Posted on 10/10/2012 8:09:47 AM PDT by Beowulf
Does any one have any experience or insight into fighting Walmart expansion that they would be willing to share?
And to answer your question: no, it does not make sense to oppose the construction of a retail location in order to prevent off-shoring
That wasn't my question. Seems Free Trade lovers sacrifice their spine on the gloBULL alter of stateless/borderless greed.
Excellent slogan to put on the sandwich-board when you go to the zoning commission meeting. Let me know how that works out for you.
It is not the cost of our labor (at least not only this) that determines the jobs go out of country. It is the overall cost to do business. Over taxation and regulation is what really makes the products cheaper to create in other countries.
Sure you do - to a limited extent - in a free country you can choose where to spend your money.
Most people understand that . . . emphasis on “most.”
I’m wondering if that haggis fast food restaurant is still there on the Dale Mabry a couple blocks south of the stadium.
In this country I do not think most understand it, Look at the way people vote.
I should have been more specific. I meant “most” people on FR.
That I could go with.
Walmarts are good for the economy.
If EVERY regulation and tax on manufacturing were removed, all of them, it would not even slow done the de-industrialization of the USA. Nobody in the USA can compete with billions of people that will work for 2 dollars a day. There is enough labor in China to supply the entire world’s labor at pennies on the dollar.
Unemployed people, that used to work in US factories, now collect govt. benefits financed by fiat currency borrowed from communists to spend at WalFart on Chinese produced products. Clearly this is not sustainable.
Buy the land.
Where do you have go go to see those “people of WalMart” people? I’ve never seen anyone remotely like that in any WalMart I’ve been in.
But then they are just across the street from some of the finest gated community homes in the NW Arkansas area. They are just South of the new Traffic Circle near Pinnacle Hills, south of the John Q Hammonds center
Open to everyone, including a po’boy like me.
Corporations, for the last 100 years, have been undermining states rights clamoring and lobbying for “national” laws and regulations instead of the “hodgepodge” of 50 local laws and regulations. Well they got their way, the republic is dead and they helped create the Federal Monster we live with today. Now corporations, having decided to ditch the US worker for a few pennies on the dollar, use these same “national” regulations as a fig leaf to sell out American Industry. No heros here.
The women that go to the Wal-Mart where I shop are smokin’ hot. Even the ones with kids. And no, I won’t tell you where it is located. My secret.
***Walmart can be extremely devastating to the character of existing quiet, established communities and especially to Mom and Pop small businesses.***
And here is the reason why as explained to me by a teacher long before Walmart was ever founded.
A small town will have two grocery stores, two drug stores, two dress shops, two feed stores, ect, all to prove they have competition and a market economy.
However, these stores will make handshake deals under the table not to cut each other on prices so they can keep the prices HIGH in the small towns and keep the locals in economic slavery to their high prices. The city Fathers get involved and do what they can to keep real competition out of the town, and all get a cut of the profits.
Now, years later Walmart comes along and the City Fathers would do what they could to keep them out of town. So, Walmart would buy a piece of land outside the town and build anyway.
The lower prices gave the locals a chance to get more for their money so they would desert the high dollar stores in town and then the shop owners would complain how Walmart was running them out of business.
Case in point: A town near here had a company owned store in town and called it a “discount center”. No competition as Walmart was far away.
My mom shopped there all the time. One day we took her to the local Walmart and she went into reverse “Sticker Shock”
when she realized how the “discount center” was robbing the customers blind.
I live in Tampa...what roads are you talking about ?
***1) Way to much stuff from China.Why not import more from other counties ?***
Other stores get stuff from China.
Ace hardware.
True Value.
Lowes.
Dollar Store
Dollar Tree
Dollar General
Hobby Lobby
Home Depot
Attwoods
Tractor supply Co
I went to Hobby Lobby a few days ago. I looked and looked for non-Chinese goods and after several isles I found an item, made in India. Even their art paints are made overseas, like Winsor Newton and Winton paints from England. Master’s Touch oil paint is made in China and many of their paint brushes also made in China. Their primed Canvas is made in Cambodia.
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