I live 30 minutes from Wal-Mart corporate headquarters. There are 7 WM stupid centers along a 40 mile corridor. In fact, it's exactly 1.1 mile from my house to Wal-mart. They also have 3-4 Wal-Mart Neighborhood Markets which is their grocery store concept (WM prices, small store feel, really like it, just not close enough to my house).

I don't like WM meat dept. We have a couple of small regional chains, Harps and Marvins that have much better meat.

I've heard that sometime this year (2005) Wal-Mart will surpass Kroger as the largest grocery concern in the USA.

I work in the trucking industry, and we see the effects every time a grocery chain goes under.