On Tue, 5 May 2009 05:23:55 -0700 (PDT), Food Snob®
> wrote:

>If the competition is not as morally bad, they're just about as bad.
>When I notice that I'm out of eggs, milk, half&half, or the like, and
>it's 6:15am, I run up to WalMart, which is 3 or 4 blocks away

Convenience means a lot. I don't know if I could maintain my moral
superiority if a Walmart was closer to me than an alternate store.

Sad note on the home front. Apparently Walgreen's is buying out all
Rite Aide locations here in the City which means less choice for us.
According to a store employee, the transaction was held up by the
Federal Trade Commission for a while to investigate "monopoly", which
it will be here in SF. Walgreen's drove out most of the mom and pop
drugstores, Rite Aide and Thrifty drove out the rest. Rite Aide
bought Thrifty locally and now Walgreen's is gobbling up Rite Aide. I
call no local competition a monopoly, but I guess the FTC bought
another argument.

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