on Walmart

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon

But where I live, Wal-Mart really is effectively the only option. You have to go out of your way (literally and figuratively) to shop anywhere else.

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time to move.

[BarbaraGordon]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

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time to move.

Indeed.

[Solon]

Originally Posted by ChinoCoug

that guy's just a journalist.

Yeah, journalists never write anything.

[ChinoCoug]

Originally Posted by Solon

Yeah, journalists never write anything.

journalists don't know how to sort out the opposite effects and determine which is greater.

[Solon]

Originally Posted by ChinoCoug

journalists don't know how to sort out the opposite effects and determine which is greater.

Have you read the book?

[ChinoCoug]

Originally Posted by Solon

Have you read the book?

No, have you? If you have, maybe you can tell me if he cites more peer-reviewed studies than the one by Goetz (and the Basker one it attacks) on page 165.

http://books.google.com/books?id=oq2...sult#PPA159,M1

First, why is he citing the one study that studies Walmart's impact on poverty? The Walmart->poverty causal chain is a mile long with an array of intermediate factors. Why no studies on factors Walmart has a direct impact, i.e., wages and prices?

That's probably why Goetz does doesn't even know why he found what he found. He only has three "possible reasons."

http://cecd.aers.psu.edu/pubs/PovertyResearchWM.pdf

Second, Walmart chooses its counties based on market conditions, it doesn't choose them randomly. To keep costs low they may choose areas with lower potential for wage growth (hence slower poverty reduction). That'll bias the results.

Dam apologist is cherrypicking.

[FMCoug]

Originally Posted by ChinoCoug

Second, Walmart chooses its counties based on market conditions, it doesn't choose them randomly.

Oh the horror! A company choosing its locations based on analysis of where it can be most profitable. Stone them!

[T Blue]

Originally Posted by FMCoug

Oh the horror! A company choosing its locations based on analysis of where it can be most profitable. Stone them!

Wow, of all the reason to hate wallie world, he chooses the fact that they want to be profitable?

Spoken like a true liberal.

[Surfah]

Originally Posted by ChinoCoug

Second, Walmart chooses its counties based on market conditions, it doesn't choose them randomly. \

I wouldn't hire you as my business advisor.

[ChinoCoug]

Originally Posted by FMCoug

Oh the horror! A company choosing its locations based on analysis of where it can be most profitable. Stone them!

Originally Posted by T Blue

Wow, of all the reason to hate wallie world, he chooses the fact that they want to be profitable?

Spoken like a true liberal.

Originally Posted by Surfah

I wouldn't hire you as my business advisor.

Have you guys read anything I wrote? I love Walmart!