Quote:
Originally Posted by kang
To paraphrase something I heard someplace else:
If you shop at Walmart or Costco, you help the CEO buy his fourth vacation home.
If you shop locally, you help the owner send his kid to college.
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WTF does that mean? My Costco
is local and all of their employees are too. What can I buy at Costco that I can also buy at some mom and pop shop? I can't think of one thing. A case of motor oil? A case of orange juice? A case of wine? A gun safe? A big screen tv? I don't know of any non-chain stores that sell that stuff anywhere near where I live. Maybe they exist in some small town with a general store, but not in big urban areas. We have nothing but big box stores and national chains.