Many local communities treat Walmart as the golden goose to tax and to permit the hell out of it. Their scam inspectors are in Walmart more than a regular employee, figuring out new ways to scam Walmart for more money besides the enormous sales taxes and property taxes paid each quarter/year by Walmart.
About a decade ago, Walmart closed a big store in a backrupt city run by libs and opened an even bigger store a few miles away in a different county/city.
Good employees were give the opportunity to go to the new store. Which has been a huge success.
Apparently, due to the fees/demands by the city/county where the original store was, made Walmart to make the decision to close that store and move to a friendly city/county.
Yep. So, one wonders if they have plans for new stores in more business-friendly locales close to these stores. And then there’s the re-staffing implicit I with that. Need popcorn.