Spiel-

Yeah, Americans are voting with their dollars. And Americans are now paying the price. Ironically, there's a cost to all those "savings." The local businesses they used to support, where their neighbors and aunts and uncles and maybe they themselves used to work, are vanishing. The big-box model encourages sprawl, which makes people drive more, leading to higher fuel prices.

I don't think "everybody profits" when Wal-Mart profits. The vast majority of those profits go back to Bentonville and China, with a pretty hefty benefit to OPEC.

This is a good move by Wal-Mart - from both a PR standpoint and a long-term economic stability standpoint. It's becoming unfeasible to ship everything across the country, and locally grown food with fewer preservatives is healthier and tastier anyway. Looks like somebody there is paying attention.

I still think its reliance on Chinese goods and insatiable hunger to dominate every market it enters have hastened America's current economic crisis, however.

SE4NY -
It's news because they're closing 600 stores and laying off 12,000 people. It really shouldn't be that hard to understand.

Why do I get the feeling that most of the Starbucks haters here are "conservatives?" Must be that whole "lifestyle" thing again - like only liberals in Volvos would pay 4 bucks for a coffee, or whatever.

Personally, I like Starbucks coffee. Not as much as the little Heine Brothers coffee chain here in my town, but I like it. That's right - Heine, pronounced hiney, which causes the 10-year-old boy inside me to say, "Mmm, I sure do love the smell of Heine in the morning." Yeah, my wife LOVES when I tell that joke repeatedly...

But back to Starbucks: I don't want to pay Starbucks prices every day. My drip coffee maker makes a pretty good brew, and Folgers gourmet ain't bad. I don't need all that foofoo stuff like lattes and cafe au lait, so I'd prefer to save about $20 a week and make my own. When I travel, that's another matter. McDonald's coffee is decent, but I like my coffee strong.

I'll agree that Starbucks are everywhere. I was in Vegas recently, and there were two of the damn things in THE SAME HOTEL! They can't ALL be prospering.

No surprise here. Nice melons have always gotten me going.

I've got little if any sympathy for cop killers - assuming that's what this guy was. But this reeks of vigilante justice, which contradicts American traditions like the right to a fair trial. Too many people on this thread want to throw that right out the window. While I'm not surprised by the posts of certain individuals here, I am nevertheless disgusted.

Lordy, what a calamity!

If this is all we have to complain about amidst an energy crisis and impending financial collapse, I think we're in pretty good shape.

Hilarious story, awe-inspiring headline.
There is a God!

Er, well, okay, poor choice of words...

Okay... that web site is SO GAY!

Anything with mustard is better, Goat!

Clever headline.

Bad idea, Dems. Keep politics off my dinner table!

Next thing you know they'll be making everybody eat Brussels sprouts. I'd almost rather vote Republican than eat those things.

Well... I did say "almost"...

But hey, choice is good. Fried foods are fun and tasty. Just don't eat 'em every meal.

Larry, I think you meant to say people have de Gaulle to say the French never fire their weapons.

L'ahem.

I don't know. When my wife makes treats to me, I consider her my sweet little love monkey.

Posted by cbob

YA, thats the same. NOT!! Does she threaten to blow you off the face of the earth?

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Man, oh man... you go for subtle word games, and what good does it do?

Sniper, Sniper, Sniper...

Maverick typed "treats" when, I'm just guessing here, he meant "threats," and then I made a little joke, and then... well...

Anyway. If my wife DID make a threat to blow me, that would be a treat!

;-)

And they say we can never agree on anything. FF's for Chairborne, Sully and Larry.

Honorable mentions for everyone else.

hurts, when a country makes treats to us or to one of our allies that classifies them as an enemy in my book

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I don't know. When my wife makes treats to me, I consider her my sweet little love monkey.