I hate Walmart because it pretty much single-handedly killed the “mom and pop” stores and flooded the market with crap quality goods. Of course, Walmart isn’t alone in doing that but I moss the local stores (not for everything) where there was a sense of community and good quality.
In the 19teens they were saying the same thing about Sears and JC Penney
The shoppers of your community, who voluntarily took their shopping to Wal-Mart, killed the mom and pop stores.
The shoppers decided they didn't much care if mom and pop stores stayed or left. If the shoppers would have all stayed away from Wal-Mart, it would have packed up its marbles and went home.
Yes, I know Wal-Mart does some dirty business practices but forcing people to shop there isn't one of them.
That’s a lot of liberal propaganda.
I grew up in a little Arkansas town of 3,500 and a Walmart came in around 1975 as they did back then in small communities. First, they bought an existing, and empty, building and put the store in. Eventually they buy some land and build a bigger store and lease out the older one. By this time they had hired over 50 locals to work there.
Among the businesses we had were a Sears Cataloge store (remember those?), local clothing store, two drug stores, a NAPA store, a Western Auto and several grocery stores. To this day EVERY store I mentioned above is STILL THERE along with Walmart (except the Sears store).
And after all this time the town only grew to 5,200 people.
walmart did NOT kill the mom and pop stores..
NO ONE forced Walmart customers to shop there.
They are the ones to blame, not walmart.
That’s like blaming KIA for the death of GM (don’t kid yourself. GM is dead) because they sold cars cheaper.