The Diffusion of Wal-Mart and Economies of Density
Kinda scary isn't it?
Take Wal-Mart, the most famously offensive, town-destroying, junk-purveying, labor-abusing, sweatshop-supporting, American-job-killing, soul-numbing, hope-curdling retailer in the known universe, moving upward of $300 billion in cheap mass-produced slurm every year via more than 5,000 landscape-mauling eyesore stores stretching all the way from Texas to China and Argentina and South Korea and Mexico and your backyard. Mark Morford, San Francisco Chronicle
5 comments:
Actually it's kanda cool! I can't wait for a dot to appear in SL!
Wow!
It makes you consider carrying capacity...when you over reach the carrying capacity by limiting diversity to one species or business, whether it be environmental or economic...collapse results. This exemplifies how precarious our national "ecosystem" has become. If all regions and perhaps most communities base their economy on one corporation, and that corporation collapses...what will be the overall impact. Is it not better to diversify for the future economic health and well being in a community instead of planting a single "crop" of wal-marts. Hmmm... makes you want to eat potatoes all the time.
reminds me of a cancer spreading.....
Is there any chance that this information is available on a global scale? That takes it from a cancerous stage to pandemic.
I think Wal-Mart has a lot of international territory to conquer yet. The majority of it's stores are in the US, although it would be interesting to see what Wal-Mart owned ASDA is doing in the UK.
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