Small Business Owner Faces Closure Thanks to New Neighborhood Walmart

if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen. putting that sign up is childish as hell. only going to scare away more customers showing how petty you can be.

While your opinion is, of course YOURS, not everyone agrees. There are some in this town that like to support local business owners. Why does San Angelo need 7 Wal-Marts/Neighborhood Markets? Or, for that matter, 4 Chik-Fil-A's? Maybe we use that space and money on something NEW for a change!

You are dead wrong. Walmart opens stores, destroys the business of smaller stores, and goes on if their profits don't suit them.
Ask Lamesa and Brownfield.
I don't blame the owner of the small business for being discouraged and angry. Walmart didn't care
Who they hurt, whether it's a small local business or their own employees.
If there is any choice, I will drive 30 miles to avoid Wal Mart.

I love love love having the Walmart neighborhood market near our home. I don't see how your business could be harmed from it if the 3 stripes stores near you don't don't hurt you.

There may be a drastic decline on things like sundries and snacks..... but Walmart doesn't sell some of the things she does. Time to get creative and sell the best Hot Dogs in town, the best Philly cheese steaks or some other ceative hook

In talking with others today, I have not found anyone who has visited this location. When they established their store they had strong competition from well established Stripes and also Spring Creek Marina. When they put in a grill next to the well established and very popular Pack-Saddle BBQ, people laughed as we walked by. Looking for someone to purchase the business with a sign out front like that would be a major turn off for most buyers. It seems this store made this site a while back facing the possibility of closing for another reason? Personally I am excited about the new neighborhood markets from Wal-mart. They were built where we did lack grocery stores. I like that I can stop by either one of them on the way home and they are on my way. I also know others have mentioned to me how great they are in location. It is always sad to see a business close and I hope they can turn it around. Maybe a drive through would help?

The problem here is not Walmart. That area is full of convenience stores, restaurants, small retail shops, etc.. The Walmart changed the traffic patterns but the truth is just moved customers around. It's easy to get caught up in a commodity trap where the only thing you see that makes you different than the next business down the road is who has the cheapest box of corn flakes or gallon of gas or what ever today's lowest priced commodity is that leads to razor thin margin where only those with the deep pockets survive . You want to win in that environment take your box of corn flakes and make it your own. Something special. Do it through service or excellence or uniqueness or trust or what ever your strengths are. You can't compete on price unless you've got size and weight. Compete on what makes you and your business and your product special, unique, and loaded with real value that Walmart can't even try to compete with. Look around at Walmart's both here in town and across the country and there are always successful businesses in the shadow of Walmart turning the traffic walmart generates to their profit. Or turning their "I'm you not just another big box. We have shared character, beliefs, and values you can trust" and making that highly value valued and often profitable and successful business. There are specialty and mom and pop shops that thrive because they can provide the real human and quality deal when Big Box stores can only provide just another box of the same old same old corn flakes.

Most businesses that "beat" Big Box Stores do so only after they recognize who their real competitors are and realize that their biggest competitors are their own misconceptions and preconceptions. You don't win by beating Walmart. You win by beating your mistaken idea of what it takes to win.

You want to beat Walmart (or any Big Box) don't play by their rules. Make and play by your own.

Nothing is this world is constant. CHANGE will happen whether one likes it or not. Only things certain is Death. Back to Wal-Mart, no business whether a Mom or Pop shop or corporate business has the right to stop competition. Business need to adapt and evolve if they want to survive. Think outside the box and come up with new ways to bring customers in. Many citizens do not want to walk into a big store and are looking for a small store that has what they need. It is convenience that will attract customers.