16th January 2004, 4:21 PM
Quote:The three Wal-Marts in my area are business magnets. Tons are stores are moving to where the Wal-Marts are at. In fact, at on location the are just about to finish a huge construction project that brought in, among other things, a Home Depot, a Target, a 12 screen cinema, and a several restaurants. Now, granted, the downtown locally owned stores are hit rather hard, but Wal-Marts pull in a lot of other stores.
Don't you love it when people who think they're disagreeing make their points for you?
Now Wal-Mart hasn't killed our downtown, but that's because I think it attracts somewhat different customers... and while it's always busy the downtown is doing okay too. At least for now. But Home Depot just opened across the river and Lowe's is building in town... it could hit the local lumber yards pretty hard...