Bogbrush wrote:
> "Ed Pawlowski" > writes:
>
>> "Bogbrush" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> "Ed Pawlowski" > writes:
>>>
>>>> "gloria.p" > wrote in message
>>>>> their presence has forced many
>>>>> small local stores to go out of business. Many Main Streets have been
>>>>> all but abandoned when a Walmart opens nearby.
>>>>>
>>>>> Enough?
>>>> Wall Mart or any of the big box store have never forced any local store
>>>> to
>>>> go out of business.
>>> That has to be one of the dumbest things I ever read on the 'net. I
>>> congratulate you!
>>>
>> Thank you. Now show me where the big box stores have FORCED anyone out of
>> business.
>>
>>>> Small downtown stores started going out of business in the 60's when
>>>> people
>>>> decided it was more fun to go to the mall than downtown to shop. You get
>>>> reasons like the lack of parking down town while that same person will
>>>> walk
>>>> three times the distance from the mall parking lot.
>>>>
>>>> Customers (or the lack of), not Wal-Mart put the little store out of
>>>> business.
>>> Are you really so retarded as to think that a big convenient "once stop
>>> for all" shopping mall does not in any ways affect the customers a small
>>> local shop gets? LOL. Stay off the stupid pills.
>> Reading comprehension problems? It is definitely the CUSTOMER'S choice
>> that is affects the small stores,. They make choices of their own free
>> will. They are the ones that decide to patronized the big bad stores and
>> leave the small stores alone. Sometimes for good reason, other times
>> because many consumers are like lemmings.
>>
>> The times and consumer preferences have changed and business has to change
>> with it or they DIE. Dry cleaners, shoe repair, barber shops are all fading
>> away. Newspapers and magazines are starving. Did Wal-Mart cause that too?
>> No, consumer preferences have.
>>
>> In any case, I'm not going to wait up tonight for your evidence of Wal-Mart
>> forcing small store out of business, but I'll check back later after you get
>> your head out of your ass.
>
> You can play all the semantic games you want. These stores cost cut,
> take all the customers and this directly forces the small shops out of
> business. If you doubt this then you're an idiot.
>
>

Small stores were going out of business long before WalMart was on the
scene. Even the big stores closed their city locations in favor of the
malls out on the highway where it was easier to park and easier to shop
with many stores in one location.

What killed the local mom and pop stores was everyone getting a car.

If you could break away from your obsession with WalMart, you night see
that many downtowns are going through a revitalization these days. There
is always a need for shops that carry unique items. We have a wonderful
Tru-value affiliated hardware (and lots of other stuff) store in
Harlingen. I can't tell you how many times I've looked for something in
Lowes or Home Depot and the floor person told me to go to Hohnny's hardware.

BTW, Johnny's hardware has the best kitchen stuff collection in any
store I have ever shopped. I go there just to wander the aisles :-)
--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.