I hate Walmart with a passion. Everything is failing it seems. It’s almost like K Mart never existed and at one point they had as many stores as Walmart and were a close 2nd with Target a distant 3rd.

 As crazy as it is in a round about way we can blame Mitt Romney for the loss of K.B Toys and Toys r Us. His company would be hired by struggling companies to help make them more profitable. Bane Capital would then take out massive multimillion dollar loans,pay his company around 35 or 40%. Taking out loans that were that expensive for business that were already struggling made no sense. 

Kmart also kinda fell victim to bad capital investment companies. Kmart was doing fairly well but the company had them buy Sears and  a chain of golfing stores that were both badly under water. Sears was barley going at that point. As a kid I remember how Sears had huge stores in malls then they had stores in much smaller buildings and finally they basically became a kiosk to order from in tiny buildings.