Wal-Mart

[Jim Sharkey]

Nick Arnett wrote:
>Confession: I take our daughter to Wal-Mart (her choice, not mine) 
>and pay for her insulin. She can't get insurance and they do have 
>the lowest price. But at least insulin isn't being produced in sweat 
>shops, as far as I know. And I'm tempted by all the cheap stuff they 
>sell, but I resist.

I generally avoid shopping at Wal-Mart because a lot of its stuff
is crap.  Wal-Mart's only real vice, in my opinion, is the pressure 
it puts on the makers of its products to lower costs, which can (and 
sometimes does, most particularly in its clothes IMO) lead to shoddy 
merchandise.  Low costs are nice, but remember you often get what you 
pay for.

I must admit I am not immune to its cost-cutting, though.  I needed
baseballs for my son's Cal Ripken team's practices, and at $0.10 per 
ball on clearance - even if they are cruddy cork centered practice 
balls - it made little sense not to grab as many as I could, 
especially given the way boys his age can lose things.

So while I'm no fan of Wal-Mart, I do not believe it is Evil with a 
capital "E."  A lower case "e," maybe.  :-)

Jim
Put me in coach Maru

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