Reply #71: OK, I'll stick my nose in now... [View All]

[TreasonousBastard]

and note that around here, very few poor people shop in Whore-Mart. They put their stores in upper middle class areas with no mass transit. The parking lots are full of new cars, and the customers are well-dressed.

I'm not arguing with your point that some people need the lowest prices. I will argue over whether those are really the Borg's customers. We have some dirt cheap supermarkets and warehouse stores that knock them out, and many of them are in the lower income neighborhoods and convenient. Frankly, any retailer wants demographics with the highest incomes it can get, and the Borg sees no point in selling loss-leading food to poor people who aren't going to buy much of anything else.

I'm also not going to argue with you about the other places that treat their workers like shit. There's plenty of them around here, and many of them are the smaller local stores that the Borg is trying to shut down. Not all stores are unionized or give their employees any sort of benefits. Small warehouses and other businesses are often even worse.

Borg-Mart is the biggest and baddest, though, and they are the target. I appreciate that there are some places where there is little or no alternative, but being pretty much forced to shop there shouldn't stop anyone from trying to change the situation.

On the other hand-- voluntarily shopping there, when one has choices, I think is just plain wrong.