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Around here, the Walmart put all the great mom-n-pop stores out of business. Our downtown is now a dead zone in terms of business. Everyone drives down to the Walmart. We used to have a locally owned hardware store, drugstore, paper store, art supply store, camera store and since Walmart came...

This is a terrific article, and appropriate to the discussion here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/magazine/20wwln-lede-t.html