PSUFAN wrote:Would you go downtown to pick up a toothbrush, a pair of jeans, a DVD, and grab some groceries?
Sure, but I can't...in large part
because of Wal-Mart.
You mean I cannot buy jeans, a toothbrush, a DVD or groceries in downtown Detroit, Lansing, Flint, or Saginaw because of Wal-Mart? Pfffft. No.
I cannot buy groceries in these downtowns, well, excepting Lansing, because blacks have forced these grocers out of town. There's no money to be made when you have to lock-down your stores with iron bars, have on-site security 24/7, the residents have a greater need to booze and smokes than groceries, and the local black elected officials have run the town into the dirt.
As well, cloting retailers ran out of town, oh, about two decades ago with the emergence of the shopping mall, for example, Northland Mall here in Detroit that were located on the edge of the city.
But that doesn't mean that there isn't amply opportunity to score a new brush at the local liquor store or a new dvd at the local Blockbuster.
WTF are you talking about Walmart shoving retailers out of downtown...??
Maybe in small towns, think population of 50,000 or more. Maybe. But even then...thank goodness because I'm now paying less for a toothbursh and that dvd and that book.
If yuo want to spend more money of common products like that, be my guest, but please don't carp about ordinary Americans wanting to spend less money on their household items. Idjit.