Posted by confused on May 06, 2002 at 14:47:00:
In Reply to: glad you mentioned Wal-Mart posted by Eric on May 06, 2002 at 11:20:27:
> Wal-Mart drives away business for small stores and forces small town people like Kittanning and Ford City to only go to their store to shop, as you say "one-stop-shopping".
> Not only does Wal-Mart not offer what I would like to wear in clothes and other fine quality products in equipment, etc but they are also a poorly managed store. They also rack in the bucks and don't pay their hard-working employees enough of the share.
> I can't necessarily disagree with your "one-stop-shopping" theory on why not to build an enclosed mall but at the same time, there needs to be more jobs in this town and county.
> We're seeing Cranberry Twp boom because people had the vision to expand, so why can't Armstrong County/Kittanning get this vision.
> Build it and they will come.
take wal-mart out of the strip mall and you will see 65% of those cars driving to indiana....butler....or else where....wal-mart sells....and makes the rest of the competition streamline their business thoughts .... DONT build a mall and you will continue to see people leave the area for employment....plus it will keep my wife closer to home......