Interesting Story (OT)

[Nichols]

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Ric,
    Front cover of the current Music Trades Magazine is a picture of Wal 
Mart, with a story about band instruments.

Relevant enough? <G>

Just answering,
Guy

At 12:05 PM 12/2/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>Ok folks....
>
>just so we all are aware of it :):)... we've gone several months now
>without delving into the realm of politics or the like. Its been nice if
>you ask me. This is an interesting story to be sure... and we could ask
>ourselves a lot of relevant questions like "where are the cloths we are
>wearing really made" or "who picks those bananas we eat and how much are
>they paid".... and so on and so on... But... do we really want to do
>that here ??
>
>Just asking :)
>
>Cheers
>RicB
>
>Susan Kline wrote:
> >
> > At 09:57 PM 12/1/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> > >I found this story to be very  interesting.
> > >
> > >http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html
> > >
> > >Tim Coates
> > >University of South Dakota
> > >University of Sioux Falls
> >
> > Too true. That does it. No more shopping at WalMart.
> > Actually, Corvallis turned down WalMart. I'm proud of them.
> > I've seen other articles which detailed how WalMart (and
> > stores like it) suck the life out of everything around
> > them.
> >
> > And I'm tired of not being able to find anything which isn't
> > made in China. I'm going to be a much more discriminating
> > shopper in the future. We're buying all this Chinese stuff
> > on credit, anyhow, because they're subsidizing the trade
> > imbalances by buying our government bonds -- and how many
> > can they buy before they get tired of holding trillions of
> > dollars of our debt? And where does that leave us, when they
> > no longer want any more dollars, and all our factories have
> > closed their doors?
> >
> > Susan
> >
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