My Comment At ShopLocal.com(TM) Blog
I can’t seem to get the guy who runs the ShopLocal.com(TM) blog to un-moderate my comment (although he’s allowed many others through and mine is a reasonable discussion of his post), so I thought I’d try a trackback to it.
This is part of an ongoing discussion — in the Jackson Free Press this past week we ran a story about ShopLocal.com(TM), a service of Gannett newspapers that presents you with online versions of big-box circulars. It seemed to us to be rather a cynical example of “local washing” — large corporate interests claiming to be “local” because they see the trend of people to take an interesting in shopping and buying with locally owned enterprises.
Here’s what I wrote and he won’t open:


