Okay, so it was more like Clash of the Titans than David versus Goliath, but I was inordinately delighted to awaken to NPR and hear Wal-Mart threw up its hands and walked away from New York City. It's nice to know that the juggernaut was stopped
I was tickled to read this:
"H. Lee Scott Jr., the chief executive of the nation’s largest retailer, said that trying to conduct business in New York was so expensive — and exasperating — that “I don’t think it’s worth the effort.”"
Ha! They gave up because New Yorkers are just huge pains in the ass. I love that. I love that more than you can know.
Let me paraphrase Mr. Scott in our reply to why there won't be Wal Mart in New York City: "Because We ARE Better Than You and Don't Want You In Our Community."
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Congratulations. Wal-marts are popping up where I live like zits on a middle school playground. Even now -- EVEN NOW -- they're building one where a seedy little strip mall used to be. I preferred the strip mall. It had character and generated no traffic. Gad. Our culture, what there was of it, is being volume-discounted into oblivion.
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