I didn't know that they figured stuff like this ou

Yesterday, my job had me delivering to a place 20+ miles down southeast of Lemmon SD. From there, other than being 20 miles from Lemmon, which is not a big town, you are a long ways from anywhere. I mentioned to the rancher that was un-loading me that they were kind of a long ways from anywhere there. He laughed and agreed. Then proceeded to tell me that there was a point about 20 to 25 miles south of him that is the farthest away from a McDonald's as you can get in the lower 48 states. Basically, the worst place you could be at when you have a "big mac attack." By the same token, I am sure you would be about as far away from a Walmart as you could get, too. Therefore, I don't have to ever worry about my wife wanting to live down there. LOL! Darrel

Sounds like my kind of place.

WOOHOO for that!! Wish I could Wish I might, sounds Like PARADISE!!

I'm in a WallyWorld maybe 8-10 times a year, Haven't been in a McD's in maybe the same number of times in the last two or three years. So I could fit in there pretty well

Gary in da UP wrote: I'd bet that there are areas in Michigans Upper Penninsula that are just as remote.

OK, but I doubt there's a Wally world in Gwinn!  But Gwinn is too close to Marquette to qualify for 40!

I take the grandkids to McDs once a week... and the wife to Wal Mart about once a week or two. ........... about 6 miles to town........ but I got to drive an hour to get to Menards !

Edited by steve(ill) - 23 Jan 2019 at 6:50pm

I have driven through the Great Seney Swamp a few times! No McDonald's and no Walmart for many miles in either direction. West of Marquette can be quite remote around Champion, although I have not been there in probably 20 years since my Brother in Law died. He graduated from Northern Michigan University and taught school in Paradise before moving to Traverse City.

I live on 5 acres and its rural so I have it nice.  Probably 10 miles to town either way, and I don't go there very often.  I did have McD's just the day, 2 QP's for $5.  Walmart maybe once every two years.  But like Steve said, an hour to a Menards.  I always wanted to buy 40 acres square and build a house dead center.

We are on 80 acres, nice comfy home, 4.5 miles to town with the only Cut rate stores a Dollar General and a SavALot food store. DO have three Wally Worlds less than 40 minutes in three different directions. One a known Tweaker hang out on cold days or severely hot ones, another a discount bargain overstock garbage warehouse and another pretty decent for grocer and clean reasonable inventory. We shop there when need large quantity as the local market tends to be adequate but not too impressive while handy for routine needs. Have three meat markets close by, great cuts of meat to all of them and two smoke processors in that three.


We tend to make Wally World the Bulk Commodities shop, TP, Paper towels, volume bulk dry foods, Canned goods and MY Coffee!!! Do not have clothing stores here anymore, nor much selection as to appliances so too we end up in that Wally World town to do that shopping. HAVE Not had McDonalds in seeming forever, that or KFC or Taco Bell, do not need a colon cleanse too often these days. Still LOVE Dairy Queen and Steak N Shake some smaller home style(NOT Chain) restaurants are really good there. They are our Splurge stops.

live near a town of about 6500, have a wally world, a walgreens, a taco bell, a mickey d, a burger barf, a subway, all kinds of little coffee joints, a couple fitness places, a non 24 hour truck stop, and Cargill. and we is only about 20 miles from all this stuff in cities of 100,000 peoples. no good places to buy meat, we hafta go at least 45-50 miles each way for that. we can buy local meat on the hoof, but the butcher here steals so much of the meat on each animal. I go to wally world a lot when I can't sleep, it's fun to ride around the store on them little electric carts, and I can also stop and read labels on stuff and not be bothered by other people getting in my way. sometimes I find some amazing stuff there, and have learned that if you see something cool and it'll work for me in anyway, I better buy it then cuz when they sell it out, they usually won't re-stock that item. when walgreens came to town, they bought up all the other pharmacies in 2 counties and closed them. I feel sorry for the people that now hafta travel 20-40 miles now for their prescriptions. wally world also made a lot of our smaller but well stocked (things we all used) businesses have to close. bigger isn't better when they come to your/our towns. was at the local grocery store yesterday, (making my 3 meat stew) was looking over the meat counter, picked up a few cuts of various critters (made sure it was all from TYSON foods) and not imported. I did see some packages of "fresh caught" Alaskan walleye fillets, and marked on the tag "product of Vietnam"! I see canned mushrooms...a product of uraguay! read the labels on all the olive oil bottles...you are in for a suprise! read the labels folks.       

I've a lot of experience selling to Walmart and helping them determine what products to place where.  They basically look at total sales from all retailers (not just theirs) selling within a given zip code....refer to it as "All Commodity Value".  That tells them what the total pie looks like and they then understand very well how to grab their share of it and a little more. 

Yes if Walmart wants a product you make they tell you what they will pay for it also and they put big companies out of business if they won't or can't come down the the price they want to pay. Just look at Rubbermaid and just wait now they have everyone else out of business they will raise their prices. Look at what they are paying their truck drives now.

Edited by tadams(OH) - 25 Jan 2019 at 2:37pm

Oh yeah, I know the guy who owns the liquor/beer distributorship.  When Walmart came to La Crosse, they DEMANDED he deliver on Sunday.  He told them his people don't work on Sundays as it is against his religion (Catholic).  They told him he either delivers or they'll go to another distributor.  (THAT is not legal in WI, but they would allow WallyWorld to do it)-(go figure that one out...)
So he offered it up to his employees and they agreed, as WallyWorld would be paying all the overtime for that day anyway.
Talk about money buying politicians.....