Is Wal Mart's Convenience Worth the Controversy?

[Moonbear]

At least they haven't run the feed and farm store out of business. I don't know what would do without good ole Glen.

That's about the only store they aren't going to be taking over any time soon. Something tells me they don't carry enough grass seed in stock for OR farms.

...and it's over twenty miles... Heck, it's ten miles to the big oak tree.

You're not supposed to start counting until you're off your own property!

 

[Ouabache]

Wasn't Wallyworld ... I mean Walmart begun by a down-home young fellow Sam Walton who grew up on a farm with small town values.. I can't hate a store with those kind of roots.

Back home in Indiana .. I would say http://www.target.com/gp/homepage.html/601-9429796-6087360 is just as competitive...
Discount stores really aren't all that new, as a kid I remember going to mill outlet stores (big warehouses) that beat the prices of the stores with the fancy front window displays (even Sears), hands down..

 

[Moonbear]

Back home in Indiana .. I would say http://www.target.com/gp/homepage.html/601-9429796-6087360 is just as competitive...
Discount stores really aren't all that new, as a kid I remember going to mill outlet stores (big warehouses) that beat the prices of the stores with the fancy front window displays (even Sears), hands down..

I've never seen a Target drive out small businesses, mostly because they have their own little niche market. It is actually a "cornerstone" store in one of the new shopping malls in our town, with lots of new stores coming in around it. Even with a bedding and clothing department in Target, there's a Bed Bath and Beyond that just opened next to it, and the two stores sell completely different styles of bedding, and some other clothing store right across from it...again different styles, though I'm still trying to figure out what that other store is all about...I think it must be meant to appeal to teens mostly. The whole shopping mall is like that, you have Target surrounded by specialty type stores, and they complement each other rather than competing each other out of business.

Outlet stores don't send others out of business because they sell things like product surpluses, last-year's styles, damaged or imperfect goods, and everyone knows this is what they are about. You still go to a regular store when you want quality, just go to the outlet for cheap, or to complete a set of something that's been discontinued. Outlets are also more hit-or-miss. You can't count on anything being in stock, they just have whatever they have that day, so if you are looking for a specific item, you're not going to go there. Instead, you'll go to an outlet because you just feel like shopping and want to see if they have anything you can use. It's a whole different approach.

 

[The_Professional]

i try to avoid shopping at wal-mart but some dvd's are just too good a deal to pass up..