[ExI] undercover at Walmart

[Harvey Newstrom]

"spike" <spike66 at att.net> wrote,
> Thanks Harvey.  I see a possible problem with this google approach 
> however.
> Only those who actually shop at Walmart should be consulted, ja?  Perhaps
> the typical satisfied Walmart customer has no computer?  Or cannot write?
> Perhaps many who wrote "Walmart is evil" are retail competitors?

You dare question the Wisdom of Google?

(Shhhh!  It will hear you...  It never sleeps...  It knows all....)

I, for one, welcome our index-oid overlords...

Besides, they probably have a different good/evil rating as it relates to 
their customers, their communities, their employees, and their competitors. 
Although I agree that competitors not be considered, I see no reason to 
exclude communities or employees from describing the Good/Bad/Evil that is 
Walmart.

> One can assume those who patronize Walmart are in the "Walmart is
> good" column, otherwise they would take their trade elsewhere.  This is
> against 10 thousand people who posted that Walmart is evil.  Walmart wins,
> 200 to 1.

True, but only for people who can afford to choose.  How many people shop at 
Walmart because they can't afford not to?  How many rich people prefer 
Walmart even though they could shop somewhere else?  And are there really 
choices in that price range, or is Walmart close to a monopoly in certain 
neighborhoods and income brackets?

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Harvey Newstrom <www.HarveyNewstrom.com>