11-17-2010, 10:07 AM
That report has already been shown as tainted. They compared local stores that sold local products to national chains. It would be like comparing a local fruit stand to a national supermarket. But if you compared a local supermarket to a national supermarket, they both bought their products from non local sources. A local retailer of shoes wasn’t buying shoes made in the community; they were buying shoes from the same vendors outside the community. A hardware store selling power tools and lumber didn’t have a tree farm out back or a toll maker around the corner; they got the lumber from the same mill as home depot and tools from the same manufacture as Lowes.
Does a local office supply store get their BIC pens from a local maker or from the same national manufacture? Is White-Out sold from a local retailer any more local than one sold at Staples? Wrangler Jeans all came from the same national source and didn't get made in some local shop.
Comparing someone selling local scented candles, local artwork, and home made apple pies to a national chain is fake reporting. Compare the items sold at a local retailer to the items sold at the national chain and the birth place of those items are the same.
Go to your “local” store and pick up a can of Dole Pineapple slices in syrup, where were they made and where did those pineapples come from? Is Spam from a local store more local than Spam from a national chain?
Nice try.
Does a local office supply store get their BIC pens from a local maker or from the same national manufacture? Is White-Out sold from a local retailer any more local than one sold at Staples? Wrangler Jeans all came from the same national source and didn't get made in some local shop.
Comparing someone selling local scented candles, local artwork, and home made apple pies to a national chain is fake reporting. Compare the items sold at a local retailer to the items sold at the national chain and the birth place of those items are the same.
Go to your “local” store and pick up a can of Dole Pineapple slices in syrup, where were they made and where did those pineapples come from? Is Spam from a local store more local than Spam from a national chain?
Nice try.