How would it make you feel if one day you rode into your hometown and all of the buildings on Main Street were being torn down? All of the buildings that hold a special place in your past are gone, and it's all because the town decided to construct a Wal-Mart. The town I live in would be boisterous. The people here hold too many memories on Main Street not to be. Sarah Anderson's article "Wal-Mart's War on Main Street" illustrates the concern of locally owned stores, explains how Wal-Mart would affect them, and shows the sentimental value within the local stores.
Since the beginning of Wal-Mart many years ago, there have been many towns and communities opposing it. For example: Rhonda Miller of Jonesville, a small town in South Carolina says this: .
"As for me, I"m against Wal-Mart in Jonesville. Simply because we already have one about ten miles down the road and in the year 2005, it"ll become a Super Wal-Mart. Therefore, I don't think it would benefit us and I really don't see a point to it at all.".
As you can see, some people are not very supportive. The reasons for this are as follows: people know that in order to obtain a Wal-Mart on Main Street in their community, a lot of old buildings that have been standing for years would have to be torn down, and the new Wal-Mart would also put many locally owned stores or markets out of business. To small communities, that's not good news.
Many small towns and communities have old memories and sentimental value within the buildings that stand on Main Street. To these people, having to tear down those buildings for a Wal-Mart would be devastation. Some of the people grew up in those buildings. I can't imagine what it would be like for them to have all that taken away.
The locally owned stores are in danger too. The "Mini-Mall" on the corner that's been standing for years would have to go.
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