Wal-Mart is willing to do anything to get in your cities, it loves you and wants it bad. It see’s all the money goodwill and hope that it can bring to your life if you would only let it open its door and let you walk into its warm gooey goodness.
Like a abusive spouse Wal-Mart is droping all its bad habbits (like beating you) so that you will let it back into the home.
Over the past few years when it was trying to get into major metropoliton city limits and got MASSIVE resistance it spent money repainting its facade and getting rid of its garish 1980’s blue/white colors for warm and rich browns and vanilla. It spent money reflooring and bringing new fixtures into its worst stores. Places where money hasn’t been spent on looks since it was initially built. Oh and they gave some money to local school districts agian. All in order for you to like them and let them in………….it didnt work.
Phase 3 (really more then that this has been a planned growth for over a decade) is now in the works and you have seen it in your news just might not have noticed all the little things they are doing as a whole (like I said they want you‘re money in a bad way). The following is just the start.
Wal-Mart will scale back sales of guns : see bad PR especially in major cities
Wal-Mart to build in depressed urban areas : lose money in hopes of wooing voters and inter-city officials by showing that they can revitalize an area as opposed to being a parasitic drain.
Walmart Upgrades Health Benefits for Employees : Read close the wording of those agreements
Walmart Plans to Start its Own Bank : The original idea years ago was brick and mortar buildings now its small, only to do instore transactions.
I have watched Wal-Mart fight this fight for almost a decade to no avail but I know that they will get what they want. I know that one city will bend under the bribes pressure and let them in, then the next city and so on each city falling faster and faster. The thing is that whatever they offer will be phased out asap once they get what they want. So please whatever you do if you work for any metro municipality get it all in advance. Don’t alow a fiscal quarter at a time payment or investment. Don’t fall for a based on profit returns donation. Get the money fast and first and by the love of God don’t give them a tax break to build them. PLEASE.
July 18th, 2006 at 3:59 pm
I love the “drop all of it’s bad habits so that it can come back home” comment. This is such the reality, you have it pegged.
I would love to know who will buy all of their low priced goods and services when there will be no one who can afford to live in the neighborhood because all of the paying jobs are gone because the competition was put out of business by them.
December 18th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
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February 25th, 2008 at 2:34 am
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