12-14-2013, 12:02 PM
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So some guy climbed a corporate ladder, good for him and many many more are struggling to keep their small businesses open because of that one store. Should we all just give up an go start pushing carts at Costco? Go work for the place that we spend most of our money at? That doesn't sound sustainable. Is Costco even offering up that many management jobs? How about cart pushing jobs? Good thing we don't all have the same ambitions.
Local businesses care about profit, of course, this is a capitalist society and they have bills to pay, but they also tend to care more about their community. Where as, if you look to areas of the U.S. that have let big box stores take hold you get the Los Angeles effect. Sprawl and more sprawl with strip malls, chain stores, office park, artery clogging fast food restaurants and malls. The landscape gets paved over and all the mom and pop businesses that open close just as fast. Reminds me of the time I spent in the suburbs of Atlanta. A new strip mall would be built, mom and pop stores would move in and do barely any business then the spaces would go vacant. The area was mile upon mile of empty strip malls because every mile there is a walmart. With in a half mile of walmart is a Sams club. Plus there are several Costcos in there as well. None of that money comes back to the community. In fact, all that money spent gets sent right out of the country. So these corporate entities have no obligation to the community. Local businesses do have a very real obligation on the other hand because the owners usually live in that area and have to interact with the people of the area. So they must be fair or they risk going out of business and into debt.
Also it should be noted that not everyone wants to work at Costco or Sams club. Some people don't want to rise to the level of middle management and call that a life because they know what they love to do. Some people love to be in direct connection with their community. Some people want to own a business and don't want to be pushed out by a monopoly that is to big to care.These people who put love back into a community in a direct and real way are the salt of the earth. It is actually illegal in the U.S. to run a monopoly and these big box stores destroy communities and the environment physically and mentally. In Atlanta the suburbs are generally 10 degrees hotter than the city because of the vast expanses of parking where a natural landscape used to exist. You could even go to five starbucks without leaving a single parking lot and they all have drive throughs so you don't even have to get out of the car. Cars make the air unbreathable because of traffic. It is not necessary to create an environment that perpetuates laziness and sheepish behavior. This is what these big boxes do. They get an inch and take a mile. They are a cancer in this world. They thrive on greed, gluttony and laziness. They suck the soul out of being a human on earth.
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So the wages that Big Box employees get is all sent to the mainland? None of this money is spent locally? And Big Box stores never get their inventory locally? Why do all the fruit trees at Walmart have PlantItHawaii labels on them?
Funny how the Left is always full of ideas on how the rest of us should live.
How about this, you shop where you want to shop, and I'll shop where I want to shop.
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-Veritas odium parit”(Terence 195–159 BC))-"Truth begets hatred".
Day at the Beach... And a costco trip! how cool is that? It's like a little mini vacation. Besides every time we go we end up spending way too much and when we get the car home we always wonder why we bought this or that.