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To: MSB who wrote (66517)	12/18/1999 2:34:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<<Because I live in a small town and drive to the next small town to shop at Wal-Mart since food prices are cheaper, or because small businesses with less than 4 or 5 employees can't offer the kinds of retirement benefits like Wal-Mart or other such community killers after a life time of loyal service? You're right, I better not take it up with you.>> The problem with your line of reasoning, Michael, is that it assumes that the cheapest prices for consumer goods is the highest rationale for any kind of conduct, including illegal price fixing and the deliberate destruction of competition. What about all the small businesses that WalMart destroyed? How are those small business owners going to be funded in their retirement? What about the loss of cultural diversity across America? I realize there are two sides to this issue, however. My brother in Branson Missouri said that without WalMart there would have been almost nothing to buy.