RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Go Wal-Mart Go

["Heivilin, Jim" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> -----Original Message-----
> Jerry Gamblin
> Subject: RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Go Wal-Mart Go
> 
> >Perfectly understandable (expected even) but the sugar coating they
> want >people to believe about them being benevolent and 
> interested in local >communities is bunk and doesn't sit well.  
> 
> Would an example of that be giving 25 million dollars to the 
> University of Missouri then naming it after your 22 year old 
> daughter who attends a party school on the west coast? 
> 
Well the incident I had in mind involved setting up a store in a
shopping center in a relatively rural area (the details escape me).
When they can't get the land owner to sell the whole complex to them
they shut down the store.  Eighteen months down the road all the small
businesses in the complex have failed and are gone so they buy it at a
rock bottom price and then expand and reopen the store.  

Not exactly Bush's "Axis of Evil" but still ... 

Jim  

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