What are you talking about? The general impression I got was that the gloom and doomers and Wal-Whiners predicted that:
1-The blight of a Wal-Mart would forever leave a scar on SOWAL. The light pollution, noise pollution, blahblahblah. We would be ruined.
2-The heartless capitalists in Arkansas were going to ruin every business south of the bay by undercutting prices. Pharmacies, hardware stores, Publix, you name it, Wal-Mart was going to kill them off. We would be ruined.
3-All SOWALIANS would be enslaved at SOWALMART once their place of business went under and employment was needed. We would be ruined.
Now it sounds like the main complaints revolve around the failure of the Arkansians to anticipate our love of auto sunshades, the really surprising development that a micro-Wal-Mart does not have as much audiovisual crap as a Best Buy and an amazingly short sighted strategy of loading the store with items that might be more useful to a family stocking a beach condo for a week instead of a family stocking up for a month. Jeez.
As I predicted way back at the genesis of the SOWALMART brewhaha, there was so much hyperbole which we now know was 100% inaccurate in retrospect. Scooty, if you get 1, the skunkape gets 10, and my 10 was cheaper than your 1 because I got my 10 at SOWALMART!!!