Wal-Mart is notorious for actively, intentionally destroying small local businesses around the country (and the world).

So while Wal-Mart brings in a bunch of jobs, it simultaneously destroys at least as many.

And the jobs it brings are TERRIBLE.

And think of all that "tax revenue"! Typically, Wal-Marts push for "deals" with the local communities they locate in, whereby Wal-Mart pays no/reduced taxes for X number of years. In many towns, when the "tax-free" deal expires, Wal-Mart literally packs up shop and moves to the next town over.

Yeah, who'd want to support local businesses that will keep the money in the area, when instead we could have THE LARGEST COMPANY IN THE WORLD suck cash out of our community like an industrial-strength shop-vac?

www.walmartsucks.org/

Barabara Ehrenreich on low-wage Wal-Mart jobs:
www.nytimes.com/books/01/05/13/specials/ehrenreich.html?