Wal-Mart expanding into smaller store concepts

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Walmart Market: midsize stores the size of a typical supermarket (avg 42,000 square ft). Some will be supermarkets like Neighborhood Market and others will be condensed versions of the superstore.
http://blog.syracuse.com/storefront/201 ... arket.html

Walmart Express: drugstore size versions of the superstore (avg 15,000 square ft). Servicing people who need to make quick shopping trips.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43414111/ns ... umer_news/

Walmart on Campus: even smaller stores (sizes vary) w/ items catering to university student needs.
http://www.5newsonline.com/news/northwe ... 3959.story



Evil as Wal-Mart is, this idea could be genius if done right. I know their original intention is just to get Walmarts out in more rural, isolated locations. But the idea of smaller, less overwhelming Wal-marts could make it easier for autistic people to shop (provided if the stores themselves are more stimulate friendly). Also Wal-marts in this form won't need to require taking up huge acres of land and wrecking the neighborhoods and communities around them in the process. If we're lucky most of these stores will be located in pre-existing unoccupied stores and in this economy there's plenty of them. I'm not sure about everything else though. For all we know Walmart Express will have only one or two checkout aisles open at one time. I hope that's not the case, but you never know.

Instead of out competeing small buisness, they are just going to replace the small buisnesses. I rarely shop at walmart cause I dont like anything about them, how they treat their employees, how they take over a community, and totally screwing up the definition of organic foods