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To: aladin who wrote (90458)	12/13/2004 11:54:30 AM
From: Captain Jack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793778

Sorry John, It is not an 'at the moment' thing for me. I have never had a good thought about Wally World since old Sam died. As for 'incentives', my brother was offered 6 years zero property or city taxes AND $25,000 per full time employee to locate in a new industrial park. It was made known to him they did not care what wages were paid and $6.50 would see a line at the door. Maybe the "old 5 & dime" could not afford to pay higher wages, maybe they did, but after Wally put them out of business the former workers had no choice,,,,, C'mon Wally COULD afford to pay a decent wage. Comparing what mgrs are paid to min wage-- Nearly my entire civilian working career was mgmt,,, I would have quit before lowering myself to expecting the people that make the company successful to be paid a poverty wage with crap bennys.

To: aladin who wrote (90458)	12/13/2004 12:26:14 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793778

When discussing the authors predicted decline of small town downtowns - he never indicates what pay and benefits looked like at the old 5 and Dime. I thought that was an old issue. Walmart started out in small towns where the denizens, red people, bemoaned that it wiped out their business district. It took out the five and dime, the tire store, the hardware store, the dress shop, the card store, etc. and left boarded up storefronts behind. That was a very long time ago. Now Walmart is in the burbs. Whatever Main Streets it wiped out were a decade or two ago. Now the issues with Walmart are blue issues. Funny how that changed. I'd love to see someone do a retrospective on the Walmart vs. the small town issue. Are they better off or worse off now? My home town Main Street is all antique shops. That started when I was still living there four decades ago and discount department stores started being built out on "the highway." I just heard news in the last couple of months that Walmart is moving into space that was once a chemical plant, right in town although off Main Street. We've come nearly full circle.