The stores exist because people want them to exist. That is where lefties and otherwise well meaning conservatives get mixed up. Walmart and other box stores would not be around if it weren't for the consumer wanting them around, plain and simple. It is businessmen and women that are explaioting this desire, it is capitalism. All the anger is misplaced, if people want to blame someone they should blame society and try to change it. Don't blame capitalism. Sure the stores aren't perfect, but no business is perfect.
Amazing concept, and yet somehow brains infected with liberal mind disease just don't understand it. People somehow think it's reasonable to complain that a business does something they don't like (such as allowing customers to smoke) even if they would have no intention of patronizing the business even if it ran things their way. To the extent that there is a market for things like non-smoking restaurants, they'll exist. To the extent that smokers provide a larger customer base than non-smokers, bars that cater to smokers will outnumber those that cater to non-smokers.
Amazing concepts.
Well said, especially the part about "well meaning conservatives get mixed up."
There are lots of those type of conservatives at this forum on a broad range of topics.
Somehow, "well meaning conservatives" lose sight of liberty and capitalism when it does not suit their agenda.