Edwin Pawlowski > wrote:
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>"Goomba38" > wrote in message
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>> No, Walmart is funding the Chinese.
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>And we are funding WalMart. As long as we insist on the lowest possible
>price, no matter the source or how it gets there. WalMart will thrive.

It's not our insistence. Demand doesn't drive prices
the way you think it does. Supply always has the ability
to control prices. In Wal-Mart's case, the junta is keeping
them from having to pay decent wages or provide benefits.

Wal-mart is one of the means by which the junta is keeping
inflation from appearing to be out of control.

>I always hear how WalMart puts the little stores out of business. Not so.

Is so. Happens all the time in small towns. Wal-mart
brings in crappy quality and shit jobs and no security
(WM parking lots are notorious for attracting danger;
WM has trees of cameras on the roof of every store now,
but the images are ridiculously poor quality because of
course they use far cheaper cameras than the application
requires; they're only there for PR and legal damage
control purposes).

>The customer that no longer go there puts them out of business, they those
>people blame WalMart for the choice they made themselves.

Uh-huh. The part about crappy quality and shit wages
doesn't enter into it at all...

--Blair