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

[Nathan Odle <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Apr 5, 2004, at 9:52 AM, Jonathan King wrote:
>
> Baloney.  An organization as highly engineered as Wal*Mart can
> ABSOLUTELY get rid of 95% of these "accidental" screw-ups.  It's
> exactly because we KNOW that Wal*Mart can control its own behavior
> so extremely well that makes these kinds of things less acceptable,
> especially when they are in the position to swing the market around
> like it were a game of "crack-the-whip".  I agree with you
> completely that the low-cost structure of Wal*Mart has saved people
> a ton of money, and that this is a good thing.

Maybe I'm being too literally-minded here, but my point is:

Because I believe that Wal-Mart's existence is a net benefit to 
society, I see no reason to not support them.  They do a lot of things 
that I don't like, but I'm willing to accept those things due to the 
fact that the positives outweigh the negatives.  In this way, I look at 
it in a similar way that I do the ACLU and the NRA...and guess who's a 
card-carrying member of both?

That's not to say that they shouldn't be held accountable - they 
absolutely should.  But to focus on a few things and summarily hate 
Wal-Mart isn't in most peoples' best interest.

-N

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