I encourage you to look at the sales figures. One the promises
continually made by Walmart is that their store in a community will
create a regional attraction for shopping activity and thus help more
small businesses in a community rather than hurt them. Steve Cooke
explained how this might work in the Walmart town meeting several
years ago.
In the Moscow community, this scenario never materialized. For
Moscow, the pie appears more fixed than expanding. The pressure on
small businesses continues to grow.
-- Greg Brown (gregb@uidaho.edu) Computer Services Adjunct Assistant Professor, College of Forestry,Wildlife,& Range Sciences University of Idaho Moscow, ID 83843 (208) 885-2126 Fax: (208) 885-7539