Why I Won’t Be Shopping At WalMart

Ken AshfordEconomy & Jobs & Deficit1 Comment

Because, according to this survey, 89% of you will be shopping at WalMart this season.

89 percent. Yikes.

Britt Beemer, head of America’s Research Group, said he was "a little flabbergasted" by the high number of people who said they planned to shop at Wal-Mart. He had expected a figure closer to 70 percent, which is about how many have said they shopped Wal-Mart for holiday gifts in prior years’ surveys.

Of those who planned to avoid Wal-Mart this year, most said it was because they disliked the crowds.

That’s me.