemsley Ohh, and by the way
I remember in the 80's/early 90's, Walmart's whole speil was "we only sell amercian made goods"
WTF happened to that? |
While this may be true once they had you locked into doing it there way they could then do pretty much whatever the hell they wanted and we're all stuck with it. That's how corporations work, they befriend you by presenting you with all of the 'good' they can do and then once they have usurped all of the control from the consumer they turn around and give you the old
with a little bit of
thrown in hoping we will all
ourselves into oblivion and no longer care. Did I mention how much I love the smilies here?
dancing pickle! WOOT