Hey, you're hitting close to home. When we bought our house a year and a half ago, we needed eight million things. Thank God we had a Walmart just a mile away. We never could have gotten our house in shape, paying the prices of the other stores around here. I've made friends with several of the people who work there, and Walmart is generous in the community. They support many local charities, and my daughter-in-law is approaching them for contributions of school supplies to poor villages in Africa. I could do without K-mart, because the stores around here are poorly stocked, over-priced and the people who work there are not nearly as friendly as the ones at Walmart. Sure, I miss the mom and pop bookstores and music stores.
But, sometimes there is room for both... we have a used CD store in the same little shopping area as Walmart, and a small grocery store, too. There's a reason why Walmart is successful... Long Live Walmart!!!!

Jerry (not a Capitalist pig)