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Wal-Mart Super Center Discount Stores are Taking Over in Small Town, America Are Wal-Mart Discount Stores good for small communities, or are the so-called Wal-Mart “Super Centers” really just proverbial wolves in sheep’s clothing? Wal-Mart stores may claim to help small-town consumers by selling goods for less money because they supposedly help us save money to use for other things. Wal-Mart stocks their shelves with a high volume of goods on a continuous basis and it seems like they always have what a consumer is looking for, even groceries and food, in the case of the Super Centers, which combine a discount grocery store with a discount store to form a combination “Super Center.” Aren’t Wal-Marts really just taking away from “Mom and Pop” shops and your local grocery, hardware, and general stores by making discount stores so readily available to customers in a convenient venue, like the all-encompassing, one-stop discount store that Wal-Mart has become? There is really another side to this story. Wal-Mart may not be what it seems. It may hurt us more than help us in the end: With gross annual sales of over $67 billion per year and more than 50,000 stores in America alone, Wal-Mart is one of the bigge