Lowe’s built a brand new store here. In two years it was closed down. The new building sits empty and boarded up. Across the street a lot was cleared for a new Super Walmart. The builder’s office is still there, but there has been no progress. There are unfinished commercial buildings still sitting since the crash.
The thing that always bothered me is “why don’t plenty more of our teens actually like working at stores other than Wal-Mart?” Some work schedules at stores other than Wal-Mart actually are pretty generous in their schedules by comparison. I worked for a local supermarket, and the latest I could eve be made to work was around 11:30p.m., and the earliest was at 8:30a.m., and there even was the option as an employee to sign off one day out of the week as “unavailable”, thinking in religious terms, this meant that you could take off whatever day was considered the “sabbath” according to your religion that week. I would have bothered with Wal-Mart, but after the local supermarket took me in, I took the job, and enjoyed it for the reasons which I just mentioned, especially the leniency that they allowed in work days.