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How about it Walmart? Do Wally Jrs sound like an idea that might fly?

We're definitely on the same page.

So here in Arkansas, we have a Wal*Mart Neighborhood Market within walking distance from a New Wal*Mart Super Center. Headquarters kept the grocery store open just to see if it could stay in business next to a new Super Center.

The first two weeks, there were barely enough cars in the grocery stores parking lot to notice the place was even open. Yet, after the "novelty" of the Super Center wore off..our Neighborhood Market thrived once again.

The "smaller" store retained its popularity because we can get in and out quickly. We don't need rollar skates to go from the front to the back just to pick up milk.

I've often wondered if a "Wal*Mart Express" type store wouldn't do extremely well. They could link it up with a Gas Station. Sort of an old time 7/11 convenience store with very low prices.

Interesting you should mention that. Borders (BGP) is a big box book retailer. They’ve recently shuttered most of their small store subsidiary Waldenbooks, which were actually doing better than the big boxes in terms of sales. I’ve been wondering, for those gotta have it now folks, if Borders wouldn’t have been better off closing the superstores and becoming a convenience bookstore chain, at least if they were determined to maintain a bricks-and-mortar retail presence.

I will say this about Wally: Seems to the only things it's done is given our entreprenuers an excuse. Instead of finding a way to compete, many just throw up their hands and surrender. Instead of using their imaginations, thinking outside the big box as it were, they blame Demon Wally. Of course, various local, state and federal governments are also sticking it to them, but I don't hear nearly the amount of venom directed towards gov'ts that I do to Wally. But that's another thread :)