Walmart.com sells Microtel PC with SuSE Linux software

Tom Buskey tom at buskey.name
Tue Jul 15 14:53:28 EDT 2003


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On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:16:31AM -0400, Derek Martin wrote:
|If walmart moves into a town predominated by little shops, and they
|all can't compete with walmart (and rest assured they can't), then the
|owners of those shops will have to close down, and go get jobs at
|walmart.  Their incomes will likely be reduced by between 50 and 75
|percent, and along with it their disposable incomes will be
|drastically reduced, meaning they have almost no money to spend on
|things besides basic necessities.

s/Walmart/McDonald's/g
s/Walmart/K-Mart/g
s/Walmart/Target/g
s/Walmart/Pizza Hut/g
s/Walmart/Dunkin Donuts/g
s/Walmart/Krispy Kreme/g
s/Walmart/Home Depot/g
s/Walmart/Lowe's/g
s/Walmart/etc..

What I don't get is people going after Walmart because they put local
business out but not the others?  Ok, Starbucks gets it too.

My hometown got a Walmart awhile ago.  Local people that work there get
paid more & better benes then at K-Mart up the street....
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