[Vision2020] Walmart

[Shelly]

FROM THE DESK OF PHIL:

What short memories everybody has. Remember when Walmart and Kmart came in?
It was death and destruction amongst the business community. Your neighbor
and friends. I think the census data has a major flaw in it. According to
the census data more than a majority of our population is well educated, but
still thinks and acts like they are 13. The big box stores cause another
reaction that you are not paying attention to. It causes a population shift.
People migrate to live closer to those areas. I also understand that we are
thinking of filling in the corridor between Moscow and Pullman. What's left
of our country feel, will cease. Don't even talk about our precious water
that we do not have.  We will become a new Los Angeles on a microscopic
scale. The rest of the businesses that are hanging on because none of us are
making any real money, will die along with the tax base. 

Here is the grand scheme of things. Walmart plans on putting in two huge
stores in a population our size?????? Do not forget that the signs entering
Moscow. They include the entire student population in their count. I was
told about 12,000. Reason? Our community is ignorant to the true business
intentions of their power. They put the two stores in and you gotta remember
they truly don't care if they both make a profit. Their goal is to "dominate
 our market. We will be losing businesses that currently supply us with beds
 oil changes, tires, gasoline, groceries, etc. We will have numerous
businesses join the bankruptcy line so Walmart can fleece our community of
it's core assets. So, you don't need to worry about there ever being a
downtown. Since, most of those businesses are downtown.

Then what they do after they have destroyed downtown on the Pullman and
Moscow side, they will "mothball" one of the stores. Notice nothing is said
about the current Moscow store they promised to keep open. Right! Not born
yesterday. You will notice they are not buying the land that is so they can
shut down one after they have killed all of us off and force everybody to
drive to the one that they leave open. 

Smart Growth? It is...... for a 13 year old. Let's not even talk about the
land owners surrounding the project. What a boondoggle. 

Does anyone know why all of a sudden a full fledge Walmart is now on the
table? Did our representatives or newspaper let us down? Our representatives
should spend 1 hour talking to managers at Safeway and Rosaurs along with a
few others. Talk to some that died on the first round. Many thought they
would survive it. Ha! 

Remember ........ the students are only here 6 1/2 months out of the year
and they are counted as part of our community. You guys are worried about
taxes? Half the students live in housing supplied by the University. More
than half receive loans to go to schools. That is our money once again.

Phil Roderick


 
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