Originally Posted by
Flying Lawyer
Of course there will not be thousands of people losing their job.
Pardon me for even suggesting such a thing is possible. 
http://www.union-network.org/Unisite...employment.htm
Originally Posted by
Flying Lawyer
It was not me speculating about "about thousands of people losing their jobs", was it?
I may not be the only one who has done that. The former Walmart employees protesting against Metro may have done some "speculating" of their own.
Originally Posted by
Flying Lawyer
And it was not me praising them for "good selection, prices, opening hours, and short waiting times at checkout", was it?
And you think talking about the shopping experience at a particular store is political? I guess you can always count on a lawyer for a twisted interpretation. I was merely responding to the post:
Originally Posted by etch5885
Hopefully they have all been shut down.
and pointing out that there were some positive aspects of shopping there (the OP's question
was about shopping and if you read the thread title it
does mention Walmart) and thinking that it wasn't necessarily a good thing for those who lost their jobs.
Originally Posted by
Flying Lawyer
And I never understood Walmart either as "political" or as an American legend. And the original question was answered for long before gilpin started his pleading on the advantages of Walmart.
Oh, please... I never said anything political (you raised 100% of those issues) nor did I "plead" (I'll leave that to you lawyers). In fact what I said was:
Originally Posted by
gilpin
I know Walmart has some minuses also.
I guess your comment "the original question was answered" really means that you had given your pronouncement from your ivory tower and so it was self-evident that there was nothing further to be said.
Originally Posted by
Flying Lawyer
I thought your assumption about "thousands of people losing their jobs" was your main concern..
Oh, I don't like to hear of people losing their jobs, it is true. But it never crossed my mind that you would be concerned about such a thing, so I certainly didn't ask you anything about it.
Now as to my question: in English you can often locate the question by finding the "?" symbol at the end of a sentence (much as in German, unless I'm very much mistaken). That is especially true if that sentence is the last sentence, which is termed the "summary" and usually expresses either the main point or question which the writing taken as a whole was meant to convey or ask.