I'm From Walmart, New Jersey
The supercenter didn't kill the small town; it is the small town
I recently wrote a contrarian, conceptual piece at Discourse Magazine on Walmart. I’m not the biggest fan of Walmart, but this was my thesis: Walmart didn’t kill the small town, per se; in some important ways, it is the small town.
I don’t just mean that it replaced the function of the town, in that you can buy everything there, run into people you know,…
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