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Why I Hate Wal-Mart, Part 1

There are many reasons to hate Wal-Mart, of course. I want to devote an entire post at some point about their advertising. For now, though, let's focus on their blight-on-the-landscape global strategy.

It's one thing to plunk a Wal-Mart supercenter on the riverfront in south Philadelphia next to Home Depot. It's another thing entirely to desecrate a key archaeological site at Teotihuacan in Mexico.

Teotihuacan means The Place Where Men Become Gods. It was a religious center at about the same time as the beginning of the Christian faith. By the fourth century C.E., it was the 6th largest city in the world.

In a total disregard for Mexican culture and way of life, Wal-Mart will be constructing another blue and red monstrosity, approximately a mile from the Avenue of the Dead, Pyramid of the Sun and the Feathered Serpent Pyramid.

I have to wonder what's next for this bastion of mediocrity. Wal-Mart Taj Mahal? Don't tell them I said that. I don't want to give them ideas.


http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/09/11/mexico.walmart.reut/

posted by Isabelle Mauvaise @ 3:12 PM