A dark day in the Town of Sheboygan

[Smoke]

Story here.

Not my home town, but my dad's. After two years of squabbling and negotiations, the board of the Town of Sheboygan, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin has approved the building of a Wal-Mart Supercenter in the Town. (In Wisconsin, a "Town" is what would be called a "township" elsewhere.)

My better half and I have been following this controversy closely, and hoping the anti-Wal-Mart neighbors would win out, but in the end, they went down fighting.

The new 185,000 square foot Supercenter is expected to create 400 new crappy jobs in Sheboygan County.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

We should do to Wal-Mart what the French do to McDonald's.

 

[Smoke]

We should do to Wal-Mart what the French do to McDonald's.

That sounds promising, and I don't even know what it is.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

"Find them and destroy them."

 

[angellous_evangellous]

Here's a pic of how the French handle their fries...

 

[Smoke]

"Find them and destroy them."

Swift and merciless, that's the ticket.

I can't even watch The Waltons.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

Why Europeans hate Wal-Mart and McDonald's. By Daniel Gross

 

[standing_alone]

Your dad's from Sheboygan, eh? I live about a half hour away from there, to the north.

Scott Knocke, of 5117 Deerhaven Lane, chided Wal-Mart representatives because work on the south-side Supercenter is not being done by local contractors.

"Would there be any interest in you signing a project labor agreement, that the work would be done local, perhaps union?" Knocke asked.
"Wal-Mart would not agree to that," Thomas responded.

This is the thing that upsets me the most about these stores going up (because it's almost impossible to stop them from going up) - local contractors are never used. The same thing with a Lowe's that was built in my hometown. They don't use local contractors, nor do they use unionized workers.

However, if people continue to shop at these stores, we cannot avoid them going up.

And one of the saddest things about these stores, especially Wal-Mart, is that, in my hometown at least, there aren't many decent stores to shop at, so sometimes when you need to get something, you have no choice but to go to Wal-Mart (the Wal-Mart in my town was turned into a Supercenter a few years ago). I know lots of people who get mad when they have to go there to get anything. Also, the most sad thing is that other stores have gone out of business since it was turned into a supercenter, most of them family-owned businesses. The good thing about Sheboygan, though, is that they have many more decent stores to shop at, so perhaps this won't be as much of a problem for people living there as it is in Manitowoc (my hometown), though I fear for the family-owned businesses there.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

Swift and merciless, that's the ticket.

"Wipe them out. All of them."

 

[Smoke]

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Graphic lifted from Vermont Wal-Mart Watch.
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[angellous_evangellous]

Someone has an avatar that says:

"One does not simply walk into Wal-Mart. There is an evil there that does not sleep."

 

[Smoke]

Your dad's from Sheboygan, eh? I live about a half hour away from there, to the north.

Yeah, I haven't been there since 2003, but we're planning to be back up next year. Maybe we can take you out for pizza or something.

However, if people continue to shop at these stores, we cannot avoid them going up.

That's why we don't shop there anymore. We've decided if we can't get it anywhere but Wal-Mart, we just won't get it at all. We're thinking about dropping Verizon because of their new relationship with Wal-Mart.

 

[BrandonE]

Someone has an avatar that says:
"One does not simply walk into Wal-Mart. There is an evil there that does not sleep."

That would be QTR, AE.

Where I live, a part of town vehemently protested the construction of a new Target, successfully defeating the store. However, the idiots welcomed not only a Wal-Mart, but ALSO a SAM'S CLUB with open arms only a year or two later.:cover:

I do my best to avoid Wal-Mart, but I'm afraid that I'm just a sinner sometimes.

 

[standing_alone]

Yeah, I haven't been there since 2003, but we're planning to be back up next year. Maybe we can take you out for pizza or something.

That would certainly be awesome. It'd be so cool to meet you.

We've decided if we can't get it anywhere but Wal-Mart, we just won't get it at all.

Same for me, except I did by a couple discs for frisbee golf there this summer (only place to get them and there's nothing else to do in this town but frisbee golf ). I wish there was somewhere else to go. I feel terrible about it.

When I worked at OfficeMax (which is right by the Wal-Mart Supercenter), I remember a lady telling me how she had to go there to buy big cans of saurkraut (she did some sort of thing for seniors, I believe) because a different grocery store stopped carrying them in the store. She even complained to that grocery store, saying that they force her to shop somewhere she doesn't want to. And that what happens to lots of people (from who I've talked to). They're forced into shopping at Wal-Mart either because they are the only place that carries a certain product or other stores stop carrying a product since they can't compete with the Wal-Mart.

We're thinking about dropping Verizon because of their new relationship with Wal-Mart.

I remember some lady that worked at my credit union telling me that they opened up another one inside the Wal-Mart supercenter and my only response was a dissappointed, "Oh." I thought about changing banks. And that's another thing. It's like a freaking little town in one of them things! Other stores inside of the Wal-Mart. It's nuts! There is a Cost Cutters inside the Wal-Mart! WHY?!