Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 1/8/2005 8:05:02 PM Central Standard Time, s.dimitrov@charter.net writes: Yeah, I just got chewed out by my wife for shopping at Walmart the other day. I needed an organizer for my desk drawer. I figured what the heck, any worker in the plastics industry is an abused worker, so why pay any more than I have to. I guess that wasn't the point in my household. S. Dimitrov In my town, Walmart is the fourth largest employer, and of the three, largest employer of college students. The Mom and Pop Office Supply store three blocks away seems to be doing just fine. A Music store is doing well. Three other Groceries are apparently doing OK. We just had a shake-up of pharmacies, but there are at least six in business in a town of 20,000, including Wally-world. The local Rite Aid is putting in a 1 hour Fuji Frontier Lab to compete with WM. There was a photographer who offered a mini lab, but service was slow, and sometimes they forgot to order paper so instead of 1 hour, it might take three days. We have lost a couple hardware stores, but now we have big Ace hardware/lumber in town. Kaffie Fredericks, the one that my family has shopped at for five generations is doing quite well, thank you. No blister packs and no scanners. http://www.sonc.com/paw/KFH.htm We're doing OK with Walmart. Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane ?galit?, libert?, crawfish