Shopping at Wal-Mart
Our family shops at Wal-Mart. When the news about Wal-Mart considering building a store in our town first hit the papers years ago there were a lot of unhappy people. Folks were saying that it was going to kill the small businessman. Then there were articles in the newspaper talking about how to survive the invasion of such a large discount supermarket, advising the “little stores” to focus on servicing products. Well, let me tell you that before this Wal-Mart came into town, there was only one shoe store in town, and I could never find any shoes there that fit my feet. I had to drive over two hours to find shoes that fit! Now, with the Wal-Mart in town, I can buy shoes that fit! And at less than half the price of the shoes I’d been forced to wear for so many years! So I’m glad that Wal-Mart came into town! I DO wish that they had not closed the fabric department recently, however, that made me sad! I like to sew and now there is no fabric store in town to buy fabric and I have to drive long distances to get fabric!
July 29th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
I agree, I was sad when they stopped selling fabric at our local Wal-Mart too. They also drastically downsized their craft painting section so now I have to drive to Michaels Arts & Crafts or AC Moore for most of my crafting supplies.