. . . . . captioning performed by vitac there are no mom and pop grocery stores? maybe. but those with 40,000 choices would disagree with you. after world war 2 the world changed. america was more mobile. everybody could afford a car. we saw folks coming home from the war, world war ii moving into track housing in the suburbs with all the road out there right now, right? and with credit to buy houses on credit. so what happened with this new economic reality? well, the great american invention, the mall. the shopping mall. and that was a great way of marketing things back then. what about small and medium-sized markets. couldn t afford a mall. one of the reasons why, if you look at the top ten richest folks in the country, you see a lot of names of walton up there because they created walmart and target. some of the medium small-sized markets. they included groceries in the stores as well as the normal things in a department store. and today, with the communic