Yet another reason to hate the retail giant Walmart.
Officials OK Walmart near Va. Battlefield
ORANGE, Va. (AP) - Officials in central Virginia approved a Walmart Supercenter early Tuesday near one of the nation's most important Civil War battlefields, a proposal that had stirred opposition by preservationists and hundreds of historians.
Are you effing kidding me? Walmart couldn’t find anywhere else in the city to build another super center? Next to one of this country’s sacred landmarks is the only place they could find. “Hello. Welcome to Walmart of the Civil War Battlefield. C’mon in and get your cheap clothes, censored movies and music, and don’t forget to remind all the employees that they better get on MediCare cause Walmart don’t offer no health plan.” What’s next? “Hello. Welcome to Walmart of Ground Zero.” Or, “Aloha. Welcome to the Walmart of Pearl Harbor, the first ever floating super center. Head on over to the poorly made furniture section and you can look down and see the fuel and oil still leaking from sunken ships. What’s that? You want to see the memorial? It’s back by the lay-away department.”
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which has 8,000 stores worldwide and adds about 240 each year, countered that the site is zoned for commercial use and the store will not be within sight of the battlefield's 2,700 protected acres. The retailer has also said the store will create hundreds of jobs and generate $800,000 in tax revenue for Orange County.
Yes, it’ll create those jobs and earn that revenue up until it closes down all the mom and pop stores, then finds cheaper land outside of town where they don’ t have to pay as much taxes. I want to stab Walmart in the gut.
Officials OK Walmart near Va. Battlefield
ORANGE, Va. (AP) - Officials in central Virginia approved a Walmart Supercenter early Tuesday near one of the nation's most important Civil War battlefields, a proposal that had stirred opposition by preservationists and hundreds of historians.
Are you effing kidding me? Walmart couldn’t find anywhere else in the city to build another super center? Next to one of this country’s sacred landmarks is the only place they could find. “Hello. Welcome to Walmart of the Civil War Battlefield. C’mon in and get your cheap clothes, censored movies and music, and don’t forget to remind all the employees that they better get on MediCare cause Walmart don’t offer no health plan.” What’s next? “Hello. Welcome to Walmart of Ground Zero.” Or, “Aloha. Welcome to the Walmart of Pearl Harbor, the first ever floating super center. Head on over to the poorly made furniture section and you can look down and see the fuel and oil still leaking from sunken ships. What’s that? You want to see the memorial? It’s back by the lay-away department.”
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which has 8,000 stores worldwide and adds about 240 each year, countered that the site is zoned for commercial use and the store will not be within sight of the battlefield's 2,700 protected acres. The retailer has also said the store will create hundreds of jobs and generate $800,000 in tax revenue for Orange County.
Yes, it’ll create those jobs and earn that revenue up until it closes down all the mom and pop stores, then finds cheaper land outside of town where they don’ t have to pay as much taxes. I want to stab Walmart in the gut.
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