"Walmart founder Sam Walton started in retailing
operating a Ben Franklin store."
I just remember the one by the corner with all the other corner
stores when I was a young 'un. Back then the corner
drugstore had a soda fountain and a "U-Test-M":
As a kid I used to shop at his store on the west side of the square in Bentonville, AR. It was later sold, became a book store, then an ice cream store, then restored to the original WALTON’S facade.
Before he opened his Bentonville store(WALTON’S) he had considered moving to downtown Siloam Springs Arkansas.
There was another 5&10 on the north west corner of the square, owned by someone else.