downtowns are really making a comeback over the last couple of decades. yours never came back?
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com> wrote: > I don't have time to go into all of the details right now, but I can > assure you that Walmart's entry into our area killed most of the small > businesses. I knew two of them personally. One was a pharmacy that was a > two generation business (we had two pharmacies in town.) Walmart approached > both, telling them they could sell them (Walmart) their customer list or > just be run out of business. > > One survived, but only because they shifted their business to selling > liquor and they had two other locations in rural towns outside of Walmart's > reach. The other closed down and sold their info to Walmart. > > Dan > > Sent from my iPad > > > On Apr 4, 2014, at 10:42 AM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > I'm not sure I buy the "killed small towns". I live in a small town, > theres a Wal-Mart one town over, we still have an IGA, a hardware store, > typical small town stuff. The city with the Wal-Mart has several grocery > stores and many other stores of all different types. > > > > The places which died were the ones that treated you poorly, same was > what happens when Home Depot or Lowes move to town. Near our camp in Maine > one local lumberyard went out when Lowes moved in, the other decided to > focus on customer service. When you buy wood the salesman who sold it to > you goes to the yard with you to get it. He helps pick through the pile to > find the better wood and gives suggestions. He actually knows something and > doesn't run away when you're looking for help. They're priced reasonably > competitively and the only reason anybody goes to Lowes is that they're > open later on Sunday... > > > > -Curt > > > > Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 23:11:13 -0700 > > From: clay <redgh...@comcast.net> > > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Walmart: How mean is it? > > Message-ID: <1f0788f4-004d-4be3-afe9-11c8f3d2b...@comcast.net> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > > I do not frequent the wally world. Not when it was stocked with USA > products, not now. When it was a small, local concern, I might have been > inclined, but when they decided to plop giant boxes that killed small > towns, and ran the folks who supplied them with product out of business, I > found I had no need of their custom, no matter the price. > > > > clay > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner > has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner > has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. > -- *reliable vendor of superior parts for mercedes and other european cars* *www.BuyEUROparts.com <http://www.BuyEUROparts.com>* _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
