[rgrun]

You stated "...wanna buy a $70 DVD player every couple of years or do you want to buy a $500 dollar DVD player every 10 years....you buy from Wal-Mart"

Let's assume that you do have to replace a DVD from Walmart every 2.5 years for $70 rather than $500. If you take the difference of $430 and invest in the marekt with a 10% return and replaced the DVD every 2.5 years you would have 4 DVD players (perhaps 3 not working) and $480 in the bank. So if you can buy cheaper products that you want and have more disposable income for things like investments, then yes Wal Mart is good for America.

[winston61]

Yes and you've got more cheap chinese junk going into a taxpayer funded land fill. But at least you made some money, right? Isn't that the most important thing?

[Alaska Wolf]

It makes little difference if you pay $200.00 or $70.00 for a DVD or $2000.00 or $500.00 for a computer, they more than likely will be obsolete before they wear out. Anyone want to buy an expensive Betamax, 8 track, Technics turntable, cassette players and recorder,etc.,etc.