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Why wouldn't one always be able to avoid Wal-Mart? Hell, I'm sure I'd have a hard time giving up Amazon (which seems harder to avoid online), but it's really ju

by rconti 9y ago

Why wouldn't one always be able to avoid Wal-Mart? Hell, I'm sure I'd have a hard time giving up Amazon (which seems harder to avoid online), but it's really just a habit that would be difficult but not impossible to break entirely. Actually, moreso, because Amazon has worked it's way into so many facets of our lives, where Wal-Mart is far more limited online, and with physical stores, you've always got a choice.

msla 9y ago
> and with physical stores, you've always got a choice. "Subject To Availability", as the poet once said. You always have a choice in New York City or Atlanta. Not in Havre, Montana. (Unless you skip physical stores and go to online ordering... in which case you're likely right back to Amazon.)
newnewpdro 9y ago
WRT always being able to avoid Wal-Mart, in less populated areas when a Wal-Mart opens if there's any local competition it's generally decimated. When in the SF bay area I never shop at Wal-Mart. On the SF peninsula you have to go to the south bay or over a bridge just to find one last I checked, there are plenty of options. But after spending winter in a rural area, it's been quite surprising the number of times I've found myself in a Wal-Mart to buy household goods simply because there's no alternative. And boy does the quality of their products _suck_, it's pretty much a store 80% full of garbage, the stuff is so bad I experience buyer's remorse just looking at it on the shelves.
- msla 9y ago
  > in less populated areas when a Wal-Mart opens if there's any local competition it's generally decimated. Or never really existed to begin with. I have lived in towns where, before Walmart came in, there was nowhere in town to get certain things. You had to drive over an hour to the next largest town to find a store, and that's hard in bad weather.

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Why wouldn't one always be able to avoid Wal-Mart? Hell, I'm sure I'd have a hard time giving up Amazon (which seems harder to avoid online), but it's really ju

by rconti 9y ago

msla 9y ago
> and with physical stores, you've always got a choice. "Subject To Availability", as the poet once said. You always have a choice in New York City or Atlanta. Not in Havre, Montana. (Unless you skip physical stores and go to online ordering... in which case you're likely right back to Amazon.)
newnewpdro 9y ago
WRT always being able to avoid Wal-Mart, in less populated areas when a Wal-Mart opens if there's any local competition it's generally decimated. When in the SF bay area I never shop at Wal-Mart. On the SF peninsula you have to go to the south bay or over a bridge just to find one last I checked, there are plenty of options. But after spending winter in a rural area, it's been quite surprising the number of times I've found myself in a Wal-Mart to buy household goods simply because there's no alternative. And boy does the quality of their products _suck_, it's pretty much a store 80% full of garbage, the stuff is so bad I experience buyer's remorse just looking at it on the shelves.
- msla 9y ago
  > in less populated areas when a Wal-Mart opens if there's any local competition it's generally decimated. Or never really existed to begin with. I have lived in towns where, before Walmart came in, there was nowhere in town to get certain things. You had to drive over an hour to the next largest town to find a store, and that's hard in bad weather.