Wal Mart goes after Walgreens

Cecil Brewster

   I always predicted Wal Marts wold get smaller and go head to head with Walgreens. Several small Wal Marts are making their way into big box suburbia after years of just opening up in urban areas that their immense size wold never be allowed access. I was shocked the other day I saw a mini Wal Mart in Des Plaines, Illinois occupying strip mall locations that evidently were not good enough for Walgreens. Every Suburb in the Chicago region from Milwaukee to Merrillville, Indiana has a Walgreens that was suitably built by coalitions of money Hungery village leaders and eager developers and has thus given Chicago's metro corners a vary plain appearance at major intersections. I am sure this process is being played out  in several other cities across America and hopefully both these mega corporations harm one another. Both have helped destroy small family local business and a local unique look of villages and cities as the all have about as much quaint and charm as a desert nomad tent villa. This country needs more small family businesses from home and gardening to pharmacy to groceries and the only entrepreneurs that seem to accomplish this are in Mexican neighborhoods. All you see in white suburbia are 7 11 , Walgreens, or Ace hardware stores as these regions have lo g since been controlled by neo-liberalism free market jags. One of the reasons cities are so special and popular is because the preserved their buildings making real estate more valuable and didn't sell their lands to banks,box stores, and retail corporations that would love to build cheap strips in hip urban areas. that  If Wal Mart minis destroy Walgreens or vice verso we will all be better off aesthetically from these disgusting cheap environments we have gotten so use to accept and shop.