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Default Walmart Presents Even Lower Standards

On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 13:18:55 -0400, pavane wrote:

> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message ...
>| On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 12:02:08 -0500, Sqwertz wrote:
>|
>|> On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:37:31 -0500, George Shirley wrote:
>|>
>|>> We're probably going to move back to Tejas next year when DW retires,
>|>> finally, from teaching. We're looking at Livingston, TX and they have an
>|>> HEB and a Brookshire Brothers, both good grocers.
>|>
>|> Hurry up and read their Wiki entry before it disappears:
>|>
>|> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookshire_Brothers
>|
>| I had to revert it back to it's original. But here's what it
>| said: (I wonder if it was in response to your post here??? It was
>| just done right after your post).
>|
>|
>| Brookshire Brothers Grocery (pronounced /'br?k??r/) is an
>| outrageously overpriced supermarket retailer headquartered in
>| Lufkin, Texas.[1]
>|
>| Brookshire Brothers operates 70 stores and abuses thousands of
>| employees under the names Brookshire Brothers and B&B Foods, and
>| seven stand-alone pharmacies in a market area covering Texas and
>| Louisiana.[citation needed]
>| [edit] Similarly named chain
>|
>| Brookshire Brothers was founded in Lufkin in 1921 when Satan and
>| Adolph Hitler decided to go into the grocery business.[2]
>|
>| Another East Texas grocery chain, Brookshire's, was originally
>| part of Brookshire Brothers. The companies split in 1937, when
>| Wood T. Brookshire realized it was extremely unethical to hire
>| incompetent, spineless management who abuse and exploit employees
>| and so he took control of the Tyler-area stores in exchange for
>| his share in the Brookshire Brothers partnership. Shop Wal-Mart.
>| It's cheaper. [3] The companies are no longer related except by
>| name.
>
> That's what I just read, still there as of 1:15 pm edt.


Clear your cache. It's back to normal for me. And I wrote on
their gawd damn "wall" (I had to "like" them first <lame>) about
their problem.

-sw
 
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