|
|
 |
|
Walmart is the best thing since the car tire |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
|
Tesco tends to bring prices down, which can be very salutary for people on low incomes, and Walmart
has the same effect in the US. While it is nice to support local, small businesses, we should ask
ourselves if we are willing to pay higher prices when we buy food, clothing, shoes, electronics, or
any other consumer items. I find that even those who rail against Tesco and other box stores that
tend to kill local shops probably go there more often, than to their local corner store, which sells
everything for at least 25 percent more. I know that I am more likely to head off to Walmart to buy
a pack of sports socks for $5 than to a small, artsy locally-run shop where they will probably
charge me triple this amount.
I am in Hungary at the moment and I have found that Tesco (which first opened here in the mid-1990s)
is hugely popular among young couples on modest incomes, the working-class and pensioners. Products
are far cheaper here than at any other smaller, local shop or even at national grocery chains,
mainly because the same Tesco branded items are sold in much larger quantities to customers in
neighbouring countries as well. |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
|
The companies themselves are doing well. A human or two put in hours of hard work to get those
companies where they are today. When you are doing well, you don't want some bully to come along
and say, nope, can't do that, it's irresponsible to the ones who have not worked hard and earned the
rights to success.
Success is not for free, it is not up for grabs, it is for those who have earned the right to have
it!
If someone has power, it's usually something they have earned. Why do some people think its some
sort of right to equal things out and give to the undeserving? Why should all the slackers have
something they didn't work for - all for free with nothing ever returned? |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
|
I disagree. While I'm not in the UK, people make the same claims about Wal-Mart here in the U.S.
Wal-Mart doesn't force people into their stores at gun point, people CHOOSE of their own free will
to shop there. They represent the very epitome of the free market, they provide a superior shopping
experience to people who want to shop there, therefore those who are unable to compete go out of
business.
How anyone disagrees with that is beyond me. |
| |
|
| |
|
|
|
04 May 2008 19:18
Sign In
For and Against Recent Activity
