... and that article didn't even cover the effect of Wal-Mart on the communities it services*.
Like, for example, driving out independent merchants. To the extent that (conservatively) for every two new jobs a Wal-Mart creates, three others in the community are destroyed.
As a result of this, choice of where to shop, and what products are available, also diminishes or disappears, especially from relatively isolated communities.
And, of course, there are the ongoing legal issues about labor practices (sexual discrimination, possibly racial discrimination, mandatory "off-clock" work...)
Wal-Mart is, simply, evil.
The article is right, though, point out the fate of the A&P chain. Wal-Martization will not last forever. It isn't that long ago, actually, that - at least around here - when you wanted to talk about big stores that sold shoddy goods cheaply to the poor, the magic word was "K-Mart." Which, not unsurprisingly, is having financial troubles, having been undermined in that target market by the Waltons.
--Dan'l
---- * That's "service," not "serve." Like a bull services a cow.
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Like, for example, driving out independent merchants. To the extent that (conservatively) for every two new jobs a Wal-Mart creates, three others in the community are destroyed.
As a result of this, choice of where to shop, and what products are available, also diminishes or disappears, especially from relatively isolated communities.
And, of course, there are the ongoing legal issues about labor practices (sexual discrimination, possibly racial discrimination, mandatory "off-clock" work...)
Wal-Mart is, simply, evil.
The article is right, though, point out the fate of the A&P chain. Wal-Martization will not last forever. It isn't that long ago, actually, that - at least around here - when you wanted to talk about big stores that sold shoddy goods cheaply to the poor, the magic word was "K-Mart." Which, not unsurprisingly, is having financial troubles, having been undermined in that target market by the Waltons.
--Dan'l
----
* That's "service," not "serve." Like a bull services a cow.