Posted on 07/09/2013 1:33:08 PM PDT by Perdogg
Alex Barron is a regional general manager for Wal-Mart U.S. responsible for about 90 stores and 30,000 associates in the region, including all planned stores for Washington, D.C.
For almost three years, Wal-Mart has worked on a plan to bring new stores to Washington, D.C., and we are now close to opening our first location here. Unfortunately, the city may soon adopt legislation that discriminates against business and threatens to undo all that we have accomplished together.
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In addition to the IQ standard, it’s also required that you have no morals or ethics so that you can take payola or rob from DC funds set aside for children’s programs.
Yep. The term for this is "shakedown".
My advice to Walmart is to close down the building of the stores they are working on and get out.
I remember Hechingers. The theft there by employees was so great you could buy tools and other things on the street with the Hechinger price still on it. That didn’t count what the customers were stealing.
Sears left DC except for West of the park. Up near Chevy Chase. When you hire in DC remember, what you see is what you get.
The self-esteem they've been indoctrinated with won't allow them to accept anything less than a $200K executive position. To offer them anything lower would be disrespectful.
Almost.
Steal golden goose. Kill golden goose. Eat Golden Goose.
Wake up the next AFTERNOON, and complain that there are no eggs to eat, and no more Golden Geese to steal.
I hope Wal-Mart pulls out of DC and fast......
The DC gubmint did something along these lines with Jack Kent Cook and the Redskins. They wanted to build a new stadium in DC and they just wanted to get all the BS out of the way but the council kept coming back with more and more “sudden zoning” issues and conditions like planning not to “obstruct a view”.. He just told them to go pound sand and built in MD. Now Snyder is practically printing his own money just across the border and the DC people are suddenly opposed to the name of the Redskins.
Now, after Walmart has already broken ground, they change the rules. I’d stop, take the loss and leave a big sign stating why they won’t build there and walk away.
The obvious reply is to stop ALL work, immediately, on the stores under construction, and put all activity on hold.
If the vote passes, end all contracts, pull all items of any value out of the sites. . .
And then release a rumor that George Zimmerman has a hideout in one of the buildings.
The DC “yutes” will take it from there, Wal-Mart gets an insurance payout. . . .and DC gets three empty lots full of wreckage. . .
regardless of wages, such a store would be theived out of business in a couple months.
“What’s the requirement to be on the DC Council “
I believe it’s helpful to have been convicted and served time for crack cocaine several times, and maybe an embezzlement charge or two. You know. For street cred. Oh, and you also have to be black. And a commie. Oops, I mean Democrat. OK, either a commie OR Democrat. Or both.
They should cut their losses and leave. There are a bunch of Walmarts within striking distance of DC in Virginia and Maryland. If people want to shop there, they can drive a few minutes out of the city and find one. If they don’t want to shop there, they can stick with places such as the Soviet Safeway on Capital Hill and the Social Safeway over in Georgetown. Or they can drive to the Pentagon, keep going South for a mile or so and hit Shoppers Food Warehouse and Target. All the otherwise unemployable people who thought they might get a job at the new Walmarts can just pound sand, I guess.
You're being generous.
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