A picture Wal Mart wishes was not on the net.

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32. we shop at a lot of mom and pop convenience stores

You will find tens of thousands of them under the 99 cent brand.

Some are family owned businesses that have lots of branches and others have one location.

We love them and we go in to everyone we can find and buy as much as we can from them and have a chat with the owners, many of who are Vietnamese and who were resettled under the program that I was involved in.

BTW both my grandfathers had hardware stores. There are almost no mom and pop hardware stores or drug stores either and that has nothing to do with Walmart.

The hyper concentration of capital was predicted a long time ago and is bigger than any one store, even Walmart.

But I am in agreement with your desire to promote mom and pops, or co ops.