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by batlborn on August 18th, 2007
Actually, Americans would live a LOT BETTER without Wal-Mart stores!
by Blank Savage on August 21st, 2007
i could I hate that place
by Challenger on August 18th, 2007
Without a WalMart store, I think alot of Americans would be overpaying for an item - meaning less savings and money in their pocket.. But this is only my personal thought...
by jin jang on August 18th, 2007
I think they could and should,for if the economy goes down much further,because of the exporting of jobs,one won't even be able to shop there.Walmart is the downfall of a free market society,because all other businesses go out of business because they cannot compete.
by Perryman on August 21st, 2007
Here is one American that could and would live without a Wal-Mart store.
I only visit Wal-Mart about four times a year as it is now.
by Anna on August 18th, 2007
Interesting question since I am a Wal-Mart associate.
by American idle on August 18th, 2007
I would not be happy, Doc, not at all...:)
by DiSTurBiA on August 22nd, 2008
this country would be so much better without walmart, exponentially. So yes, and not only could they, it would be better for them in the long run.
by brewscrew on January 7th, 2008
It would be difficult. Tons of people would be without jobs and the public would have to pay more for some things. There would be less competiton and others would raise prices even more.
by Da Azian Boi on August 21st, 2007
I could. We'd all just go to Target. In my opinion, it is just like Wal-Mart.
by Nate the Great on August 21st, 2007
They will have to learn because i am taking walmart down!
by Not Here Anymore on August 21st, 2007
I could live very easily, and do, without Wal-Mart. Honestly, the only thing I go there for is my oil change; in and out of auto - no visit to the store itself. I hate the place.
by Capt.Lizzie_pirate king_Swann on August 21st, 2007
When Wal-mart is all you can afford, the economy is in a sad state for sure! I know many people, myself included, who wouldn't be able to feed their families or clothe them if Wal-mart hadn't come to our little corner of the world. We aren't in the ghetto. We live in a small town in the midwest, where there aren't jobs that pay what is needed to survive. Maybe Wal-mart does contribute to it, but it's what we're stuck with. Kind of a vicious circle. Wal-mart has made people dependent upon it.
by Sheepingly needs no handy men only hugs on August 18th, 2007
Not the americans that are ghetto. Alot of them frequent walmart x(
by Yeahwell... on August 18th, 2007
I think so. They did for several years.
by Lambchop Good Wool Ambassador on August 21st, 2007
We did it before we can do it again!!!
by slothmister on August 21st, 2007
From what I understand of the store I would say yes they could but it would make certain aspects of their shopping life's a little more difficult!
by Miss. Tandra on August 18th, 2007
haaha prob not
we're spoiled
just admit it!!
by DutchessConverse on August 22nd, 2008
as long as there is the internet and Costco I think we'd be fine.
We can live without cheap stuff.
by BayAreaBiker on February 13th, 2009
Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, had a dime store, which evolved into Wal-Mart. Woolworth is the first dime store, which had been in business for well over a century before going bankrupt. Woolworth has revolutionized shopping, with merchandise on shelves instead of behind counters, and clearly marked prices. The Wanamaker Store in Philadelphia was the first store with price tags on the merchandise. Sears started as a mail-order store with a selection that rivals Wal-Mart. Piggly Wiggly is the first supermarket, open in 1916, and was similar to today's grocery stores except for the barcode scanners, which had to wait another 60 years to be invented. Back then, convenience was valued about as much as now.
Once the economy picks up, we could do without Wal-Mart.
by BrokeDog on August 22nd, 2008
Not POOR Americans, (even tho' the glut of "99 cent and $1 stores", has but a small bite in Wal-Mart).
by Yarnlady is happy every day on August 22nd, 2008
Americans are still very resourceful people. I'm sure that we could learn to make do with CostCo and Sam's Club (the , even if we didn't have Wal Mart.
I am old enough to remember the old Nickel and Dime Stores, and Woolworth, which were very much like Wal Mart, and the S.S.Kresge Dime store, which evolved into K-Mart, and is still going strong.
With over 130 millionaires who made their money as retailers in department stores, chain stores, large specialty retail stores or in the mail order business, how can you take just one family and denigrate them?
by The Red Queelon on August 12th, 2009
Yes, as they could also live without competitors Target and KMart.
by cotton candy on August 22nd, 2009
I doubt it.
by qwerty on August 22nd, 2009
I try to but in this eco it is hard too
google the high cost of low price
i would like to not ever shop at walmart again,but now it's hard not to
i have a famil to feed
by Colly on August 22nd, 2009
My family wouldnt, Id have to sell my ferrari and my donzi
by Lori K still ignores stalkers and trolls on August 22nd, 2008
Sure, but I hardly think Wal-mart is the "demon" that so seem to think it is. It's only one of many stores.
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