Mom and pop stores were mostly gone here long before Walmart showed up...so the reason isn't necessarily Walmart. Department stores killed them here, now most of them are gone....it's a dog eat dog world out there, if you can't compete your gone. Sorry mom and pop...

Sometimes it’s tough to buy local when things cost twice as much locally it just is. Ridiculous prices and attitudes are often the death of small businesses also. Local merchants live very well here they ain’t living in apartments with other folks they have the best houses in town often. Many businesses own several businesses so they are not that different just the same approach on a smaller scale. I shop local mostly but big projects I just can’t do it 10 overpriced items costing twice as much is crazy.

Yep, if it wasn't for walmart, dollar stores and Amazon, you'd be hard pressed to find a pair of pants, lol

Theres families here that shop other places because they can’t be competitive if the bought from their own family businesses.

Wal-Mart = China-Mart.

That’s everywhere now it’s tough buying US goods the prices on well made imported stuff is still high but often lack quality. I replaced a Moan kitchen faucet with a new Moan faucet I took out a 3 pound unit and put in one weighing half as much junk. Rubber boots are expensive now most are cheap junk.

Butt they sell KY at Walmart….

I think all this started with AMAZON , cheap prices at first with free shipping, now higher member price per year, and prices are twice as much.
Was easier to buy from them than buy at a local store.
Walmart followed the same plan.
CVS left my town last year, Family Dollar the same.
We have three Autoparts stores , all different!
I have a hard time understanding a small town with 3 Autoparts stores and 4 pizza shops , one laundry mat, 3 gas stations , one bar part time .
Post office can't deliver on time anymore.
Produce stands everywhere, yet they don't grow their produce.
Things are very different than they were just 10 years ago.
Never understood why a store or fast food business , would close, and the new owner tears down the old store, rebuilds a new store almost the same .Tax breaks?

Definitely in my area ,seems they dont care here as even I can see them in self checkouts

Drank some of this as a kid, and now its back.

Let them close…I was in Aberdeen a few months ago, two self checkout lines a mile deep policed by someone that should have been a cashier,and two regular cashier lines.and 100 people standing in line and it seemed like 20 closed lines…I left a full cart and walked out as I had an appointment to make and not enough time.

Walmart stores across the US can't close fast enough as far as I'm concerned. They ruined a LOT of people.

We have a small local town, with a McDonalds, Taco Bell, Subway, 5 Pizza shops, 3 dollar stores, 2 auto part stores and a new one under construction currently. Not sure how these stores can make it with such a small population. They must know something that I don't see.

There was a nice building at the new auto parts construction site that was torn down to build the new one from the ground up. Don't understand the economics either.

Our local Walmart looks like a Pajama party and an audition for a strip club gathering. Folks don't care what they wear or how they look.

Law Dog was right when he said the china stuff is everywhere now....Wal-Mart started out good, and used to boast made in the USA while Sam was alive.


After he passed, the kids caved to the only weakness of capitalism, IMO....Greed.


It's a freak show in the local Wal-Marts....Every disfunctional, welfare drawing, non-working, pajama wearing, psycho society reject, shops there.

Sam Walton is most likely rolling in his grave after what they done to the sporting goods section near me. He was a avid hunter

Walmart, there stock price is up and so are their dividends they have a business model that works. Its a new world and you have to be able to compete if your going to make it.

We have been conditioned to buy junk we know is garbage heck the package is often built better than what’s inside of the package. LOL

No more " People of Walmart " on YouTube in Illinois? ... gonna miss them.

Here too. Started noticing some bare shelves a few months back and low or no stock on a lot of things. My main pharmacy is CVS but Rite aid is closer so I pop in for small stuff now and then.

Guess if the inner city Rite Aid closes they can always use the pharmacy at Walmart. Oh wait.........never mind.