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Maybe they like their locally owned shops with knowledgeable staff and money that stays in the area. Wal Mart is a scourge to the locally owned businesses. People will go into a locally owned business, question the knowledgeable employees for an hour (something that justifies paying a little more to know you got the right product) then go down the street with stolen knowledge and buy it at Wal Mart or Home Depot. Its information theft and in another two years there will be no one knowledgeable to help us determine what products we need, no local purveyors of gadgets or tools.

You could say the same thing about people buying online:  People go into the B&M store, “steal” knowledge, and then buy the products online.  Are you advocating that internet commerce be banned as well?  Just how much nanny state regulation of our retail industry is required?

I’ll tell you one thing, if I go into a mom & pop shop, receive good service, and find what I’m looking for, I’m willing to pay a little extra.  Often, however, these stores are in locations with little competition (no local wal-mart or broadband access) You end up with poor service, limited selection, high prices, and no choice.  That’s how Wal-Mart did so well when they were moving into 5k-30k sized towns.

When looking for competivie prices, the wealthy shop online and the poor (who can’t afford computers & broadband and typically pay with cash) shop at Wal-Mart.  Banning Wal-Mart discriminates against the poor by limiting their access to low prices that the rich enjoy online.  I guess San Diego is telling po-folks to go elsewhere.

What possible “knowledge” is there to discover in consumer retail goods? Are you confused over toasters, blenders and blankets? Give me a break. Any retailer that has an hour to waste with an imbecile isn’t making any money. The mom-and-pop shops sell the same goods as Wal-Mart, so in reality they don’t have any edge on consumer satisfaction.

Don’t blame Wal-mart for success, blame consumers. For the same reason an obese person becomes that way. No one held a gun to their head and force fed them. Get it?

A ban on Wal-Mart is San Diego’s loss.

One more Democrat wannabe big shot who takes his marching orders from the union thugs in DC.  I sure hope Councilman Tony Young actually gets that assistant, deputy, under-secretary job at HUD the next time there’s a Democrat administration.  He’s gonna need it.  Forcing your constituents to pay twice as much at the local Mom ‘n’ Pop Boutique, where the selection is less than one tenth what it could have been, all for the sake of a Fabian view of the “common good,” is an unlikely way to stay in office very long.  Young is a politically correct moron.