My Small Wal-Mart Victory

IJAG's Secret Santa should buy her an atlas.

 

A.) Dickens can do something other than choke, whatever it is I'm allowed to tell him to do nowadays.

B.) Awesome Monopoly reference.

C.) Zeke, shut it. Once you are no longer my crack connection, you can go to hell too.

 

Free crack is what you get when a plumber comes to your house to do an estimate, right?

 

No...but the competition can do it in less than three hours.

 

In some towns, it's the only place to go for a lot of things. Really small towns. We stopped once in Perry, Oklahoma. The Wal-Mart there had four check out lanes, period. And there was nothing else there at all. We looked. All there was was a convenience store by the interstate. I don't think the town had a grocery store and this Wal-Mart wasn't a supercenter.

 

Yeah, but I bet they had something before Wal-Mart came.

 

Because they have Josh Turner CD's always in stock.

Wait, what?

 

Here's Perry's chamber of commerce business listing.
http://www.perryokchamber.com/businessListings.htm
They have actually, a lot of business, but retail shops do seem few. There is however, a grocery store, a sporting goods store, three restaurants, two pharamacys and a decent amount of manufacturing/ag type business.

However, I emailed them to find out when Wal-Mart arrived and if it had any impact on locally owned shops.

 

Would you like to date me? PM for details.

 

well played.

 

Former employee?

 

Any Wal Mart you can walk away from is a good one.