Reply #184: I don't see any problem with the first two photos.

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"But Do I think some people protest Walmart stores because they don't want "those people" in their neighborhood. Yobetcha"

Wal Mart doesn't usually try to put stores in places where "those people" don't already live.
Other concerns are: traffic congestion, the ugly-store factor, the tearing-up and paving-over of nature, concern for smaller stores, and last but not least: Wal Mart's policies and practices.

The mayor of my town successfully stopped Wal Mart from building on an already congested area of town. The traffic jams outside a WalMart at that location would be a nightmare. They had to widen the road there anyway, even without a Walmart.

I wrote her a letter thanking my mayor for preventing the WalMart store, saying that, although our town is full of potential Wal Mart shoppers, our town is a really aesthetically pleasing, rustic, and historical place that deserves more respect than to have a Wal Mart store put in it.

If it's "elitist" to want to maintain the dignity and beauty of your home town, and not have to sit in traffic jams, then go ahead and call me an elitist.