Wal-Mart Supercenter will be super
March 7th, 2008, 12:33 pm · 1 Comment · posted by Ted Roth
The big, bad Wal-Mart Supercenter is in town, opening today near you.
Wal-Mart is one of the most vilified companies anywhere these days, right up there with big oil and the local newspaper. The criticism is unrelenting and often irrational.
Most people in this area realize that — at least according to an online poll last week when 60 percent of the respondents said the arrival of a supercenter will be beneficial to the area.
They are right. In fact, I don’t see much of a downside at all.
What do you think? I’ll expand on this topic in Sunday’s Editor’s File.
March 10th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Speaking as someone who is 100% consumer and does not work in a business that would be affected by Wal-Mart, this is a great addition to Jacksonville. Any small, “mom and pop” business that could be driven out of business would have already felt the effects from the previous Wal-Mart.