I'm not "bashing" Wal-Mart, Old Guy. I'm just telling my experience there and expressing an opinion based on reading about the company and what a lot of people who have had extensive experience with Wal-Mart (not having a choice because it was the only game in town) have told me.

Let me restate a couple of things I said above, just to make sure you get it

Isn't the very essence of Capitalism the idea that the consumer should have a choice? And that the success or failure of a business should depend on the choices of those consumers? And that monopolies are an anathema to the whole Capitalist economic system because monopolies limit those choices?

Look, Old Guy:   I don't have to eat a regular diet of rotten eggs to know when an egg is rotten.

If you want to interpret someone's distaste for a particular business because that business sells sleazy products and treats their employees like serfs as "bashing" that business, then go ahead. Have fun. It says more about you than it does about me.

Don Firth