[MR] Walmart

[Robert Van Rens]

You may well find their prices reasonable.  But does a single mother who 
makes $7.00 an hour?  And who has no credit card, and who buys fabric to 
make her kids clothes, along with groceries, and light bulbs, and a new 
battery for her car, and Children's Tylenol for a fever, etc etc?

This isn't an exaggeration.  This is how I grew up (except for the single 
mom part - Dad was a trucker, not the best - paying of occupations at the 
time)  Now I live in the midst of the rural poor; most families across the 
river subsist on poverty-level wages; Wal-Mart is a godsend, because not 
only are thier prices better but they pay better than almost anything else 
around.  And if that isn't a statement on the local economy, then nothing 
is.

Yeah, yeah, Wal-Mart is evil.  Try living even a couple months in real 
poverty - I mean, where are tomorrow's groceries coming from, do I pay the 
rent or make the car payment so we can get to work, what about diapers kind 
of poor, THEN come and tell me about how many options there are.

I'm not just talking about anyone who has access to this list.  I talking 
about THE WORLD, something we sometimes forget that we are part of.

Eadric



>From: "Alan MacNeill" <gormofberra at gmail.com>
>To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
>Subject: Re: [MR] Walmart
>Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:56:13 -0500
>
>For anyone who has access to this mailing list, any one of a dozen
>online retailers would be more than happy to provide fabric custom
>cut, at (what I find to be) reasonable prices for the material
>provided.
>
>Yep, you can't get it *right now*, but my experience with all things
>wal-mart was that if I needed it *right now*, they didn't have it
>anyhow.
>
>Noone is without options other than Wal-Mart.
>

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