I don't hate Wal-Mart for coming in and ruining communities. After all, it is the citizens of a community that actually shop there. I remember seeing a special on public TV or Discovery or some similar channel that showed a town go through the process of getting a Wal-Mart. I believe it was a small town in Arkansas. As usual, the mom-and-pop stores complained, as did other people. But they were lured by Wal-Mart's promise to pay for several roads the town desperately needed, so they agreed to allow Wal-Mart to build there. Within the first week that Wal-Mart was open, almost everyone that complained and actually petitioned to not have them there was in the store shopping. The power is in the people, not the companies. If the entire town and other surrounding communities had not shopped there, Wal-Mart wouldn't be there for too long.
Having said that, I understand Wal-Mart acts quite egregiously and often illegally at a corporate level. JaTo once talked about this, and maybe he will do so again. A lot of people hate Wal-Mart for coming into communities and putting all the small stores out of business. I find it difficult to hate them for that, because if I was a business entity I'd be trying to do the same thing. It's the illegal and unethical practices that make me quite suspicious of them.
