Sorry guys, I have to fulfill my civic role as an irascible advocate of
a better life.

Big Box retailers, (Wal*Mart/SAMS/HomeDepot/Lowes), and their
ultra-cheap merchandise is comparable to crack cocaine. Buying something
at a super low price makes you feel euphoric for a short while, but
conglomerate-driven loss-leader pricing is not only addictive, it is
deadly to our national/local economy.

Not only are producers driven to undercut their own reasonable profit to
get on Wal*Mart's shelves, the local community consequences of your
saving $6 on your motor oil are incredible. I've pasted some links below
that I hope you'll visit to fully understand.

I used to shop at Wal*Mart, but then witnessed a few of the hundreds of
small towns across the USA in which Wal*Mart killed the local retail;
shuttered the mom & pop drug stores, tire shops, kids clothing stores,
optometrists, and IGA's. Today, thanks to conglomerates, entire towns
full of families who once were independently-employed, making decent
money, and a controlling their own prosperity are now stuck with $6.50
Wal*Mart/HomeDepot jobs, few benefits, no inheritance to pass on, and no
control of their own fate.

Some legacy to leave for the next generation.

Worse, when the local little league needs uniforms, no longer can the
Chamber of Commerce turn to their neighbors at "Johnson's Tire" or
"Patterson's Rexall Drug" for a small check... every local fund-raiser
must be requested 'en masse' from Arkansas. Good luck.

In closing, take note of the most recent Wal*Mart commercials. Their
manipulative marketing portrays EVERYTHING that used to take place
across a healthy town occurring now at Wal*Mart; bingo, civic parades,
daily socialization, church car-wash, etc. What they don't show is the
dwindling, emaciated town that results from this Wal*Mart-centric
behavior.

What we love about our little town of 4,800 is the local retail, and our
healthy community. As a result, we buy everything here, even if it costs
a little more, or is a different brand than we might prefer. Don't get
me wrong; we don't have cash to burn. However, we like having a hardware
store two blocks away, and a barber a block away, and a tire store at
the end of the street. We like that all of those retailers live here,
and have families here.

If we buy at Wal*Mart, those businesses, those families, indeed our
entire town suffers. Think about it.

http://www.starbucked.com/news.html
http://www.sprawl-busters.com/hometown.html
http://www.sprawl-busters.com/caseagainstsprawl.html  (this is most
important to read).

Developing business and guiding change since 1996,

G. Matthew Bulley
Bulley-Hewlett
Marketing & Communications
Business: www.bulley-hewlett.com
Phone: +1.919.658.1278

-----Original Message-----
From: <<<NAME SUPPRESSED>>>
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 12:35 PM
To: VW-TDI; TDI-conversion; Diesel list; Audi-VW-Diesel list
Subject: [Audi-VW-Diesels] Rotella Synthetic oil, cheaper now!

After many times not being able to find Delvac, and when I did being
gouged
$28 per gallon for it, I jumped ship and started using the new Shell
Rotella
5W40 synthetic last fall. I've only seen the stuff sold at Mall Wart,
originally at $18.88  per gallon. Today, I stopped in to get some, it's
now
an incredible $12.83 per. Stock up while it's there, folks! Not that I
LIKE
Mall Wart AT ALL, but they do have this one single item.....wish I could
buy
it somewhere else.

<<<NAME SUPPRESSED>>>

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