“What is so quaint about Alden,” asks an Akron resident in today’s Buffalo News “Everybody’s Column”.

The News writer was elated when hearing that a Wal-Mart was going to be built there; not even in the town, but the village of Alden.

Says the writer: “We live in Newstead (Akron) and travel to Williamsville to shop there. We all know you can save a buck or two, which is why we go to Wal-Mart. Get with the flow people. It is called progress.”

Imagine that, a resident of Newstead throwing rocks at the town of Alden’ character and culture, and all because of a Wal-Mart.

Is this the typical mindset of a Wal-Mart shopper, namely, it’s all about me? Here’s how you should act and what your community should do to please me, regardless of the impacts on your quality of life and the impacts to the environment.

In another commentary in the same Everybody’s Column, an Angola resident expresses wishes that a Wal-Mart come to his town.

Well, the two individuals should contact Wal-Mart and express their desires to have a Wal-Mart in their communities and see what Wal-Mart tells them. And then ask their neighbors if they want a Wal-Mart in their back yards. Maybe Clarence would consider putting in a Wal-Mart?