Comments on: The Wal-Mart Trade-Off

By: Mikey

Mikey — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:12:02 +0000

Woolworth's and Kresge's had the same effect when they were the stores moving in.

By: Signifying Nothing

Signifying Nothing — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:02:32 +0000

Shopping Alone

Dallas Morning News columnist Rod Dreher and Clarion-Ledger columnist Eric Stringfellow both travel down nostalgia lane to sing the praises of the local market over Big Bad Evil Wal-Mart. Dreher focuses on the social fabric argument, but touches on rev...

By: McGehee

McGehee — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:37:16 +0000

Of course, I've found the Internet to be one really big small town. One's presence here is not as a face that can easily be seen and forgotten as in a big city -- here you are nothing if not a voice and a personality, those things that mark you as an individual.

And it is that familiarity as an individual that is both the charm and the curse of small town life.

By: reliapundit

reliapundit — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:16:26 +0000

relatively greater anonymity (which exists MORE in cities comprised of immigrants - internal and external) than it does in small close-knit towns - can lead to greater personal freedom/expression.

small towns - in which eveyhone knows your business - can be relatively stifling.

but most importantly - as the previous commenter notes - these changes (from smaller to larger cities/stores - and mobility - are the result of FREE CHOICES folks make.

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:03:25 +0000

I totally agree with your last statement. "With the Internet, we also have the ability to form huge networks of people with similar interests." The plain fact is this...The world moves on and for the most part for the better.

No Wal Mart employee has ever held a gun to my head until I shopped there and I have never been carjacked by a McDonald's employee and forced to go through the drive through and order a Big Mac.