you seem pretty Teed off about something that you will have no control ove

I thought that zoning regs need to be changed to accomodate Wal-Mart. Isn't that the point of the article ? If the property was already zoned "ok for Wal-Mart", it would have been built 10 years ago.

.........zoning can change..............

no, it was edited- i forgot that i had bought a "white zombie" cd to replace one that got lost- the little "book" thingie inside was edited, the original was about 6 pages or so with all of the lyrics, and drawings by rob zombie, but it wasn't in the one from walmart. and i had seen "the general's daughter" before, and remember stuff that was missing. i had seen articles before about how they won't sell "men's" magazines, and they do edit their selections of movies. wait, i don't know if walmart itself is doing the editing, but they purchase from a distributor that does. so if i want a movie that has bad language or violence, i'll get it from costco. if they want to be family oriented, that's fine, but i think i can figure out for myself what i do or do not want to see.

Yeah, and 18th cent Philadelphia Quakers/Friends protesting slavery were once a "very, very,very small minority".

The scariest thing about Wal-Mart, is that they are leading the way downward toward mediocrity, from land use to customer service to product quality. There are a host of good, recent books that explain what Wal-Mart is up to, from shifting costs onto customers (U get to try to assemble it yourself!) to requiring good, US-based manufacturers to build lesser quality goods.

I think it is a corporation run amok since Sam's death, and has just gotten too big for the economic health/well-being of consumers, producers, and even countries.

Yes, other companies may follow similiar practices, but not to the same extent, and I attempt to give Target whatever business I can simply to provide Wal-Mart some local competition (K Mart has left our market.