»This used to be my playground.

Before too long, in addition to the Lower Haight Shopping District, we may well have the Upper Wal-Mart neighbourhood. Hell, we already have Upper Safeway, the energetic triangle stretching north-west between Mint Hill and Duboce Park.

The bullying approach that Wal-Mart takes in shoe-horning its union-busting, wage-cutting, immigrant-exploiting stores into California make me shudder.