November 11, 2005
More on Wal-Mart
Glenn
links to the
trailer for
Why Wal-Mart Works, and Why That Makes Some People Crazy.
I'm just as perplexed by the hostility. After all, the same people who complain about Wal-Mart very often make regular runs to Costco, where they buy a little more than they need to for the sake of getting the best per-unit price (storing the excess in their larger-than average homes).
People on restrictive budgets, of course, can't afford to do this. Apparently my anti-Wal-Mart friends would prefer that they live in (even greater) material deprivation, buying fewer products from overpriced local stores. Glenn:
I prefer Tarzhay myself for its more upscale ambience, but my discomfort with Wal-Mart is purely aesthetic, and I think it's odd that some people see it as evil incarnate. [ . . .] I think there's a class issue: Wal-Mart is unavoidable evidence that the American working classes don't think, or live, the way the American thinking classes want to imagine. For this sin, Wal-Mart can never be forgiven.
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Ha! Glenn has it nailed!
Posted by: Desert Cat at November 11, 2005 03:51 PM (xdX36)
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I argued on another site with a left-of-center who wailed about Walmart's not paying a "living wage", getting goods from China, blah blah blah...and I'm always amazed that Conservatives support the business practices of Walmart - when they preach Christian morals, saving our nations children from gays, abortion and the heretics teaching evolution, but it's okay for Walmart's "Mary Kate and Ashley" clothing line for kids to actually be manufactured by kids in Indonesia.Uh, I don't count on BIG business to teach me morals..especially places like Walmart that instruct their employees to say "Happy Holidays" rather than "Merry Christmas." Big Business, Big Unions, Big Government look at bottom lines, regardless of individual morality.
Still, the essense of capitalism and the American marketplace is freedom of
choice. No one holds a gun to the consumer's head to shop at Walmarts. Why do the anti-Walmartinistas want to figuratively hold a gun to the consumer's head NOT to shop there?
Posted by: Darleen at November 11, 2005 05:40 PM (FgfaV)
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It's all about Walmart being the biggest. Typical Leftist tactic.
Posted by: Darrell at November 11, 2005 10:03 PM (1A+wa)
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