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Originally Posted by dlphg9
They have such a great business plan:
- Go into mid sized American town
- Destroy local businesses with decent paying job
- Hire the people who lost their jobs
- Pay non livable wage
- Only option is to shop at Walmart and you can't afford to shop elsewhere on Walmart salary
- Profit
It's The Circle of Walmart
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What a bunch of nonsense. What killed mom and pop small town stores was mom and pop milking those folks dry.
In the 70s and 80s the company I work for was the on call engineering firm for Sam Walton's in house Architectural firm this region. We would do the design work the as a surveyor we would go in and construction stake everything being built those Walmarts.
The people we talked to were more than happy Walmart was coming to there nearby town. Mom and pop was ****ing them so bad and they would tell you about it. Open at 9 am closed at 4:30 pm not convenient for working folk. They would drive to the nearest big city to take advantage of prices and products no available to them in town and stockpile.
When Walmart came they got to lead a life that we take for granted living in a city or large town. I never heard many gripes when were laying these out. Hell I remember going into a Rexal to get aspirin for a headache from breathing flyash they were cutting into the soil for compaction. A 6 tablet tin of excedrin was 1.69 back in the 70s for crying out loud. That tin case wasnt worth a buck everywhere else in a City was charging .69 cents for. Badmouth Walmart all you want but they brought normal living to rural America.