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- - Back Bacon (https://britishexpats.com/forum/maple-leaf-98/back-bacon-696622/)

dbd33

Dec 13th 2010 12:52 am

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Originally Posted by Trophy (Post 9037849)

WOW, is it really that bad in Guelph?

Things are not bad in Guelph, not bad at all. I assume that's because there is enough of an agricultural tradition here that the sort of person who elsewhere might buy meat at Walmart instead butchers a hog in the truck bed.

Almost Canadian

Dec 13th 2010 1:41 am

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Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 9037887)

It's not bacon related but Walmart related, even then it's not obligatory, merely customary, to have one's flabby body parts erupting from one's pyjamas. Perhaps this is to exhibit the wisdom of rule three for tatooes; nowhere that's going to sag.

Is this a class thing?

dbd33

Dec 13th 2010 1:44 am

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Originally Posted by Almost Canadian (Post 9037941)

Is this a class thing?

I don't think so, tatooes on sagging flesh don't look good even on royalty.

fledermaus

Dec 13th 2010 2:06 am

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Originally Posted by Trophy (Post 9037081)

Not all of us have a Valumart, that's why we're letting those with a Walmart know they can buy it there.

So from your comment I take it you're one of the "people of Valumart" then?

I am indeed a person of Valumart, also the local independently owned store and No Frills. Which has similar clientele to Walmart only more rural.

Valumart and No Frills have President's Choice stuff in there so maybe the other Weston franchise stores will sell the bacon too.

Piff Poff

Dec 13th 2010 4:03 am

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Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 9037741)

Don't you care that this Marmite, produced by the bleeding fingers of child labourers, will be sold to you by a behemoth notorious for the exploitation of its workforce, the crushing of independent retailers and a tendency to cause towns to be reduced to a depressingly similar pattern of car-driven suburban development with he core of the town being turned over to homeless drug addicts?

No, not really, if it wasn't Walmart it would be some other chain. Walmart isn't always cheaper than other stores either. If you are concerned about independent retailers that much you would never set foot in a chainstore. Other chains also get their goods from the same people that supply/make goods for Walmart.

dbd33

Dec 13th 2010 4:06 am

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Originally Posted by Piff Poff (Post 9038123)

Why then do you think Walmart has such a poor reputation compared to, say, Target?

Piff Poff

Dec 13th 2010 4:13 am

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Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 9038128)

Why then do you think Walmart has such a poor reputation compared to, say, Target?

Didn't know it did. There are no Targets where we are. I'm sure the locals that are against Walmart because it's a USA company wouldn't shop Target either.

dbd33

Dec 13th 2010 4:23 am

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Originally Posted by Piff Poff (Post 9038146)

I'm sure the locals that are against Walmart because it's a USA company wouldn't shop Target either.

Are there such people? I'd have thought most enemies of Walmart were Americans in America.

Piff Poff

Dec 13th 2010 4:29 am

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Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 9038176)

Are there such people? I'd have thought most enemies of Walmart were Americans in America.

There are a few people I have met that will only shop in Canadian owned companies.

dbd33

Dec 13th 2010 4:32 am

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Originally Posted by Piff Poff (Post 9038191)

There are a few people I have met that will only shop in Canadian owned companies.

Weird. Where do they buy coffee?

fledermaus

Dec 13th 2010 4:34 am

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Originally Posted by Piff Poff (Post 9038123)

Have a read of this for info on Walmart

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Wal-Mart

Piff Poff

Dec 13th 2010 4:36 am

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Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 9038198)

Weird. Where do they buy coffee?

The one person I'm thinking of doesn't touch caffienated drinks (yep, he's a weirdo).

Piff Poff

Dec 13th 2010 4:40 am

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Originally Posted by fledermaus (Post 9038206)

Have a read of this for info on Walmart

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Wal-Mart

I'll have a read later, It won't stop me shopping there though. I'm off to work now, to the independently owned store that I work at, where the owners order goods from Canada and the USA but the products are quite likely made in some sweatshop by poor overworked underfed children - facts that are hidden from consumer all over the world. But it would be wrong to think that everything that came from (insert country of choice) was made that way.

Souvy

Dec 13th 2010 4:40 am

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Originally Posted by Piff Poff (Post 9038191)

There are a few people I have met that will only shop in Canadian owned companies.

And those companies only sell Canadian-made products?

jimf	Dec 13th 2010 4:57 am

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Originally Posted by Piff Poff (Post 9038191)

There are a few people I have met that will only shop in Canadian owned companies.

Where do they do their shopping?

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