What were they thinking calling the new mall Uptown?
There’s nothing up about it
The Wal-martians who frequent the anchor
Are certainly not upscale
Looking at them stuff carts with under-priced blood stained merch
Is a downer
Not an upper
Guilty glances betray those bargain hunters with a conscious
The politics of retail are real and failed
And we know it
Implicitly
Every discounted dollar
A lash of the whip in some unseen factory
Every price rollback paid for by exploited staff
Supply chains rattle with recriminations
But the cash registers rattle and roll
Chirping and chiming the victory of commerce
And if this big box delivers a body blow to the moms and pops
We turn our heads
With a bland justification of the family budget
No courage and no convictions
In this cold temple of consumerism
David Trudel © 2013
horrible circumstance that allows the budgets of the working poor to continue support companies like Wally World to push others into that same class.
It really is class warfare at its worse. Heavy sigh.
Thanks for poignant writing which can bring about dialog.