What is the smallest town you have seen a Walmart in?

Charlevoix MI (pop 2600) had a vote of the towns folks . . . . .They said a resounding ---NO--- to the wallyfart developers.....

HOORAY for them . . . . . . .

Guess what . . . Charlevoix still has its small 'ma and pa' shops . . . . . HOORAY

Lots of snobby rich people in Charlevoix. Most of the ordinary locals will drive past those expensive stores to shop in Petoskey, Traverse City or Gaylord but I assume that is the norm for most exclusive towns. Walmart, like it or not, fulfills the needs of many people.

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Ava, MO has a Super Center. Population 3,000.

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Clarkston, Washington has one. Population as of 2012 was 7229 people. Of course Lewiston, Idaho is right across the river and is 35,000 or so. Washington does not tax food, so that's why I think they moved from Lewiston and built one in Clarkston.

Spruce Pine, NC = "As of the census of 2000, there were 2,030 people"

Many, LA. 2705 folks

My grandmother lived her whole life in Centerville, Iowa, population about 6,000. They had a Wal-Mart.

Several years ago, their local paper had a very funny story about 3 young men from Drake University (in Des Moines, about 100 miles away) who were looking for the newest PlayStation, and finally found some at the Centerville Wal-Mart. It was about 9PM, and they piled into their car and headed to Centerville, assuming that this WM was open 24 hours like the ones in Des Moines.

It wasn't, and they didn't have money for a motel room on this zero-degree night. There was ONE other person waiting "in line" for them; he lived across the street and his mother had made him a Thermos full of hot chocolate, which he generously shared with his new friends.

When the store opened, the boys bought their PlayStations and all was well.

Eaton Ohio has a Wal-Mart, and population of 8,407 in the 2010 census. Pretty big compared to some of the towns listed.

I've seen plenty that are not in a town or incorporated area at all. Just plunked out in the middle of no where.

Smallest in Wyoming is Cody, pop 9,500

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Our existance here is soley for the expoitation of CMG

Versailles,MO-Population 1250. I suspect we have a Super Wal-mart because we are on a main artery into the Lake of the Ozarks region and 2 of Sam Waltons daughters live in the county.

Yes, when they built the Super Wal-mart it killed the town square and drove a smaller grocery store I liked out of business.

I think MO here takes the winners as far as poverty, small towns and small Walmarts go!
Our Mt. Grove is only about 4,500 people and has a fair-sized Walmart.

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Flippin, Arkansas, pop 1360, has a HUGE Super Center, gas station, and tire/oil place. Flippin also has 2 excellent animal Vet offices/hospital, 2 farm and feed stores, many realty offices, a Sonic, a Pizza Hut, tobacco store, several antique shops. No place to buy clothes or shoes. Big tourist town spring and summer.

I looked up the Kimball, WV store on Google Maps, and it appears to be one of those. There are two towns a couple miles apart on a winding mountain road, and the Walmart is between them.

This one. Teeny little store and close by was a trailer turned diner. AWESOME food!

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LOL Thats the question here too!
You know how the supercenters have Food and drygoods? and TWO doors?
Its sorta like they cut it in Half just one door and it closes for a few hours a nite.

Mountain View, AR has a WM SuperCenter, pop. 2876

Had a "SmallMart" until about 6 or 7 years ago, then they Super-sized it!

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Redwood Falls, MN. Population 5,088 in 2009.

Very rural community, there is nothing nearby for any size town anywhere around it. It's not a tourist town, it's not a college town, there's nothing very seasonal changinging the population, there is no other town across the river or border, etc. gotta go 40 miles to a bigger town, and those towns have their own walmarts.

Some of the towns mentioned have either a seasonal college or influx of population, or is right next to another as big or bigger town....

So I think Redwood Falls should be on the short list, tho I'm sure there are honest smaller towns.

My town of 15,000 popultion just got a Walmart a couple years ago. After a short trial, it is one of the very few Walmarts that is not open 24 hours. While the 2 old grocery stores in town have been open 24 hours for decades, and still are.

I enjoy Walmart for the electronic and household side of it, but to be honest I've only walked through the food section 2 times in 3 years. Just didn't see any value in the food side, the old grocery stores do a better job at food - and open 4 hours too.

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As noted above, it isn't the size of the town but the population it would be serving, which inclues rural areas.

Wal-Mart is expanding with what, as I recall, are Wal-Mart Expresses. They will carry mostly high turn over food and a phamacy (sp?). Going head-to-head against Dollar-type stores.

We have a Fred's in Waverly. Chinese goods and a phamacy. Apparent carries the entire store as normally there are less than ten vehicles in their parking lot.