[AT] Jobs/ Stores

Ron Cook rlcook at longlines.com
Tue Jan 26 06:15:09 PST 2010


I don't like any of it.  We have all paid a huge price.  Savings at 
Walmart and Harbor Freight won't bring it back, because it is not 
savings at all.   As far as I am concerned, things went all to heck with 
the advent of Sesame Street.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA

David Bruce wrote:
> I'll buy that a WM changes the equation and those retailers that can't 
> adapt will fail.
>
> Sort of dog eat dog writ large.
>
> Those small retailers that can provide value for their higher prices 
> will survive.  Those that want to keep the higher price but not provide 
> the value are doomed.
>
> A couple years ago a WM was rumored for my county.  Then the economy 
> turned so nothing for now.  For me that means 15 miles vs 10 miles.
>
> I don't see WM as pure evil but I don't see it as lily white either.
>
> David
> NW NC
>   
>



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