Tuesday, January 04, 2005
Wal-Mart Plans To Open First New York City Store In Queens
If you care about your neighbors and your neighborhood businesses, you will stop this and now. Wal-Mart sucks!!! Sure you can buy cheap as hell goods. No kidding, but cheap in price is not the only problem. Why have to rebuy the same thing over and over, because you decided to buy one cheap as hell polo shirt at Wal-Mart? But here is where the cheap aspect stops being a good thing.
Wal-Mart runs your locals grocers, your local clothing stores, your local delis, your local butchers, your local bakeries, your local hardware stores out of business. How? They are so huge, that they can buy in such bulk that your local retailer, or food store cannot compete on price. What else do they do? Drive local wages down. Bar unions. Wages so low that their employees cannot afford the offered healthcare and Wal-Mart is the only place they can shop. What else? They force manufacturers to meet the price that Wal-Mart wants to pay for their goods. So, manufacturers have to force concessions from their workers in order to be able to afford to produce the goods at Wal Mart's price. What else? They wrangle millions of dollars in tax breaks from local governments, which do not in any way offset the costs of increased traffic, new roads, and the local costs of having many of their full time workers being eligible for food stamps and Medicaid.
Oh, but wait!!! I can buy 10 shitty polo shirts for the price of one at J. Crew or The Gap. Ah, consumerism will be the death of us yet. Buy, buy, buy and watch others die, die, die. Stop this blight now!!!
What can we do? Local merchants in Vermont have banded together into buying cooperatives, which then helps them to be able to buy in larger quantities at lower prices. The result, is lower prices for their customers and the ability to remain competitive in the face of the onslaught of the Big Box retailers. You can fight this and this is for the good of us all. We keep our purchasing local and help to keep good jobs local. Wal Mart is not interested in helping your community, and most of all you.
Wal-Mart Plans To Open First New York City Store In Queens
by Kim Brown, Central and Mid Queens Editor
December 09, 2004
With more than 4,000 stores around the world, it seems that the only city left without a Wal-Mart is New York City. That might change if the retail giant gets its way and opens a Supercenter on the Rego Park/Elmhurst border.
The announcement that the world’s largest retailer was in preliminary negotiations for a site at 63rd Road off Queens Boulevard was met with delight by some residents and fears by certain business owners that such a large competitor might crush them. Full Story Here
Wal-Mart runs your locals grocers, your local clothing stores, your local delis, your local butchers, your local bakeries, your local hardware stores out of business. How? They are so huge, that they can buy in such bulk that your local retailer, or food store cannot compete on price. What else do they do? Drive local wages down. Bar unions. Wages so low that their employees cannot afford the offered healthcare and Wal-Mart is the only place they can shop. What else? They force manufacturers to meet the price that Wal-Mart wants to pay for their goods. So, manufacturers have to force concessions from their workers in order to be able to afford to produce the goods at Wal Mart's price. What else? They wrangle millions of dollars in tax breaks from local governments, which do not in any way offset the costs of increased traffic, new roads, and the local costs of having many of their full time workers being eligible for food stamps and Medicaid.
Oh, but wait!!! I can buy 10 shitty polo shirts for the price of one at J. Crew or The Gap. Ah, consumerism will be the death of us yet. Buy, buy, buy and watch others die, die, die. Stop this blight now!!!
What can we do? Local merchants in Vermont have banded together into buying cooperatives, which then helps them to be able to buy in larger quantities at lower prices. The result, is lower prices for their customers and the ability to remain competitive in the face of the onslaught of the Big Box retailers. You can fight this and this is for the good of us all. We keep our purchasing local and help to keep good jobs local. Wal Mart is not interested in helping your community, and most of all you.
Wal-Mart Plans To Open First New York City Store In Queens
by Kim Brown, Central and Mid Queens Editor
December 09, 2004
With more than 4,000 stores around the world, it seems that the only city left without a Wal-Mart is New York City. That might change if the retail giant gets its way and opens a Supercenter on the Rego Park/Elmhurst border.
The announcement that the world’s largest retailer was in preliminary negotiations for a site at 63rd Road off Queens Boulevard was met with delight by some residents and fears by certain business owners that such a large competitor might crush them. Full Story Here
