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| By Steve Balogh in Green Living | September 4, 2007 | ||
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Tamara said,
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Mike said,
Perfect. Thanks to the internet we don’t need big box stores. The little guy for almost nothing can have a web site & plenty left over for advertisements. Plus we’d all actually save on stuff. I don’t know if anyone else realized it but Circuit City & Best Buy are the same as far as pricing goes. Maybe here and there you’ll find 1 thing for less than at the other place but overall there is no deference. Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Target, whatever-Mart. I hope we begin to see these signs all over America!!!
Jimmy said,
I am glad it’s this way… better for specialized skills
SayBlade said,
Shop local first! You CAN get better deals and/or better service! I tried to buy an air conditioner from Home Depot and they would not deliver it beyond the front door of my apartment building, to say nothing of installing it.
Instead, I bought one from a local appliance store that has been in my local neighbourhood for decades and they delivered and installed it. They even re-installed it when I moved!
Melf. said,
I say ‘tough’.
Jason said,
It seems to me that if the local people cared enough for the local market, they would have shopped there instead of Wal-mart… Walmart is merely a reflection of the consumer’s interests, so blame the consumer!
Steve Balogh said,
J -
Read the last section… “where you shop” I think that provides an equal amount of blame to the consumer and the big box store.
Henry said,
There is a true cost to everything. Add to the cost of a can of freon the cost of space in a landfill, and the cost of the extra cancer cases from ozone depletion. To the loaf of bread the eventual extra costs from topsoil depletion, salting of the soils, and increased costs of medicines when the easily extracted petroleum base is gone. To the cheap Chinese products we buy at Walmart, add the costs of lead and other poisoning here, of toxic accumulation in the Pacific basin from unregulated production, and the loss of jobs and employers and non-Chinese owned real estate and companies here. Tough, some of you say, we deserve to buy stuff for nothing. But we’re not. We’re buying stuff with our and our children’s future. Pay a little more now or a lot more later.
Sam said,
To Melf & Jason –
So you’re consumers first and citizens second.
You would rather have the low price than preserve patrimony. That’s what corporations are all about – destroying the small business at the altar of profit.
Eric said,
To Melf:
Today, the US Dollar ran equal to the Canadian ‘Loon’ for the first time since 1976, and hit an all-time high of over 1.4 to the Euro.
Your job, whatever that may be, may soon go overseas, where your corporate employer can get it done for mere pennies, compared to what he has to pay you.
In total solidarity with your unempathetic stance, I, too, say, “Tough!”
brent said,
To Eric:
“Today, the US Dollar ran equal to the Canadian ‘Loon’ for the first time since 1976, and hit an all-time high of over 1.4 to the Euro.
Your job, whatever that may be, may soon go overseas, where your corporate employer can get it done for mere pennies, compared to what he has to pay you.”
You got it backwards, dude. The Euro hit an all-time high against the dollar. A cheaper dollar makes it more likely employers will use US labor since it’s less expensive relative to other countries.
Dan said,
The way our economy is run breeds misery for many and happiness for very few.
Rabid42 said,
Walmart for the win.
editec said,
As my departed mother used to say about some people:
“They’re penny-wise and pound-foolish”
Of course we cannot blame people for seaching for the best deals.
They are counting their pennies and let’s face it –few of us have much choice when it comes right down to it.
And since we HAVE no choice, as CONSUMERS we are penny-wise.
Sadly, as CITIZENS, our children will discover that their parents were pound foolish.
The dollars value is dropping because we have created a situation where we import more than we export.
The PEOPLE are NOT responsible for that situation, folks.
Our leaders (of both parties, by the way) most definitely ARE.
David Mackey said,
Why don’t we just require businesses to pay employees overseas the same we do here? This would discourage excess outsourcing while at the same time encouraging better treatment of foreign employees.
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Gerard said,
Most people in this country wouldn’t be able to afford half the things they have without department stores. I needed to buy a window fan a couple weeks ago and I went to the local shop and the cheapest one they had was $40, I went to wal mart and got an even bigger one for $22. People shop at department stores for better quality of life. If the smaller stores provided customers with what they wanted for what they wanted to pay then the customers would all shop there. Do you actually want to have to be FORCED to have to shop at local stores just so business failures can stay employed? I would refuse it, and burn the place down. Long live the free market.