[Vision2020] Wal-Mart meeting

[keely emerinemix]

You're right, Dan -- Safeway is hardly keeping its execs up late at night to 
discuss how to better my life.  On the other hand, WalMart seems to have an 
uncanny ability and, frankly, the naked ambition behind it, to gobble up 
small towns in ways that Safeway and Rosauer's don't.

Much of the "groceries" that the current WalMart sells are packaged, 
processed, and unhealthy pseudo-foods that contribute to poor health and 
rapidly drain the wallet.  It's hard for me to imagine that the better 
buying choices are to be found between a box of Goldfish crackers or a big 
bag of pretzels, Gatorade Blue vs. ProPel Fitness Water, Gummi Bears or 
Swedish Fish.  Those things are also available, of course, at nearly every 
grocery store, convenience store, and "drug" store in town as well, but the 
low-income people and other careful shoppers I know are generally wiser than 
that, and very few consider the junk food savings at WalMart an important 
financial boon for them.

keely


From: "Area Man (Dan C)" <areaman at moscow.com>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Wal-Mart meeting
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 12:31:58 -0800

Keely says:
" . . . there's very little evidence that WalMart is interested in yours
or anyone else's well being."

Not that I want to argue, but I'm not sure Winco, Rosauers, or Safeway
is all that interested in my well being either.  They are all in it to
make a buck, Wal Mart just seems to be a little better at it.  How they
got better at it may be a concern to some, of course.

DC

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