It happened
 

and I lived.


That Walmart I spent years fighting (was to be placed basically in my front yard) opened today.

Mr. Lil already spent $$ there. traitor :p

But it's not in your front yard, right?

Basically it is. I suppose you can GoogleEarth it

Oh... I guess it is. :(

The old saying, "You can't fight City Hall" has been replaced with "Wally World", I suppose. Hereabouts, they replaced one of our early malls (jeez, I remember when it first went up in nineteen sixty-mumble) with a Wal-Mart, condemning the KMart across the street to die a slow, painful death...then they tore down the old WM 3 miles down the road, to build a Lowe's to replace the Lowe's that was a mile down the road, then built a new WM across the street from the Lowe's that was the old WM...

:confused: :confused: :shrug: :confused: :curse: :confused: :hair: :confused: :wobbly: :confused:

I Know, ya need a score card to keep up anymore...

But Scotz, they make them 'bigger' and 'better' all the time.


LOL

Funny enough, last I knew Wal Mart owned a pretty good chunk of K Mart just so that they wouldn't completely fail. If Wal Mart owns only 49 % of the competition, technically they don't own it. Meaning there's no monopoly and they get to make a profit off of keeping the competition open. How f*cked up is that?

I may be mistaken, but I believe that Sears Holdings Corporation is the parent of Kmart and Sears, Roebuck and Co. I was unaware that Wal-Mart had any stake in Kmart.

Just stating what I was told back in Econ. during high school. I could be wrong.

you lived, but what happened to your quality of life?

i think you should move. get out before the value of your home falls due to it's proximity to flourescent lights and 24hour photos. head northwest, or up the east coast perhaps. :D

if it's a super Walmart how about we swap houses though front yard is a bit close

Hey, scotz, think of all the ocnstruction jobs!

Lil, I remember when your neck of town was nothing but woods. A shame...a damn shame.

I've never understood the hate/dislike some people have for Walmart.

Do you have one in your front yard?

They take anything which can possibly compete with them and bleed them dry. Market dominance is one thing, but predation to the point of one company becoming the market is intolerable.

Hey, that's monopoly capitalism.

I don't have one in my front yard, and I can understand not wanting the traffic associated with it around a person's house. That's what commercial zoning is for.

As for them "bleeding" other businesses dry, I don't really buy that argument either. My town has 12,000 people. The Walmart here opened almost 20 years ago. In that 20 years no business went out, that wasn't already in danger. The grocery stores that failed went out of business before the Walmart became a Super Walmart, and we still have the same number of pharmacies we had 20 years ago. Actually I think we have more now that the Walgreen's opened.

I would recommend checking out the episode of Penn and Teller's Bullshit, they did on Walmart, and the real impact they have communities.

You also don't seem to live in a town of > 200,000 people and 5 Walmarts (and a Sams). They have opened where other grocery stores are located, all stores that were doing well prior to the placement of the Walmarts. We lost 3 chains (about 8 stores) and are about to lose a 4th. Walmart has now eliminated all it's competition by bullying neighborhoods and bribing counties and protection groups. We could also discuss their hiring practices. Practically no one in their stores is given fulltime hours or benefits. So I pay in taxes to support the employees who have to get medicaid which makes the $.88 cent jar of pickles they sell me cost quite a bit more. I spent 3 years studying Walmart. It's not the same company Sam started.

This group obviously has a bias but interesting none-the-less http://wakeupwalmart.com/facts/

K-Mart and Sears are together. :nod: