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Campgrounds Complain of Wal-Mart Competition

By Pierce Woodward on Friday, August 2, 2002.

Retail store owners have long complained that their business is hurt when a Wal-Mart comes to town. You might think the added competition wouldn't be a problem for one kind of business - campgrounds. But lately, a Wal-Mart policy of allowing recreational vehicles to stay in store parking lots has some New Hampshire campgrounds complaining that they, too, are losing business to the world's largest corporation.

Pierce Woodward has the story.

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