MONOPOLY .... no choices -- Sept. 2004
Lack of choice and an absence of economic competition form the basis for Corporate World and define its operating framework....
By 2007, reports The Washington Post, Wal-Mart, already the nation's No. 1 general retailer with 3,700 stores, will control more than a third of all U.S. supermarket food sales.

ONE OF EVERYTHING
The same is increasingly true for every other area of American retail business.
Oil and gasoline? Five companies now have 50 percent of the market.
Restaurants? Corporate-owned chains only.
Movie theaters? Ditto.
Bookstores? Likewise.
Stationery and hardware stores? More of the same.

And with corporate ownership and control of the marketplace comes corporate arrogance: Buy their selected products, pay their prices, accept their standards, and endure their ideas of service and social responsibility - or take a hike.

In practice, this means the work force is expendable and disposable, the customer is always wrong, and the general public is, at best, an inconvenience and, at worst, a threat.
Case in point: Best Buy Co. Inc., a national retail chain active in Maine, has announced unspecified plans to legally discriminate against shoppers on whom it loses money because they commit heresies like shopping only during sales or requesting too much information from salespeople.
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/insight/stories/040919corporatewor.shtml

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