Just like Walmart in Oriental NC. Opened a store there and killed all the small businesses, then pulled out a year later. People had to drive 25 miles to get groceries.
They already know you own a small family store; that’s why the advance slime is there – to decide what order they will put you and your fellow locals out of business (yes, it’s actually part of the Walton business plan; cut prices on tires until you’re losing money. Wait for the locally-owned tire store to go under. Then jack up tire prices & drop show prices into the cellar until the shoe store closes. Rinse and repeat until the town is dead).
What I think is the supreme irony of this arc is that those same mega-malls that they were rushing to build in the late 1980s and early 1990s and killed the local Mainstreet mom & pop stores are now vacant ghost towns, themselves, as all their anchor stores have closed, gone bankrupt, and gone out of business entirely thanks to the internet. Meanwhile, the small local store is seeing a resurgence – albeit a modest one – as communities are rediscovering and revitalizing their Mainstreet businesses.
BE THIS GUY over 4 years ago
Argythree over 4 years ago
At least it’s not a super highway…
Blood-Poisoning Vermin over 4 years ago
And someday the Megamart Superstore will be replaced by a robot-run Amazon distro center
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 4 years ago
Sarcasm alert . My yesterday comment became reality …. satisfactions .
alikgator over 4 years ago
You can kiss your family store goodbye. Or start opening at night and making kebab
scote1379 Premium Member over 4 years ago
Soon to be known as Dead Mall .com.
FionaMessenger over 4 years ago
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot.
JB10000Lakes over 4 years ago
Is that Dale from King of the Hill?
DougCook over 4 years ago
Just like Walmart in Oriental NC. Opened a store there and killed all the small businesses, then pulled out a year later. People had to drive 25 miles to get groceries.
Troglodyte over 4 years ago
120,000 sq. ft. of wasted space.
dwdl21 over 4 years ago
Yup, as I said yesterday, Walmart.
Cozmik Cowboy over 4 years ago
They already know you own a small family store; that’s why the advance slime is there – to decide what order they will put you and your fellow locals out of business (yes, it’s actually part of the Walton business plan; cut prices on tires until you’re losing money. Wait for the locally-owned tire store to go under. Then jack up tire prices & drop show prices into the cellar until the shoe store closes. Rinse and repeat until the town is dead).
gantech over 4 years ago
“Well, you got trouble my friend, I say trouble right here in River City…”
johnec over 4 years ago
Folks, we are going to need 1) tar 2) feathers 3) a rail.
summerdog over 4 years ago
I sure do love our Dollar General they built in our small, rural town.
wnbresn over 4 years ago
For those who can’t wait , you can jump back to when this first was printed Sept. 22, 1994
Linguist over 4 years ago
What I think is the supreme irony of this arc is that those same mega-malls that they were rushing to build in the late 1980s and early 1990s and killed the local Mainstreet mom & pop stores are now vacant ghost towns, themselves, as all their anchor stores have closed, gone bankrupt, and gone out of business entirely thanks to the internet. Meanwhile, the small local store is seeing a resurgence – albeit a modest one – as communities are rediscovering and revitalizing their Mainstreet businesses.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 4 years ago
I was worried it would be a Walmart. This is soooo much better. Right?
willie_mctell over 4 years ago
Hmm..Retail evolution has happened quickly since the date of the strip.
TheCoosBayBachelor over 4 years ago
It’s this a take on The Bridges of Madison County? Sorry to sound so clueless, I didn’t see the movie or read the book.
cleokaya over 4 years ago
I never shop in malls. I avoid them completely
bakana over 4 years ago
WallyWorld Atttacks!
IceDragon1911 over 4 years ago
is this how mall of america was born?