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drewbaccaAWD t1_itms2qw wrote

Reply to comment by dewmahn in The Walmart at the Waterworks Mall is closing in November by James19991

>in other places they now have neighborhood markets which are like small grocery stores with a few other odds and ends.

I haven't seen that. Walmart? Good business move if they're doing that now. Sounds like the Dollar General model.

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DjNuppie t1_itnnrs5 wrote

I recently just moved to butler county. I have according to Google maps, 9 DG stores within 6.7 miles of my house 2 of them are 1.8 miles exactly from house !!

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drewbaccaAWD t1_ito98y4 wrote

I never thought the number of bars and churches in rural PA could be topped... but DG was like "hold my beer!"

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Willow-girl t1_itprn42 wrote

They are building one in Midway, FFS! I am stoked. Between it and Amazon, I will never have to go to town again ...

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dewmahn t1_itmuwew wrote

Ya visited some friends recently in Myrtle Beach and they have quite a few.

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Elouiseotter t1_itojjxk wrote

I drove from Pittsburgh up to Maine on all non highway roads last autumn. There were so many Dollar Generals.

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typingfrombed t1_itonr2h wrote

In nice suburbs the Neighborhood Walmart format is quite excellent. Everything you’d have at a normal grocery, wide selection of home supplies like cleaning supplies, pharmacy and beauty.. all at the expected low Walmart prices.

I always wondered why this watermarks WM didn’t get turned into a neighborhood WM but I guess the GE lease exclusivity situation someone mentioned above is probably why

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LetterheadNo4396 t1_itnj3ai wrote

Those stores are for higher economic areas, they'd never build there.

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sawamander t1_itombmd wrote

Nah, neighborhood markets appear in hyper-low-income areas all the time in the Southeast.

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