you just have to destroy the wal-marts heart... its usually found somewhere by the electronics department. and as for not shopping at wal-mart if you research the things you want to buy its quite easy to buy local and spend the same money. for instance if you want a grill, you would buy a weber brand grill, because it is their policy to provide flat purchasing prices to all retailers. this means that local joe corner store will pay the exact same price for ordering 2 units to sell as wal-mart will pay per unit buying 500,000 thousand units for sale. also, when it comes to food why would you buy a tomato from walmart when you can buy it from a farm and it actually tastes like a tomato?
Exactly I am fortunate that I live in an area with a lot of local farms including local meat. I do understand that not everyone lives in such an area. Around where I am at, local food does not really cost much more than going to a chain grocery store. People here are all about buying locally, thus it is really easy to do. But if people don't have access to local products then that is a different story.
and i hate to say it, but to whoever said that their area will not allow a wal-mart, that is simply NOT true. wal-mart economics (and this is a proven fact, not a rant. wal-mart actually openly uses and admits to this practice) dictate that if they petition to purchase a lot to build a wal-mart on, and they are turned down by the community, they will purchase a lot just outside limits and then build the most amazing, biggest wal-mart that man kind has ever seen right on the other side of the line where that town will miss out on all the tax revinues that wal-mart would have provided. this means a different town gets all the income, but your town is still fucked because everybody in your community can still spit on the wal-mart its so close, they work there, shop there and there is nothing you can do about it. in reference i believe you can use lancaster pa as a place where this happened. at this point, no governing body is stupid enough to turn wal-mart down because it is, unfortunately, more benificial to all to just allow it rather then to fight it. wal-mart doesnt take shit from anybody.
I live where it is cooooooold. We already have tons of snow. Local is unfortunately not an option. However, I love using the farmer's market when the summer months come.
Well, it really is true. Arcata/Eureka has tons of zoning laws that don't allow big box stores. So there. One has to drive 3 hours to get to a Walmart... that is not taking any business away from my area. And there is nothing else closer that would be a big enough town for Walmart to even consider putting a store in besides the Arcata/Eureka area.
The governing body of my town has turned down Walmart many times... so you are wrong about that as well.
thats kind of different though if they are turning them down due to zoning regulations and laws that are already in place. what i was talking about was more or less wal-mart having the legal right to build somewhere and the community being against it
The made the law specifically to keep Walmart out though. The entire zoning law was specifically designed to keep Walmart and Home Depot out. They both petition or something every year to be able to build here and people vote on whether or not to change the law and every year people vote no. Thus, the people win. I'm not sure why you are saying that this doesn't count.
not that it doesnt count, its just that you are lucky enough to live in an area with population that prevents them from doing what i was talking about. if they set up in the woods, nobody will go there, and employees will be scarce. omg i freaking HATE home depot. i had lunch with my fiance and my grandparents today and we had like a 20 minute long discussion about how horrible of an experience home depot is and how nobody knows anything about the products or how to use them and how we miss (i used to work at a true value ace hardware) private owned hardware stores where the employees could actually tell you what you need and how to use it and it didnt take you 45 minutes to find something and it didnt take you 3 hours to ask every employee something just to find out there isnt a single person in the building that works there that knows what to tell you so you end up having to ask somebody that looks like a contractor.
You should try B&Q, they make a point of employing ex tradesmen who know their shit (along with the standard crater faced feckless teens) but you ask them about half the stuff and they will tell you that they can't advise you. Anything gas is essentially a no go area, same for electrics. Id imagine you could quickly stray into uncomfortably structural areas if you inquired about brickwork or carpentry too and they would give you the cold shoulder.
Yeah, Home Depot sucks it pretty bad. There is definitely the fear here that at some point enough retired people from Southern California will move up here and then they will vote to put in the Walmart.
I believe Chicago has no walmart. And I am sure walmart can't build somewhere unless they are "allowed". If there are petitions to not have the walmart then they can't build it there. I have never been to a walmart that sells tomatoes either? Oh and if you think Home Depot is bad you should shop at Menards (I think they are mainly in the midwest though). They hire lazy teenagers who know nothing and work even worse. At least at home depot they generally don't overwork there guys and I think they have a union.