On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 13:57:16 -0400, "Olin Lathrop" said:
> Bob Blick wrote:
> > Check out the fly-over area of the country sometime. You'll find
> > Wal*Mart has pretty much taken over the supermarket business in a lot
> > of places, to the exclusion of everyone else.
> 
> And why is that?  Because they offer better prices on products people
> want
> to buy, I suspect.  I've gone bumping around AZ and NM for a week after
> Masters for the last few years.  In the process I have noticed that Wall
> Mart has lower prices that Safeway, even with their annoying customer
> card.
> Usually I'm in places that are lucky to have anybody putting food on
> shelves, but I've compared the WallMart and SafeWay in Payson AZ and
> Grants
> NM, and WallMart was the clear winner.
> 
> So it seems the system is working and the public is better served with
> more
> WallMarts compared to Safeways.  Of course if this goes too far they may
> become too powerful and eventually force prices up.  That hasn't happened
> where I've looked though.

Well, this sounds a lot like economics and I'm not treading any farther
into this territory since it is not an allowed topic.

Cheerful regards,

Bob

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