Is_Wal-Mart_Taking_Over_Small-Town_America_

Is Wal-Mart Taking Over Small-Town America' Wal-Mart Super Center Discount Stores are Taking Over in Small Town, America Are Wal-Mart Discount Stores good for small communities, or are the so-called Wal-Mart “Super Centers” really just proverbial wolves in sheep’s clothing' Wal-Mart stores may claim to help small-town consumers by selling goods for less money because they supposedly help us save money to use for other things. Wal-Mart stocks their shelves with a high volume of goods on a continuous basis and it seems like they always have what a consumer is looking for, even groceries and food, in the case of the Super Centers, which combine a discount grocery store with a discount store to form a combination “Super Center.” Aren’t Wal-Marts really just taking away from “Mom and Pop” shops and your local grocery, hardware, and general stores by making discount stores so readily available to customers in a convenient venue, like the all-encompassing, one-stop discount store that Wal-Mart has become' There is really another side to this story. Wal-Mart may not be what it seems. It may hurt us more than help us in the end: With gross annual sales of over $67 billion per year and more than 50,000 wal-mart, stores, new, town, small, really, people, don’t, communities, pittsburg, out, wal-marts, store, discount, businesses, super, over, money, local, good, business, buckman, because, about, towns, norman, kansas, just, consumers, college, attract, wal-mart’s, themselves, smaller, seems