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Old 05-29-2008, 09:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Despare View Post
I personally don't shop there because of the things they choose to do. They only sell edited CDs, they stopped selling a BBQ sauce because the guy who owned the company flew the confederate flag over his SOUTHERN BASED plant, and also their anti-competitive tactics like you mentioned. I remember hearing one about pickles once... really pissed me off.
For the record, I wasn't advocating shopping at Walmart. I was pointing out that there are very few alternatives for the lower middle class. They're brutal to distributors, who end up not being able to sell product to smaller grocery stores, who therefore can't afford to put certain items on sale as often. My stepfather worked as frozen manager at a small grocery store and was told by distributors all the time that they couldn't give them items at sale price because Walmart had them on sale. So, perhaps on account of your Walmart, Meijer and stores like it people can't shop anywhere but, so ranting about the social strata of Walmart shoppers doesn't make al that much sense.
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