Since everyone is entitled to their opinion, I’ll let you hear mine. I just finished reading the Feb. 8 issue of the Collegian and I think a response to “Wal-Mart takes over Brookings” is in order.
In a college town full of college students, the cheapest thing, although not always the most economical for a community, is going to be the way that most students choose to go. I can tell you this, as a student struggling with my bills and living on my own for the first time, I cannot always do what is right, but I have to do what I can afford. I cannot always afford to shop at local stores, and thus, I turn to the alternative and I got my local Wal-Mart.
If this means that I do not think of my local community, I would say you are wrong. But the truth of the matter really is that, out of necessity, I will do what I have to do to get by, and if I go under scrutiny for doing so, well so be it. Supporting your community’s economy is something I think everyone needs to do. I come from a family with small businesses of our own and I know how it goes. I just don’t think that students on campus really think about where they are spending their money, but in reality, they are concerned with how much they really have to spend.
If boycotting Wal-Mart is what the writer of “Wal-Mart takes over Brookings” had in mind, I can simply say not in this lifetime. Wal-Marts have risen in this country out of necessity and that is why there is one here. If we didn’t need it, we wouldn’t have it.
Jenna Rae MohrPre-Nursing major.
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