[Gabz]

And here I thought it was the millions of small businesses that are put out of business by these box stores that motivated me. Or the millions of employees who make less than 15K a year full time---oh wait, Wally World keeps employees at part time so as to avoid paying benefits.

Oh good grief......

Where I live the small businesses love WalMart - they get more referrals for new business from WM employees than they do from paid advertising. And WM is one of the highest paying private employers in this area.

[mnehring]

What I've learned doing a lot of consulting for small businesses is that the real problem isn't Wal Mart, it is their own unwillingness to change and modify how they do business when they face new competition. They all want to keep business as usual like they have since the 1950s. Wal Mart doesn't put them out of business, they put themselves out of business. If it wasn't Wal Mart, it would have been something else..