[Vision2020] WalMart Questions

[Melissa Hendrickson]

I do not wish to fully enter the Walmart debate, but I do want to make 
one note for clarification.  I worked for Walmart for a time, in 
Moscow, I regret working there but it put food on the table and kept a 
roof over my head.  The Moscow Walmart does not pay its employees the 
Idaho minimum wage, we all started at 7.00 an hour, rather than 
Idaho's measly 5.15 an hour.  

Mo

> Questions whose answers might be relevant to the WalMart debate:
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> [1]   Will a super-center WalMart be built in both Pullman & Moscow?
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> Note that Washington's minimum hourly wage is $7.63 while Idaho's 
> is $5.15, a difference of $2.48 per hour.  In terms of an annual 
> payroll at the proposed super-centers, what is the likely impact 
> of this difference on the corporate plans of WalMart?
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> [2]   I think that there is little doubt that the presence of a 
> WalMart super-center would adversely impact many local businesses. 
> How has internet shopping affected some of these same businesses? 
> What relevance does the answer to this question have to the 
> overall super-center/big box debate?
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> [3]   In an earlier post Sean Michaels raises the concern/question 
> of adverse visual and similar impacts of big box stores.  How many 
> people are concerned about this?  Is the present city council 
> willing to impose certain architectural and landscaping standards 
> as part of their big box ordinance?  [In considering this, think 
> of the metal barn that the Eagles' built at Main and A streets.]
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> Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)
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> deco at moscow.com
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