[MR] Walmart

[Brianna O'Duinn (Sherra Dunn)]

I have to agree with Eadric on his point about low income families.  
Although I am thankfully not in that boat at this time, I have been 
there, done that.  Also, not all WalMarts are created equal.  Our local 
store has several mentally challenged and physically challenged 
employees.  Some of these people would not be able to find work anywhere 
else.  We also have a good percentage of older employees.  I have 
personally spoken with many of the long term employees that recommend 
working there.  Like any other store or business, you can't put all of 
them in the same basket.  I enjoy going to my WalMart.  One of the 
ladies in our store will even call me and tell me when they get in a 
shipment of $1/yd fabric that is SCA friendly!

Brianna O'Duinn
Clan Roanwoulfe


Robert Van Rens wrote:
> 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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