[Jane Long]

According to ABC News, "no plumbing permits have been pulled in any of the five cities where the stores were suddenly closed for at least six months."

Wow! AllButNews actually did some *investigative* reporting. I'm shocked!

Maybe they can go find 0bie's transcripts, now.

[Rockpile]

Re: ABC

It was the local station in Florida. The news chimps in Midland damn sure didn’t think for themselves. One interesting thing was that the Midland city officialdom offered to help with the permitting process and tha Walmart brass ran them off.

I don’t know where in the state you reside but the Midland Wallyworld was starting pay at $14 an hour. One theory is that they are trying to axe them and hire in the fall at minimum wage. Walmart is a profitless company skirting the edge of bankruptcy after all.

The two Odessa. Two Midland and the Big Spring locations do a hell of a LOT of busines. $$$$$$

I drove to Midland Thursday and looked at the northside store. There were zero contractor vehicles outside.