On 2/8/2015 10:58 AM, George Leppla wrote:
> On 2/8/2015 9:27 AM, William wrote:
>> just curious Jill, what arguement did your group use to successfully
>> block Wally's move on to the island? A small town council near my
>> house refused to allow Wally World in a few years ago and what did
>> Wally do? Instead of one SuperCenter they built three surrounding the
>> town! The world's largest capitalist pig marches forward...the 800
>> pound gorilla of retailing. Can you believe K-Mart did'nt even notice
>> those country bumpkins back in the eighties.
>>
>> William
>
I have no idea. I had just arrived here to help my mother out with my
dad (he had Alzheimers). After he died she asked me to stay. So I only
read blurbs about the fight against WalMart in the local paper, we
weren't really involved with it. IIRC aside from the property not being
zoned for such a large structure there were also environmental issues.
Much of this area is (allegedly) protected wetlands.

Jill

> I worked in management at Kmart back in the late 70's and early 80's and
> they were very aware of Walmart. They even had a committee to study
> Walmart and a lot of their recommendations about display and
> merchandising and distribution were implemented.
>
> Kmart would have been successful competing with Walmart except that the
> upper management changed from marketing people to people with accounting
> backgrounds. When the bean-counters took over, things started going
> downhill fast. Walmart was always run by people whose background was in
> marketing... and the bean counters were no match.
>
> You build a business from the front door in (from the customer's point
> of view), not from the back office out (the accounting management point
> of view).
>
> George L