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Originally Posted by Derwood
Is it okay for Wal Mart to shut down dozens of small businesses because you have deemed them "sub-standard"?
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Here's the other casualty - the businesses which shut down when Walmart leaves! Case in point, in my town there was a Walmart next to a grocery story (shared a wall even). Walmart wanted to build a Walmart WITH a grocery store. Now, if I was a Walmart VP of development, I would just buy that grocery store and integrate it. Oh no, Walmart moved down the street exactly 2.1 miles and broke ground on the new Walmart with a grocery store. Of course, the two strip malls where Walmart used to be are now barren wastelands, as well as the unfilled vacancy of the old Walmart. The entire shopping center has been empty (except for the grocery store) for eight years!