wally marts out there arent just stores they are a way of life!! haha
whats funny is that we barely have any wal-marts here and this city has bout 150,000 yet every lil town with more than 2 ppl out there has a super wal mart, some funny shit
* u know ur a hill billy when u meet the "boys" everyday for lunch and have to have reservations, at.......... wal mart *
whens the meeting this month? im going out there later in the week
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Ben Doom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:55:11 -0400
>I was being a bit silly. I live in a fairly rural area, and grew up in
>one even farther removed from an urban environment.
>
>Around here, there are few sidewalks, no grocery stores withing easy
>walking distance of most homes, and no public transportation. Wal*Mart
>has a sidewalk out front, a grocery store inside (after all, it *is*
>"Super"), and little carts you can ride if you are old, injured, or
>absurdly lazy. And, while getting there from most places around here
>does require a car, it is most certainly a market center for the area,
>which nearly qualifies as a hinterland.
>
>Hmm. Maybe I wasn't all that silly. Damn.
>
>--Ben
>
>Won Lee wrote:
>> At 16:42 9/27/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>>>>I was using a definition something along the lines of contains
>>>>sidewalks, is possible to walk to a grocery store, has public
>>>>transportation and does not require owning a car. Also, is market
>>>>center for a hinterland.
>>>
>>>Around here, we call that "Wal*Mart".
>>
>>
>> Having a WalMart automatically removes an area from the being a city. Not
>> because I don't like WalMart. I actually love to go to WalMart when I
>> visit VA, but because WalMart will not build in urban areas due to cost of
>> business and competition.
>
>
>
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