[Alberta's Child]

I don’t think it’s the “hipsters” who have kept WalMart out of urban areas as much as the difficulty in finding land parcels large enough to build a prototypical WalMart store.

[wastoute]

http://www.columbia.edu/~pi17/walmartajs.pdf

Pretty much explains how WalMart got to be a “rural” business.

[mewzilla]

Property taxes likely have something to do with it, too. In more ways than one.

And shrinkage.