No, “Wal-Mart man” is not crazy. Not only does WM provide health care for it’s employees, it provides low-cost prescription drugs for those who shop there. And, because of their offering these low-cost drugs to the general public WM is putting competitive pressure on other retailers to do the same. So, prices are coming down. Additionally, if you are concerned about the demise of those small mom and pop stores, keep in mind that WM is offering vastly nore jobs than these stores ever could, plus benefits which the mom and pop stores never offered. So, get past your romantic Norman Rockwell vision of an America that never was.
I like Wal-Mart, just went there today actually.
*** if you are concerned about the demise of those small mom and pop stores, keep in mind that WM is offering vastly nore jobs than these stores ever could, plus benefits which the mom and pop stores never offered.***
It’ hard to believe that Wal-Mart killed off Sam and Hellen’s WALTON’S store In Bentonville on the square where I used to shop 48 years ago.
Oh wait! Wal-Mart IS Sam and Hellen’s Mom and Pop store!
What’s funny about those $4 prescriptions - there was a WallyWorld spokesman on the radio right after the program was announced - and when the host described it as a loss-leader, the spokesman laughed and said - nope - They are still making a good profit at that price.
Your comment that the Rockwell vision of American “never was” is just not true. We all, those of us of a certain age, remember little local stores that we loved. We had a neighborhood grocery where they wrote down in a notebook what we spent and we paid them once a month. There was a local drugstore with a soda fountaiin where we knew everyone and spent every day getting a soda in summer. We had a local hardware store run by a man we knew all our lives, a local filling station run by a friend of the family. Everything in a small town or small city was run by locals and it was good.
I am not quarreling with WalMart,,they serve a good purpose. But the olden days were better in a way. Nodoors locked, no crazy thugs, people were decent and honest.