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AND HE WAS THE ONLY MAYOR IN WHITE SETTLEMENT HISTORY TO RUN OFF WAL-MART AND SAMS! NOW THERE IS A WORLD CLASS DUMBASS
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ok "dodi" i have asked it before and got no answert so maybe you will give me the gift of your infinate wisdom on this:
why do you think wal mart decided to build two of the biggest super centers 5 miles away from each other on each side of white settlement? no other retailer is stupid enough to try to come in white settlement now and try to compete with TWO supercenters.
name one other city that you know of that this has been done in.
[size=18]Old Wal-Marts linger empty
Closings leave towns with 'a giant hole'
HILLSBOROUGH - The massive building sits abandoned behind hundreds of empty parking spaces at the Hillsborough Commons shopping center.
Once bustling with shoppers, the former Wal-Mart just off South Churton Street has been quiet since the retail giant replaced it in 2003 with a Wal-Mart Supercenter three times its size a few miles up Interstate 85.
"The day they left, it was like a tomb over there," said Mark Bateman, who owned a video store a few doors down and saw his and other merchants' sales suffer without Wal-Mart pulling shoppers in.
Empty Wal-Mart buildings plague communities across the nation. At any given time, about 350 former Wal-Marts lie vacant in America, according to Al Norman of Sprawl-Busters, an organization that opposes big-box sstores. At least nine empty former Wal-Mart spaces -- the equivalent of 12 football fields in size -- occupied North Carolina as of February, Norman said.
In Knightdale, plans are under way to close a Wal-Mart and build a supercenter a mile away. The retailer, however, hasn't found a new occupant for the existing building, which it owns. Wal-Mart is planning to market the space, said spokesman Kevin Thornton.
Supercenters -- which include full-service groceries and are about twice the size of Wal-Mart's discount stores -- help meet customers' one-stop shopping needs, Thornton said from the company's Arkansas headquarters.
They also make Wal-Mart more money, said James F. Smith, professor of finance at UNC-Chapel Hill.
"It's way more profitable, a way more efficient use of space," he said.
As of July, Wal-Mart had 81 supercenters in North Carolina, and only 34 discount stores.
The retailer's shift to massive supercenters, though, means more empty Wal-Marts in towns such as Hillsborough.
"It's just a giant hole in the community that can last for years," said Julia Christensen, a former university lecturer now writing a book on how communities reuse empty big box stores.
Christensen said the buildings' sheer size -- ranging from 60,000 to 200,000 square feet -- makes them tough to fill, especially when Wal-Mart or another big-box retailer restricts how its former sites can be used to avoid competition.
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keep going dodi and keep making excuses for your precious mayor and his croanies. 29.04.08 13:23 WALTER
WHAT A DUMBASS MY B/P IS JUST FINE SO IS THE BREATHING, THANKS FOR YOUR CONCERN. STUMPED??? IT SEEMS THAT I HAVE MET ALL ISSUES BROUGHT FORTH NOW DUMBASS DODIE AND A FEW OTHERS WISH TO CONTINUALLY CHANGE SUBJECTS WHEN THE FIND THAT I AM RIGHT. SO FOR NOW ANYWAY THAT STILL MAKES THEM THE DUMBASS . 29.04.08 11:04 HE HE HE HE HE
walter youre bp is getting up. take DEEP breaths and count to ten. I'll help you just in case you get stumped;  1.........2......... .3.........4........ ..5.......6......... .7.........8........ 9.........10.
There now, don't that feel better?  29.04.08 10:08 WALTER
WELL DUMBASS THE BEER AND WINE PERMIT IS NOT GIVEN BY THE PERMIT DEPARTMENT IT IS APPROVED BY THE COUNCIL. OH WHAT IS THAT YES OF COURSE OUTZ WAS IN CONTROL OF THE COUNCIL AT THE TIME. SO LETS JUST SAVE US ALL SOME TIME HERE DODIE IS A STUPID KOOL-AIDE DRINKING OUTZ LOVER FROM WAY BACK WHO BELEIVES EVERYTHING THE MAN SAYS IF HE SAID THE SKY IS PINK SHE WOULD BELIVE IT WITHOUT QUESTION. AND WE ALREADY KNOW WHAT HER MORALS SAY ABOUT HER, SHE WAS A SQUATTER, SHE IS A LIAR WHO WILL LIE ABOUT ANYONE OR ANYTHING TO GET WHAT SHE WANTS. WOW SHE'S A LITTLE MINI OUTZ.....AMAZING.... .WHAT A DUMBASS . 29.04.08 09:34 Dodi
Wasn't aware that Ouzts worked in permits. Hmmmm, that is an interesting relevation. Now, how did you come up with that piece of information? Hmmmmm? 28.04.08 20:30 WALTER
HEY DODIE DUMBASS HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED JUST HOW MUCH WAL-MART MAKES OFF OF THE SALE OF WINE AND BEER? NOW HOW DO YOU THINK THEY REACTED WHEN OUTZ AND CREW DENIED THEIR REQUEST FOR A PERMIT BECAUSE A SMALL PEICE OF THEIR PORPERTY WAS TO CLOSE TO THE HIGH SCHOOL? HOW DO YOU THINK THEY REACTED WHEN THE FOUND OUT ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS DONATE THAT SMALL PEICE OF PROPERTY TO THE CITY OR TACO BELL? HOW DO YOU THINK THEY REACTED WHEN THEY FOUND OUT THAT OUTZ AND CREW KNEW THIS AND YET SAID NOTHING? WHY DO YOU THINK THAT OUTZ AND CREW SAID NOTHING? DO YOU THINK THAT MAYBE JUST MAYBE THAT WAL-MART WAS A LITTLE PISSED? THAT MAYBE THEY ASK THEMSELVES THE SAME QUESTIONS? YOU SEE YOUR SAINTED OUTZ STUCK IT TO WHITE SETTELMENT AND I MEAN ALL THE WAY UP TO THE HANDLE. AND YOU PEOPLE JUST KEEP LETTING HIM DO IT, GIVING HIM A FREE PASS EVERYTIME. DUMBASS 28.04.08 15:16 Anonymous
Dodi
Can't say that I am aware of any towns with two super centers on either side of them
do ya think maybe SOMEONE pissed off wal mart? do ya not read the news about wal mart being the most powerful retailer in the country? oh heck no this is strictly coincidence right? 28.04.08 13:28 Anonymous
what an ignorant piece of humanity you are dodi 28.04.08 13:24 Anonymous
you have got to be kidding me. you actually believe this crap that is fed to you? 28.04.08 13:23 Dodi
Just for you, "Walter":
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CRITICS OF SPRAWL Community activists often decry the shuffling of big box retailers from one location to another, saying the trend creates urban sprawl and hurts the environment.
"They move ... to the growing edge of a city where new subdivisions are going in and people are moving to those areas because of cheaper land," said Sandy Kurtz, a member of the Coalition for Responsible Progress, a local citizens group concerned with development issues. "Retailers ... try to locate closer to where people are living."
Regulations often are not adequate to protect wetlands in suburban areas that are desirable for residential and commercial development because of their affordability, Ms. Kurtz said.
The Chattanooga City Council's Legal and Legislative Committee in December asked the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Regional Planning Agency to survey other communities to learn how they are dealing with big box development. Steve Leach, director of administration for the planning agency, said the "scale-oriented commercial zones" study is due later this year and is in its preliminary stages.
25.04.08 17:41 Dodi
Can't say that I am aware of any towns with two super centers on either side of them, but the proof is here for you to read. Walmart has a track record of closing stores in small towns just like White Settement and building super centers right down the road. Maybe White Settlement is unique simply because we are COMPLETELY SURROUNDED BY FORT WORTH and the other towns are situated as we are. None the less, is it the fault of the mayor in each of the towns affected that the stores closed/relocated? If that is your argument then if Ouzts had not won the election when he did, I guess you would then blame whoever was mayor at the time, which would have been either Herring or Miller probably. 25.04.08 17:33 WALTER
DODIE THE DUMBASS A FUNNY THING ABOUT WHAT YOU POSTED IS THAT ALL OF THOSE CITIES "STILL" HAVE A WAL-MART BUT THEY JUST HAVE THE OLD BUILDING STILL THERE AS WELL, SO THEY ARE "STILL" GETTING "ALL OF THE" SALES TAX! AND WHAT IS IT WE ARE GETTING AGAIN.............OH YES 35%. YOUR SUCH A OUTZ LOVING DUMBASS 25.04.08 17:27 Anonymous
oh get real dodi. name one of those cities you just cited that has TWO, count them now TWO supercenters on each side of their city! are you really that blind? 25.04.08 16:50 Dodi
So, if you think White Settlement is alone in this, think again. Quesion for the nay sayers; Do you think the Mayor's, of all the towns accross America that have suffered as we have, are guilty of "RUNNING THEM OUT OF TOWN"? Hmmmmmmmmmmm????
Here, read for your self.
http://www.swsna....
http://www.yesmag...
http://www.newsob...
http://www.radioi...
http://www.ptverm...
http://hadleyneig...
http://www.sptime...
http://www.sfgate...
And the list goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on................. 25.04.08 16:30 Dodi
By KORTNEY STRINGER
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
September 15, 2004
At a Wal-Mart in La Junta, Colo., boards cover the windows and wiry weeds sprout from cracks in the parking lot. The 69,000-square-foot store has been vacant since 2000, when Wal-Mart Stores Inc. built one of its even-bigger "supercenters" about a quarter of a mile away and vacated a building it had used for less than 10 years .
"There isn't much demand for another retailer to come in and use that space," says Allison Cortner, the head of a local nonprofit economic development group who has been trying to find a tenant for the empty store. Wal-Mart's lease on the building runs through 2017.
La Junta's situation is hardly unique. Throughout the country, hundreds of empty "big box" stores litter the suburban and rural landscape . Some were abandoned by chains that went out of business. Others were orphaned by corporate downsizings. And still others, like the La Junta one, were left behind when their corporate parents decided they weren't big enough.
This build-and-abandon trend occurs everywhere in real estate as needs of tenants change, but it's particularly acute in retailing, where store formats can change as quickly as dress lengths.
While big retailers can afford to write off or absorb the cost of closed stores and their ongoing leases, communities are often stuck with a different kind of bill . They complain that the empty buildings are eyesores that can boost crime and vandalism and bring down property values . And where darkened stores anchor strip malls, they can depress sales of remaining retailers .
While the stores' owners typically continue to pay property taxes on the vacant properties -- that is, if they remain in business -- the buildings no longer generate jobs or lucrative sales-tax dollars for state and local governments.
Finding new tenants for big properties isn't easy. Sometimes the very company that abandoned a store blocks a prospective new occupant. Wal-Mart in particular sometimes creates roadblocks when other discount merchandisers or supermarkets have expressed interest in its shuttered buildings, say some real-estate brokers and community officials.
"Wal-Mart clearly says up front, 'We don't want anyone in the buildings with a competing use,' " says Suzanne Chen of Retail Realty Group of Tampa, Fla., which specializes in big-boxes. "Sometimes they would rather sit with a vacant building than budge on letting a competitor in it."
In Fort Myers, Fla., for instance, Wal-Mart blocked a Save-A-Lot grocery store from subletting an abandoned store where it still held the lease, according to Ms. Chen. Wal-Mart runs a supercenter, which sells groceries along with the chain's other items, about a mile away.
25.04.08 16:20 Dodi
Eighty-six communities across the US have stopped Wal-Mart, K-Mart, and other big box retailers from locating in their town. Here’s how they did it.
From Vermont to Florida, South Carolina to California, Idaho to Iowa, 86 communities across America have stopped big box retailers – Wal-Mart, K-Mart, and the like – from locating in their towns.
But why ever would anyone want to do that? In his autobiography, Wal-Mart CEO Sam Walton says that Wal-Mart would never go to a town that didn't want it. He says there are plenty of places just pining for the low-priced mountains of stuff that Wal-Mart offers. Who could object to getting in a small town the one-stop convenience and deep discounts city folks get to enjoy?
In Gig Harbor, Washington, the answer is: the 14,000 people who signed an anti-Wal-Mart petition, that's who. If you ask small town folks like those in Gig Harbor (which the big box guys never seem to do), lots of them don't think an enormous concrete cube surrounded by acres of asphalt is much of an aesthetic addition.
But, you say, that's a small price to pay. You only suffer the aesthetic affront as you drive in and out of town. True enough, except, once Wal-Mart has been in town for a few years, you'll suffer the aesthetic affront of driving through a downtown that's filled with empty buildings where the pharmacy, dry-goods, variety, and hardware stores that it drove out of business used to be. Because Wal-Mart, according to the late Mr. Walton, comes to town to compete. Walton talks about Wal-Mart's policy of saturating regions, and in areas where it's achieved saturation, it's now taking the next step – opening regional “Superstores,” which offer groceries, auto repair, and other services, and closing their smaller stores in surrounding towns.
So, once Wal-Mart has changed you to a one-store town, you may get lucky and become the location of the new Superstore for your area. Or you may be like a growing number of little towns, which, after loyally pumping their retail dollars into Wal-Mart, discover that the town 30 miles down the road got the Superstore, and they get an empty big box on the edge of town to go with all the empty stores where downtown used to be. According to Sprawl-Busters, an anti-big-box organization run by Al Norman, there are now nearly 200 dead Wal-Mart discount stores. But, hey, Wal-Mart makes your retail dollar go further, and Wal-Mart brings jobs to town. Or does it?
If you're tempted by those low, low prices, consider how much you will really save. Sam Walton thought Wal-Mart's nay-sayers were just living in the past, trying to treat small-town merchants “like they were whales or whooping cranes or something that has the right to be protected.” But when you spend a dollar at a Wal-Mart, that dollar is on its way to the Bentonville, Arkansas, corporate headquarters the next day. When you spend that dollar at a local store, it gets deposited in a local bank, and spent again in the community 25.04.08 16:17 |
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