Ignoramus5766 wrote:

I refuse to make suboptimal choices because of political reasons,
though. My reasons for buying and not buying anything include quality,
selection and price, but not politics.

You are being short-sighted. The high price of cheap goods means your
taxes go up because they offer so low a wage that many of their
employees are on welfare. The profits flow to out-of-town investors
rather than staying in the community. The small industries being put
out of business by their rapacious wholesale terms are legion in this
country. You're an inventor: do you have any idea how hard it is to get
a new product stocked on a wal*mart shelf? But the local hardware store
(if there was such a thing anymore) would happily carry it.

Wal*mart impoverishes this country from the foundation up.

Dally