At 12:06 PM -0700 5/17/01, Matthew Pollard rearranged electrons to say:

>Hey, while we are email'ing wal-mart, can you ask about their propensity
>to go into a small town, undercut the competition and then leave town-
>after the local hardware store, etc have gone belly up....

Yeah, I'd like to know this too. They did this in De Land, Florida --
where my in-laws live, where I stayed with them for two years during
college. They wanted a huge new supercenter when they already had a
moderately-sized store in town that looked just fine to me. Sure, it
wasn't the fanciest Wal-Mart I'd ever seen, but it worked just fine.

There was a vote. The people voted the proposal down. (I wasn't
eligible to vote, but my in-laws were, and they voted against.)
SOMEhow, the wishes of the people were overridden and the store was
built anyway! Why? There was already one in town, and the field that
the store was built in (they didn't start until after I left) was a
very nice one. And why even bother to have a referendum if you're
just going to ignore it?

*grumblegrumble*

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