Sunday, November 28, 2004Instapundit has some observations on Wal-Mart and Target. I don't know much about shopping at Wal-Mart anymore: Here in the Bay Area, they're few and far between. But we have a half-dozen or so Targets in the neighborhood, from the one in Campbell that's a bit trashy - almost Wal-Martish! - to the Target at Westgate, which is pretty nice to the one in Cupertino, which has the best selection of ordinary household products. Not that those place names will mean anything to the typical reader, but I want to make clear: Target is the Wal-Mart of this neck of the woods.Like Instapundit, however, I don't get the hatred of Wal-Mart. Where I come from, they're a big business, and they give jobs to a lot of people who would have a hard time getting hired anyplace else. They also sell the bottom end of lifestyle items that a lot of folks otherwise couldn't have. While I don't fall all over myself to shop at Wal-Mart, I do get irked when there's news of a new one that would be built except that the activists are getting in the way again. What really gets me is it's usually the same good liberals forever championing the poor who so readily go against this source of jobs and shopping options for those at the bottom of the economic ladder. 
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