Gulp … Thanks Scottie … mmmmm I feel the smile going all through me.
Yes super markets are such nice folks I worked for one that even delayed going online in the internet because they felt that the physical supermarket was the only day-time social venue they had not already wrecked - and they felt sorry for people who might end up with nowhere to go. Such caring! see - I even write my smileys sideways but they come-out right-way-up - I love robots! What a wonderful world!
I was surprised to learn that Walmart is a good place to look for groceries. I just scored canned tuna there on special at nearly $1.50 less per tin than in the grocery stores. Walmart may have its bad sides, but I certainly wouldn’t pass up taking advantage of good prices for the exact same item as I could get elsewhere.
Yeah, see, I don’t get that. I think we need to care about how companies do business. This primacy of the bargain bothers me. Besides: Tuna, man. Mercury!
My reading of the article doesn’t make me conclude that Weir & Snapper are saintly. I just find the whole WalMart thing chilling.
Hmmm chilling. A good friend of mine recently extracted a few mill from a company perfecting traceable airline perishables and refrigerated containers. This is a major breakthrough for the feasible transport of perishables! Fantasic advance in supply chain efficiency - now your tuna can originate in a fish farm anywhere in the world! Being fed anything not illegal in that country under labour and hygene conditions that conform to the standards in that region!
In Oz, and most likely the USA, the use of “night soil” is prohibited in food production processes. But that’s the exception rather than the rule. But hey, what’s wrong with a little human feces in the shrimp that your tuna ate?
A funny thing happened to the entire population of the popular Sydney Rock Oyster last year - they all died from some virus. … maybe ? … nah!
Y’know Dale…
having bought this house o’ mine last fall, I’m in the market for a lawnmower…
I think I’ll pull out the extra green for a Snapper.
They are pretty good for groceries…
We have, however, one locally owned chain that’s doing pretty good against them. They’re still a few cents more expensive on things, but their personal service touch is beyond compare. On top of that they have a fuel program where you can get up to 75 cents off per gallon for 15 gallons for buying stuff I’d normally buy anyways.
I did the math once and, in the long haul, I save more by buying my groceries and my gasoline at the local chain.
On top of that, I don’t have to search acres and acres of parking lot for that one magical (i.e. empty) stall and fight with hordes of people to get what I want…
I’m just grateful to see a local company doing so well against them.
I am ashamed to say that I do go to wally-world for a few things still, but I’m working on it; I’m in Wal-Mart Buyers Annonymous…
“Hello. My name is Tyler, and I’m a WalMart customer…”
Hey, anyone remember that fine piece of Joss Whedon writing, Alien Ressurection?
Diddn’t Wal-Mart buy out the Weiland-Yutani Company…
Show those oil company executives who is boss and say “No!” to high gas prices with this lawn cutting wonder. Burn calories and improve your physique as you stroll behind your reel mower on a sunny day. No loud noises to distract you or the smell of burned fossil fuel to get in the way of that fresh cut grass smell. Yes with the reel mower you can feel good about yourself and your lawn. People will walk by your house and know by your lawn that you are a reel man.
Similar things happen in the musical instrument industries. One of the reasons why I have bought Rickenbacker guitars is that they won’t make an inferior product and sell huge quantities of them at Guitar Center and Sam Ash, the music store equivalents of wally world.
I’m all for efficiency, but I am apprehensive about the accumulation of economic power by one entity. Economic power too easily becomes cultural and political power.
I worked for one that even delayed going online in the internet because they felt that the physical supermarket was the only day-time social venue they had not already wrecked - and they felt sorry for people who might end up with nowhere to go. Such caring! 
