melehuna--I suspect that SIAF paid for those lavish meals with gov officials on the tour rather than the reverse.
It is quite right that while Walmart lowers prices when it enters a community, its effect is ultimately destructive as wealth is sucked out in order to open stores in Peru and the like. The story told here is a paradigm for the destructive, downward cycle happening in America today where there is no real anti-trust action.
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