Reply #22: Finally, we can agree on Wal-Mart.

[Silverhair]

In the other thread you and I clashed strongly. But here you state in one of your responses you that it is the system that Wal-Mart is part of that produces the problem. Not WM itself, but the system that produces it.

If WM didn't exist, another corporation exactly like it would, except the name would be different. It is much like evolution. If there is a niche, a life form will evolve to fill it. Same in economics - if there is an economic opportunity, something will fill it.

In my area, there are very few Mom & Pop stores, so I pretty much have to buy from a giant corp. Since I view them as all the same, I buy from the one that gives me the best price. If that happens to be WM, then so be it. I am looking out for myself because in this system, no one else will.