Gotta love walmart for underhanded practices. I've personally seen how they operate twice in my life. Years ago when they were updating from the old school brown box small walmarts to supercenters everywhere. The town I was in and a neighboring town got the upgrade both towns were small. Two bigger cities nearby already had supercenters.  When they built the supercenters there were local businesses in arts and crafts, a garden center, and a pet store. In the towns with those businesses the walmarts respective sections for each were easily twice the size and selection of the two in the bigger cities and they were selling shit at or below cost.  Fast forward a couple of years and the local arts and crafts store goes out of business, a couple months later walmart does a remodel and that whole section is reduced to barely 1 isle. Within 7 years of them opening same thing happens with the other businesses.  If you travel check it out if you get the chance. If you are in a small town walmart and there is a local business that competes with them in one of their sections that section will be distinctly larger and the product distinctly cheaper than at a walmart nearby in a larger city.