On Sun, 7 Aug 2016 16:41:18 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 8/7/2016 4:28 PM, wrote:
>
>>>
>>> They are no different at Walmart than they are at any other big box, just
>>> that people love to spotlight Walmart in a negative way...............
>>>
>>> Cheri
>>
>> No suprises - they arrived here with their predator pricing and did
>> away with three nice family businesses. Then OF COURSE their prices
>> went up. I won't patronize them.
>>
>
>When they came here, they filled a void left when a local department
>store closed a year earlier. The family businesses were gone 25 years
>earlier.
>
>In your case, evidently the local consumers preferred Wal Mart over the
>local stores. We also had a new K-mart that has been struggling for
>many years. The locals prefer the Wal Mart.
>
>When both were considering building, K and Wal had quite a legal battle
>over location. K won and got the spot they preferred. You can't see
>them from the road, only their sign. The location they did not want is
>very visible and the highway exit is across the street from their
>parking lot entrance. Pretty dumb of them, I think.

No it was predator pricing. With their volume they could sell more or
less at a loss while they waited the family businesses out. We are
far from the only place that they have done that to, I hate them.