It's about WWIII in Europe, but close enough...
Posted on 01/16/2016 1:48:41 AM PST by Zakeet
You and others have overlooked the fact of black owned businesses that provide the community with what it needs. Walmart will destroy that mom and pop competition for ever. with the loss of those anchors the neighborhoods will just go to seed./s
Pepsionice is stating the truth on DC in his post. Thank you Pepsi.
Another group following Trump’s lead and abandoning political correctness for effective management. Let’s hope WalMart has learned its lesson and takes its head out of its ash for good this time.
Unfortunately the main ‘mom and pop’ shops in this area are liquor stores and food places, groceries are from 7-11’s. I live in the DC area and have been through these areas multiple times. Walmart’s are a plus, not a minus. Of course building the Walmart in the district will mean the folks won’t have to travel into Prince George’s country to get their goods.
do a google map survey of the area.
You nailed it. WalMart is nobody's favorite, but it is a very well managed organization run by some very smart business people. And WalMart is one of many groups that have grown wary of DC Mayor Muriel Bowser's misconduct in her very first year in office. The Washington Post got right to the point in a blistering article on October 19, entitled "Who will save Mayor Muriel Bowser?" You can read it here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/10/19/who-will-save-mayor-muriel-bowser/
I stopped going to Walmart because of this:
As if this weren’t enough; the store in my area is dirty, filthy and smelly.
I sometimes have to drive to another town to get what I need but I’d do without before I ever entered one of these stys again.
ALL the small Express stores on the west side of Benton County AR where the WM HQ is located are closing. They were always full of customers and in those small towns are the ONLY grocery stores in the area. Everyone now will have to travel 20-25 miles for groceries making it hard on older people.
The nearest grocery stores from here are now Grove OK, Siloam Springs AR, Benton, Rogers and Springdale Ar.
WM has just created new “FOOD DESERTS” where there were none.
It's about WWIII in Europe, but close enough...
My first real job was at Kroger offices in Madison, Wis, and I worked for 3 different grocery chains in So Calif. IF the end of the year profits were 1 1/2 %, the bosses were happy.
I would think that ‘inventory slippage’===STEALING/
SHOPLIFTING would be a major problem in worse neighborhoods.
I was in Los Angeles during the Watts riots. Last I heard from friends who still live there, many of the stores destroyed in that riot have NEVER been rebuilt.
No insurance will cover them.
D.C. is very corrupt. A friend of mine wanted to open a retail store near Dupont Circle a few years ago. There were a number of permits that he had to get and here is one example of how it went. He needed the fire inspector to sign off on his store, so he followed all of the rules and submitted an application. Weeks went by and nothing happened. Every time he called he was told it was being processed. Finally, after more than a month he was told they lost the application and he would have to go back to the end of the line. Long story short, he resubmitted and it was lost again. Now he really needed the fire inspection because he was two months behind his opening schedule. Then it was suggested that he hire the fire inspector to do an inspection on a weekend, and pay him overtime directly. He agreed. Then there started a negotiation about how many “assistants” the fire inspector would need, and how much they should be paid. This process repeated itself for the building inspection, the plumbing inspection and I don’t know how many others. The whole thing was quite an eye opener.
I love the sight of Atlas Shrugged made real.
I looked at the list. It seems that express stores are taking the brunt of it.
That express store in Oriental NC for example ... Just opened up 2 years ago. Put the only grocery store in town out of business, put one of two pharmacists out of business and is now pulling up and leaving.
The closest grocery store now is a solid 20 minute drive away.
“11.50 an hour for a non skilled position. Where do they think the money comes from?”
11.50/hr and all you can pilfer. Employee theft is worse than shoplifting.
Walmart is in business to make money.
Building stores in locations that will lose money is not good business.
The politicians don’t get it.
Interesting....the racist CEO should now be getting some heat for pulling stores from “diverse” areas
Look to the current administration for all these regulations and giving these minimum wage employees all these benefits.”””
Demanding crazy minimum wages creates a ‘union’ wage status without the union.
ALSO—I never heard of a single union contract that wasn’t tied to minimum wages....IF the minimum wages go up-—the union contract in effect also goes UP. Built in to the contract .
People need to realize something:
EVERY single penny that an employer pays out in wages gets passed on to the customer. EVERY single penny that the employer has to pay for Social Security matching deductions, state unemployment taxes, Federal unemployment taxes, and workmen’s compensation insurance is passed on to the customer. Every demand for paid sick days, paid Holidays and paid family leave and health benefits is passed on to the customer.
When all those prices are raised, the entire GROSS income of the business is raised-—and the LIABILITY insurance for a business is based on GROSS income.
You are raising the costs of every business in existence..... and the customer will have to pay for it.
Recently, the Feds raised the interest rate. The biggest belching about doing so was “this is to get people to save more”. SAVE MORE? How? Everything I can buy is higher-—except currently, gasoline. USA TODAY used to cost 50 cents. Now it is over $1. A 100% increase. Phone bill used to be about $48. Now it is about $67 a month, and I haven’t changed anything in my service. This is for a land line, BTW-—NO CELL PHONES HERE. NO pay TV. NO new vehicles....newest one is a 1979 station wagon. Tires used to cost me about $70 each, and the last ones cost $125 each. (Obama put a 25% duty on all tires coming from China & elsewhere when he got elected the first time. Since the Greenies have driven almost all tire companies out of the USA, that pretty much applies to all tires.) Labor rates to get repairs on my vehicles used to be about $55-60/hr and now you cannot find anything less than $90/hr. I used to buy a decent pair of ‘running’ shoes (New Balance or Reebock) for about $40. Last pair cost $68 + tax and were ON SALE. Most of these comparisons are within a 10 year period.
I am on Social Security. Obama has frozen that income for 3 of the past 7 years. This years freeze was ‘because gas prices have gone down’. Let me tell you-—when gas was over $5 a gallon, I didn’t get a ‘gas prices are up’ increase!!!!
My property taxes have gone up. My vehicle insurance has gone from about $85 a month to now $108 + a month. No tickets-—no accidents—but up it goes. My property insurance went up almost 8% and I have been with the same insurer for over 30 years. No claims.
Every media story talks bout the Middle Class getting squeezed, but those of us retired are getting squeezed quite a bit more.
When the Prudential Center was built in Newark NJ (another artificial injection of money into that welfare reservation), Newark council members openly complained that a box hadn’t been set aside for council members. They pointed to the arrangement the NJ Devils hockey team had with the arena in the nearby Meadowlands (which they were departing for Newark), and the owners made clear that it had been part of the negotiations at the time.
The sense of entitlement is disgusting; the Devils’ owner publicly stated that he would not have moved the team to Newark if he knew how it would work out (the city was trying to get more money from him), and the very public attempt to move the Nets basketball team there failed when the Nets’ new owner took them somewhere people could actually buy tickets (Brooklyn).
These cities are reduced to looking for sponsors for their Welfarian populations (and it isn’t working). Camden NJ got the battleship New Jersey museum and the state aquarium, and it didn’t help anything; if anything, the city is even worse off...
Every one of the people in that photo need to spend an entire day in those Wal Mart stores-—and then they can see for themselves how their ‘constituents’ behave.
How many of those grifters own a business of their own? Especially one with open doors & lots of display aisles.???
Politicians are trying (with some success) to make large companies into quasi-governmental institutions; look at how affirmative action policies have been forced on large companies. They are forced to take on unemployable unassimilated tokens to “spread the wealth”.
The fact that people (especially in government) feel that poor neighborhoods are “entitled” to a Wal-Mart shows how wide the gulf has grown between Americans and Welfarians.
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