Reply #62: so join me not shopping there... [View All]

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but those looking for reasons for Walmart's success MUST look at the people who shop there. I'm calling upon the average citizen to change his or her ways and support local merchants. You can blame big, badWalmart all you want but people vote with their feet -- shop with them too -- and they shop en masse at WalMart. For garden supplies, I drive right past WalMart and go to Mrs. McGregor's Garden Shoppe.

But there are still long lines at WalMart. Local merchants CAN compete if they build a good client base with quality products and services. Just yelling about WalMart doesn't change the business factors that make it a success.

I'm not a Kerry voter and I'm not trying to defend or knock on this him...but sometime between now and Election Day 2004, some of this threads at DU had better focus on common sense or we'll be in for a terrible, terrible shock.