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Originally Posted by Rochard
About two years ago here in my home town the "Rainbow Market" closed down. It had been run by the same family for the past forty years, was the anchor of a little strip mall in the center of town, and was a combination grocery store and five and dime. I had only been in there once or twice, it seemed old, "dingy", and the employees not too friendly.
When the store closed it took out the Taco Bell and pizza place in the same building.
When Wal Mart announced plans to create a "neighborhood grocery" store at that location, we all bitched and moaned. Great, another big box store and this right right smack in the middle of our historic downtown.
They just opened up two weeks ago. They hired all local people, have a clean store, and the prices are better. It's like they took the old mom and pop store and made it better. On top of that, they donated to all of the local sport leagues.
Seems like win win to me.
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I was just reading from on of my FB groups that Walmart, target, and some other "big box" stores were going to be opening up in Panama. Some people, namely Panamanians, were happy about this. Other, expatriats living in Panama were boohooing about it. They were talking about how terrible this globalization thing was, and that they hated the diluting of panamanian business and products from the global market, etc....
I pointed out that perhaps it would be better to go back to a time when you could only find local products in the local shops all over the world, when there was no access to goods from other countries.....However, that was only great if you were wealthy enough to travel from place to place, and enjoy the charm and interest of exploring the local shops and products in each place you visited.
However, it sucked if you were a poor local and could not afford to travel to different countries and browse their local bazaars. If you couldnt afford to travel you were therefore locked out of access to any goods but the local ones.
People seem quite quick to deny others the access to global markets that they themselves already enjoy, simply because it offends their esthetic sensibilities.
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