[lbo-talk] end of the Wal-Mart era?

[ravi]

On 3 Oct, 2007, at 10:50 AM, Miles Jackson wrote:
>
> My wife's had a Costco membership for some time, and I can report from
> trudging up and down the aisles there that the above is a
> misrepresentation of the typical stuff people buy at the store.  At  
> the
> Costco in Portland, I've never seen a $500 bottle of wine.  On the  
> other
> hand, I have seen 36 roll packages of toilet paper, 12 lb blocks of
> cheese, and 2 gallon bottles of ketchup.  Buy in quantity, baby!
>

Whatever, you are just a faux populist! There is nothing wrong with  
$500 bottles of wine! ;-) ;-) Or was it $5000? I saw a port that  
expensive in a shop in Upper Montclair once... and the dude behind  
the counter (who was also the proprietor) was quite a friendly chap  
and mentioned that he did taste one once and couldn't really tell the  
difference w.r.t the cost... but then again, now that I am wiser, I  
suspect the blighter was being faux populist too!

	--ravi