Walmart in Bond, Mississippi

Good evening to all,
hope your weekend is going well.

Bond, Mississippi, chances are most of us have never heard of this small dot of a town along a Mississippi highway, unfortunately it seems that relief efforts haven't heard of this town either. The small town of Bond is one of many small towns and parishes who have not gained the same amount of attention as the larger urban areas of devastation, but that doesn't make their grief any less real. People in Bond are going hungry, and are in need of help.

I read a news story on the forgotten survivors of Bond, Mississippi, their biggest and only still functioning business in the area is a Walmart 6 miles from their community, where many make the long walk in hopes of finding it open or making it into the store at all. While most of us might think that having a Walmart in your area still doing business in our areas would be a good thing, the Walmart near Bond, Mississippi is only allowing a maximum of 2 customers into the store at any given time, and have only opened a few times. The reason being given for the 2 customers at a time rule, is that they don't have enough people to run the store, but I assume it is really about the possibilty of theft or the location being overrun by survivors. Still, that is simply not good enough for America's biggest retail chain, they can do better. I believe that now is the time for Walmart to show that they truly do love the communities where they do business, afterall, their commercials tell us they do. As a retailer with locations across the United States and the world, it could be possible for them to step up their efforts to get locations without signficant damage running to full or at least an increased capacity in the effected areas, and if they really want to do some good, get that price slashing dot to work and cut those prices so that the purchase of basic needs doesn't take all of the survivors limited cash resources. They could ask employees from other areas if they would like to work at the stores for a time, and prove that they are indeed the store who cares. To play the 2 at a time game with customers who are truly in dire need at this time just isn't right, and it helps nobody. I do have to say that Walmart has done wonderful things in giving millions of dollars to the relief effort, but what lives in the minds of consumers is how they were treated by a store in their community when they really needed them. If Walmart doesn't do anything to help the people near the storm ravaged area where they do business, people will remember and take their business elsewhere when they aren't the only store open, people like me will likely to do the same just out of principle.