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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't like WalMart because most of the ones I've been in are junky and have fat, shirtless mess walking around barefoot.

Probably the biggest reason I don't like WalMart is that they receive tax incentives to come into a town, they run the mom and pops out because they can offer a large variety of items at a discount, but then once they corner the market, they reduce their inventory and stop carrying all the brands.  But Target does the same thing.  You notice it when the stores start carrying groceries.  Pretty soon, WalMart or Target is the only game in town.[/quote]

I don't think you really know what it's like when Wal-Mart moves into a small town.  You just think you do.  I grew up in a small town where all the mom and pop stores were closing because it wasn't profitable for them to be open.  Everyone drove an hour or more to go shopping.  A big pain in the ass in the snow belt.  Then came Wa-Mmart.  They built a beautiful store and people stopped leaving town to go shopping.  Soon the majority of the people in our county were doing their shopping at Wal-Mart.  Since they were in the area they would also stop in at the privately owned dress shops or ice cream parlors.  Soon the mom and pop stores stopped closing their doors because they had traffic that they didn't have before.  New stores started opening. 15 years later this is the biggest shopping plaza in the county.

There is one new factory that just opened and a second being built.  Thousands of jobs have been created in the 15 years since that first Wal-Mart appeared.  Damn them for bettering my home town.[/quote]

Where is this?[/quote]

NY State[/quote]

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