[KarlInOhio]

Is any other low end retail or fast food different? The "mom & pop" stores that Wal-Mart supposedly kills (although the bigger victims were national stores like KMart or local discounters like Gold Circle and Rink's where I lived) weren't exactly giving $20/hour jobs to cashiers.

Wal-Mart didn't become the bad guy nationally until they crossed the line from the largely non-unionized discount merchandise stores to the unionized grocery business. That was when they became the focus of evil in America. Trace the complaints and you'll find the unions and unionized competitors behind them.

[buckalfa]

"Gold Circle and Rink's"

That jogged some old memories from my Ohio days!