WAL-MART SUCKS IN VERMONT

From the AP via the Houston Chronicle:

Famous for its fall foliage, quaint towns and covered bridges, the state of Vermont -- and its charm -- is threatened by a corporate behemoth, a nonprofit preservation group warned today.

The alleged culprit: Wal-Mart.

Because of plans for several new Wal-Mart Supercenters across the state, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has placed the entire state of Vermont on its 2004 list of the most endangered historic places in the United States.

I hope you know the drill by now: Wal-Mart moves into a community, driving away smaller, family owned businesses, and rehires their former workers at a much lower rate of pay, all the while plasticizing and corporatizing that community's traditional way of life. This is no neo-hippie WTO protester fantasy, either. Sam Walton's Borg-like assimilation of America has already engulfed all the South, and it's movement into other parts of the country are causing political controversy--the supermarket strike in California is but one example.

Indeed, Wal-Mart sucks.

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