Not only does Walmart have an enormous number of employees on government assistance, they have training classes for their employees to help them apply.

Also, a lot of the people they hire, are people who worked for, and even OWNED, small local businesses that they have run out of business. Same goes for ALL big box retailers like Lowes and Home Depot.

What makes you think a local grocery store will pay its employees more than walmart?

It’s not too late to turn it around.

Unfortunately, it is. It's nice to think that everybody can do their part to bring back the locally-owned places and sense of community, but you're not going to convince people living paycheck-to-paycheck who are going to always make a beeline for the cheapest prices. The only time a Wal-mart dies is when the town builds a bigger, new Wal-mart or the town itself dies altogether.

Yeah, typical useful idiot thinking it's up to the customer instead of the business owners to foot the bill for these problems.

If local stores care so much about the community, they can offer us better prices than the chains.

Way to completely ignore the argument.