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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

I haven't been in a walmart in years except when they started the $3.00 
monthly prescription deal.  My regular markets very shortly copied the 
prescription program.  We have very good competition with grocery prices here 
in phoenix.  I still buy fresh whole chickens on sale for 59 cents per lb.   
........bobf


--- On Mon, 10/6/08, Marie McHarry <mmcharry AT gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Marie McHarry <mmcharry AT gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Short-term versus long-term
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Monday, October 6, 2008, 8:58 PM
> 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