As a result of the grocery chain strikes in California, I
have seen an unsettling story bruited about in the local
media. If true, then all the supermarkets will turn into
those monstrous "Price Club" things, with the Walmart
version as a sort of flag****p, though "vastly oversized
scow" would be a better term.
Personally, I hate those places. In L. A. I always
try to shop at Gelsons and San Vicente foods, though
I have not been the latter in some years and hope it
is surviving as the excellent independent grocery
store it was for many years in Brentwood. Down
here in San Diego county, I prefer to patronize
Jonathons (the fact that the Cookie Lady has her
shop just down the street in La Jolla helps, too).
I like a pleasant supermarket with courteous,
intelligent help and good service.
Trader Joe's is okay by the Bill too.
I can't stand those huge places with the lift trucks
zipping around and so forth. They give me the
heebee jeebies. As a result, I hope that the
predictions of the old-style supermarkets being
driven out of business by Walmart and a few
others are just plain wrong.
the alt.genius.bill-palmer
"Has never shopped at Walmart"
--firing posts at random from a window in an office
upstairs from rec.arts.prose
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