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Originally Posted by Praxeas
Not here...as far as I know nobody went to a small expensive mom and pop store to buy their jeans, toothpaste or steaks...they went to larger clothing stores, Kmart, Target or the large grocery stores.
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Are there mom & pop stores operating? (or... if walmart has come to town... WERE THERE mom & pop stores?
Because if they are (or...post walmart... were) then it is clear that people were going there.
They aren't "expensive" generally. They are what prices used to be before there was a store powerful enough to drive our jobs to China all by themselves. New Lower Prices... at Walmart... thanks to near slave labor in china and we support it every time we buy there.
A small mom & pop doesn't have the buying power that a walmart does and they are trying to compete like everyone else is. They just have to start with a totally different pricing system.
The employees from Walmart would drive through a town they were about to see about opening a new Walmart in and make guesses at how long that mom & pop would last... and how long this one would last.
If Sam Walton were alive I think he'd join me in trying to keep walmart out of my town.