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Horse hockey! A Super Walmart came to a neighboring small town which has since about tripled in population. Other companies saw WM doing well, so they too have come to our little podunk spot in the road. Thank you, Walmart! We don't have to drive nearly two hours one way to the city to do weekly shopping.

It is a business fact of life that the more stores opened in a locale, even within the same mall, the better all will do. When a large mall has the likes of a Target, Sears, Home Depot, Walmart, KMART etc all together it serves to draw the customers of each of these businesses to the same location and by doing so all the stores benefit from the increased traffic.

This works in all businesses including the automobile business. Mfg love to locate their franchises in close proximity to a competitor because the customer of the competitor will normally stop to check other vehicles as long as it is convenient to do so. The first step in a business being successful is to get the customer in the door and that's why the saying that the 3 most important things in the success of a business are location, location, location.