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-
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.
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