Having conquered the “big box” world of retail goods, Walmart is now setting its sights on the convenience store industry. The company has an “aggressive” plan to roll out a new chain of stores aimed at competing with established chains like 7-11 and AM/PM.
This is bad news for privately owned corner stores.
Walmart needs to die already.
I live in Phoenix, the Marketside stores are closer to grocery stores than they are to convince stores like Circle K or AM/PM. The target is Safeway, Krogers, and local grocery stores. Just my $0.02.
I cant see Wally-world competing with AM/PM since almost every single one sells gasoline. But 7-11, fuck them anyways, they’ll too fucking overpriced. You really only go into a 7-11 out of necessity more than convenience.
awesome news for anyone whos sick of paying giant markups on condoms and beer at convenience stores…
I usually go to whatever store is closer and open. Walmart would have to put out a metric-fuck-ton of stores for me to be swayed to walk or drive any amount of extra feet.
Bad news for poorly run privately owned corner stores.
Good news for consumers.