Comments on: When You’re a Jet…

By: Caroline Spector

Caroline Spector — Tue, 08 May 2007 20:05:37 +0000

RG4N is thinking of doing a “traffic slow down” day to show just how bad traffic will be when the Wal-Mart goes in.

I think this is a bad idea as we’ll end up pissing people off instead of showing them what’s likely to happen should the Wal-Mart go in.

By: Bradley Denton

Bradley Denton — Tue, 08 May 2007 13:44:32 +0000

You’d think that after the huge turnout at the ring-around-Northcross event three months ago (We’ll Be Fighting in the Streets), someone would have gotten the message.

RG4N might have to do it again. And I’ll bet they’d get double the number of people this time.

I hadn’t known about the attempted 1933 “business coup” before. Thanks for the history lesson.

I can’t believe the perpetrators weren’t strung up for treason.

By: Madeleine Robins

Madeleine Robins — Tue, 08 May 2007 04:30:57 +0000

They tried in Oakland, I think, and all the commie-pinko-liberal-treehuggers pushed back. No Box Mart.

By: Rory Harper

Rory Harper — Mon, 07 May 2007 20:49:09 +0000

Hey, Caroline — I see from the article y’all are planning the lawsuit. Just from that quick reading, it looks like, if you can demonstrate that their traffic impact study is falsified, it would give the city cover to deny their application.

From what I’ve read, some communities are having some luck pushing Wal-Mart back out, though it’s tough.

You’d think Austin would have enough goddam hippies to fight back in a more massive way than some other cities.

If the population can be mobilized…..

By: Steven Gould

Steven Gould — Mon, 07 May 2007 17:37:38 +0000

Wal-Mart has a stated plan of rolling out nine of these “urban” Wal-Marts over the next year. This was announced in a USA Today story a couple of months ago. Wal-Mart already has an “upscale” store in Plano. (Or, as we like to think of it, Dallas with a drug habit. Plano, not Wal-Mart.) Wal-Mart needs to expand in urban areas because there are no other places for them to open new Wal-Marts. Rural, small-town, and suburban America is blanketed in Wal-Marts. They’ve got nowhere to go but into the city.

It's not only because they've run out of rural locations. It's also because gas prices are rising high enough to discourage people driving off to the rural locations and it's hurting biz. Big Box Mart!