If only Wal-Mart would not fight the people of Oro Valley and "pull out " from across the road at Catalina State Park! How about it Delia Garcia? (She is the W-M company representative in Phoenix.)
Read the article from the July 14th online edition of the Arizona Star.
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Big Box Stores: A Deficit For A Town
Blogger Evan Wise sent us his letter to the Explorer. In it, Evan points to a study done by Barnstable Massachusetts, the Cape Cod town that houses Hyannis. "The study found that big box retail generates a net annual deficit of $468 per 1,000 square feet". That is, big box stores cost more than the revenue they generate for a town. Evan concludes: "Not only will the Big Box stores cost the community money, property taxes will be raised to support the workers at Wal-Mart due to the low wages scale, schools will be needed to teach the influx of workers, and existing local retail and grocers will struggle or die due to the import of cheap Chinese goods at low prices." Read Evan' s letter by clicking here.
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