Wal-Mart Hides Behind 'Green' Mask

This press release, dated July 20th, comes from the Institute for Local Self Reliance, which promotes many projects that are in line with Distributist Thought.

A Wal-Mart store in McKinney, Texas is refurbishing itself to be more 'environmentally friendly'. However, as the Institute notes, the colossus of chain-stores has a business model that is anything but 'green'. The Institute notes that even their closed stores, of which they have more than 200, still pollute the environment where they are.

A wolf in sheep's clothing is still a wolf, no matter how soft the wool or convincing the "baa". A 'green' Wal-Mart is STILL Wal-Mart. Hence, it still is a threat to small businesses, as well as a dispenser of cheaply-made, short-lived products from tyrannies like Communist China.

Let us work together, with Our Lord's help, toward the day when chain-store monsters like Wal-Mart will no longer exist.