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RE: Walmart - High Cost of Low Prices - 4/12/2007 8:42:55 PM

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It went through the judiciary process and the corporation won. Should the judiciary process be skipped?

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RE: Walmart - High Cost of Low Prices - 4/12/2007 9:02:37 PM

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and again you're not seeing it from my pov. you don't live in my neighborhood so you personally wouldn't understand the needs of THIS BLACK neighborhood. get my drift now? THIS neighborhood doesn't have ANY small businesses in the area ...no mom-n-pop stands for Wal-Mart to compete or draw supplies to stock their shelves. now unless they go into the hair/nail salon, laundry mat, or fish-chicken-rib shack business,

Well I'm from Chicago and lived near Englewood for 4 years while going to college.

Quite simply you're wrong. There are small businesses in the area and things down there are improving. Garfield from the Dan Ryan to Hyde Park is seeing quite a bit of development. Yes, a lot of the businesses remain liquor stores, convenience stores and fast food but that is the limit on what can go into small storefronts in existing buildings. However as Hyde Park pushes west and the demand for new construction increases you will see more new larger stores like grocery stores.

As to Wal-Mart you seem to misunderstand how little they pay. It isn't $9 hr. or more. it is more like $7 hour and part time with no benefits. There are 2 Wal Marts in the near north burbs paying those wages so you can check into it. One is on Golf Rd in Niles and another is on Touhy in I think Morton Grove.

You should also be aware that Wal Mart likely would have fast food and a hair/nail salon in any store they opened in Englewood which would directly impact those small business people.

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RE: Walmart - High Cost of Low Prices - 4/12/2007 9:17:58 PM

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General reply on the subject -

There is no Wal-Mart in the city where I live, but there are a couple south of here and
one north of here in this county. I do not agree with their practices so I do not shop
there. My mom lives in another state and used to go to the pharmacy at Wal-Mart until
their service became worse and worse and the prices kept getting higher. Some of my
cousins recommended a locally owned, family pharmacy to her that will deliver prescriptions
to senior citizens. She now can call on the phone and get what she needs delivered during
bad weather and if she is not feeling well. I pointed out to her that shopping at the local
grocery store was a better bargain in the long run because the produce and meat is much
better in quality. And she will go out to Sav-on Drugs for various other items.

Another problem with the Wal-Mart Corp that needs to be mentioned is the hiring
of illegal immigrants,

http://money.cnn.com/2005/11/18/news/fortune500/walmart_raid/index.htm?cnn=yes
http://money.cnn.com/2003/10/23/news/companies/walmart_worker_arrests/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48612-2005Mar18.html

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RE: Walmart - High Cost of Low Prices - 4/13/2007 2:50:16 AM

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Going on web forums and trying to eduicate people will quite honestly never work. People as a norm - as you said yourself - have the mentality of "if it doesn't affect me, then I don't care". So trying to inform people become more about you trying to show your more enlightened then those who are not Intelicual.

Obviously this statement is not true...........

Daddy's son just left employment at Wal Mart. He hated it so very much there he refused to shop there. Unfortunately there is a supercenter literally in our back yard. The neighborhood has discussed a law suit due to the excessive litter the center causes over a square mile of residential area and their inability to keep it cleaned.
i try not to go there more then once a month and Daddy is a very precise and frugal shopper ( a control thing i'm sure) and is able to find the things we need elsewhere

As for julia, her passion is appreciated and hopefully reminds us it has to start somewhere .

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