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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:37 PM, bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> Maybe I'm wrong in the way I think , Marie; but, I see the coming mess 
> making us even more dependent on the huge corpor-ate giants like Walmart, 
> as well as the gov't.  Where gigantic corporations and government summate 
> into 'corporatism', 'fascism', 'liberalized socialism', whatever the 
> current synonym.


Maybe I'm wrong too, but I find that WalMart has cut back fairly
drastically on its variety of selections. I used to go there because I
could get stuff like masa, which wasn't available in other local
stores. Well, WalMart has been more or less matched by the major
groceries in the area (on price as well as availability of goods). I
also used to find it handy to go to one store that had most stuff I
wanted across a range of goods. I'm finding now that I get better
prices at the Big R farm store next door (I've asked -- I know several
people who work there -- and they tell me they are getting more
traffic since WalMart opened).

Another thing that I used to like at WalMart was the clothes. Now the
stuff they're selling looks like something off the KMart bargain
table.

Anyway, I think our economic future could go any number of ways, many
of the awful, but I don't think the big corporations have it in the
bag.

Marie, the dewy-eyed optimist