Poor Walmart......

[Lonewolfblue]

Well, in a small town about 30 minutes from here, they put up a Super Walmart. Well, they went ahead with construction before they even had permits, lol. Now that the judge pulled the permits, they are now asking the judge to order it's teardown, after building it and staffing it with 200 employees, getting ready for the grand opening.

http://www.wenworld.com/sub/story.ph...680712-229-486

[LandGhoti]

I'm sure WalMart will be just fine. However, those poor (almost) employees will now have to find work somewhere else, which I hope very much they do. I am crossing my fingers they don't follow WalMart wherever they decide to put up shop next.

Let's just say I think WalMart SUCKS. And that is putting it nicely. And that will be my only comment.

[flyjawn]

that is the best story i've heard all day. i'd fly down there just to watch a walmart get knocked down.

[An t-iasg]

Wow...in a suburb of Pittsburgh (Kilbuck Township), Walmart was going to build a new store. The site was excavated and graded and then 500,000 cubic yards of soil fell down the hill toward the Ohio River, onto a major highway and railroad tracks. Soil engineers discovered that the site contains "Pittsburgh redbeds" (slippery clays and shale), a very unstable soil structure. The state DEP revoked the earth-moving and grading permits until or if this instability can be addressed.

[Devilishturtles]

The walmart near me is built right next to a river, then the city realized that wouldn't work. It was built within a flood plane, so they had to raise the land, level it off, repour foundation and everything. So, in agreement for the company to build there, they had to level off land, build a park next to the store fully equiped with two sports fields, two ponds, and fund sports equipment for it. So all in all, the community gets a place to fish, a boat dock into the river, and two free sports fields in exchange for the walmart. Not too bad. The fish bite atleast when you go there.

[WaterPond]

grrr, they are buolding a super walmart in Sarnia Ontario (city 15 minutes away from where i live)... not looking forward to it. Although i sometimes buy fish from walmart (more like rescue), i still hate going there, because the staff are idiots when it comes to fish.

Anyways, i am glad they are tearing it down LWB

[roka64]

Originally Posted by WaterPond

i still hate going there, because the staff are idiots when it comes to fish.

Don't let Lidsay hear you say that, although, she no longer works at one....

[WaterPond]

LOL, well, thats a little too general, lets say the majotity of people that have helped me know nothing.

I hate the inacuracy of their info under the tanks too. ID sharks can get 40" plus, not only 12"

[Devilishturtles]

Lol, I did used to work there until a few months ago. Those ID tags though, Walmart doesn't make. A company makes them that sells them to Walmart. Same with the fish. Many people don't realize that the stores actually don't have that much power over the fish that get ordered, it's all dependent upon the subcontractors, if you will, that walmart hires.

Regardless, no offense take. Frederick has two walmarts. A North and South store. The south one is a supercenter, the one by me is just a regular walmart.

[WaterPond]

thanks for the info on that, i didnt know that, although i did know that walmart had no controll over what they order, because i asked if they could order me in some small lionhead goldfish. Anyways, even so, at my walmart they need better trained staff, and clean tanks.

[Jchillin]

I have my doubts that the building will be razed. The possibility exists that a compromise will be reached with the community to allow the store to stand.

The underlying story is: Why did the city violate it's own land use laws for Wal-Mart?

[Lonewolfblue]

More than likely, they will probably end up paying the fines, etc, and higher taxes, etc, and will probably end up staying. They did get permits for everything, it's just the permits were for 50,000sq. ft. building, and not 162,000sq.ft.building.I was laughing when I read that in the paper.

[Kurt_Nelson]

Originally Posted by Devilishturtles

So all in all, the community gets a place to fish, a boat dock into the river, and two free sports fields in exchange for the walmart. Not too bad. The fish bite atleast when you go there.

So the community trades its ability to decide what it wants to buy and from who for a pond, dock and two sports fields. Wow. I bet the folks that lost family businesses don't think it was a fair trade.

Sorry... hit a nerve there. My wife's family is from a small town in Eastern Washington where a Walmart moved in. The town used to have a thriving, diverse downtown with lots of local merchants. Not anymore. Mom and Pop stores just can't compete with the largest retailer in the world who dictates to manufacturers how to make their product if they want it sold in their stores.

Sorry for the thread drift...

[SparKy697]

http://walmartwatch.com/home/pages/t...en_this_is_now

Walmart, Home Depot, Menards... The list goes on. Big guys move in and your choice goes away. The only price becomes the best price and you have little to compare it with.

Walmart has become the single largest importer of goods made in China and where do you think they are going? And who is buying them?

I can proudly say that I have never set one foot in a walmart!

The town that I live in just refused permits that would allow walmart to build a store. The reason that was stated was that we would rather protect our towns businesses than follow the rest of the country.

Finally a little government with a set!

[Lonewolfblue]

http://www.wenworld.com/sub/story.ph...111789-720-461

Latest article on it.

[Lepomis]

I worked for Wal Mart for several years. Ran the grocery department. A lot depends upon the area. Yes the store I worked at put a lot of mom and pop joints under but was the city any worse off? No not at all. The traditional Wal Mart model to most was to build stores in areas that would service many little cities and towns. These places didn't have the vast shopping choices. It was Mom and Pop only. Most people ended up driving to adjacent places to shop. I worked in or went for store set ups to many stores built in these type of areas. They were meant to service a county or counties. Sure if the local resident needed a carton of milk they would go but overall Mom and Pop were taking you to the cleaners. You had a diminished selection and then had to pay 30 to 65% more on average for an item. Wal Mart hired far more people than the mom and Pop's could ever have in those areas and most of the residents no longer had to drive 30 to 45 minutes to do their real shopping. So they paid less, drove less distance and in return lost in most cases a couple mom and pop stores.

Many things I didn't and don't like about Wal Mart. I probably do less than 10%of my shopping there anymore but will be one of the first to say it has made a lot of places better. No bandwagon jumping for me everyone knows it is cool to hate Wal Mart now. The problem that I see it has is the expansion into larger cities. These cities usually have high wages paid to non skilled workers even gone to the lengths of raising minimal wage (why should someone be paid 10 bucks to flip a hamburger or put a can on a shelf?). Wal Mart also usually buys land out side city limits to avoid these wages, property tax, and increased costs and time associated with construction in preexisting areas. You get a lot of the "rich" that hate this, they moved out of the city for a reason why would they want a store that is aimed at supplying products to lower incomes in their backyards. The rif raf ends up too close to home in their eyes. Maybe if Wal Mart would just shut down completely lay off the 1 million plus workers everthing would be peachy.