[restornu]

sure you did.................LOL

What wrong with Walmart isn't it captialism?

I grew up when they had up scale department stores!

JL Hudson, Crowley's, Macy's Marshall Fields etc.

S.S. Kresge Kmart
http://www.kmartcorp.com/corp/story/general/corporate_history.stm

F.W. Woolworth Co
http://www.scripophily.net/fwwoolworthco.html

Kmart, Korvettes, etc.

[Darksheare]

Yeah, I miss the days of the big department stores.
Unfortunately, Woolworth's, Penny's, Sears, and such are seemingly increasingly a thing of the past, and that should not be.

Sam Walton's idea for Wal-Mart was vastly different than how it is run in my area.
The management at least acts like some weird cult..
The employees usually are pretty cool though.

[Borax Queen]

(Any Walmart supporters, reader beware.) Well for starters, Walmart systematically went in and destroyed almost every small town in America. They purposely placed the impersonal big boxes at the edges of town, forcing most people to drive there. The gathering places and social structure our towns once had have been displaced. For example, people would gather around the Post Office or hardware store, chat, connect, talk about church, whatever. What do we have now? Not only have many of the main street stores gone under, don't most people just want to get in and out of Mall-Mart as quickly as possible? Yes, it's capitalism, etc. but I also give them credit for the further decay of the fabric of our society.

[sweetliberty]

I remember Kresge and Woolworth's. We had Grant's, too.