With no Walmart, Texas town has no grocery store
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Published 2016-01-29
All Comments (21)
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Let this be a lesson to everybody,support your local stores!
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I love that the guy won't open his store back up, serves those people right for abandoning him, you reap what you sow.
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The guy had no plans to reopen. I guess when nobody came, he felt stabbed in the back. Store ran in his community for 60 years, all of a sudden people up and left to go to a foreign store to buy groceries. Owner went bankrupt. You sell out, you pay for it.
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"Walmart didn't make Pettits close, you people who quit coming made Pettits close" yup
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I loved the way the grocery store owner blamed the local people, because it was really their fault for turning their back on him.
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Damn lol he called everybody out
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What I miss about the local store is the sense of neighborhood. We knew the owner of the store, the people who worked there, and most of the customers. The butcher would cut to your order and the high school kid would load your car for you. We lost it all when a chain store moved into our little town with its cold business like atmosphere. How’s the song go? “You never know what you’ve got till it’s gone”
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People should have remained loyal to the mom & pop store.. To hell with those corporate snakes. Now you have time travel 44 miles for groceries.. That's a shame..
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That closed Walmart store in Whitewright, Texas has since reopened as a Spring Market grocery store.
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This is there fault they chose to shop at walmart instead of keeping it faithful to there local grocery store.
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I like those mom and pop grocery stores they have character
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Walmart bankrupts businesses and once your town has no $$$ they pack up and leave. In walmarts eyes you are expendable.
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My dad lived in Oakwood, Texas which doesn't have a grocery store. He has to drive 21 miles to Buffalo to the Brooshire Bros. or 24 miles to Palestine to the Wal-Mart. So he plans his trips accordingly like back in the day when country folks went to town one day a week which was a Saturday.
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2 days later she’s at Walmart
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I can't blame the owner of the other store shame on the people of this town
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I think Walmart is done with you lady.
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Dam right blame the customers I agree. They deserve to travel 20 some miles. He should open his grocery store back up and raise the prices up.
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Walmart doesn't ruin lives; its the people who choose to buy from places like Walmart that do. Hold yourselves accountable and do what you think is right, people! You are partly to blame for your own downfall!
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I suspect the original stre was the right size to serve the community . Wall Mart was too big and couldn't survive. So it came into town, ran at a loss expecting business to pick up after the competition was gone. Business never met economic reality and so the damage done. Some college boy didn't get the math right.
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22 miles to the nearest grocery store is not that bad I don’t get why they’re so angry about this. You live in a low population area, of course business can’t thrive there.
