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Old 01-25-2010, 01:48 PM
 
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- I have not darkened the doorway of any Walton Family-owned business since the day, more than 13 years ago, that I sat, unpaid, for 11 hours in the dock at one of their distribution centers. That's how they can afford their "falling prices"...
- We have a local chain of food markets and we buy ALL of our groceries there. They have some WONDERFUL loyalty programs and they pamper their customers very well. We see the same employees (That know us by name) year after year, so they are taken care of by management. (That's worth something to us, too) At the end of the year, we don't spend any more for groceries than we would at the big "Supercenters". There's very little margin in groceries, anyway.
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Old 01-25-2010, 02:07 PM
 
Location: Midwestern Dystopia
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It all trickles down.
no, sweetie, it doesn't. We learned that in the 80's.
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Old 01-25-2010, 02:38 PM
 
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no, sweetie, it doesn't. We learned that in the 80's.
First of all, I'm not "sweetie."

And second, can you honestly you don't think that there's a direct corelation between people having jobs and thus money to spend, and new jobs being created or saved?
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