by we can work
Friday, Apr. 09, 2004 at 9:46 AM
The best thing to ever happen to a city is to have Wall Mart rejected.
It means small businesses stay open, communities fight together, but where do we go from here?
Where are you gonna go if you're poor and need stuff? Target? K-Mart? What kind of stuff will you buy? Harmful surfactants? Poisonos pesticide food? GMO's?
Whole foods is great, but in laymens terms, it should be called whole wallet. That's what you leave when you walk out.
So where can our working class heroes sustain and clean their homes for a fair price that doesn't include future Earth damage?
Marketing is a tool of the man. However, when Wall Mart falls, we see the hands of the people. They have been marketed to also. Someone has them believing small businesses keep more money in the community. That someone is right. A smaller Wall Mart type facility, independantly or employee owned and with all Eco-responsable merchandise,, would do just that.
It's not really Wal Mart's concept that is to blame, co-op's were based on greater purchasing power that Wall Mart has. It's their employee and business practices, their shoddy merchandise, and their reputation for NOT giving back that we are adamantly against.
Wall Mart could, by revising it's modus operandi, become something we really want in our communities (highly unlikely they will change though.)
Regardless, someone needs to open a chain of Eco-Mart's.
It's high time we not only won the battle of keeping Wall Mart out, but of bringing something better in for our working poor.