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Wal-Mart fight's Herculean issue: Who crafts communities' future?
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| 5/30/6
| John King
Posted on 05/30/2006 7:35:53 AM PDT by SmithL
Cynics are right: Hercules' old-fashioned new neighborhoods are downright unreal.
The houses are too pristine, the landscaping too prim. They're modeled along the lines of a bungalow-filled village of yore, yet the result looks like a pastel launching pad for commuters.
No matter. I'll root for a David clad in Ralph Lauren over a bottom-line Wal-Mart Goliath any day.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: caliphoney; elitist; eminentdomain; imminentdomain; ivorytower; landgrab; snob; walmart; walmartbashing; yourtaxdollarsatwork
Property rights in California?
HA!
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05/30/2006 7:35:57 AM PDT
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
Wal-Mart was very deliberate in its early days to stay outside of Metro areas and to pick off small and medium sized markets with little competition. Now that they are incredibly well established - they need to realize that the smartest choice when faced with lunacy like SF - is to simply not go there.
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