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Old September 15th, 2009 #78
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Originally Posted by Alex Linder View Post
Wal-mart started as a small store. What differentiated it was the owner, Sam Walton, got off his ass and made deals. Your average mom-and-pop store does not want to do that. It wants to sit on its ass and enjoy the markup because its customers can't drive 90 miles to get better deals. A lot of the whining about Wal-Mart is simply the combined hue of the lazy + the leftists. It's certainly not coming from W-M workers or customers. It comes from professors and other useless eaters.
Looking at it from another angle, what about the huge role Wal-Mart has played in dismantling a good portion of the American manufacturing industry?