Re: Walmart will no longer be selling fabric

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mamahays@xxxxxxx wrote:
My 2 cents. Do with it what you want, but please I think
we've beat
the "wal-mart is bad" horse to death.

I could not agree more. I wonder if folks in 1907 boycotted
Sears/Montgomery Wards/JC Penneys,etc. because they were
"driving all the Mom & Pop stores out of business"?
Consumers, for the most part, want the best product at the
lowest possible price, retailers either find a way to meet
that demand or go the way of buggy whip makers (or
Montgomery Wards).

well, no, because those stores were mail-order only at that
point, not brick & morter stores downtown. they were mostly
used for purchasing items that were not available locally, and
therefore did not adversly affect local shops.

Home Depot/Lowes/Ace seems to have taken most of the market
for hardware and building supplies. I don't think we have
*any* locally owned hardware/lumber stores here anymore. I
don't boycott Home Depot, Ace or Lowes, however.

of those three, Ace is a franchise, and is closer to being a
"local store" than HD or Lowe's. the Ace franchisees are
allowed to purchase from other sources that the Ace central
office, so they can (and do around here) carry local products
along with Ace products.
another franchise hardware store is True-Value. the local
True-Value near me has it's own lumberyard with actual rough
cut lumber (in other words, a 2x4 is actually 2x4, not
1.5x3.5). this particular store has been around for over 100
years & stuff stays on the shelf until it sells. it's great
for those of us in really old houses, or who use odd things in
sewing :)
oh, i asked at Home Depot for rough cut lumber (i was
building bird houses) & the chap working there walked over to
a pile of lumber & said "this doesn't look very smooth"
lee
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