Muscatine

Sounds like WROE is ready to become another card-carrying member of the ABW (Anywhere But Wal-Mart) club.  Wroe, we'll be glad to send you out your t-shirt and membership card, plus your super-secret decoder ring.  This will help you decipher all the gobbledeegook that the "associates" throw our way here (I though Tom insulted you too, but according to him I just must have read it wrong). 

Good luck to you Wroe, and welcome to our ranks.  Enjoy your shopping excursions and clean rest-rooms in exotic locales such as Menards, Farm and Fleet, Hy-Vee, Elder-Beerman, and remember........ABW.

Just wanted to remind you, that ALL of the shops that you just mentioned, are CORPORATIONS, NOT MA AND PA STORES.  Sorry that you folks got it so bad for what Sam Walton accomplished!  About all that's left in Muscatine, is 2nd street AND SOME of the gas stations.  Tom. I SUPPOSE you could blame Sam Walton on THAT, also????

Congrats.....spoken like a true company man. 

Tom, I generally hold my tongue but todays WalMart is no where near what Sam Walton had in mind or would have allowed when he was alive and in charge.  Sam Walton assured that WalMart sold ONLY American made items and refused to carry anything made elsewhere.  To bring his good name into this discussion is doing him a great disservice.