I suppose you buy all your groderies at a mom and pop store for double the price instead of a chain supermarket?
Well of course I do. I exercise my free choice.
And I'll add analogously, for instance, that I also get my dental work at a quality office and not a clinic mill. Prices are higher but the staff isn't stressed out by having to run volume to compensate for small profit margin, and they can take the time to do it right.
People have a choice and if you want cheap work it is always available.
It seems to me that these people fighting Walmart have a choice, too. Sounds like their community is currently protected by zoning which must be changed to open the way for Walmart crap, and they don't want it.
Consider this: A majority of the American people have always been against ObamaCare but the elites are still forcing it on us.
Or this: a majority of Americans want the illegal immigrant gates closed, but again the political elites do not listen
Or this: the Kelo v. City of New London (2005) eminent domain case where the local government took homes from citizens because they expected developers to build businesses that would increase New London's tax revenues. Last I heard the developers bailed, the land is barren with no prospect of development, and little or no tax revenue to the government.
So, do these Walmart resistors face a similar betrayal by their tax-revenue-voracious government entity with this proposed change of zoning that will change their community?