So this morning I was doing my regular Saturday morning grocery shopping for the old Sether and I at the local Super Wal Mart. As I walked in the door, I saw a pallett ful of the new Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. For those of you living under a rock the latest Harry Potter book came out on Friday, the last one since 2000.
Well anyway, there was this pallet full of stacks of the new book. They were only 16 bucks! This is almost half of the cover price. This book came out on Friday! In that one instant WalMart made a huge impression. I'd always read that Wal Mart is successful because I is so widespread that they can use their buying clout to force distributors to sell to them at a discount. Wal Mart then turns the discount right on down to the customer.
WalMart may be the only successful populist endeavor in our history. Think about it, in the last 150 years we've had quite a few populist movements. None of them have been successful on anything larger than a local scale. Wal Mart on the other hand has succeeded in being an orginization that goes to extreme lengths to save America money. It's amazing.
i enjoyed that article. here is an article from the latest texas monthly about Owen Wilson that somewhat pertains (it too mentions beckett and joyce and having not read certain authors)and is funny, at the very least. i will probably post a blog on my site shortly with this url but since THERE IS NO LINK TO MY SITE FROM THIS ONE i guess i'll have to post it here.
Posted by: dp at June 23, 2003 2:19 AMok, i posed on the wrong blog. so sue me. still check out the owen wilson article.
Posted by: dp at June 23, 2003 4:30 PMposted. shoot.
Posted by: dp at June 23, 2003 4:30 PM