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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Roadking Larry" data-source="post: 4064815" data-attributes="member: 2833">While Walmart certainly bears a significant amount of blame for the damage they did to small town businesses and mom & pop businesses, some of the blame rests on the business owners as well.In my little town the stores on main street were open 9-5 M-F and 9-Noon on Saturday, feed store, lumber yard and the auto parts store usually opened earlier though. A lot of the people that lived in the town were no longer farmers and ranchers and worked in neighboring towns at 8-5/9-5 jobs. By the time they got back to town at the end of the day the businesses were closed. If the business owners had shifted their hours to stay open till 6:00 or 6:30 pm or extended their hours on Saturday they could have gotten some of that business back. Might not have been enough to save them but failing to even try to adapt to a changing world is a failure out of the gate.</blockquote>