Is it time we re-evaluate our business dealings with WalMart???

[Robinhood]

Miocene, Good stuff. I preach buying local with cash. Cut off the money from those who want to take our liberty.

[yobuck]

There is a small sailing/fishing community located in a fairly rural area close to here. One locally owned and operated supermarket that has been around for what seems to be forever. The only one for many miles. Walmart moved in and set up one of their "Express" stores in the town. Mom and Pop closed doors. Apparently Wal *art did not do their market research and closed some of the Express stores, including this one.
The town was left without a place to buy anything.
"A part of the community" my hind quarters.

You know what, I’m soon to be 85 years old. When i was a young kid there weren’t any shopping centers with large chain type food markets.
And i lived within spitting distance of one of the largest cities in the country, that being Philadelphia.
Center city Philly was full of large department stores with names like John Wanamaker, Lit Brothers, Gimbles, Snellenburgs, etc.
Today they are all gone.
Most shopping was done in local mom/pop type grocery stores. Fact is my late wife’s parents had one of those stores.
Gradually, large chain store operations started opening up in communities with large parking lots which most small stores didnt have.
Over time, they drove the mom/pop stores out of business. Today, many of those large chain stores are also out of business due to even larger stores like WalMart. At one time many small towns had new car dealer locations, such as Chevy and Ford. My brother in law inherited a Chevy dealer ship from his father that had been in business for many years. They also owned the Chrysler agency in the same town. Between the two, they employed about 150 people. There were 12 Chevy dealers in that county (Bucks) 10 years ago. Today there are just 3 and my brother in laws isn’t one of them. They are all mega dealers, with some having numerous other locations.
Does anybody remember the name F W WOOLWORTH? How about W T GRANT? And it wont be long till we can add SEARS ROEBUCK To the list.
And may i dare say even WallMart at some future point.
The world we live in is constantly changing, and always has been.
But it wouldn’t so much at least here if we all drove Fords and Chevys instead of Toyotas and Hondas to name but a few.
But then at one point some made a living building buggy’s for horses.
And one of my fathers uncles made his living cleaning up the horse manure in Philly, until horseless buggys put him out of work.

[Retired]

Echoing Admins earlier post..
Worth a lot more than just your 2 cents in my opinion.
"everyone's" life is all about choices.
The internet and "media" have already ruined a great many peoples' ability to think rationally with logic and common sense...2 things that have unfortunately died a long time ago.

[Jcalloway]

I don’t understand why everyone is caving to this pressure.

[Fuj']

Your damned if you do and damned if you don't !!

I shopped Wally World yesterday, and not going to have
anyone tell me I should'nt. Here's the deal.....I bought
groceries cheaper then any place. I bought a few DVD
movies for the grand kids. I picked up another 500 pill
bottle of Motrin way more cheaper then the gouging
pharmacies......When all was said and done at check out,
I had some green left over to hit up the local gun shop.
So look at it this way.....Wally World helps my shooting
interests. Oh....I'm enjoying them Cherry turnovers this
morning from Wally World's bakery, no one else has.

[wbm]

Yep!

[yobuck]

Does yep mean you like those cherry turnovers also?
Never Tried those but the corn bread is excellant.

[wbm]

Yeah and the one here has blackberry cobbler...really good.

[Fuj']

Yeah and the one here has blackberry cobbler...really good.

I'm going to have to make another trip for that !!

Now as a side note.....Within' the last year, the last K-mart and
Sears folded tents here in Erie. Over the last couple years, two
of the four original Wally Worlds in our area, abandoned their
buildings, only to build new Super Centers, close by. The one I
now go to is always parking lot full. Any bigger and they just may
need to run Disney type trams.

[000Robert]

The only places that I carry open is at home, and family and friends properties sometimes. No sense in letting the criminals know who to target first IMHO.

[yobuck]

I'm going to have to make another trip for that !!

Now as a side note.....Within' the last year, the last K-mart and
Sears folded tents here in Erie. Over the last couple years, two
of the four original Wally Worlds in our area, abandoned their
buildings, only to build new Super Centers, close by. The one I
now go to is always parking lot full. Any bigger and they just may
need to run Disney type trams.

We have 2 here in Vero Beach. One is a very large super center, and there is a Sams Club right next to it.
I dont shop at Sams Club or any of the others like that.
About a year or so ago they purchased what had been an Albertsons market that couldnt make it here due mainly to competition with the very popular Publix markets.
They remodeled that and turned it into a more upscale food market and pharmacy only.
It is also a very busy place.
Busineses succeed or fail for one reason, other than government caused, and that is management, or the lack thereof.