Honk if You're Not Down With Walmart
The group Walmart Free NYC released a study that, according to the Daily News, says Walmart’s designs on East New York would result in a gridlock nightmare. The article notes: “The report predicted that if the planned Gateway II shopping center included a Walmart, it would draw 10,692 more cars every weekday than the mall’s…
The group Walmart Free NYC released a study that, according to the Daily News, says Walmart’s designs on East New York would result in a gridlock nightmare. The article notes: “The report predicted that if the planned Gateway II shopping center included a Walmart, it would draw 10,692 more cars every weekday than the mall’s developers predicted in their environmental study. That’s a 32% jump in traffic, they said….All the new vehicles would slow traffic by 29% on the already congested Shore Parkway, the study found.” No word on whether the group is conducting a similar study about how a ShopRite might affect the area. Meanwhile, Gateway II developer the Related Companies tells the newspaper that the study is poppycock. In other Walmart-is-coming news, an article in Crain’s brings word of the following: “Walmart has reached a deal in principle with the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York that guarantees union workers will construct or renovate any stores that the retailer opens in the city during the next five years. The deal is a coup for Wal-mart Stores Inc., which faces stiff opposition from grocery and retail unions worried that the retailer’s entry into the New York City market will put downward pressure on the salaries of their members.”
Brooklyn Walmart Foes Say Plan is Traffic Jam in the Making [Daily News]
Walmart Inks Construction Union Deal [Crain’s]
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the tons of walmarts I’ve visited in NJ, VA, and NC are great. nice looking facilities, clean, well lit, well stocked, friendly staff…
“In my experience Walmart is a poorly stocked, badly run store that is only fit for the sticks”
you just described target in atlantic center and kmart at astor place.
and pretty much every grocery store east of park slope.
The Walmart I’ve been to in Morris County NJ is far nicer than the Target stores at Atlantic Center or the Junction. The one I went to out in East Meadow Long Island was a dump. So it seems to vary store to store.
“because she is demonstrable moron, anti-intellectual, with no credentials”
Maxine Waters???
In my experience Walmart is a poorly stocked, badly run store that is only fit for the sticks.It will not be able to successfully compete in NYC. I think the traffic figures are over-stated. I hope Walmart never oepns in NYC but, if it does, I’ll take great satisfaction in seeing it fail.
Cmu, common mistake made here…I am not a liberal. More moderate than anything. And gasp…I’m not a democrat!
“Solution to snobbery issue:
Le Walmart”
ROFL!
Sarah Palin Eyewear fits perfectly. A large majority of Walmarts conservative female shoppers aspire to be just like her.
>”Unless they are breaking the law (which no one is alleging)WHAT RIGHT does anyone here or anywhere else have to keep them out. ” Come to the next B’stoner party and your drinks are on me 🙂 I LUV YOU MAN!
snappy jumping the shark! And here I thought you were a knee-jerk liberal 😉
Being anti-Walmart has nothing to do with the cold reality of economics, it’s an ethical position (and I tilt at windmills too). Predatory business practices, substandard employee treatment, discrimination against women & minorities, cannot be justified by the supposed benefits of lower prices. Child labor could be so justified as well (and for the reading impaired, that’s an example, I’m not accusing Walmart of it.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Wal-Mart
before you dismiss that as “wiki” and roll your eyes, it’s just a start, not gospel, but kernel of truth and well written. I can cite others, but I would expect the usual dismissive “google search” comments, so I won’t.