Wal-mart

The main streets of many small towns have been all but abandoned thanks, in large part, to behemoths like Wal-Mart.

The main streets of many villages have in fact been abandoned. The main reason is the advance of big stores like Wal-Mart.

On November 19, Country legend Charlie Daniels will host the 11th annual "Christmas For Kids Benefit Concert" at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium. Also on the bill are Montgomery Gentry, Chris Young, Rodney Atkins and Taylor Swift. Proceeds go to 300 local school children, who will be escorted to a Wal-Mart store on December 18. Each will receive $150 to spend on anything they want. The children will be chauffeured from their schools to Wal-Mart by a Country star's luxury tour bus.

Experts say no company has put barcode technology to better use than Wal-Mart, based in Bentonville, Arkansas. By nineteen eighty-eight, all Wal-Mart stores used laser bar code scanners. Highly detailed records on its products, and how they were selling, helped Wal-Mart keep costs down. Today, Wal-Mart is the world’s biggest corporation.

Sometimes people write in and they say, “Joe Bob, don’t you have nothin GOOD to report about drive-ins?” and the answer is usually we’re too busy savin the old ones from gettin flea-marketed, condoed or Wal-Marted.

Merchants in small communities have been “Wal-Marted” by the general merchandise chain store in the nearby larger community.

Finally, Munneke suggested that smaller communities like Akron are already susceptible to being “Wal-Marted” by any of the large firms in Cleveland or any number of national law firms who might come in and craft a nominal fee-sharing arrangement with local counsel under Rule 1.5(e).

The state’s fledgling pot market, envisioned as a low-key, mom-and-pop industry, would be Wal-Marted, some feared.