Hmm...... Lets talk wally world....
From a small business aspect, I can tell you that you would either have to be desperate or unwise to do business with them... Of course on the other hand you could be a middle man, or be big enough to have your hands in several different markets.
First off, before I was even approached, I was anti-wally, so even from the get go I wasn't game.
Even as they try their image change right now, I still know their business practices.
For legal reasons, I am not allowed to talk about it as I was approached by them to be a supplier.
I declined all the offers put on the table by them, I was even mad enough to get up, walk out and head back to the airport without even looking back. As I hit the ground floor, I took off my visitor badge and threw it at the guard desk. I am not a sucker, and my "American dream" is based on simple ideas, not flow charts.
Originally I didn't like wally because what they do to small towns structure. Later their tatics would surface and treatment of employees would come out.
To me, being SS means supporting ourselves as well as our local farmers and other local companies. Like what Food Inc brought to light, wally has been doing it all along.
There is the issue of choice, but that would only factor in if wally was the only place to shop at all.
I think if your claiming to be living SS and your supporting wally by shopping there, I think you should step back and look at why you shouldn't be shopping there. If your being SS that means you support the idea that you can provide something more than the average person for yourself. That also invites the idea of supporting local farmers/stores as well, because your supporting others ideas of being SS just like you yourself are trying/doing.
Sure buying local can cost more, there is a whole locker full of reasons why it does cost more. But even if it does cost more, my money spent locally is supporting others way of being SS around me, in my little ole town in USA, not some little town in China. I don't hate Chinese people, infact I find some of the most beautiful women in the world to be of Asian decent. I have always been a zealous patriot, and living more SS just supports my ideas of taking care of all of us before taking care of anybody else in the world.
Why are so many Americans out of work today?
I think its because we aren't supporting our own because big businesses have moved their manufacturing over seas.
My companies remain "bail out" free, and if it weren't for folks like you, I wouldn't be in business. Smart business practices have kept my head above water in these hard times.
Me, I am anti-wally, and if you support wally, look at the bigger picture here, from a SS point of view.
Support local markets by keeping the money here/there in the hands of local folks/companys.
Yes, I also do believe that spending my money locally is more patriotic than spending it at wally world.
I will leave it up to you or the next poster to ask the question " Are you more SS if you shop locally? or Is being more SS not only a way of life but also supporting small businesses in American? "
Also, just for the record....
Wally world sucks
ETA: If I was Chinese, working for wally, than yes, I would still hate wally, but I would still support my local Chinese stores.
(junk food, electronics, new but cheesy clothes, home decor items, OTC pharmacy and beauty products, and seasonal cr*p designed to fall apart after thirty-two days).
