Saturday Mornings we put out the Made in America signs by the front door and the cash registers.

just down the road from Farmington

would have been College Avenue in F'ville
Maybe that was in Greenland? (Not the island, LOL)
Which side of Drake Field was that?

I only remember going down that way once around 1970 or so. My uncle came down for a visit and he wanted to go to the Boston Mountains so he could buy a yellow watermelon. We went as far as the scenic overlook for Lake Fort Smith. He found his yellow watermelon and was happy as a clam

Still in town. Grocery store next door and a Mr Quick Burger Joint across the Highway. Boston Mountains are a treasure. More so since the interstate reduced its traffic. There was a drive in movie on the location you mentioned before a WalMart in the early 70s.

My high school clubs took many trips down there. Whether we were heading for Russellville, or Conway, or Little Rock, we'd invariably stop at the Dairy Queen at Alma. The school bus didn't have any facilities, so everyone was in a mad rush to get out of the bus once we stopped at the DQ. They did a very brisk business

If memory serves, Alma was Exit 13. And a Cracker Barrel was on that Exit (at least ten years ago.)

Old 71 to Alma was unworldly.

But the Pig Trail was even more of a trip Lots of Hog fans from Little Rock would take the Pig Trail to Fayetteville for games instead of Old 71, back in the day

told me he would occasionally drive that from KCMO to Air Force base in Louisiana when he was in the Air Force (1970’s) driving 90 mph because he was usually late leaving KC. He hated driving through Arkansas.

It was a relatively easy drive down through Missouri, but 71 went through several downtown areas in Northwest Arkansas, then into the Boston Mountains (Ozarks), then the Arkansas River Valley, and then into the Ouachita Mountains. A beautiful drive, but a pain for truckers

And yet incredibly beautiful. (I am biased on that point.). No 90 mph on that stretch of windy steep road. It’s still there but it is now the road far less traveled. Was he stationed at Barksdale?

think at some point in Arkansas he had to slow down. Guess thats why he was speeding part of the way I would guess. Yes he was at Barksdale in 1971, but was also in Guam and Thailand at some point while in the AF.

Thats why I shop there … 😬



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all grown in America...

Hopefully will change soon.

I'd realized then that they were screwing American manufacturers, and wanted nothing to do with that.

I also kept on hearing about how crappy Walmart stuff had become, and I want to ask people if there is no other place to shop?

I lived in the South and that's where I first heard about Wal-Mart. I went into one just to see what all the hubbub was about and most of it just look like crap to me.

I am not much of a shopper, so I had no real reason for "boycotting" Wal-Mart back then. It wasn't a political decision on my part, but that was back in the early 80's.

and then they took the products and had them made in China. Big cheats.

Lots of vintage made in America, and maybe no tariffs?

an article about a candy company that got a large contract with Walmart. It was so big they had to allocate all of their production to supplying Walmart and lost all of their other outlets. Then Walmart demanded they lower the price and they couldn't cut it enough to satisfy them and ended up going out of business. This was in the late 90s early 2000s. I live in a rural area now and unfortunately have to shop at WM more than I'd like. I did avoid stepping in one for 20 years but somehow they managed to stay in business anyway.

I heard this from someone who works there.

I hate Walmart. I can barely tolerate my friend who gets his diabetes meds from them because they really are the cheapest for him.

Not sure what I would do if I had the choice between a cheap prescription drug through them, or more money elsewhere. Glad I don't have to choose.

I happen to take three prescription meds which are all totally free to me at my preferred pharmacy.

She was getting them at a small local pharmacy but then the doctors changed her medicines and the local pharmacy doesn't carry the new stuff so now she has to go to Walmart.

They found out the company was using child labor. The press hammered her for it. They had signs on every display rack that said made in America. What a scam. A reporter (back when reporters mostly did their job) noticed that things on the rack were not made here. I decided right then I would never go to Walmart. Since COVID, I buy fruit syrup there (Smucker's is hard to find and I found out they give money to republicans) and I bought one, magnetic photo holder for the fridge.

No one bothered to just look at the label?

That pic o found was the best or closest thing I could find. Walmart seems to have completely scrubbed it from the internets.

You should have heard him try to explain it away. "No, we meant that this company was 'Made in America'" or some bullshit.

I also remember the commercials with tearful employees saying if it weren't for Walmart giving them a ($7 an hour) job, they wouldn't be able to feed their kids. They don't mention that Walmart has a higher percentage of employees on food stamps than any other company because they don't pay shit.

Wrap yourself in the flag.