What will you do when WalMart leaves? You'll have created an unsustainable culture based upon the handouts of an unsustainable business model.

It's creating a disastrous company-store condition in previously communities that may have previously been self-sufficient ones. Arguably, Walmart towns are not as economically dependent upon a Walmart as a company town is upon the founding company.

But it can't last forever, and nothing is going to be able to fill the gap it eventually leaves fast enough or completely enough to avoid economic and social collapse. Especially when you consider that the people previously employed by Walmart are going to have few transferable skills to do so.

I would hate to see these regions become as economically unsustainable as much as metropolitan regions have become uninhabitable without refrigerated food imports.

"They have a peculiar sense of ownership, which enables them to view anything that is not nailed down as theirs,
and if they can pry it loose, it's not nailed down."

-the Flerian Race, author unknown