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[quote user="Murphy Siding"] I'd have to strongly disagree with you on that.  As a kid in the early in the early 70's, Kmart was the 800 # gorilla where I lived.  A lot of people shied away from there, not wanting to buy any of that "cheap, throw away junk made in Taiwan".  Walmart didn'y pioneer that market, they simply honed it.  Even old Sam Walton says he got his ideas from others in the industry, then refined them more to his liking.     It seems rather silly, to villify the "transportation middlemen", for hauling freight.  That is their business, after all.  It appears to me, that ALL the big boxes are providing traffic to the railroads in the way of imports-no?[/quote] Red text: Where do you get the idea that I'm trying to "villify" (sic) the transportation middlemen? I'm being sincere when i say I'm sure they enjoy the second (and third, etc) hauls. Clearly it's not their fault my lawn umbrella disintegrates in any breeze stronger than 3 mph, they just bring me a new one as cheaply as possible.Blue text: Well, I remember K-Mart from back in the day they were S.S. Kresge, and yes they certainly had their budget brands. But I don't believe they had the market share that Wallyworld now enjoys. But then most families I knew back then would not admit it if they did shop predominantly at K-martI suppose we could get into a debate about the meaning of words such as "pioneered" versus 'honed', but I think we are talking about the same thing, just differently.As it pertains to the context of your original question, I stand firm  in my belief that the shopping appetite that walmart  has so expertly "honed" [:P] , where lower quality merchadise enjoys wider acceptance (the "low first cost" mantra).....has had a tangible effect upon railroading, in the form of replacement hauling.Do you disagree with that premise, or is it various and sundry other sensitivities on the prowl here?[;)]
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