[Vision2020] Wal-Mart Supercenter Opposition

[Donovan Arnold]

So Mr. Hansen, you are saying you are unable to comprehend what you have 
read?


Bottom-line, the poor in this country benefit the greatest from Wal-Mart 
while the rich liberal elitists attack it and pretend to be morally 
supiorer, and shop there when they think nobody is looking. Sorry Mr. 
Hansen, most Americans cannot afford a $9 latte every morning from 
Starbucks, or a $10 ham sandwich from the Co-Op, they have to shop Wal-Mart. 
For some people it is not a choice between buying a carpet for $500 at the 
carpet outlet, or make due with a $100 rug at Wal-Mart. Their choice is the 
$100 rug at Wal-Mart or a hard dirty floor.

As for low wages, sorry, but all Moscow businesses pay low wages. Wal-Mart 
is not the  lowest wager in Moscow.  Wal-Mart is building a store in 
Pullman, not Moscow, therefore, they are opting to spend more on wages by 
doing so.  Wal_mart will be, by choice, paying more for workers as opposed 
to that of Win-Co, Safeway, and other people in the market. It will also be 
locating in a state that has higher standards for treatment of workers, 
especially those with a disability.

UI, gives lower wages to students than Wal-Mart. Where should your efforts 
be concentrated Mr Hansen?

Is Wal-Mart evil, corrupt, treat their workers like garbage, exploit people 
in third world nations, you bet they do, but so does everyone else. Why pick 
on just Wal_Mart?

Take Care,

Donovan J Arnold


>From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
>To: "'Donovan Arnold'" <donovanarnold at hotmail.com>, 
><calebsomeone at yahoo.com>,        <timlohr at yahoo.com>, 
><vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Wal-Mart Super center Opposition
>Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:28:31 -0800
>
>Donovan Arnold stated:
>
>" . . . I am all in favor of a Wal-Mart Super Center. In fact, I am looking
>forward to it and I am waiting in great anticipation for it to be built.
>
>I do not buy most the arguments against Wal-Mart. All of them really turn
>out to be untrue or could be applied to any chain store. Wal-Mart does not
>wipe out small mom and pop stores, it wipes out other chains like K-Mart,
>Shop-Co, and Walgreens. I find the stuff sold by local merchants is not the
>same stuff Wal-Mart offers. Wal_mart does not sell quality shoes, quality
>vacuums, quality furniture, quality clothes, or quality anything really. It
>sells cheap generic plastic stuff made in mass quantity. It sells stuff you
>do not want to invest heavily in or cannot afford to invest heavily in. If 
>I
>
>am looking for an eloquent watch, I do not go to Wal_mart. If I am looking
>for a watch to take camping, I go to Wal_Mart. If I want a white t-shirt,
>and only got $6, I go to Wal-Mart. If I have $50 and I am looking for a 
>nice
>
>warm quality sweater I do not go to Wal-Mart."
>
>So . . . what you are saying, Mr. Arnold, is that you eagerly await the
>opening of a major retail outlet that provides sub-quality products while
>paying its employees less than a livable wage?  And yet you consider
>yourself to be a "liberal activist"?
>
>I am certainly glad that you don't sit on the Latah Economic Development
>Council.
>
>Take care, Moscow (while your health still allows it).
>
>Tom Hansen
>
>We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some 
>are
>dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all
>exist very nicely in the same box.
>
>
>