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Stephen Halebsky - Small Towns and Big Business: Challenging Wal-Mart Superstores
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Stephen Halebsky - Small Towns and Big Business: Challenging Wal-Mart Superstores
Lexington Books | 2008 | ISBN: 0739122401 | Pages: 298 | PDF | 2.10 MB
Lexington Books | 2008 | ISBN: 0739122401 | Pages: 298 | PDF | 2.10 MB
| “ | In 1999 the residents of Eureka, California, heard some news that many found unwelcome: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. planned to build a 130,000-squarefoot superstore in their city. Located on the Pacific coast and within easy distance of Redwood National Park, the city wanted to project an image of itself as a tourist destination. AWal-Mart superstore, identical to thousands all over the country, certainly would not contribute to that image. There were other reasons to reject Wal-Mart’s plans. The land that Wal-Mart wanted was near the old industrial section of the waterfront that had once been a center of economic activity and which the city hoped to revitalize as a source of well-paying industrial jobs. To put a mere discount department store—and one that was known for low-wage jobs—on such a crucial piece of land seemed shortsighted from the standpoint of economic development. Eureka had a struggling but viable downtown that would be hurt by the proposed new store, and independent merchants all over the city feared that Wal-Mart would harm them, perhaps fatally. Another objection, more abstract but of equal importance to many residents, was that a superstore threatened to replace the diversity and vitality of real community life with corporate homogeneity. While Wal-Mart’s vaunted low prices were attractive to some, others felt that bargains on milk and underwear could not make up for numerous disadvantages. Furthermore, the city already had its share of discount department stores, including Kmart and a huge new Costco that had failed to generate the impressive tax revenue its promoters had promised. And there were already Wal- Marts in the counties north, south, and east of the city. Convinced that the last thing Eureka needed was a Wal-Mart superstore, a group of local citizens organized to oppose the project. | ” |
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