{"id":34,"date":"2005-12-03T13:58:30","date_gmt":"2005-12-03T21:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=34"},"modified":"2005-12-03T13:58:53","modified_gmt":"2005-12-03T21:58:53","slug":"i-shopped-at-walmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2005\/i-shopped-at-walmart\/","title":{"rendered":"I Shopped at WalMart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday. In Woodburn, Oregon<\/a>. With a clear conscience. Aware of the vitriol and\/or complaints directed toward the company.<\/p>\n

In Woodburn, in my estimation, WalMart drove out KMart. Naughty WalMart. Except, in my estimation, KMart had already driven out PayLess\/RiteAid. Oh. Well, then, naughty KMart. Except, in my estimation, PayLess\/RiteAid had already driven out Ben Franklin. OK, then — naughty PayLess\/RiteAid. But I wonder what business(es) Ben Franklin had already driven out. Probably some mom-and\/or-pop operations. Fine — naughty Ben Franklin. Except it’s likely those smaller operations competed against others, driving them away.<\/p>\n

Sounds like Darwinian Capitalism — dog eats puppy (ie, survival of the fittest).<\/p>\n

Am I saying the fittest is always the most fit to survive? I’m not that silly or deluded.<\/p>\n

So, what did I buy at WalMart yesterday? A box of envelopes of a type available nowhere else in town that I’m aware of. And prints of several photos I’d uploaded from home via the Internet.<\/p>\n

I suppose I could have gone to Salem (20+ miles one way) to find those envelopes. But it would have cost me way more than the envelopes. Besides, I would have gone on a road and used an automobile which “drove out” horses and wagons and trails from business.<\/p>\n

And I likely would have gone to another big business to get the envelopes anyway.<\/p>\n

Ditto for the option of ordering online instead of at WalMart.<\/p>\n

I could say more, but what’s the use. I don’t have time nor interest.<\/p>\n

So I shop at WalMart.<\/p>\n

No problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday. In Woodburn, Oregon. With a clear conscience. Aware of the vitriol and\/or complaints directed toward the company. In Woodburn, in my estimation, WalMart drove out KMart. Naughty WalMart. Except, in my estimation, KMart had already driven out PayLess\/RiteAid. Oh. Well, then, naughty KMart. Except, in my estimation, PayLess\/RiteAid had already driven out Ben Franklin. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisandthat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}