IMO Store Chains with bargins?!

[Rolsjo]

Great topic you started here.

I grew up in a crowded suburban area, so the thought of supporting a community didn't really mean anything. Now that I live in a small, rural town, I get it. I want the few little businesses in my town to do well. There are some things I can't get right here so I drive into the city and shop at a chain store. But I try to support the home team. Now, the local hardware store has their fair share of "Made in China" merchandise, but if I have the opportunity of supporting a family in my community by buying from them, I'll do it.

I'm kind of neutral when it comes to Wal-Mart. I don't shop there regularly, but I don't actively try to avoid it either. I think if our town had one and it provided much-needed jobs, I'd be there every week. I know the big thing is going after large corporations right now and condemning them for their unfair practices. However, the fact is with the way our economy has crashed those large corporations are still providing jobs. IMO, now is not the time to send a message to corporate America. That time was 30 years ago, but greed and rampant consumerism led to corporations that were willing to do anything to get prices down so they could sell, sell, sell. Daveroo hit the nail on the head.

 

[spook]

Rhett&SarahsMom :

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My choice. You all dont have to agree or like it. But you also dont see what kind of trash lives in my area. I refuse to shop where the employees smoke right in front of the store. so you have to walk through a haze of cig smoke on the way in. The clothes at the front of the store usually smell of cig smoke because of this. Their standards of hiring are low. They have no qualms hiring convicted child molesters to work the floor. Nor do they require the use of deodorant by cashiers or other staff. And these people draw others like them into the store. So no. I will NOT shop my local Walmart. I will drive to the next city over to shop Target. Atleast the store is kept up, the employee smoking area is out back and the cashiers are all bathed. As are the customers

The trash I mean are child molesters, illegals that loitering. Illegals that are driving with NO LICENSES and causing at least 2 accidents a week in the parking lot alone. Those with really nasty body odors. The strippers and prostitutes that dont bother changing from their "work clothes" before they head out to good ole Wally.

Move here. See how long you shop the local Walmart​

This happens to be what I did not want. Disgusting, judgemental, and down right TRASHIER TALKING then most uneducated people.
I would actually prefer this conversation closed and shame on you. Shame on me for thinking I could have a decent conversation with adults. Personally I'm not a ho, I am not Uneducated but I am a realist that for my area, it is a blessing to have these larger stores to buy from, keeping prices down, affordable prescriptions for the elderly or even our Veterans that seem to get no respect and from people like you, shame.
Those stores whether you like them or not, hire people, that I take it you would rather have on public assistance, so what, you could bash them even more into the ground for needing a job to feed their children.
I wish we could all be perfect like some of you, but we can't, so one more bash and I will see that this subject gets locked.

 

[DuckLady]

Agreed, Spook. I am now closing the thread.
Let me know if you want me to clean it up and reopen it.