In article 7, Wayne
Boatwright wrote:
On Mon 18 Aug 2008 09:29:11p, Marina told us...

Samantha Hill - remove TRASH to reply wrote in
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Jim Redelfs wrote:

It's a lead pipe cinch that Walmart would NOT have permitted a
recycling plant to be built next door.

All those jobs, all that tax base - gone. (Never was.) Too bad.


Actually, Walmarts don't contribute a lot in taxes because they
strategically plan so much of their floor space to their grocery
department, for which they pay no taxes.

We have a Super Wal-Mart about 1 mile away. Half the building seems to
be groceries. They have a whole bank of gas pumps, maybe 10 or 12 of
them. The gas is the cheapest around here. I used to go there, but no
more. The customers are too trashy. If i need something from Wal-Mart
then i order online. I'll go there for gas, but only when it's not too
busy, which is almost all the time.

I can't afford to think "global ecomony" or even "local economy" when I
need to make every single penny count. Wal-Mart generally has the best
prices on almost anything I need to buy. I really can't afford to not shop
there.

SNIP from here

Watch out for WM having WM-specific versions of merchandise, such as
lighter weight version of "personal size" frozen pizzas of a specific
brand and censored CDs.

I have yet to verify personally these accusations that I have seen,
after seeing a Usenet thread where WM was accused (as they often have been)
of making workers work off-the-clock and a majority of responses on WM's
side appeared to me to defend WM by "blaming the victims" as opposed to
claiming that WM did not do such. As in it's been quite a few years since
I bought anything from them.

- Don Klipstein )