building by means of many acts

Wal Mart was and is what it is- a excellent business Model, no less than Sears and J.C. Penny in their day- it's all a matter of timing, Production opened in China, and products at cheap cost fueled Wal Mart, to capitalize on the mistakes of F.W. Woolworth, and many of the others that came before they grew to expand in a wider reach, there were many failure of others along the way, Zody's, Two Guys, even the decline of K-Mart - and K-Mart and Woolworth are prime example of growing big on name sake without product quality controls, they just bought and sold cheap products in their fading years. Wal Mart was able to demand standards of quality to meet a world that accepted a lower standard of quality over price- when the down fall of corporation became a buzz world with the catch world "Outsource" - Wal Mart rose in direct comparison to Outsourcing - if the two were place on parallel showing a sliding scale- they will show that as outsourcing heated up so did the expansion of Wal Mart, and as Wal mart heated up so did the expansion of Oursourcing.

and yes, there are cities that denied their entry, and there are still cities that fight their entry - and as you say, your previous city did not pursue new entrants, then by your own words, its supporting the premise of the cities that deny wal-mart entry. No one is denying the acknowledgment of wal marts success.. but the point was not about that, it was about the nature of demise of other business, and the result to the conditions of cities small business upon the entry of Wal Mart, we can discuss details continually, but the fact is evident the two point are relative of small business demise upon the entry of wal mart into cities.