Wednesday, March 08, 2006

France Trivia

Although in the U.S. we see the high profile protests in France against U.S. businesses, it was in France where the "hypermarket" (a la Wal-Mart) was created in 1963. The opposition to big business in the U.S. is actually the same type of conflict that's been going on in France for over 40 years.

1 comments:

Greg Weeks 8:35 AM  

It was probably Carrefour, which is huge. Last time I was in Chile, I discovered that it had opened a big store in Santiago as well.

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