Big Box stores

Big box store like Costco and Wal-Mart are blamed for "putting Mom and Pop out of business".
The neighborhoods don't encourage such shops in their back yard due to increased traffic and possibilities of hassles around it. The City administrators like them for the economic drive and the jobs they bring along with them.

Well, I am a member of Costco and I shop often at Wal-Mart. Don't we cont Safeway, JC Penny, Sears, K-Mart, Kohls etc as bog-box stores as well? I shop in all of them as well.