[Vision2020] downtown: Moscow/Pullman Hwy. Mall?

[Donovan Arnold]

Mo,
  
  You could very well be right about the location. But I heard they were thinking of the HWY location. 
  
  I don't think that Fred Meyer, ShopKo, Kmart, Target, etc are any  different then Wal-Mart, they all sell the same crap. The only  difference being that Wal_mart has overall lower prices on most items.  When I think variety I think like Wal Mart,  Bon, Banana Republic,  Sears etc.  
  
 I also think that it is very possible for  Moscow and Pullman to both have a Super Wal_mart. The Palouse  population is about 75,000. If half the population visited Wal_mart  once a week and spent $100 on groceries and other items that would be  $500,000 a week in sales. Between two stores, that is still over $1  Million a month in sales per store. That is well beyond what most  stores in the area can do. 
  
 I for one, regardless of  location, will be buying groceries in Whitman county because of the  price difference and to protest grocery tax hikes.
  
  Best,
  
  _DJA
  
   Melissa Hendrickson <hend5953 at uidaho.edu> wrote:  I heard recently that they were going to start breaking ground soon 
across
from Safeway, but maybe my source was wrong.  It makes sense for Walmart
to want a central location too bad they need to put in a whole new
building, rather than planning ahead when they built the current store 
for
potential growth in the future.  

This area is not big enough to support
two super walmarts, so I for one am glad there will only be one store
between the two towns.  Two super walmarts seems like a little over kill
to me, lets shoot for a little more choice, maybe Target, Fred Meyer, 
Etc.
Choice is a good thing.

--Mo


----- Original Message -----
From: Donovan Arnold 
Date: Monday, October 2, 2006 2:00 pm
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] downtown: Moscow/Pullman Hwy. Mall?
To: Melissa Hendrickson 
Cc: Dan Carscallen , vision2020 at moscow.com

> Mo,
>  
> My understanding is that property has already been sold,  across 
> from Safeway to somebody else. A manager working at Wal-Mart  told 
> me it is going in next to the new shopping center on the state  
> line because they were not able to get a second store on the Troy  
> Highway like planned. The original plan was to have a store on the 
> west  side of Pullman and a store on the east side Moscow. When 
> that failed,  they wanted one in a more central location to get as 
> much of both  markets as possible. That makes more sense to me, 
> then to expect  everyone to drive out to the west side Pullman of 
> give up the business  of all of Latah and lots of Moscow. 
>  
>  Best,
>  
>  _DJA
> 
> Melissa Hendrickson  wrote:  The Pullman 
> Super Walmart is going in across from Safeway, not just 
> across the border on the Moscow/Pullman Highway.  So it will not 
> be as 
> convenient as you might think to simply stop shopping at Winco and 
> start shopping at the Super Walmart.
> 
> --Mo
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Donovan Arnold 
> Date: Monday, October 2, 2006 12:23 pm
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] downtown: Moscow/Pullman Hwy. Mall?
> To: Dan Carscallen , vision2020 at moscow.com
> 
> > Ted,
> >  
> >  That is where they are going to build the new SuperWalmart. 
> >  
> >  Whitman is just thrilled that Moscow Elites gave them all their 
> > future property tax revenues and sales income. 
> >  
> >  I am going to go to the Super Walmart, just like everybody else 
> > making  less than 50K a year. But I think it is upsetting that 
> all 
> > the taxes  are going to Whitman County instead of to Latah which 
> > is why I wanted a  store here, it was going to happen anyway. 
> The 
> > 6% sales tax on food at  Winco will be enough to send all the 
> > college students the 200 feet west  to Super Walmart instead of 
> > Winco. 
> >  
> > Do the math. If Walmart  is 5% cheaper than Winco, plus 6% not 
> > taxed, that is an 11% difference  in price. If a college student 
> > spends about $250 a month on groceries,  at a wage of $5.15, 
> that 
> > is 5.3 hours of work saved by going to Wal  Mart instead of 
> Winco. 
> > If a college student works only about 50 hours a  month, that is 
> > 10% of their wages saved. What college student isn't  going make 
> > the little effort to save that much of their meager earnings?
> >  
> >  Best,
> >  
> >  _DJA
> >  
> >  
> >  
> > 
> >  
> >  
> > 
> > Dan Carscallen  wrote:  Ted asks:
> > "Does anyone know if the mall on the Washington St. side of the
> > Moscow/Pullman Hwy. is still going forward?"
> > 
> > Yes it is.  Here's the site you refer to:
> > 
> > 
> 
http://www.hawkinscompanies.com/fliers/WA_Pullman_Hwy270_AirportRd_F.pdf
> > 
> > DC
> > 
> > 
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