Walmart

Walmart Neighborhood Market, Just What the Doctor Ordered

Walmart is the most successful brick-and-mortar retailer in America; with, arguably, the worst reputation. When news breaks that Walmart’s coming, local businesses immediately organize the underground resistance; but is that a fair reaction? Walmart could be just what the doctor ordered. Walmart’s PR problem The 2005 anti-Walmart documentary “The High Cost of Low Price,” tells heart-wrenching stories: family businesses destroyed; former Walmart employees on food stamps… Grass roots movements sprouted across America, to resist the Walmart invasion. Unions complain about wages; women about gender discrimination, Chambers of Commerce about scorched earth business practices; still, Walmart is the most popular store