Do you believe when a Walmart is built in a town/city it destoys the local economy?
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No, it does not. American business has been through this before. \n\nThe Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., the grocery-store chain, stood astride the U.S. market in the 1920s and 1930s with a dominance that has likely never been duplicated. At its peak, A&P had five times the number of stores Wal-Mart has now (although much smaller ones), and at one point, it owned 80% of the supermarket business. Some of the antipredatory-pricing laws in use today were inspired by A&P's attempts to muscle its suppliers.\n\nThere is very little academic and statistical study of Wal-Mart's impact on the health of its suppliers and virtually nothing in the last decade, when Wal-Mart's size has increased by a factor of five. This while the retail industry has become much more concentrated. In large part, that's because it's nearly impossible to get meaningful data that would allow researchers to track the influence of Wal-Mart's business on companies over time. You'd need cooperation from the vendor companies or Wal-Mart or both--and neither Wal-Mart nor its suppliers are interested in sharing such intimate detail
774889
I don't know if it should be rebuilt the way it was. Not to be cold or anything but what I am trying to say is. Is it really smart to rebuild that city the way it was? I mean the city is a disaster waiting to happen. Perhaps some of those neighborhoods would be better returned to their natural state. I am all in favor of building and development, but rebuilding there does not make sense. I say ask the government to declare eminent domain, and make the area a park or something. Oh and notyou311 NO area has LOTS OF OIL!
838645
Child labor is abhorrent. But it will continue as long as we (mostly Americans who are consumers extraordinaire) create a demand for cheap products that we can buy at WalMart for "low prices - everyday". \nThink about who actually made that crummy lava lamp you just bought - probably some ten-year-old child chained to a work table for 12-14 hours a day.              -RKO-
886079
I think everyone should bombard the main office with calls or at least the local Walmart stores...what do you think?
888708
I wouldn't necessarily say that only liberals hate Wal-Mart but I would agree that a lot of us are very concerned about their business practices... with good reason.\n\nFor one, Wal Mart is owned by the wealthiest family in the world consisting of 4 brothers and sisters each worth over 20 billion dollars, the Waltons.\n\nNot saying wealth is bad but I am saying it is hard to contemplate how a family can gain so much profit while exploiting cheap labor, sweat shops in China and purposely using tactics to put small businesses in America out of business.\n\nIE, Wal Mart was convicted of price gauging in the 90s and has been charged in 3 different countries with violating monopoly laws.\n\nBut, with all that said, the #1 thing that bothers me about Wal Mart is their little known evolvement in manipulating trade tariffs between us and China. They have so much power that they literally are dictating what the trade tariffs will or won't be.
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Hey, if it was SOOO terrible, people wouldn't shop there.  So... good for them, it's Capitalism.\n\nActually though, I'm from Michigan and I know that health benefits can ruin a company.  GM and, more recently Fords, has been SUFFERING and forced to fire people.
302066
I love my small town. But I also like the fact that the next town over has everything you need...Wal-Mart, Blockbuster, restaurants, a movie theater, ect...\n\nFind youself a sweet spot like this, and you need nothing more.
98235
Why do you want to. Walmart will bring in more jobs and is a good place to shop ,cheaper then most.A good place to work.
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No.  The government's responsibilities to the various failing industries is pretty much limited to auditing, unions and welfare.  Also, passing legislation allowing taxes from wealthy areas to supplement the taxes from poorer areas is controversial (the wealthy want to keep their money in their own communities, which is both understandable and somewhat selfish, and I don't know what my actual opinion of it is).  If they could do that, though, it could help prevent depressed areas in other cities, but not enough to make a huge difference, if you ask me.\n\nThere are all kinds of problems.  If the government were responsible for ALL of them, it would be even less effective as it is now.  Starting up business is a risk, and an investment.  There are depressed areas of nearly every city or town in the US.  It wouldn't make sense to hold them responsible for depressions that haven't happened yet when there are so many poor people and poor areas out there.\n\n\nYo, Reagen:  that's a lie.  There are rags to riches stories in America, sure, but the fact is, if you grow up in a town that can't offer good schooling, it can hinder you when it comes to going to a good college, and if you can't go to a good college, getting the executive jobs are virtually impossible.  \n\nUnlimited resources to get ahead and acheive your dreams is a pretty theory, but for the most part, that's all it is.
581010
it works i've heard and it's expensive but the wal-mart down the strret is getting rid of it for like 4.00 i wish i used it!
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Yes, a drop off location outside the city will do the job.  From there the Cities could pick up their goods with smaller trains or trucks.
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:}\nif this address materialism in general\nThen I think all companies that use Christianity soly for economic reasons are wrong, that would include walmart.\n\nIf you think walmart is the only company that would use Christianity to economic advantage I think you are wrong\n\nand no I do not believe that Walmart will control all buying or even a significant portion of it.
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Walmart used to have a slogan on their paper sacks: "We buy American whenever we can."  I don't think they use it anymore, I'm not even sure they still use paper sacks.  Anyway from what I understand Walmart's practice in "buying American" was that they would squeeze all the profit out of the manufacturer and force them to sell low if they wanted to do business with Walmart.  Then as soon as a foriegn company showed up with the item at a lower price they would quit buying the American produced item leaving the American manufacturer to fail.  I have heard that American manufacturers know that the quickest way to get a foriegn company to start producing cheap knockoffs of your item is to stock it in Walmart stores.  So what drives all of this carnage?  WE DO!  The American public is frantic to save a few pennies.  If we weren't there wouldn't be all of the store ads in the newspapers and on television.  "We won't be beat on price", "Your value leader", and "Garuanteed lowest prices" are all slogans far more valuable in the marketplace than "American Made".  Your question is a little like asking people to stand on the beach and join hands to stop a hurricane.  We Americans are far better served by entrepenuers who acknowledge market trends and exploit them than by those who would cling to archaic systems based on protectionism.  Find a way to create jobs in your community.  If you want my advice look outside of manufacturing anything that can be made overseas and shipped for less than you can do it here.  Information, Service, Tourism are all good areas to look into, although now a lot of Information jobs are being done in India.  I appreciate your thought, but trust me you are wasting your time.  You seem intelligent so use your brain to deal with reality instead of fantasize about a revolution that will never come.  Faster, cheaper, better has always been the battlecry of the marketplace and we aint never going to change that.
982334
It will be somewhat different. Nothing stays the same forever. If Wal-Mart and Target are not around then there will be other stores just like them but better. When I was young there was a store like them in my neighborhood. It is out of business not but there is a Wal-Mart close to it now and that is a better store than the old store that use to be there. Fashions change sometimes for the better sometimes for the worse. One bad thing about the future is that crime will rise as it has for steadily for a long time. You will be older and these changes come so slowly that you will not even notice them. Study hard while you are still in school, as I believe that the gap between the rich and poor is changing. Those in the middle class will either rise up a bit or will be poor in the future and it will depend on the education and what they do with it that makes the difference. ▬
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Walmart is an evil corporation that sells shoddy merchandise to Americans.
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No, I don't believe so, because those businesses in return becomes taxpayers too, also most of the businesses becomes assets to the growth and development of the neighborhood.  I do believe the agency should have task force which does studies in defining which business may be pratical for its use of the funds, and not allocate funds just because persons want to go into business.  I also believe the agencies responsible for allocating funding should be held accountable for how the money is allocated, and being used.  There are very good viable small businesses barely surviving and grants allocated to them would be good not only for them, but for the employees, communioty and economics.
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I really seriously doubt that Walmart ,THE BIGGEST RETAIL COMPANY IN THE WORLD, would ever do anything like that. All they care about is money, money, money and dropping the prices to what they were 20 years ago would cause them to lose precious money. Sure, some things cost a lot more then than they do now, but some things were cheaper then and dropping those things to the prices of 20 years ago would make them lose money. Think about it.