Perceval said:
rs said:
Why would WalMart throw out a "perfectly good" store location? What is in it for them? Why not a WalMart here, a Target there, a Home Depot at the third?
The whole story is just bizarre IMO.
The government has funded Walmart to the tune of $1billion in recent years. And that's just what is public knowledge.
_http://money.cnn.com/2004/05/24/news/fortune500/walmart_subsidies/
Why complicate things by dealing with more than one store chain and therefore more than one owner?
I thought I knew a few things about WalMart .... until I came upon this site ... and it "blew me out of the water!"
_http://www.mwpvl.com/html/walmart.html
The site won't let me copy and paste or I would have a field day. Looking over the site, there's more to the WalMart - Sam's Club scenario then I was aware of. In many ways, the WalMart Corporation, store placement and distribution centers resemble a military set up in strategic Regional Logistics. WalMart operates 11 import distribution center buildings in 5 locations - positioned close to major US Ports in Long Beach, Houston, Savannah, Norfolk and Chicago.
_https://placesjournal.org/article/all-those-numbers-logistics-territory-and-walmart/
The field of logistics, of course, is rooted in the military; historian James Huston describes logistics as “the application of time and space factors to war.” 6 Unsurprisingly, there is a martial fervor to the company’s campaign to achieve total coordination of its worldwide operations.
To bring about such extraordinary coordination, Walmart devotes significant resources to the development, maintenance, refinement and synchronization of its distribution and data networks. Walmart was also an early proponent of the Universal Product Code, and one of the first retailers to insist on compulsory adoption by its suppliers, which enabled the company to substantially increase the amount and quality of the data it tracked. Furthermore, the UPC, or barcode, serves in a sense to abstract the items moving through Walmart’s supply circuits: they are registered and tracked as numbers rather than things.
View Map of U.S. Interstate Highways and Walmart Distribution Centers.