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You say that Wal-Mart never puts other stores out of business and that you don't know of any place that they have put stores out of business.

I do. My home town. Go to Wagoner, Oklahoma. There used to be two other grocery stores in town, an IGA grocery and a Homeland (subsidiary of Safeway). Now, the only place in town to buy food is the Wal-Mart Supercenter. Drive through the downtown section and look at all the boarded-up buildings. There used to be a full-service hardware there. Gone. There was a Western Auto and an OTASCO. Gone. The only businesses downtown now are flea markets in a few of the old buildings.

Oh, and BTW, the quality of the food is really lousy in the SuperCenter (for example, rotten eggs and spoiled meat) and yes, they did raise their prices on milk and meat and other staples when they finally killed off the two grocery stores and people had to drive about 20 miles to shop at any other grocery store.