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 From: wiebe08@hotmail.com 
  
 "TC"  wrote in message 
 news:D%ane.1942$mN.22272@news1.mts.net... 
 > This summer will be the third year that I'd stopped shopping WalMart. 
 > Never 
 > looked back and don't miss it one iota. 
 > 
 > Got to love those Walmart greeters. Walmart loves you and your business, 
 > that is why they have to rifle through your bags and tape them shut before 
 > you enter their store. What percentage of Walmart customers are theives... 
 > 1% maybe? Yet all have to be treated as under suspicion. 
 > 
 > I don't like how Walmart operates. It is a monopoly capitalist operation 
 > and 
 > I am strictly opposed to it. I decided that I wasn't going to spend there 
 > anymore. I told the greeter that too one time. (you'll notice I am not 
 > about 
 > to force YOU not to shop there - go ahead if you want - just don't tell me 
 > I 
 > have to.) 
 > 
  
 I only shop at Wal-Mart for about 6 to 8 grocery items that are priced lower 
 than anywhere else in my neighborhood.  Those food and cleaning items are 
 all Canadian and US made quality products.  All the other grocery outlets 
 charge 30 to over 100% more for the same identical merchandise.  So who is 
 ripping off who?  I spread my grocery shopping out over 4 stores, all 
 located close to where I live --IGA, Safeway, Giant Tiger and Wal-Mart.. 
  
 These stores are aware of Wal-Mart's pricing I'm sure.  If these other 
 merchants were really concerned about getting 100% of my business, they 
 would match their prices on these few items instead of offering extreme 
 specials for 1 or 2 things and then gouging me on the other stuff!. 
  
 I choose to shop at all these stores because each one offers me something 
 that the others don't.  And that's how stores can compete with Wal-Mart. 
 Offer consumers something that they can't find elsewhere. 
  
  
  
  
  
 > I went up to her and held out my wallet. 
 > 
 > She asked what that was for. 
 > 
 > I told her that this was my "ballot" and I vote with my wallet. 
 > 
 > I told her to put that Walmart security tape over it, because I wasn't 
 > going 
 > to be spending my money in there anymore. 
 > 
 > 
  
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