The Hartman Group believes that "buy local" won't work with specific populations, basically because they enjoy and are acculturated to mass consumerism.
They don't say so, but this translates into: Wal-Mart is Authentic. Not all of us live in an interconnected globalized world, but those who do are fractured into three camps: the majority is those people who go about their business without thinking about the authenticity of their world, a smaller minority of those who openly appreciate this lifestyle, and the most vocal minority of those who bitch and moan about it.
Posted by Kevin on July, 14 2005 at 03:17 PM