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Originally Posted by Jeanfromfillmore
.... Walmart does not have better quality products and to support such a monster that has done so much damage by someone who has as much smarts as yourself is, well, dumbfounding.
It is this buying up of smaller businesses and manufacturers by large corps that has put us in such a mess. Banks bought up all the small banks, markets like Safeway, bought up all the smaller chains and the fast food giants that have left us with the same food choices from one city and state to another. There's not nearly as much competition and without competition, monopolies take over and the people lose.
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And who makes the stuff that sells in these stores? It's either made in China, or touched in some way by illegal immigrants. Remember the arguments that we need illegals to do the stuff that "Americans" won't do?
But it is true, the small operations can't just cruise along pretending its not happening, especially when personal resources have expanded so dramatically in the past twenty years. Any small operation that doesn't use a personal computer and a good database is suffering under some serious delusions.