I am not a lover of the superstore type store and only shop at them as a means of last resort, try to spend my money in smaller chains or preferably "mom and pop" type stores. I am not employed by a superstore, have no family employed by one either just to get my motives out of the way.
You cannot blame a store operating for profit in a capitalist environment for succeeding, that is the "American Dream" in the case of wally world they did start in Po-dunk Arkansas as a mom and pop store, made great business decisions and ended up a world wide conglomerate (sp). Do they make choices the better themselves at the expense of other, of course they are a business in the business of making money. Given the opportunity so does every other business out there they just do it better. The ONLY reason they are as huge as they are is people like to spend their money there. If people decided they no longer wanted to spend money in that store it wouldn't exist in it's form any longer, but as much as people give lip service to hating to shop there, that is still where they line up to hand their money over. As for the price of their grain increasing, the price of grain is increasing everywhere not just one superstore, there is a near nationwide drought that has lasted several years across most of the grain producing states. Maybe they used that product as a loss leader and now they are using some other product???? Who knows, but as always you have a choice where you spend your money.
As far as it "not making a difference" to the huge store if "a couple of dozen" people on this thread start shopping somewhere else, as far as I am concerned it is not important to me if my spending dollar impacts that store negatively it matters more to me that my spending choices makes a difference to ME. Many times I have stopped buying a specific product or at a specific store for my own reasons, not believing for one second it will make a big difference to that company, but b/c it makes me feel better.
So that is my 2 cents.
You cannot blame a store operating for profit in a capitalist environment for succeeding, that is the "American Dream" in the case of wally world they did start in Po-dunk Arkansas as a mom and pop store, made great business decisions and ended up a world wide conglomerate (sp). Do they make choices the better themselves at the expense of other, of course they are a business in the business of making money. Given the opportunity so does every other business out there they just do it better. The ONLY reason they are as huge as they are is people like to spend their money there. If people decided they no longer wanted to spend money in that store it wouldn't exist in it's form any longer, but as much as people give lip service to hating to shop there, that is still where they line up to hand their money over. As for the price of their grain increasing, the price of grain is increasing everywhere not just one superstore, there is a near nationwide drought that has lasted several years across most of the grain producing states. Maybe they used that product as a loss leader and now they are using some other product???? Who knows, but as always you have a choice where you spend your money.
As far as it "not making a difference" to the huge store if "a couple of dozen" people on this thread start shopping somewhere else, as far as I am concerned it is not important to me if my spending dollar impacts that store negatively it matters more to me that my spending choices makes a difference to ME. Many times I have stopped buying a specific product or at a specific store for my own reasons, not believing for one second it will make a big difference to that company, but b/c it makes me feel better.
So that is my 2 cents.
