“She went on to say that the day our store opened turned out to be the biggest day she had ever had since her paint store opened. ‘You’re pulling all these people into our shopping center. And the neatest thing happened to me Saturday. A man came in looking for a particular kind of paint and said he knew we had it. He said he knew because he’d been in the Wal-Mart looking for it, and the paint department manager told him we had it and sent him on over.
If your store is complementary to Walmart, then being near Walmart can increase your sales. But don’t count on Walmart keeping off your turf forever.
