[metesky]

1) Wal-Mart costs about 50 retail jobs among competitors for every 100 jobs Wal-Mart creates.

Still +50 no matter how you cut it.

The smart Mom and Pop store owner would throw in with Wally, get in as middle management, thereby getting (maybe) more money, more leisure and without the responsibility of ownership (paper work, employees, etc.)

2) Wal-Mart and its effects save shoppers more than $200 billion a year, dwarfing such government programs as food stamps ($28.6 billion) and the earned-income tax credit ($34.6 billion).

Yes, brother! To the libs that's $200 billion that got away.

[Gabz]

The smart Mom and Pop store owner would throw in with Wally, get in as middle management, thereby getting (maybe) more money, more leisure and without the responsibility of ownership (paper work, employees, etc.)

The manager of the paint department of the local WM is a retired hardware store owner...the man is an absolute gem.