California to WalMart: Take your Supercenters and shove 'em

When I was living in California, we had few WalMarts. Who needed them when you had an abundance of Target's for home, garden, etc.....and Mervyn's for low priced but decent clothing. Needed Groceries? You just went to Safeway, Lucky's(Albertsons later), Trader Joes, Mollie Stone's, etc...... The few WalMarts that are in California are the small box version. Think Target w/o the Garden center. It seems that more and more every year Wally World has been trying to bring their "run-everyone-out-of-business" SuperCenters to the State of California; without any luck. Their reputation as the "sweat shop" employeers that they are tend to pose the most problems. The fact that California is a big union State is also a problem for them. Safeway is the WalMart of the supermarket chains in California. When I lived in Belmont, there were three of them in the same City. Safeway has good prices and good products. They are also a big union store. WalMart isn't; not even remotely union. Doesn't fit in the California scheme of things. Now I live in Tennesee; WalMart is huge out here. Most of them are the SuperCenters......basically a regular WalMart with a grocery store and an automotive department as well as a garden and home center. Nothing wrong with a store wanting to keep you buying everything from them, it's that they treat their employees like slaves. They also pay them like they are as well. I personally only shop there if I can get a great deal; we found out yesterday that the WalMart in Lebanon (the City in Tennessee not the Country) would be willing to match the paint colors we wanted for the living room and kitchen/dining room for 10 bucks a gallon. Hugely different than what Lowes/Home Despot would charge. You see, we got the color swatches from Lowes. Yes I know; hypocritical. But hey, who isn't now a days?