Friday, February 25, 2005 from Cohutta

You cannot imagine how sad it makes me to see that Wal-Mart is now raping the beautiful towns and quaint family businesses of Mexico. In the U.S. newspapers they're just strange sounding names, like Pátzcuaro or Teotihuacán, but I know these places and it's tragic. Yes, it's happened here too and many smaller businesses have suffered or gone under in our search for ever lower prices. It's no less devastating but somehow it seems like less of an invasion when Chattanooga or Phoenix are Wal-Martized.