To Wal-Mart or not?

Every town in America has come face to face with this question. Will the giant retailer take a bite out of your pocket? In the end each town has caved into the powers to be, some willingly.

Our town went through this a dozen or so years ago and the company built a small store and it did have a small impact. They hired a few locals for $2/ hour and within a few years it was goodbye to several small chain departments stores and five or six other smaller businesses and a drug store of two.

Now our little quaint town has grown with new stop lights and a few dozen condo’s developed by out of town bankers thinking our area would make a great retirement village.

To go along with this thought the king pins at Wal-Mart saw big dollars signs in one another’s eyes. Now want to build a giant super store which also bring a mass of franchises and burger stands…. So the reason why people come north to get away from the masses to enjoy peace, solitude, trees and lakes is now going to be paved over for a parking lot. When a Wal-Mart hits so do half a dozen other " come & go franchise businesses.

There use to be stars in our haven, now we have light defusion from dozens of street and parking lot lights. Some people are thrilled to shop at a Wal-Mart but the vast majority live in a different neighborhood., it’s not in their back yard. Good bye North Star, hello KFC.