World Class With(out?) Wal-Mart

IsSammy'sRealReputationOnTheLine?
KnowWardsVille

Once Lotusland's Garbage Strike Conspiracy* finally ends one can only wonder how long it will be before Mayor Sam Sullivan checks his multiple 'reputations' in the funhouse mirror and realizes that it is time to start cranking up the Wal-Mart Whilrlitzer Wheel once more.

But before Mr. Sullivan does so, he and his reputational henchmen might like to consider how they are going to deal with the implications of stories like this:

After saturating rural and suburban America, the Bentonville, Ark.-based retailer began to target America's big cities to recharge growth. Instead, Wal-Mart has largely become the enemy at the gates.

Los Angeles, after allowing one store to open, threw away the welcome mat. Boston shut its doors. And New York, the nation's largest city, spurned the retailer's overtures so forcefully that Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott Jr. said publicly earlier this year that he didn't care if Wal-Mart ever opened there.

Kinda makes you go hmmmmmm.....

In a 'reflective' sort of way, of course.

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*a.k.a. 'Sam's Strike'

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