Always seems pretty close to 50/50 on the walmart bashers vs the walmart tolerators here. For many of us in rural America, walmart was in the 80's and early 90's what dollar general is today. Wal Mart in the 80's here, while still 20 miles away, offered things the "mom and pop" shops didn't, alleviating the need to travel even further into a bigger town as frequently. 

Question is at what point did WalMart become the devil? They once were a "mom and pop, small business" as well. Did it happen when they opened the first additional store a county over? Did people say they were the downfall of Arkansas that soon? I mean, if they are the downfall of America, they had to be the downfall of Arkansas first it would seem. When does a farmer become the devil? When he buys the 300 acres from a widow lady that's 10 miles from his home farm that butts up to 2 other farmers that would have liked to have had it, but couldn't swing it? We're selling boatloads of corn to china (pun intended), but what IF you got to decide where your corn goes? Let's say you go to the elevator and there's a pit for yellow corn to china and a pit for yellow corn guaranteed to stay domestic.. but the catch is, corn prices are in the tank, and the china pit offers a dollar premium? Is the farmer that goes to the china pit the devil? (Yes, I know in some areas you have options to deliver straight to someone who can utilize the corn without loading it on a barge). The example was for those that take it to terminals which are getting railed to ports or loaded directly on barges.