"We kept Wal-Mart out of our town!"

[Mark Lloyd]

There are several Wal-Marts around here. I no longer know of any that DON'T sell groceries (the last one grew a couple of years ago).

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This is something new to worry about, that WM takes great pride in retail blight.

;)

[Dave Bugg]

It's called "Walmart Derangement Syndrome".

[HeyBub]

The RVers like Walmart. Walmart doesn't go all postal if you park your RV on their lot during the night. Some posts on RV groups mention that the store manager knocks on their door in the mornings with free coffee and donuts!

Most of the RVers reciprocate by buying stuff at the store, so, in return for an otherwise unused spot during the dark, the store gets some added business. Plus goodwill.

And Walmart allows Salvation Army bell-ringers during the Chrismas season in contrast to Target who has the Army's kettle thrown in the dumpster and the bell-ringers beaten and arrested (I may be exaggerating here).

[RickH]

The WM here is starting to buy locally grown produce, if that is done everywhere the diesal savings would be astronomical. I go to my regular grocery store and it's impossible to find any produce grouwn within 500 miles. WM is on the right track here.

[RickH]

Fry's... Unfortunately if I included Fry's in my loop I'd blow the whole day there and not get anything else done. One of the few stores anywhere where I can get excited about a shopping trip.

[RickH]

Obviously you've never been to Chicago or Milwaukee.

[Kurt Ullman]

Ya think, DiNozzo?

[Dave Bugg]

Would you mind sweeping my driveway when you're done, 'cause your using an awful large brush :-)

[h]

???Except that the WM has the world's crapiest "local" produce. I bought some "local" corn there last week, and it was dreadful. I bought some "local" corn from Price Chopper (chain) 3 days later, and it was fantastic, and the same price. Ditto for Hannaford (chain) just yesterday. So...the WM buys the worst of the local and charges the same as the best.

[Colbyt]

How the heck does Wal*Mart stay in business when so many people seem to hate them?

Me thinks many of the protesters sneak ove rhtere in the middle of the night and buy the cheap stuff.

:) :) :)

Colbyt

[Samantha Hill - remove TRASH t]

Well, my neighbors down the street who think Walmart is God's gift to this country don't have internet access. They barely even have a computer, and they might not have one any more.

[Samantha Hill - remove TRASH t]

You forgot the head-slap.

*sighing, wishing NCIS would start back up again*

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I lived in Chicago for 6 years, and I thought about it, but could only remember the two lane alley in the basement of Ida Noyes Hall.

I suppose there were bowling alleys, but I can't remember any from

1964 to 1970, and I drove a cab for a year, all over the city. Plus I had a car for 3 years, although I never went bowling. >

[mm]

Now I'm totally confused. Quotes around bonus like it doesn't mean bonus but then what does it mean? You signed out on time, did some of your work after signing out, and then got extra money? Or extra work? You're too subtle for me.

[mm]

I know you meant "is doing what is best". You type like I do sometimes! An interesting window into how our minds work.

[mm]

This relates closely to one post in this thread, but i don't know which one.

The K-mart near me was one of the ones that closed, and 2 years or so later, Home Depot bought it, and after a few months, tore it down and built a HD.

Then there's another plaza where the supermarket closed, and a couple other rather big stores, and then smaller ones until all that was left were a few doctor's offices, and in a different building take-out Chinese, a Christian book store, and a couple other little things. I think someone bought the first building and forced the doctors to leave, and the story in the city or n'hood newspaper was a couple years ago that Wal-mart is coming. No trace of it yet, and a few more places in the second building are vacant now. Even the take-out place isn't always open and when it is, it closes at 9. I think walmart has bought the property, but they're not doing anything.

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Yeah, that was a good idea of theirs.

Back in 1971, when I slept in my car** in shopping center parking lots, every morning the police used to wake me up around 6 or 7. In San Antonio,, they wanted to see my license and registration. I don't remember if they told me to leave after that, but I was wide awake by then and there wwas not point in staying.

**A 65 pontiac catalina. I would take out the rear of the right front seat each night, and i'm 5'8" and could actually stretch out with my feet under the dash. I even put in a reading light on the side of the back seat.

Eventually I learned to go to all-night gas stations, and ask the guy running it. One of them turned me down, but for two or three nights all the others said yes. I also parked at a truck stop, and didn't ask anyone there. But I think the showers were free but I didn't have nerve enough to use one, or even to ask.

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Maybe I'm naive, but I thought the stores that kept out bellringers didnt' want to have to distinguish between the Salvation Ary and the Moonies or whatever the competing group is.

[Dave Bugg]

Ditto to that. Thankfully, I'm enjoying Burn Notice in the interim.