Post #4901 by Atomic Cocktail on Thu, Aug 1, 2002 6:06 PM

On 2002-08-01 00:27, woofmutt wrote:
theandrewsisters pointed out that had these chains been available to our grandparents they would have shopped there as well. Thes sorts of chains WERE available to our grandaparents...Woolworths, Sprouse Ritz, JC Penny's, Sears and Robucks, Montgomery Wards, and K-Mart were all once the big city bastards who came to town and ruined everything.
[ Edited by: woofmutt on 2002-08-01 00:39 ]

True, our Grandparents did shop at the above mentions stores, but there is a major difference. Those establishments generally coexisted side by side with the neighborhood stores. They did not make it their mission to come into a town and devastate its businesses. Hey, I'm not some black flag waving Anarcho-Syndicalist bent on the destruction of capitalism (Viva Durrutti!). And this is not about small town vs. big city either. What I am decrying in the deliberate destruction of NEIGHBORHOOD business by large chains as a corporate policy.

That' all I'm going to say on it!

I have a suggestion, go grab your copy of 'The Gentleman's Companion', turn to page 78 and make yourself (all of you-ALL OF TIKI CENTRAL) an Okolehao Cocktail.

NOW, CAN WE GET BACK TO THE DRINKING!!!!!

[ Edited by: Atomic Cocktail on 2002-08-01 18:06 ]