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Right, I guess they do have

Oxy Mora — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:01:50 +0000

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Right, I guess they do have low prices. What I've found at Home Depot, for example, is there is a lot of loss leader-ing going on, say on particular power tools. But if you need a small piece of hardware, it's not inexpensive and it's likely not to be of very high quality. It's the price/quality ratio I am curious about.

I would buy vegetables in Walmart but if I have to go out of my way and calculate the cost of gas, it might not be such a good decision if there is another market handy. A couple of times when i bought meat at Walmart I had to throw it out.

I don't know what else they

Oxy Mora — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:52:30 +0000

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I don't know what else they shoot into those rotisserie chickens, maybe MSG, they taste like they've already been sitting in the fridge for a week and then heated up in the microwave.

Many people who can afford

Red Planet — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:51:30 +0000

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Many people who can afford not to shop at Walmart don't, Oxy. But since so f**king many people, these days, work for Walmart wages, they can't afford not to shop there.

It's the inverse of Henry Ford's (perhaps apocryphal) claim that he paid his employees well, setting a high wage bar, so they could buy Ford cars.

Walmart pays its employees poorly, and sets a low wage bar for the nation, so ordinary folks can't afford to shop anywhere else.

And now we're buying

Donal — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:40:48 +0000

In reply to A lot of our problems stem

And now we're buying pre-roasted chickens (sorry Bwak) in the grocery stores. They charge more for larger ones that are pumped up with water.

A lot of our problems stem

Oxy Mora — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:36:32 +0000

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A lot of our problems stem from terrible consumer decisions, esp. around price and quality. I almost never shop at Walmart but when I have, say I'm on the road and have left my jeans in the motel, I find out quickly that the product itself is not much good. And if you look at the food departments of Walmart you see how much floor space is dedicated to snacks, sugar drinks, fatty foods, and of course--salt, lot's of salt and more salt. I never understood that the salt thing is not just about taste. Salt is one of the cheapest fillers a manufacturer can put into a processed food product.

All in all we have lost our self reliance. You can buy a roasting chicken and vegetables for about $15. It takes an hour in the oven. At least four or five servings, plus cold chicken salad for lunch. That's cheaper than 2 supersized big mac meals with cokes. We are so used to buying off the shelf, buying packaging, etc. that we don't know how to survive otherwise.

First, you put a cup of

Richard Day — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:08:57 +0000

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First, you put a cup of oatmeal in a ceramic or glass dish, add a cup of water and stick it in the microwave for two minutes. With a timer, nothing burns...it took me awhile to learn that. hahahah

Speaking of that, we probably should go back to oatmeal and skim milk (cheaper than whole milk and better for you) and less meat (meat is expensive) and more potatoes and tomatoes.....there are poor dietary regimens and cheap dietary regimens. Never never eat at fast food joints.

Remember the dime stores? A dime in the 50's would be like two or three bucks today.

Buy cheaper and smaller used cars.

Live in smaller apartments--unless you have kids or something.

We should turn our backs on the advertisers; turn our backs on fads; turn our backs on fashion; turn our backs on short lived urges; in short turn our backs on capitalism.

Great suggestions. And I am

Oxy Mora — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:41:39 +0000

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Great suggestions. And I am passing your idea for the sub-dollar-space along to Nelson himself. See blog update above.

LimbaughMarts.

Rootman — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:11:43 +0000

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LimbaughMarts.

Thanks very much Genghis.

Oxy Mora — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:49:59 +0000

In reply to Bravo! Just a great read.

Thanks very much Genghis. I'll put that in the emotional bank. And when you have a great character like "Nelson," the piece practically writes itself.

Bravo! Just a great read.

Michael Wolraich — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:25:38 +0000

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Bravo! Just a great read. Funny, tight, trenchant, and vivid.