re: Wal-Mart update thread.

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You probably ate at a large chain restaurant in the last 30 days. No online shopping ever, that hurts all the local vendors? You wear Nike brand anything? What about Under Armour? Still supporting the "man" by purchasing those.

So, you wear Jesus sandles made by your local cobbler, wear clothes daily made by your local seamstress, eat only at the local dinner, get fuel from the local gas station $0.30 higher that's on the corner, use only a local pharmacy for medication.....yes, I'll call bullshite

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Move goalposts much????

Walmart fricking sucks and I've been there once in the past 2 years to buy cheapo 9mm ammo. Me and two others had to wait about 25 minutes for an employee to finally show up. Cheapest of the cheap comes at a cost of service and quality. All you see in there are the fattest, nastiest skanks around. Walking into a redneck walmart is the worst of the worst.

This doesn't mean I shop all local. I shop at Publix(90%) and the farmers market(10%) once a week. I shop at Amazon because the only alternative seems to be local big-box stores which honestly isn't much better.

When it comes down to it, I just really fricking hate Walmart and avoid it at all costs.....but believe it or not, a lot of people do manage to sink the overwhelming majority of their expenditures into local business around metro areas. I never eat at any of the chains you mentioned. I'd say upwards of 95% of my dining out budget goes to locally owned restaurants.