<div id="RTEContent">Hi Joe,<br> <br>I appreciate for your candid response. However, I think I am still confused about your viewpoint. You stated, <br> <br> "You might believe that the Co-op and Paradise Ridge will remain but you can't say that for certain. If they don't, my personal choices decline."<br> <br> Can you clarify for me how Wal-Mart's adding of a grocery store and moving locations to the east side of town would put Paradise Ridge at an increased risk for going out of business? I am not seeing the connection.<br> <br> I am also curious as to if you can name any other locally owned and operated businesses downtown that is in direct competition with Wal-Mart? As in, provides the SAME goods and services. I cannot think of any. <br> <br> As to the Co-OP, I do not know of any items that it sells that are the same as Wal-Mart. Is there anyone that really debates going to the Co-OP or Win-co?<br> <br> You really need to just stop in a Wal-Mart !
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just to see what they carry, or for that matter, what they do not carry. They do not sell many books, furniture, shoes, electronics, or medical equipment. It is pretty much the bare bones of goods. Even their clothing line is pretty limited with no quality name brands, and they fit few people. I could not even find a stethoscope or even a bath pillow there. They also do not sell used items, so you can beat them on price many times at Hastings, Goodwill, VGH, Now and Then, Book People, and the downtown pawn shop. <br> <br> Take Care,<br> <br> _DJA<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br><br><b><i>joekc@adelphia.net</i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Donovan,<br><br>Good points but I don't buy the general claim. Try to find a soda that does not have cafeine or sugar, for instance. It is nearly impossible. Why? There is no incentive to cater to people !
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tastes that are not in line with the majority. I worry whether there are enough folks who share my musical tastes -- and my tastes with regard to food -- were a Super Wal-Mart to move in to Moscow. And my main point stands. There is no reason to suggest that five years after Super Wal-Mart moves in that I will have a greater number of choices for things that I actually want than I do right now. Super Wal-Mart is not the clear winner in the personal choice sweep stakes -- unless your choices are in line with the choices of the majority. You might believe that the Co-op and Paradise Ridge will remain but you can't say that for certain. If they don't, my personal choices decline.<br><br>Thanks! Joe<br><br>---- Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 @yahoo.com=""> wrote: <br>> Joe,<br>> <br>> I was honestly unaware that Wal-Mart censored their audio and video products. All the ones I have bought there seem to be just like the ones I buy elsewhere.<br>> !
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I think that a new WalMart would add a selection of goods and services to the community.<br>> <br>> "If a Super Wal-Mart comes in and drives the Co-op away"<br>> <br>> Sorry, but that is just silly Joe. <br>> <br>> I do agree that any business that tries to compete with Wal-Mart directly, trying to sell cheap goods for the lowest prices possible, they will most likely fail unless they are another huge super chain with the same practices. But Wal_mart does not sell everything, it does not provide professional expertise, and it does not sell many quality goods. <br>> <br>> Any business that sells quality goods, provides good customer service, or sells specialty items, used items, or items that Wal-Mart does not carry, can easily exist in this town with a Wal-Mart, as they do now. Anyone business that tries to compete with Wal-Mart on there turf, cheap products for cheap prices, will most likely suffer.<br>> <br>> _DJA<!
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<br>> <br>> <br>> joekc@adelphia.net wrote:I have to be honest that, even though I did organize the public forum on Wal-Mart and the local economy the other night, not so long ago I knew relatively little about these issues. Thanks to Andrew, Jeff, Steven, BJ, and other folks at Monday's public forum, I've learned a lot in a relatively short period of time.<br>> <br>> One thing I learned is that it is not clear whether having a Super Wal-Mart in town would increase or decrease our level of choice. It is doubtful that a Super Wal-Mart would offer anything that we don't already have available, for instance. Of course, it would offer things that we already have available at a cheaper price and that is an important consideration. But it is not -- in my estimate -- the most important consideration.<br>> <br>> There are also ways in which a Super Wal-Mart would limit many of the choices I now have. For instance, if I want to purchase a CD I ca!
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today to Paradise Ridge and buy it, knowing that the full content of the CD is exactly as the artist intended. At Wal-Mart many of the CD's that they sell have censored content and are quite different from what the artist intended. If a Super Wal-Mart comes in and drives Paradise Ridge out of business, then a significant and important set of personal choices would be removed.<br>> <br>> There is even a better example if we compare the selection of foods offered at the Co-op with the selection of foods offered at a Super Wal-Mart. If a Super Wal-Mart comes in and drives the Co-op away there are a number of products -- from soy milk to wheat-free crackers to beer to margarines high in poly-unsaturated fats -- that I would not be able to purchase, at least in any easy way.<br>> <br>> For me, a Super Wal-Mart would eventually translate into fewer choices and that is one reason I am against having a Super Wal-Mart in Moscow.<br>> <br>> Joe Campbell!
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<br>> ---- Donovan Arnold wrote: <br>> > I thought some of you might be interested in this new committee forming in Moscow: Moscow Committee to Prevent Personal Choice<br>> > <br>> > Wanted: Moscow Community Members out to eliminate personal choice and enforce their personal preferences on others including but not limited to: Shopping Habits, Sexual Preferences, Place of Worship, Worship Practices, Education, Clothing, etc. <br>> > <br>> > Qualifications: Must be extremely narrow-minded, egotistical, and know what is best for all people, even ones you never met.<br>> > <br>> > Duties: Create, support and establish policies in Moscow and the surrounding community that eliminates personal preferences of others. The committee shall establish where people can shop and what stores are permitted in the area. It will establish what religions people can practice, how they practice that religion, and whe!
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will establish how and where people will educate their children, and establish what their children will learn and are not permitted to learn. It will establish who people can have sex with, what type of sex they can engage in, who they can have children with or not have children with, how many children they can or must have, what the gender of their children shall be, and the parents’ marital status. In addition, it will establish what people can eat, smoke, drink, consume, how much, and where it can be eaten, smoked, drunk, or consumed. It will also establish what people can wear, what accessories are permitted, what brands!<br> are!<br>> leg!<br>> > al, and<br>> > how much skin can or must be exposed. Finally, it shall pursue a strategy of pointing out choices people still have after it stripes people of another personal choice or pointing out the benefits to “society†and the “community†by eliminating pers!
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freedoms.<br>> > <br>> > Hours: Big Brother is ALWAYS watching<br>> > <br>> > State Date: 1984<br>> > <br>> > Pay: Unconstitutional power and authority over others<br>> > <br>> > Please send application to: <br>> > <br>> > City of Moscow <br>> > 206 East Third Street <br>> > Moscow, ID, 83843<br>> > <br>> > <br>> > <br>> > ---------------------------------<br>> > Yahoo! Photos – Showcase holiday pictures in hardcover<br>> > Photo Books. You design it and we’ll bind it!<br>> <br>> <br>> _____________________________________________________<br>> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br>> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br>> http://www.fsr.net <br>>
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