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JCPenney's Ron Johnson: 'Customers Don't Get Our Pricing Strategy'What did the Grand Haven area do to welcome Wal-Mart (so far) that other communities have not been willing to do to allow Wal-Mart into their neighborhoods? Most likely, Wal-Mart stressed the 400 new jobs that the Supercenter will bring with it. But one resident was pretty vehement in his opposition:
"They're destroying hundreds and hundreds of downtowns, and (experts) will tell you the one thing you need for viable growth in your industry is a viable downtown section. So what do they do? Bring a Wal-Mart here which is going to do nothing but suck money out of the community. What are you going to get out of it, nothing."
Since this Wal-Mart location was already in an area planned for commercial development, and Wal-Mart had complied with ll zoning and related requirements, there is probably no ground for any opposition to this planned Supercenter to stand on. There will always be opposers to anything Wal-Mart it seems (some grounded in logic and other grounded in emotion), but it appears this one will most likely be going through.
Since this Wal-Mart location was already in an area planned for commercial development, and Wal-Mart had complied with ll zoning and related requirements, there is probably no ground for any opposition to this planned Supercenter to stand on. There will always be opposers to anything Wal-Mart it seems (some grounded in logic and other grounded in emotion), but it appears this one will most likely be going through.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
10-29-2008 @ 4:33PM
A.D. said...
This article barely begins to explain what happened in GH. The Township of Grand Haven could not decline Wal-Mart building, but enforced every zoning ordinance possible (the entire building is red brick, you can't see the store from the road due to a tree barrier, it only has entrances on one road, an Enviromnentally Sensitive area that cannot even be mowed, etc.) Opening weekend was during a large festival in which they made no effort to make themselves known (no floats, no activities... but they did throw a monetary contribution at a baseball field... $4k more than was needed if I remember correctly.) Not more than a few months after they opened they put a stay on hiring and even though they are directly across the street from the Meijer, the Meijer always has more shoppers. Walking into the Wal-Mart is cold and uncomfortable. There has been talk that they built the Wal-Mart as a way of wedging a Sam's Club in later (but I've never seen proof of that.) Whether it was bad management, planning or that they just thought the Wal-Mart name would be enough to bully the home-team (Meijer), it doesn't seem to have worked for them.
6-08-2006 @ 3:50PM
anthony said...
i would gladly love to have a super wal-mart in my neighborhood ---they are awesome.
6-09-2006 @ 7:50AM
PMixon said...
I feel most consumers aren't getting the other side of the anti-WalMart perspective. Other than hurting the mom and pop companies, they hurt every tax paying citizen. This monopoly who has had such an astronomical profit still continues to pay most of their employees far below living wages, not allowing them to be able to afford the health insurance that is even offered by the company. So next time you shop WalMart with their "low prices", don't feel they have done you any favors. As a taxpayer, you are also allowed to pick up the tab for many of it's workers in state health funded areas. Continue to save a dime, pay a dollar. Let's make this company share it's wealth with it's hard-working employees.