Walmart is tempting me to steal from them

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136. When Covid hit, like you Walmart was closest at 20 miles away and also

the first to set up online shopping/curbside pickup. Before then I shopped a few markets, Publix the next farthest, but it was too expensive to do all my shopping in, and setting up appointments in even two stores for pickup could tie up an afternoon, so I started doing shoppings every 2 weeks at Walmart, and it's worked well.

Walmart Inc's incredibly too large for our own good of course. But personally, as a shopper I've had little to complain about and appreciate much that's helped make isolating this last year a fairly simple business. They don't carry everything I used to get elsewhere, but I learned the superstores actually have a surprisingly broad choice of grocery items. (And their store brand now has some very good stuff for the price. After this is over, I'll still be dropping in for some items.)

The old mom and pop stores and local chains wouldn't have been able to serve our needs nearly so well. In fact, the only small chain market near us this winter not only has narrow aisles but refused to set up Covid precautions, like one-way arrows, 6-foot marks, requiring masks, etc. We not only did boycott that store but now will never return.

All in all, I think reasonable and sensible people appreciate Walmart and other giant businesses for what should be appreciated and disapprove of what is harmful to society, or they just don't like. And of course always vote sensibly for the only party that could or would break up these giant monopolies.