If those stores can't compete on price, maybe they could have found a specific niche of consumers for their specialty wares. Otherwise, shake the spot. Just because they're a mom-and-pop store does not mean that I owe them my business.
I have to shop there. I have no other options now.
and you are the lamenting the fact...
it isnt unconstitutional to pay $0.50 less on a gallon of Milk at a WalMart vice a mom and pop store is it?
I have a Super WalMart AND a Sam's Club going by about a mile away from me, I can't wait until it opens.
I like Walmart.
It gets most of the business in my town of 9,000.
That way I can go to Family Dollar or General Dollar, get what I need for around the same prices, and avoid the crowd that is out at Walmart.
lol.
[I trek to the big W maybe 2 or 3 times a year for those items the other smaller dollar-type stores don't have.]
[I also find the dollar-type stores doing more and more business. Purchasers aren't buying large quantities, but the stores seem to have a decent flow of customers. I have a feeling others prefer the dollar-type, quicker in-quicker out stores to the big W.]
If those stores can't compete on price, maybe they could have found a specific niche of consumers for their specialty wares. Otherwise, shake the spot. Just because they're a mom-and-pop store does not mean that I owe them my business.
"I've watched mom and pop stores, that have been in business since I was a young girl be shut down by them."
The invisible "them" ...Wal-Mart has not shut down the mom/pop stores, inefficiency has....