Reply #234: I think that is your problem... [View All]

[Solon]

lack of perspective, we still have a few local businesses, but only in niche markets that Wal*Mart doesn't provide. I don't hate Wal*Mart, I simply don't shop there because it is against my best economic interests. As far as manufacturers go, ask Rubbermaid how good Wal*Mart was to them? Oh yeah, you can't, they went out of business and now their brand is sold under another company, my bad. Hell you should hear my Uncle talking about Wal*Mart, and how they would demand his company to produce at levels Wal*Mart knows he cannot meet, and then turn around and double the order overnight, and when not delivered, fine him for being late. They change the rules to suit them, not anyone else, they are above the law, and that is wrong. We all are not in areas like yours, buy some perspective with the money you got, not all of us live in "free market heaven" a mythical place if I ever heard of one. This is not a utopia, where the biggest company in the world actually got there by its own bootstraps, no I live in reality, and realize that they stepped on a lot of people to get to that place.