Calendar Girl Blog: Giants

Giants as a rule, are not good for the environment. Not only do they hold superior notions of themselves, but they can and often do squash everything in their path. The appetite of the big is voracious.

Giant retailers are no different. Local small business cannot compete with the "Everyday Low Prices" of the mammoth. Given our unfortunate attitude that end price is the number one criteria for all purchases, little guys drop like flies when the big boys move into town. The misguided belief commonly held claims that bigger stores give you more variety. When in reality, bigger only gives you a taste of other bigger things. Little publishers like me join the endangered species list.

I want to be a small business. In order to exist, I need other small businesses to work with. When BIG BOX BUDDY comes to town, we loose our small retail outlets which fit with our business model. Poof goes the small. Then just like that, everyone's shopping choice is effectively reduced.

This is but one reason I'm not pro Wal-Mart.

Further to the Wal-Mart drama that continues to unfold in our city, I wrote this pithy letter to our daily paper, The Mercury. Yesterday's post will flesh out the God part for you.

Dear Editor,

I'm curious. If the 6/7 development game is between Wal-Mart and God, who would you say the home team is?

Sue Richards

Calendar is trying to perfect the two sentence letter thinking that as previously stated, bigger isn't always better.

Calendar Girl

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