Walmart employs members of the community. They bear some of the responsibility for why our community is so prosperous.
If local stores care so much about the community, they can offer us better prices than the chains. Otherwise they're just using "buy local" as an excuse to rip people off and enrich themselves.
Edit: It's sad how clueless you people are, but it reinforces why I don't take the vast majority of you people seriously.
Keep paying more while thinking you're somehow getting a better deal.
You have no idea what you're talking about and it shows.