Infinite MonkeysWal-Mart is evil. I'll post more on this in the future, but they simply are, and the fact that I'm a free market capitalist makes me hate them more, not less (a lot of big corporations use their power to subvert the free market and manipulate governments, and Wal-Mart is one of the worst).
But today, a small victory: Wal-Mart, who had ripped off Netflix's DVD rental idea to create their own service (even stealing the design and look of the packaging), has surrendered and is sending customers to Netflix (there's a banner ad for Wal-Mart at Netflix now, so that's probably part of the deal--but still, a victory for the innovators).
Wal-Mart probably just couldn't figure out how to have people in Communist China do the work.
Update: I should have also linked to this excellent piece by Professor Bainbridge on why Wal-Mart is a devil.
Posted by David at May 20, 2005 05:53 PM | TrackBackToo funny! But true. I am a passionate advocate of small business as the heart and soul of free market capitalism. It would be too easy to try and initiate (futile as it would be)legislation to change the definition of monopoly in regard to retail chains. What we do not need is more laws. The answer is to vote with our wallets. Hooray for Netflix!
Posted by: Lyn at May 21, 2005 04:54 AMI'm posting this in the hopes that somebody will tell Boychuk to email me--old alumni from the Townhall/Compuserve dialup amalgam.
Ron Giesecke
Posted by: The Therapist at May 21, 2005 10:53 PMWalmart is not evil. Is blue evil? No.
Walmart is pro-no-unions. That's great. Unions aren't of much value now given the inane level of "protectionism" available to employees.
Posted by: Gregg at May 24, 2005 02:45 PM