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To: Ilaine who wrote (5066)	11/7/2005 10:36:02 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541403

I went to my first Walmart only a year or so ago. There isn't one near me. Maybe on my planet, but not within my normal stomping grounds.

To: Ilaine who wrote (5066)	11/8/2005 10:38:31 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541403

How could you never have gone to Walmart? What planet do you live on? It's not like I haven't been around. I have been as far West as Texas (Houston) and Colorado and as far South as Reston, Virginia and Potomac, Maryland (about 15 years ago) - but I have been able to stay one step ahead of Walmart. It is amazing that they grow as fast as they do with all the resistance people put up. I personally know people who are against Walmart moving into our neighborhood and would go to great lengths to stop them. These are good people, but I know they don't know anything about business, economics, or world affairs - but they are very much against Walmart.

To: Ilaine who wrote (5066)	11/8/2005 12:42:14 PM
From: upanddown	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541403

I Have never been in a Walmart and will never set foot in one. I hate what they have done to America. The thing I really hate is what the old guy did with the money. After accumulating tens of billions on the backs of his $6.50 an hr "associates", does he do something good with it at the end of his life? Maybe improve the health care and benefits of his long-suffering employees or contribute to any of thousands of very needy causes around the world? Nah...he leaves 20% to his wife and each of his four miserably undeserving children. Now we have the comical spectacle of five Waltons in the top ten richest Americans, none of whom earned a dime of it. Well, actually four since one has already died pursuing a rich man's hobby, flying ultralight aircraft. May be a bit of poetic justice there. I don't question the right of Sam to do what he wants with his money. I do question what he chose to do. The old hillbilly may have been a genius at selling cheap imported goods to economically marginalized Americans but other than that, he was nothing.