The Great Wal Mart Basket-Sack Rip Off

THE SMALL TOWN here I live finally got a Wal Mart a couple of years ago. For those of you living in Russia or on Mars, Wal Mart is the word's largest retailer. Always the lowest price. Always. If you don't have one where you live, get one. The new one in my small American town is actually only a small grocery store, with nothing else, just enough to keep us fed, and that's a lot better than nothing. It became popular right off the bat. At first, you could walk in, and choose between a shopping cart, or a hand carried basket, blue in color. I always chose the basket, because I like the upper body exercise, and the big shopping carts are too big for the width of the isles. Suddenly, one day, the blue baskets were gone. I looked around, found none. I asked about it, but none of the employees knew anything about it. The baskets had just vanished. At the same time, coincidentally, shortly thereafter the store began selling cloth shopping bags, the kind you can use over and over again, forever. They were hanging all over the walls, on display. Suddenly, no more free to borrow baskets. Environmentally friendly reusable cloth bags, provided by your Wal Mart friends, at a cost to Wal Mart customers. What a great arrangement for everybody. Even the most superficial analysis of this situation is enough to reveal the horrible greed and corruption of Wal Mart in doing this. Was this a corporate decision, a regional decision, or was it made within the store itself? A big executive, or a petty one? I aim to find out. What a horrible thing to do to its customers. I refuse to use a shopping cart, and I refuse to buy a reusable cloth bag. I have one at home, which I have brought a couple of times, but usually I forget to bring it, so I simply carry my groceries in my arms, and buy only what I can carry, which obviously isn't much. I've noticed other people doing the same thing. I have not yet seen any of the Wal Mart cloth shopping sacks being used. I hope I never do, because that would be a sure indication of the refusal of the American people to be manipulated like idiots. I don't think this nefarious corporate rip off is working. Now, maybe we the people can go to work on all the other nefarious corporate rip offs among us.