Just an informal little sampling?

If Waynesboro builds one I can bet it will thin things out at the Hagerstown Wal-Mart. Was in there this Sunday and it was wall to wall chaos!!! I say build it.

Yea!! I am all for another Walmart...the one in Hagerstown is a nightmare on the weekends..I try to shop during the week--and before friday morning. and not on the 1st...

If you build it, they will shop

You can never have enough Wal-Marts...

yea,txex.you don't want to go really anywhere on the 1st.Thats when the Eagle"*hits"! Also in the middle of the month.The Eagle *hits food stamps then too.Grocery stores are packed.If you go in the mornings it's not too bad.The recipiants(sp?) are usually still asleep.

I work at night, so I only go to the Hagerstown Wal-Mart during my lunch break. It's a much better shopping experience at 3 am !!!

Just some perspective from down the road in Martinsburg. Martinsburg is a Wal-mart town. Everyone goes to Wal-mart - they just love it. People have daily conversations about how much money they saved at Wal-mart; how great Wal-mart is. They can get everything in one, conveinent trip. But it seems a lot of folks are missing a point - no one wants to (or can) compete with Wal-mart. We have little retail downtown. With the exception of a Big Lots and a plethera of dollar stores, the north end of our city is pretty much dead. Even our mall is below standards for the times. Several years ago, one of it's main anchor stores, good ole Wal-mart," cut itself off from the rest of the mall, no longer allowing shopopers to walk directly from Wal-mart into the mall. There's not even a sheltered outdoor passage to the rest of the mall - it's been completely cut off. After all, if everything's available at Wal-mart, who needs the mall or Sears or JC Penny. None of these stores can compete. Not even K-mart can compete. Our K-mart's parking lot is NEVER more than half full, and they never have anything. A Target would be nice, but why compete with Wal-mart. Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. - they look at us and say "that's a Wal-mart town; how will we compete." Wal-mart just can't get enough. They don't even want you leaving for lunch, and you don't have to because there's a McDonalds plopped down in every one. It's not like there's already a MCDONALDS AT EVERY EXIT. A lot of people have had their eyes glazed over by Wal-mart, with their mushy commercials telling us all how their hearts bleed for the meek. Some poor dumb bastard telling us all "thank God Wal-mart was there for me and my family so we'd have health insurance." Or, "if it wasn't for Wal-mart, I wouldn't have a job." What we probably don't know is that this same poor, dumb bastard may very well be among the percentile of the population who had decent jobs or retail business' and then lost said job or business to the anti-competetive atmosphere of Walmart, ironically ending up working for Wal-mart. Remember Ross Perot and the "giant sucking sound?" That's what I hear everytime I'm near a Wal-mart - sucking the life right out of town and refocusing it into a square mile of suburbia. But I guess most folks don't see it from this angle.

Gee,Fredrick and Winchester have walmarts and they also have circuit city and best buys and all kinds of other stores.They both even have fairly thriving down towns because they knew enough to not rely on the "old fashioned" traditional down town.They each in their times had original ideas about what to do with a dying situation.
I myself still prefer to use smaller stores for some things.But unfortunately I still have to go to the bigger chains for others.Who can pass up a king size comforter for $20!
Hopefully we'll get some good stores at the new shopping center at Rts. 11 and 901.But,I'm guessing they'll be more geared towards the interstate traffic.
My only pet peeve with Martinsburg's downtown is the no parking issue.I have two bad knees to begin with and for me to have find parking blocks away and then all the walking for shopping...Any public parking lots are taken by the bank personel and the city and some county emploees(clerks,secretaries,etc).I've seen a couple of new stores I'd like to go to but THERES NO PARKING.All the meters are full.
Walmarts here.The other stores are going to have to figure a way to compete and lure customers.
All the malls are nothing more than huge day care centers for teenagers.I don't go in to them.I'll go to an anchor store,but no farther.

TrailerTrash, I understand exactly what you are saying, and I do sometimes feel guilty that I'm not helping some mom&pop store or even the bigger stores that you would think could compete with the WalMart.

Until I get to the cash register.

For example, they opened a new Giant in McConnellsburg, and the first month or so, they were running some really great sales, so I got curious and went in. Yeah, the sale prices were great, but the stuff that wasn't on sale more than made up for the difference in the sale prices. And the sale prices were in some cases STILL higher than what I could have gotten the item for at WalMart.

I don't do all of my shopping at WalMart, but there are some items I buy only at WalMart because they are cheaper. Also, if I'm at home and need something, I'm not going to drive 45 minutes to Hagerstown or Chambersburg, I go up to Orby and get it. I only go to WalMart when I'm on my way home from work.

Like WVDL says, the other stores are just going to have to figure out how to compete.

Well as WVD stated Hagerstown, Winchester, Frederick all have Wal-Marts and their downtowns still thrive (H-town may be a bit of an exception). I think the problem with Martinsburg's downtown is the fact that it looks trashy. No outdoor cafes, no bakeries, no hobby shops (unless the porn shop counts), nothing that would make me say hey lets drive around the block for 30 minutes to find a parking spot.

As far as the other stores not building here because it's a "Wal-Mart Town" is absurd. Wal-Mart has nothing on Best Buy or Circuit City as far as electronics go (I just bought our TV from Circuit City for $100 less than Wal-mart had the TV advertised for!) and Target is alot nicer of a place to shop. In fact, the Target in Winchester is right beside Wal-mart and business is booming. So I don't buy the whole Wal-Mart is the Anti-Christ schpeil.